I’m out of town for a few days, but I thought IPR readers might be interested in this post from my personal blog about why I rejoined the Libertarian Party and my thoughts on the LP’s frequent internal conflicts.

I’ve said this in the comments, but maybe it will get more response this way. I’m heading out in a little over an hour to go to Chicago for the Green Party national convention. I have a press pass for IPR (it took one simple email, quite different from the on-off-on again deal with the [...]

From a particularly talented writer at the new Amateur Economists online magazine:
Polls show a large number of Americans are not satisfied with the choice they’re faced with this November: Obama or McCain?
One reason is that the two major-party candidates show an equal level of disdain for basic economic principles. Obama decries “the idolatry of the [...]

From Soul Voice…
As Senator Barack Obama continues pivoting away from those primary-election positions and promises that once galvanized his Democratic base, he may have a new worry looming on the horizon in the person of Cynthia McKinney. A former Georgia Congresswoman, McKinney is said to be a shoo-in as the Green Party’s 2008 presidential nominee [...]

In a 1,500+ word piece entitled “The Tao of Chuck,” Reason associate editor Dave Weigel profiles Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin.
Here’s a particularly interesting passage:
Baldwin’s view of the financial industry is darker than Paul’s, and it comes from a different place. Where Paul worries about the influence of the Federal Reserve, Baldwin compares “international [...]

Brian Moore, Socialist candidate for president is interviewed by Tim Gatto of LiberalPro at Blog Talk Radio.

In an interview with Radio Resistance at Blog Talk Radio, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney talks about Iran, the Green Party, impeachment, Sibel Edmonds and more.
In an interview with Green Party Watch Radio, also hosted at Blog Talk Radio, kat swift discussed Ingrid Betancourt’s release, as well as her campaign’s focus on domestic violence, food insecurity, [...]

Doug Craig — proprietor of Crazy for Liberty and a Barr delegate at the Denver convention — had this to say about the Barr campaign’s recent press release imploring libertarians to “give thanks to God” for the “life and work” of Jesse Helms:
Sometimes being a party man does not override common sense… I understand [...]

In an interview earlier today, Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin made his case to Libertarians unhappy with Bob Barr as their nominee.
“I understand that some libertarians do not share my conviction that life begins at conception and that we need to protect it,” said Baldwin. “I understand that some don’t share our concerns on [...]

Third Party Watch owner and prominent Barr backer Richard Viguerie has joined Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr in celebrating the life of recently deceased white-supremacist U.S. Senator Jesse Helms.
Viguerie commends Helms as a leader of the “New Right” — the big-government, pro-militarist “conservatism” that supplanted the anti-war “Old Right” of Howard H. Buffett and [...]