by Micah J. Fleck [dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap] came across an interesting video recently, produced by the website The Book of Life, titled “Misemployment.” In the video, a lot of postulations are made about the state of things, what priorities we should put within the job market, and what constitutes being truly for the good of…
Entrepreneur and LP Candidate Discusses BTC and ISIS in New Interview [dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ohn McAfee recently shifted gears from the Cyber Party and is now running with the Libertarian Party. McAfee discussed his policies in an interview with libertarian podcast Revolution Report Live, the primary talking points of the interview being foreign policy, tech freedom, and Bitcoin. …
10. “Liberty” Album by Jordan Page An oldie but a goodie, this tribute to the Ron Paul 2012 campaign covers everything from the post-constitutional republic, to the bank gangsters, and neocons. This song is not just the theme of the liberty revolution, but is nice enough on the ears to listen to while sitting near…
A Liberal Would’ve Done Some Good In 8 Years by Avens O’Brien I have a confession to make. Though I’ve been a libertarian my entire life, a child of Libertarian activists and a state party leader in my own right — I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Hear me out. I was born in…
Disecting the GOP Debate From a Libertarian Perspective [dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]he fourth GOP Debate was a turning point in the presidential contest. Lindsey Graham was removed from all debates, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee were demoted to the undercard debate, and there was more time to go around for all candidates on the main stage. Thus,…
This week, Judd Weiss released his annual Freedom Fest photo album on Facebook, taken at “The World’s Largest Gathering of Free Minds” in Las Vegas. It is truly one of the largest and “big tent” style events you can find in the US for liberty-oriented people. It’s certainly one of my favorite liberty events the…
By R. Brownell 7. Randy E. Barnett Excerpt from Libertarianism.org “Randy E. Barnett is a lawyer and legal theorist, and a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute. He is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown University. Barnett writes about the libertarian theory of law and contract theory, constitutional law, and jurisprudence and…
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…
Libertarians are often attacked for their laissez-faire posture concerning real and perceived human problems. Many people–whether left, right, or libertarian–falsely equate laissez-faire with not caring; with a sense of moral apathy and blindness. The right tends to see libertarians as morally bereft libertines whereas the left brands libertarians as selfish and antisocial kooks. And unfortunately, some…
By: Laura Meyers There may be different strains of libertarians, but we tend to coin the same phrases. If you see a guy in a fedora wearing a Ron Paul shirt, you can probably hear him saying (or angrily typing on Facebook) one, if not a few, of these things: 1. End the fed First,…