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Donald Trump Continues to Exemplify Authoritarian Tendencies by Josh Guckert In a Fox News interview with Bret Baier of Special Report on Tuesday, Donald Trump made some of his most surprising comments yet on the proper role of government. Most notably, he defended the near-universally despised eminent domain program which allows the government to confiscate land from…
By R. Brownell 3. Barry Loudermilk Loudermilk isn’t a libertarian by any means, but please bear with me and hear me out. He knows the language of the establishment but owes his allegiance to his conservative constituency. A leader in the Georgia Assembly, he reduced the size of government, stopped privacy invasion by halting provisions…
By Lina Bryce Even though grassroots organizations serve to mobilize and energize the base like none other, we have to be realistic in our expectations with third-party runs when it comes to presidential campaigns. Overall, the Libertarian Party has proven to be ineffective in gaining enough votes in general elections to qualify for matching funds and the…
Jonah Bennett Vice President Joe Biden took the Obama administration’s stance on transgenders in the military to the next level Saturday, saying it represents the “civil rights issue of our time.” The Obama administration is in the middle of deliberating whether to officially end the ban on transgenders serving openly in the military and has largely…
To the girl who wrote in our school paper that freedom of speech ends where touchy subjects begin and the hall councilor who told me my politics make me a bad lesbian, Let me explain. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I know how it feels to be unable to express yourself freely; to…
In recent days, two of my colleagues here at The Libertarian Republic have expressed dissenting views on the controversial video of a mother providing her young son with estrogen patches in his quest to transition from boy to girl. While R. Brownell takes the position that such an act is akin to “child abuse”, Micah J….
By GRANT PHILLIPS Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich penned an op-ed to the Huffington Post rebuking David Fahrenthold’s criticism of Bernie Sanders. In typical fashion, Reich’s doublespeak dismisses reality for what is clearly a defense of the political agenda outlined by Fahrenthold. His arguments, which are seemingly random at times, uphold government institutions as immune to…
“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to this.” These, ladies and gentlemen, are the words of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoken last night in the…
by Micah J. Fleck [dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]hen my fellow writer at The Libertarian Republic, R. Brownell, typed up his recent article scathing the parent of a transgender teen, the response from our readers was much more heterogeneous than I anticipated. In the past, our most vocal audience has primarily been comprised of right-of-center readers complaining about an…
1. Because There Is No Hiding We’re Libertarians Forget the whole “he’s a liberty Republican” or the old “he’s libertarian leaning!” With the Libertarian Party (LP) you know what you’re getting: 100% libertarianism, all the time. No more asking yourself whether you have to compromise social liberty with economic liberty or vice versa, because the Libertarian Party is fighting for your economic…