By Bob Barr
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Americans own nearly 300 million cell phones. These ubiquitous electronic devices are used billions of times every day to make phone calls, place orders, locate destinations, pay bills, text messages, read emails, and browse the web. In a single generation, phone books, road maps, and pay phones have been rendered [...]

[Read more →]

LP blog:
Last Friday, 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr spoke at the CPAC conference in Washington, DC. According to several sources, the conservative crowd booed when he said that waterboarding is torture, and that civilian trials may be preferable to military tribunals. According to the Huffington Post:
"There is nothing magical about a [...]

[Read more →]

An email broadcast today from 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr:

Dear Friend,
Over this past weekend, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was held in Washington, D.C.  The event is a gathering of 10,000 activists, organizers and leaders from around the nation.
Since 2004, I’ve witnessed CPAC attendees go from a neo-conservative, pro-interventionist, mindset that [...]

[Read more →]

Posted by Tom Knapp:
No, I am not a Barrista (as anyone who’s read this blog regularly knows). But when he speaks truth to power in front of an audience that isn’t interested in hearing that truth, how can one help but applaud?
Either we believe, as lawyers, as lawmakers and as citizens, that there is value [...]

[Read more →]

Bob Barr
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For decades, it has been a federal crime to employ the mails, the phones, or other forms of interstate communication (pretty much any manner of communicating these days) to engage in or perpetrate a fraud on another person or other persons. It is not the mere act of deceiving someone that causes [...]

[Read more →]

Ballot Access News:
On February 17, a U.S. District Magistrate issued a 30-page opinion, upholding New Hampshire’s policy of not allowing stand-ins on presidential petitions, and also upholding New Hampshire’s policy of not having any procedure by which an unqualified party may protect its name from use by independent candidates who choose the party label as [...]

[Read more →]

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Daniel Surman:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/19/cpac-boos-panelist-torture/
From the article:

This afternoon, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held a debate titled “Does Security Trump Freedom?” that featured former GOP congressman and Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), and former Bush Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh. During one point in the debate, Barr condemned the [...]

[Read more →]

By way of Google News: libertarian, “catoismymotor” writes at The Motley Fool:
I did not like Bob Barr while he was in office as a Republican. I thought of him as a smug elitist bunghole, a slightly smarter verion of VP Joe Biden. Then he cut ties with his party. Later he joined the ranks of [...]

[Read more →]

By Bob Barr
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Premier for Newfoundland, one of Canada’s eastern provinces, underwent heart surgery last week. Where do you suppose Premier Danny Williams went for his surgery? To a hospital in St. John’s, the capital city of Newfoundland? Nope. Perhaps he travelled to a larger Canadian metropolis, such as Toronto [...]

[Read more →]

At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
DNA database bill should be deep-sixed
6:00 am February 8, 2010, by Bob Barr
A few years back, I hosted a nationally-syndicated radio program, modestly called “Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe.” One of the laws most frequently cited during the three years I hosted the weekly show, was Law Number Three: [...]

[Read more →]

LP blog:
The 2008 LP presidential nominee locks horns with Bill O’Reilly over terrorism issues:

Link to the video.

[Read more →]

By Bob Barr
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Yes — the not-so-bright, would-be terrorist from Nigeria got though international and domestic security mechanisms supposed to have stopped him long before the jerk lit his underwear afire before landing in Detroit. And yes — the incident happened during the administration of President Barack Obama. But the sniping at the [...]

[Read more →]

by Bob Barr
as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
For America’s families and small businesses, 2009 was a year to forget – if only they could — and 2010 looms gray and foreboding. But for the federal government, happy days are here again. Actually, they never left – Washington is printing and spending greenbacks, and offering [...]

[Read more →]

by Bob Barr
as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
During my eight years in the House of Representatives, I saw plenty of deals being negotiated, renegotiated, confirmed, reconfirmed, removed, undone, re-done, and finally cast in stone. But, I have never seen deals like those secured by a handful of senatorial holdouts as the price [...]

[Read more →]

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Bob Barr
New cybersecurity Czar faces huge hurdles
President Barack Obama has reached into the private sector and named Howard A. Schmidt as the new coordinator for cybersecurity in the administration – a new “Cybersecurity Czar,” if you will. Mr. Schmidt has his work cut out for him; balancing the many and [...]

[Read more →]