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Do you even liberty bro? MADISON, Wisc., June 9, 2013 ― Combining many passions into a meaningful, productive career can be a challenge. A man currently conquering that challenge is Austin Petersen, the Director of Production at FreedomWorks. There, he harnesses his artistic talent and libertarian zeal to produce videos, commercials, and event photography. He is…
Reason.TV is out with a new video today documenting the forgotten internment camps that existed during World War 2. From the video description: “After the war, there was a real silence and shame about this episode,” says Brian Niiya of Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project. “You still get a little reluctance in people to…
by Ian Huyett It’s sometimes suggested that libertarian ideas are hazardous because they lack precedent. Functioning decentralized societies, it’s implied, are absent from humanity’s past. Yet throughout recorded history, nations have survived and thrived without the overarching authority that President Obama assures us is necessary for prosperity. My observation is nothing new. Each of the…
Whereas the people of the United States have been forced to endure burdensome taxation and threats to civil liberties to accommodate the expansion of undeclared executive policing actions, it has become necessary for a new constitutional amendment that gives citizens the authority to audit, veto or authorize such actions by majority vote in elected delegations…
Russia Today anchor Abby Martin hosted The Libertarian Republic Editor Austin Petersen, anarchist Scott Crow and socialist Eugene Puryear for a discussion featuring alternative viewpoints. Discussed were civil liberties, economics, ideal societies and transition plans to ideal societies, as well as law and police actions in free societies. The summit was not a debate, but an…
Fox Business host John Stossel interviewed Glenn Beck on his conversion to libertarianism, peppering him with questions about standard libertarian positions. “The Drug War is a failure” Beck states unequivocally. However he parses this with the fact that now Obamacare demands free healthcare to everyone means that we are taking care of people who make…
Senator Rand Paul addressed a group of students at the Howard University School of Business to discuss the issues of race, civil liberties and the future of the black vote in America. In a half hour lecture, Senator Paul debated the idea that the Democrats are the party of civil rights historically and defended the…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz‘s father Rafael Cruz gave a rousing oratory to a group of FreedomWorks activists in Washington D.C. last week. The speech detailed the senior Cruz’s plight in Cuba and was delivered as part of a minority activist summit hosted by FreedomWorks grassroots leaders. Cruz discusses Fidel Castro and his appeal to the…
Free market champion and modern day abolitionist Deneen Borelli has a new column out discussing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, comparing him to Dr. Ben Carson the neurosurgeon whose verbal takedown of President Obama has been viewed over two million times online. In her article she writes about Carson: “His amazing success story…
Blaze TV star Glenn Beck invited prominent grassroots libertarian leaders Jack Hunter, Jacob Hornberger and Zach Slayback on his show today to discuss the state of the freedom movement. While libertarians and Beck have fueded in the past, Beck appears to be making very real and honest overtures to the limited government movement to convince…