by Josh Guckert President Obama recently became the newest Democrat to suggest that a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Donald Trump. The remark came Wednesday morning in a radio interview with Steve Harvey, and Obama also stated that not voting is a vote for Trump. Said Obama, “If you don’t vote that’s…
by Kitty Testa Nancy Pelosi just can’t stop assuming that voters would not love Hillary Clinton for any reasons other than, well, stupid reasons. Back in July, she asserted that Hillary was losing the white male vote because of “Guns, gays, and God.” Now she is saying that Libertarian voters support Gary Johnson because of…
by Josh Guckert Early Wednesday morning, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson wrote an op-ed in The New York Times. The article comes in the aftermath of Monday’s debate, which arbitrarily excluded Johnson. Many viewers felt discouraged by the back-and-forth between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, with some publications suggesting that Johnson was the winner. Notably,…
by Kody Fairfield Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Tim Kaine recently appeared in an interview with Katie Couric and Yahoo! News to discuss the upcoming debates, and current status of the presidential election. During the interview, Couric brought up the topic of third parties, and the fact that in many polls, Kaine and his running mate Hillary Clinton were barely ahead of the Libertarian…
by Josh Guckert On Thursday afternoon, “Gary Johnson” began trending on Twitter. This appears to have stemmed from an article from Mother Jones. The piece by Jeremy Schulman entitled “Gary Johnson Wants to Ignore Climate Change Because the Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day” and subtitled with “Attention, millennials…” seems only the latest attempt by…
If I owe my being a classical liberal or libertarian to any thinker, it is definitely the economist Milton Friedman. I accidentally stumbled on a YouTube video of him a couple of years ago and both his charisma and simple argument about the correlation between capitalism and freedom convinced me that a free society required…
by Josh Guckert On Wednesday, Gary Johnson interviewed with USA Today Opinion Editor Bill Sternberg. Partway through, the interviewer began to pepper the Libertarian nominee over the “wasted vote” fallacy. The way in which Johnson responded may be his most devastating takedown of the campaign thus far—and followed by a broad, confident grin. USA Today: So some…
by Jacob Nestle Ron Paul is known for his frequent and extensive predictions. While he’s been wrong before, he’s usually right. Without a doubt his prophetic side should be paid close attention to. His predictive speech made to Congress on April 24, 2002 is the most dramatic example of this. Here are the five most…
by Josh Guckert On Monday night, Montana Libertarian Party Chair Mike Fellows passed away after a head-on car crash on his way home from a campaign event. He was 59. He had been running as the Libertarian candidate in the state’s at-large Congressional district. Fellows was also a board member of the Libertarian National Committee. As…
by Eli Bowman Murray Rothbard is someone who is often quoted by libertarians. His writings and teachings have contributed to what the modern liberty movement is today. It’s difficult to narrow down the 10 best things he said, so what we’ve done is simply given you 10 Murray Rothbard quotes that will make you cry…