Excerpt from a Seven Days article written by Paul Heintz:
The first Vermont political candidate in a decade to secure public financing says he thinks all state elections should be funded by taxpayers.…
Posts published in July 2014
From Darryl Perry, a declared candidate for the Libertarian Party 2016 Presidential nomination:
A recent “study” released by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) attempts to debunk the claim by many economists that increasing the minimum wage harms job growth. …
In response to this article about a CNN interview of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Libertarian Party Political Director Carla Howell asserted on Press TV that, as a prime instigator of the 2002 U.S.…
Senator David Leyonhjelm
The presentation by David Leyonhjelm to the Australian senate on July 9 is a great libertarian speech by any standard.…
By Ralph Nader at Nader.org:
Large corporate capitalism is a breed apart from smaller scale capitalism. The former can often avoid marketplace verdicts through corporate welfare, strip owner-shareholders of power over the top company bosses and offload the cost of their pollution, tax escapes and other “externalities” onto the backs of innocent people.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWDaaW2sNkU&feature=youtu.be
Interview with Carson starts at the 5:55 mark.
Jeffrey Carson writes to LP of Northern Virginia meetup:
Hi Everyone!
Last night, I had my first TV interview.…
Frank Gilbert in the Libertarian Party Candidate for governor of Arkansas.
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See also: “They’ve had two debates at the Arkansas Press Association, and a Libertarian has won both”…
As the situations in neighboring Iraq and Syria continue to deteriorate, the crisis in Palestine is also in a downward spiral. The most recent attack on Gaza by the Israeli regime, in which they declared that all Palestinians should evacuate Northern Gaza or be subject to an imminent bombing campaign, brings the long-standing plight of the Palestinian people into a new and deadlier stage.…
Commentators for MSNBC noted this last week: “How do you explain why independent candidates are unlikely to play a major role this election season when Washington and the two main political parties are so unpopular?…