Online Articles
1996
Volume 11

• GOP fails LP challenge
• Fireworks at LP Convention
• Amazing facts about the 1996 LP Convention
• LPC: U.S. out of Bosnia
• Browne qualifies for matching funds
• Why I won't take federal matching funds (by Harry Browne)
• Tompkins presidential bid update
• Affiliates: Tryon seeks 4th term in CA; tax battles in CA and WI
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• More convention speakers announced
• Special college student offer for the 1996 LP National Convention
• Should you consider a run for the LNC?
• Yeltsin learns from U.S.?
• Quote of the month
• I will not. . .
• Talking points: Issues: corporate welfare, interventionism, more

• Abolish the FEC
• Stadium Showdown
• Presidential campaign news
• LP on two more ballots
• Record for LP primaries
• Affiliates: MD LP candidate challenging ballot access law
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• Time for change in IL
• Amazing facts about the 1996 LP Convention
• Campaign seminar set for national convention
• Convention speakers
• You can help nominate LP award winners
• Talking points: Budget, corruption, immigration, and price supports
• Why you should be an LP candidate in 1996

• Net freedom: LP stands up for electronic privacy
• Index: GOP attacks personal liberty
• DEA big guns at LP forum
• Libertarians - influential and 'in'
• Campaign '96: Presidential nomination
  • Schiff in New Hampshire and on radio
  • Tompkins busy on the road
  • Harry Browne's campaign diary
• Affiliates: LP officeholder Flickinger boosting Libertarianism
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• Now 30
• Victory for AZLP as primary halted
• Talk radio tuning in to Libertarian Party
• 'Tom's Diner' gets four stars on Seattle radio
• Convention July 3-7, 1996 - Washington, DC
  • Pre-convention events set
  • Colonial home tour set for convention
  • Airline discounts available
  • Agora
  • More convention speakers announced
• Talking points: On-line censorship, pornography, and gun control

• Growing and growing: PA tops 1,000; radio host signs on
• Political judo: LP leaders at campaign seminar
• MD party pays for LP primary
• Surveys show time is ripe for LP
• Campaign '96: Presidential Nomination
  • Browne campaign picking up steam; oddsmaker puts Browne at 200-1 along with Ross Perot
  • Schiff active during New Hampshire tour
  • Jorgensen's VP campaign active across the country
• Affiliates: MD Libertarians push new ballot access bill
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• SAFE: Member forms group to fight 'big government' AARP
• Convention: July 3-7, 1996
  • Convention air offer
  • 1996 LP convention delegate allocation
  • More convention speakers announced
  • Colonial home tour set for convention
• 'Points' editor Poe dies
• Cops are robbers: Court makes private property 'endangered species'
• High-profile candidates to vie for LP U.S. Senate nomination in GA

• The LP at 25: What next?
• The essence of liberty
• Access: Lawsuits seek election law equality
• Campaign '96: Presidential nomination
  • LP presidential primary results
  • Tompkins visits, supports victims of War on Drugs
  • Bergland, Casey named co-chairs of Browne campaign
• Affiliates: Four Libertarian victories in WI, three in NH elections
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• Cisewski set to run for LP national chair
• LP radio jingle set for production
• National Convention
  • Sobran to address national convention
  • Alternative hotels listed for national convention
  • More convention speakers announced
  • Individual Event Pricing Available for Convention
• Liberty on-line: Experts say Libertarians dominate on-line culture
• Cyber-revolution

• Tax Protest Day: Libertarians rally across the U.S.
• Gallup: 50 million Libertarians in U.S.
• 1996 National Convention
  • Convention opens with free breakfast, keynote speaker
  • Zimmermann to get special award in DC
  • 1996 Libertarian Party Convention Agenda
  • New rules, procedures at national convention
  • LP Platform Committee to meet July 2-3 in DC
  • Time to 'can the cult'?
  • Conference at convention
• Affiliates: Another radio talk show host joins LP in GA
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• Gorman to run for NH speaker
• LP warns anti-terrorism bill a danger to U.S.
• Browne campaign raises funds for LP
• National Chair Dasbach seeks re-election
• Allard seeks re-election as national vice chair
• LP chair candidate [Ruskaup]
• Tuniewicz appointed
• Libertarian Party success in the stars

• House call: LP candidates gear up for races
• Stand-up Mayor: Flickinger helps save $7.5 million
• Ballot access on track for 50+
• No confidence in any government
• Jorgensen candidacy gets endorsement
• Affiliates: Elected Councilman Carlsten joins LP in Colorado
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• Butler seeks re-election as LP national treasurer
• Johnson running for national secretary
• Hot platform topics: kids' rights, abortion
• Spangler elected in MO
• Cost of Government Day
• Court OKs monopoly in NH LP challenge
• LP: Reject 'Defense of Marriage Act'
• Tompkins: Government has no role in blocking gay marriages
• A critique of impure Reason
• Browne: For help, look to the mainstream, not our friends
• Index now available for NEWS on-line
• NEWS deadlines

• Browne/Jorgensen in '96: As world watches, ticket wins first-ballot victories
• Steve Dasbach re-elected LP national chair
• Conventioneers enthusiastic, satisfied
• Keynote: Hornberger wows crowd with speech
• Media takes notice of LP convention
• Affiliates: LP candidates gearing up campaigns across U.S.
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• LP college organization seeks members
• Rep. Gorman's NH legislation blocks sobriety checkpoints
• Harry Browne's campaign platform
• 7 things you can do this week to help Harry Browne get into the presidential debates
• Convention award winners
• Platform debate: Convention delegates make major/minor changes
• In Defense of Reason: Commentary response
• LP hails court decision overturning CDA

• Browne keeps pressure on for entry into debate
• Stop the Browne Out at debates
• Access efforts nearly complete
• Libertarians hosting more talk radio
• Explosive growth for College Libertarians
• 'LP Day' set in CO
• Affiliates: MO LP candidate Hodge gets NRA endorsement
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• Liberty and security: Can we have both?
• Proposals attack on innocent Americans
• You might be a Libertarian . . .
• Libertarian House

• Browne out: Debate commission excludes LP
  • Did debate commission head lie?
  • Commission snubs LP
• Candidates: LP in federal, state, and local races
• LP on all state ballots
• Browne campaign: Operation Drumbeat volume builds as decision nears
• Legal actions: LP affiliates and candidates challenge election laws
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• 'Really Free' song
• CA News bids

• Get out the vote
• Boston raises $30,017 for Browne
• Browne shines in third-party debate
• Supreme Court to hear GA LP case
• Affiliates: More elected officials switching to Libertarian Party
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• Libertarian Party 1996 Presidential Ticket
• Campaign committee endorsing three races
• Liberty Council formed

• 470,000 for Browne
• 2 million vote Libertarian
• Paul elected to Congress
• Ballot access in good shape
• LP President: 1996 vs. 1992
• Election Results
• Affiliates: Libertarian Party registrations skyrocket in many states
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• Harry Browne looks ahead
• Talking points: A look at the drug war, welfare reform, and more
• Narrowminded?