The Functional Libertarian
This column was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on Tuesday, March 11, 2014
By Judge Jim Gray
Back in 2007 a good friend of mine who lives in Northern California bought a new, expensive and fast car.…
By Molly Worthen
When most liberals hear the words “third party,” they have nasty flashbacks to Ralph Nader’s spoiler campaign in 2000. The history buffs among them might think of the populist Greenback Party’s feckless protests against the gold standard in the 19th century or the five presidential campaigns of the Socialist Eugene V.…

From Ballot Access News:
Dartmouth Professor Charles Wheelan will speak in Washington, D.C., about why the U.S. needs a new centrist political party. See this Roll Call news item.…

MS, MD and NC Libertarians are having their state conventions this weekend. If anyone in any of these states is able to provide live updates please do so in the comments here.…

By Linda Killian
District of Columbia voters went to the polls Tuesday, a few of them anyway, to vote in mayoral and city council primary elections.…
It is a matter of law!!!! It has NOTHING to do with petitions. Charles Haan and Curtis Strong ran UNOPPOSED for the Constitution Party of South Dakota and are therefore automatically the nominees and MUST be placed on the general election ballot in November.…

Pro-independence socialists march in Odessa, Ukraine last month. Image courtesy of Workers.org.
From their national headquarters in Michigan, the Socialist Equality Party strongly believes that the US should stay out of the controversy over Crimea.…