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November 18, 2013
Capitalism is a “dirty word”: America’s new socialist councilmember talks to Salon
On November 5, Seattle voters made Occupy activist and economics professor Kshama Sawant the first avowed socialist city council member in their city’s history – and the country’s first big city socialist council member in decades.…
Judge Jim Gray writes a weekly column called The Functional Libertarian, which we publish here. One of those articles, The Police as Noble Servants , had quite a reaction from many IPR and Facebook readers, so I invited readers to write opposing viewpoints.…
The Libertarian Party of Nevada held finally held its convention today. It had originally been planned for April of this year, but was cancelled about two weeks prior to the event by then chairman Joe Silvestri.…
The Functional Libertarian
November 14, 2013
Our short series on some classic American patriots continues with a focus on John Adams. Fortunately, with the fairly recent publication of David McCullough’s book entitled “John Adams” (Touchstone, 2001), this somewhat crusty but likeable American is finally beginning to be recognized as the hero that he is.…
The number of voters registering in a major party continues to decline in North Carolina, even as the total number of registered voters in continues to rise.…
Opinion article submitted by Paulie
Carrie Sheffield writes:
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Cato Unbound as much as the next supply-sider. But I don’t understand why it’s not uncommon that libertarian candidates play spoiler to Republican candidates.
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Opinion article submitted by Paulie
Derek Hunter writes:
There was a time I called myself a Libertarian. And there was a time I was a Libertarian.
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Judge Jim Gray wrote an opinion piece for his Functional Libertarian series called The Police as Noble Servants . Many IPR readers had a different opinion of the police force in the United States than was portrayed in Judge Gray’s article.…
Found in George Phillies’ Liberty for America Nov 13
Arkansas Libertarian Party is on the Ballot
(Little Rock, AR) The Libertarian Party of Arkansas (LPAR) is officially a recognized political party for the second time in history and will now be able to run candidates for office in 2014.…