Johnson and Wallace Battle Over Fair Tax, ISIS, and Pot By: Elias J. Atienza Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace where he laid out his beliefs and his plans to win the presidency. Johnson is currently polling around 10 percent in the five national polls chosen by the…
New threat to liberty as North Korea announced it has a nuke that can murder Americans on US soil by Kyle Perkins The North Korean regime recently increased its threat to the American People. It says it has constructed a nuclear warhead that can easily reach the United States. The exact news we are analyzing here is…
Stossel: “We Just Don’t Want To Try To Control The World” By: Elias J. Atienza The Libertarian Republic had the pleasure of interviewing Fox Business Network’s John Stossel, the host of Stossel. Tonight, John Stossel is hosting a Libertarian Town Hall with Governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld at 9pm EST on Fox Business. Note that this…
by Kyle Perkins US Talks With Iran Will Not Defend the Bill of Rights The State Department paid Iran $400 million for the release of four American prisoners a few days ago. And only one year ago the same department has conducted nuclear talks with Iran that ignore almost everything about it. This article is both an assessment…
Trump and Bachmann Share a Dangerous Foreign Policy by Kyle Perkins Michele Bachmann has gone on the record in saying she wants to give Donald Trump his advice on foreign policy. The problems I have with this have nothing to do with black-and-white binary thinking that either one agrees with Ron Paul on every foreign policy issue or…
By Micah J. Fleck We’ve heard the arguments that “a vote for (insert spoiler candidate here) is a vote for (disliked two-party candidate here)” numerous times. The idea is to discourage people from voting on principle by garnering fear of a boogyman-like caricature of whichever of the two main candidates in the running is seen…
By Thomas Phippen The U.S. government is planning a viral video campaign to “raise awareness on climate change” in India as part of an initiative to help the country decrease its carbon emissions. “Climate Change is a top policy priority for Mission India,” which is why State Department will pay up to $95,000 for several 2-3 minute…
By JP Carroll Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign policy director and foreign policy expert, Ph.D. Lanhee Chen, finds GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s foreign policy to be “worrisome,” he told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Language supporting arming Ukraine was removed from the GOP 2016 policy platform. The former Romney policy guru and current Hoover…
By Thomas Phippen The Departtment of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering $10 million to schools and non-profit organizations for programs that prevent young adults from joining terrorist groups. Through the grants, DHS hopes to create programs that “enhance the resilience of communities” to recruitment efforts and offer “alternative messages” to terrorist radicalization efforts, according to a grant award notice posted Wednesday. Programs…
It’s no surprise to anyone that Hillary Clinton has consistently come up on the opposite side of liberty. That is unlikely to change if she assumes the presidency. While it’s hard to find any truly good positions she holds, some are just plain bad for America. Any candidate who holds these views should likely be…