LPNY chair to BTP: Drop dead

In this essay, LP radical and LPNY state chair Eric Sundwall advocates that radical libertarians avoid the BTP and stay in the LP. It is entitled Party Like It’s 1973, an apparent ironic reference to Party like it’s 1773 by BTP interim chair Jim Davidson. I was somewhat intrigued when popular Libertarian blogger Tom Knapp [...]

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Should third parties nominate their presidential candidate much earlier than the major parties?

I found this entry on Thomas Knapp’s blog, Kn@ppster, and found it quite interesting. Here is an excerpt; you can read it in its entry in its entirety at the link: I’m not one for silver bullets—no one thing will put third party candidates into contention for the presidency—but some changes just make sense. One [...]

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Is it just me, or does this not make sense?

Alden Link is a Libertarian candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination. He’s an older gentleman, and his main emphasis seems to be on nuclear power. He claims that nuclear power plants can produce enough gasoline to end our dependence upon foreign oil. I’m no scientist, but I don’t understand how nuclear power plants can produce [...]

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Democrats Gone Wild: Stabbing words edition

According to The Smoking Gun, Jose Antonio Ortiz stabbed his brother-in-law, Sean Shurelds (who was flown to a hospital, where he was admitted in critical condition) due to a disagreement about Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama. Yes, you read that right. Apparently Shurelds supports Obama, and Ortiz supports Clinton. While the two were in the [...]

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From The Moderate Voice: None of the Above, Part I

The Moderate Voice, “None of the Above” March 5, 2008 by Pete Abel —————————————————————————————————– “As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.” – H. Rider Haggard “A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” [...]

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Will Ron Paul presidential campaign cause him to lose his seat in Congress?

From the Galveston County Daily News (letters to the Editor): District Needs A Better Man To Represent Us Are we really getting the most effective representation with Ron Paul as our congressman? The presidential debates have exposed stubbornness and inability to compromise that is at odds with the intentions of the Founding Fathers. Democracy requires [...]

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Project Vote Smart

I just ran across a website called “Project Vote Smart“. This site gathers information from various candidates for office, so you can view it all in one place, and even very easily compare the candidates if you open them up in side-by-side tabs on your browser. It is very interesting to see the “political courage [...]

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The age of Man is over. The age of the Orc has begun!

H/T Charles W. Johnson Related: Ghouliani or Nosferatu? We report, you decide… The NSGOP Primary Field in Buffy Villains McCain: The Manchurian Candidate DIGG redd.it

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Liberty Decides

The Libertarian National Party has a new program, Liberty Decides ’08 designed “to promote our pre-nomination presidential candidates as they engage in a competitive process. To participate in the program, candidates must cross three thresholds: meet the LP bylaws requirements; file with the FEC; and raise at least $5,000 for the LP or LP state [...]

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