Article by Patrick Gower in the New Zealand Herald The police-paid spy Rob Gilchrist passed officers information about an anti-Taser rally organised by the Green Party. The Greens say Mr Gilchrist also infiltrated their parliamentary offices while working for the police – which the party says could breach the rules about how police act in [...]

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Posted at LP.org: Government’s Role in the Economy posted by Andrew Davis on Dec 17, 2008 When we say that we want to keep government out of the economy, people often ask, “Isn’t that economic anarchy?” At first our “Wall of Separation” commitment (that is, a commitment to keeping a wall of separation between economy [...]

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Mike Renzulli writes: The Maricopa County Libertarian Party held its bi-annual convention, elected new officers and passed some resolutions. Specifically, the MCLP is now on record in opposing the death penalty, has passed a modified version of the Barr resolution rejected by the LNC at their meeting in San Diego last week (Except paragraphs 1 [...]

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Posted by Andrew Davis at LP.org It doesn’t take much to go from "bad" to "really bad" when government gets involved.  This is especially true when those in power have the philosophy that, "If it’s broken, government can fix it." Unfortunately, far too often government tries to force itself into problem situations with good intentions [...]

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From Ballot Access News The Ohio legislature elected in 2006 is still in session, but it expects to adjourn on Thursday, December 18. A few days ago it passed an election law bill, SB 380, which relates to early voting. However, no legislator introduced any bill to replace the old, void ballot access procedures for [...]

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Posted at Freedom Arizona: The Constitution Party determined in Orlando this weekend the 2009 Fall National Committee meeting is planned for the Phoenix, Arizona area . Mark Hubler, state chairman of the re-vitalized and re-organized Constitution Party of Arizona, attended the Orlando meeting and invited the Committee to bring its next scheduled meeting to be [...]

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Posted at Positive Liberty: The Wednesday line-up is . . . * Jon Rowe, college professor, historian, and blogger at PositiveLiberty.com, and Herb Titus, attorney, Constitutional law scholar, and former law school dean, coming on together to debate the religious instincts and motivations of America’s Founders (scheduled for the 3 o’clock hour) * Perry Willis, [...]

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There has been no shortage of reaction among libertarians to Bill Redpath’s list of Libertarian Party promises which he issued upon the occasion of the party’s 37th birthday last week. Earlier, we covered the reaction by Classically Liberal blog. At Delaware Libertarian, Brian Miller writes Introducing The New and Improved NeoConTarian Party ™: The list [...]

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With Mary Starrett.

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Podcast from LewRockwell.com Little Alex in Wonderland provides the following summary: He points out the fact that if the LP is going to be nothing more than what the Republican Party should be, there’s no use for it — as it can’t get past unelectability. Third Parties make statements when they take from the despots [...]

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Posted at Detroit Greens They need to know the world outside of Berrien County is watching. Rev. Pinkney’s bond hearing is this Thurs. Dec. 18, 10 am, Berrien County Courthouse, Judge Wiley presiding. Yes, Wiley. The same judge who gave Pinkney 3-10 for paraphrasing the Bible (twice what was asked by the Probation Dept. and [...]

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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. He recently wrote two articles at TakiMag, a leading online magazine that specializes in paleoconservative thought and politics. TakiMag is owned, run, and published by Taki Theodoracopulus, a famous [...]

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