Paul Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania and a Guggenheim recipient. He is also an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute.…
Independent Political Report
Followup on Libertarian Party Afghanistan poll
By paulie on December 16, 2008 11:56 PM
On the heels of the controversy about the Libertarian Party poll about troop levels in Afghanistan, the party conducted a second, much less publicized poll on the same issue, giving responders more options.…
Today is the 235th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
By paulie on December 16, 2008 9:24 PM
Jerry Scott running for Congress as a Constitution Party candidate in New Mexico
By paulie on December 16, 2008 8:44 PM
Matthew Reichbach writes in The New Mexico Independent:
In an interview with Martin Heinrich less than an hour after his acceptance speech on election night, the congressman-elect told the New Mexico Independent, “The campaign’s never over.”
…
George Phillies reviews Libertarian National Committee meeting
By paulie on December 16, 2008 7:11 PM
From the desk of George Phillies
December 5th — I flew off to San Diego to listen to the Libertarian National Committee meeting.
A long description follows.…
Haugh, Wrights, Hawkridge continue to cover Libertarian Party sexual harassment claims at Liberty For All
By paulie on December 16, 2008 5:59 PM
Following up on Sean Haugh’s article, Sexual Harassment at National? (discussed at IPR: Libertarian Party employee Sean Haugh: ‘Open season on women’ as long as Bill Redpath is LP national chair; Libertarian Party Transparency Caucus debate), Liberty For All has been publishing a number of followup articles.…
Independent Wisconsin legislator Jeff Wood arrested on alcohol, pot charges
By paulie on December 16, 2008 4:36 PM
From the Associated Press. Thanks to IPR reader “ATM” for contacting us with the news.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin lawmaker was arrested on charges of drunken driving and marijuana possession after smashing his car into a highway sign and a snowbank, according to a report released Monday.
…
Libertarian Party and Green Party of Pennsylvania denounce court decision
By paulie on December 16, 2008 3:45 PM
Found at rauterkus.blogspot.com
Commonwealth Court holds that state indictments of illegal activity are not grounds for overturning earlier judgment against Ralph Nader
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (LPPA) http://www.lppa.org…
Connecticut Working Families Party says it offers ‘protest vote that counts’
By PJO on December 16, 2008 3:35 PM
Sunday’s Hartford Courant had a feature on Connecticut’s Working Families Party, writing that while the Green and Libertarian parties “portrayed themselves in federal court last week as victims of Connecticut’s campaign-finance law,” the WFP “refused to join the two other minor parties in claiming that qualifying for public financing is too difficult for their candidates.…