This article cites how and why a Wisconsin Republican state legislator became an independent.
State Rep. Jeff Wood, who represented northwest Wisconsin’s 67th District as a Republican in the last legislative session, decided against filing for re-election Tuesday as a candidate of the Grand Old Party.
Wood, who has always had a libertarian streak and whose official [...]

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LibertyMaven has established a ranking system called the “Paul-O-Meter”, which gauges how close a candidates’ views are to Ron Paul. The blog had previously run the numbers on McCain, Obama, and Barr. Now, Baldwin has been ranked. Did he beat Barr’s high score of 88? Check it out!

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“I think right now, doing nothing would not be advisable,” said Bob Barr when asked about whether the federal government should bail out the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “As much as a libertarian, I don’t like to see the government get further involved, with yet another sector of the economy, I think [...]

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The Libertarian Party’s daily poll asks “How would you rate Ben Bernanke’s performance as Federal Reserve Chairman?”
As of the time of this posting, 196 people had responded, with only 2 saying “excellent.” A total of 26% said “average” or better, while 53% said “very bad” or “horrific” (which lead with 39%).

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Former U.S. Senator Dean Barkley (I-MN) has decided that he will seek to take back his seat from Norm Coleman. Barkley had been aggressively working to convince Jesse Ventura to run, but with Ventura’s announcement that he won’t be a candidate Barkley is jumping in.
In 1992, Barkley ran for U.S. Congress and won 16% [...]

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The Libertarian Party issued a press release today entitled “Let Them Fail!” in regards to the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac government-sponsored enterprise meltdown.
“Let them fail, and let them learn from their mistakes on their own dime,” says Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis, referring to the mortgage institutions Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, who the Bush administration [...]

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Neil Kiernan Stephenson, a Michigan Libertarian who was a Mike Gravel delegate in Denver, has won an official endorsement from the former Alaskan Senator.
Says Sen. Gravel:
To my supporters and supporters of the National Initiative for Democracy:
I am happy to offer my endorsement of Neil Kiernan Stephenson for Congress in Michigan’s 10th district. Neil has a [...]

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“Today on Morning Joe,” writes Lew Rockwell, “we had Scarborough belligerently justifying US prison camps in Cuba and elsewhere. ‘Habeas corpus was invented for American citizens,’ he said. ‘Next you’ll be wanting free speech for Danes.’
“Leaving aside the long English history of habeas corpus, which Blackstone traces to 1305, Scarborough reflects the alarming conservative belief [...]

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David Weigel, over at Reason’s Hit& Run blog, has an extensive (and fair) report on the Revolution March in DC and its various participants. Most interesting to the readers of this blog, his comments on Chuck Baldwin.
The final speech before Paul’s came from Chuck Baldwin, the Pensacola, Florida pastor and Constitution Party candidate, who used [...]

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