From Mike Riggs at Reason, describing Gary Johnson’s speech to the ACLU: Johnson said he’d cut the military’s budget and end Obama’s interventionism. It wasn’t until he got started on legalizing marijuana that the crowd (figuratively) lit up. A steady stream of applause followed Johnson’s declarations after that. “I support gay marriage equality. I support [...]

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BURNET, Texas (Oct. 21) – Dr. Mary Ruwart, author of the highly-acclaimed guide to libertarian ideas “Healing Our World,” has endorsed R. Lee Wrights for the Libertarian presidential nomination in 2012. An in-demand speaker on libertarian ideas at colleges and libertarian conventions, Dr. Ruwart was runner-up for the 2008 Libertarian presidential nomination. Here is Dr. [...]

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Here is a weekend event many IPR readers might be interested in.  There will be over 70 speakers over the course of three days–plus, it’s free! Check it out: Agora I/O: The Liberty Unconference               

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Mary Ruwart at LP.org: If you’d like to hear some free market solutions to green problems, check out Dr. Mary J. Ruwart chat with Bob Zadek on Fox News radio at: http://bobzadek.com/environmentalism-the-libertarian-way/

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Sent to IPR by Dr. Tom Stevens: Although I did not attend The Future of the Libertarian Political Movement conference in Manchester, New Hampshire on June 19, 2011, I compiled a few details and have written an article about the conference, which included the first Libertarian Presidential Debate: http://drtomstevens.blogspot.com/2011/06/future-of-libertarian-political.html In Liberty, Dr. Tom Stevens A [...]

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Posted by Mary Ruwart on the Libertarian Party blog on May 23, 2011: The Libertarian Parties of New Hampshire and Massachusetts present a National one-day political conference “Future of the Libertarian Political Movement”. Hear the first Libertarian Presidential debate of the 2012 season: R. Lee Wrights vs. Roger V. Gary. The New Hampshire and Massachusetts [...]

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Dr. Mary Ruwart is an At-Large Representative on the Libertarian National Committee, an active member of the Texas LP, and a leading expert in libertarian communication.  In this column she offers short answers to real questions about libertarianism.  To submit questions to Dr. Ruwart, see end of column. How can I argue against victimless crime [...]

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Excerpted from the Liberator Online newsletter from the Advocates for Self-Government: Ask Dr. Ruwart Dr. Mary Ruwart is an At-Large Representative on the Libertarian National Committee, an active member of the Texas LP, and a leading expert in libertarian communication.  In this column she offers short answers to real questions about libertarianism.  To submit questions [...]

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by Thomas Hill BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – Since I signed on as the campaign manager of the Lee Wrights for President Exploratory Committee I’ve taken some heat from some of my radical and anarchist friends in the libertarian movement, people I love and respect, for getting involved in electoral politics. Some of them have [...]

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UPDATE: With the resignation of Mubarak in Egypt this morning, I felt that we should move this article up so as to keep it on the front page and am changing the time stamp on it to be more current. My apologies to anyone who feels this is unwarranted. -Paulie Ernie Hancock writes: Google Translators [...]

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San Francisco Libertarian Activist Starchild attended a protest of solidarity with the people of Egypt. The protest took place Saturday, February 5, and took place at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco. Starchild’s rough estimate is perhaps three or four hundred people were present. Starchild writes: I encourage people to get these and similar images [...]

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By Mary Ruwart at Liberty for All. Republished with permission from Liberty for All publisher Lee Wrights. by Mary J. Ruwart, LNC At-large Dear Colleagues, I am writing to you in my capacity as an At-Large Representative of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), which is in receipt of your resolutions concerning Mr. Root. As you [...]

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Posted by Red Phillips at Conservative Heritage Times. Although Phillips also writes for IPR, I (Paulie) am posting it here to make it clear that any opinions expressed are those of Phillips, not an IPR editorial. As with many other stories I post, I am posting it for the sake of discussion, not necessarily because [...]

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Mary Ruwart at LP blog: With the economy in a tailspin, most people are concerned about the shrinking number of job opportunities. Those who have jobs fear that they will lose them; those who have already lost their jobs find that new ones are few and far between. Who is to blame for this sad [...]

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I just noticed that the LNC meeting archives since the past national convention in St. Louis now have minutes of executive committee conference calls, for anyone who wants to keep up with them. It appears that the 2004-5 minutes in the public archive included conference call minutes, but between 2006 and the May 2010 convention [...]

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From the Lone Star Report via TPID: It’s true that Texas Democrats did not file a candidate in the race for Comptroller, leaving only Republican incumbent Susan Combs versus two third-party candidates. But that doesn’t mean this race doesn’t represent a loss for Democrats (at least, in future elections). We previously reported that if the [...]

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Mike Gravel came in fourth in delegate votes for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in 2008, behind Bob Barr, Mary Ruwart and Wayne Root. Before that, he ran in Democratic Party primaries for President that same year, and served as a Democratic US Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981. Accoring to wikipedia, As Senator, [...]

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From the Texas Tribune: Republican Gov. Rick Perry leads his Democratic challenger, Bill White, by 6 percentage points — 39 percent to 33 percent — in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. Libertarian Kathie Glass has the support of 5 percent of the Texans in the survey; Green Party candidate Deb Shafto gets 1 [...]

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Posted by Mary Ruwart at Libertarian Party blog:   I just posted the following article at LibertyforAll.net.  You can read it in its entirety at  at http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4752.  Enjoy!     “Since the FDA only has jurisdiction over compounds involved in ‘interstate commerce,’ they have no jurisdiction over our kitchens—yet.  Should my client lose this case, however, [...]

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In an agreed judgment [PDF] issued yesterday by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, Judge Richard A. Schell returned control of Cannex Therapeutics to Steve Kubby and associates. The judgment notes that stock certificates allegedly issued for the purchase of Cannex Therapeutics, LLC by Cannabis Science, Inc., f/k/a Gulf [...]

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