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For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 21, 2013 The Libertarian Party calls for an immediate end to drone strikes in Yemen. ‘Yemenis perceive the U.S. drones strikes, which are killing peaceful citizens, to be acts of terrorism,’ said Geoffrey J. Neale, chair of the Libertarian National Committee. ‘At least in some respects, they are.’ ‘Terrorism’ refers […]

For Immediate Release Monday, August 19, 2013 Democratic and Republican Votes Abuse Your Fourth Amendment Rights Watch the video Thanks to the brave and patriotic actions of whistleblower Edward Snowden, Americans now know that their Fourth Amendment rights have been blown out of the water; that the government has been routinely spying on millions of […]

For Immediate Release Monday, July 22, 2013 ‘Delaying Obamacare is simply a stay of execution for struggling small businesses and health care consumers in America,’ said Carla Howell, director for the Libertarian Party. ‘Defund and repeal it now.’ When President Obama announced on July 2 that the employer mandate for Obamacare would be postponed for […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 26, 2013 The Libertarian Party applauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to strike the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal law that discriminates against non-heterosexual marriages. The Libertarian Party has supported marriage equality since its founding in 1971. “The Republican Party has never supported marriage equality,” said Laura […]

For Immediate Release Thursday, June 6, 2013 Taking its cue from George Orwell’s famous novel 1984 , the Obama administration is mining customer data from major Internet vendors and collecting telephone records of millions of U.S. citizens indiscriminately — regardless of whether they are suspected of a crime. The National Security Agency (NSA) is currently […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 5, 2013 When the stock market drops, count on politicians to exclaim, ‘Thank goodness we didn’t privatize Social Security! Just look how much people would have lost in the stock market!’ ‘So, after an almost uninterrupted bull market since March 2009 and six consecutive months of stock market gains, why […]

For Immediate Release Friday, May 24, 2013 In the wake of the dramatic collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash., on May 23, federal and state politicians will make their usual claims that ever-higher government spending is needed — funded by more taxpayer dollars and more debt — to fix the country’s […]

For Immediate Release Friday, May 17, 2013 Return to 1992 spending level would allow balanced budget, end to income tax The presidential administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and, now, Barack Obama have all been caught using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to target political enemies. As […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, May 1, 2013 The Libertarian Party extends heartfelt sympathies to the surviving families of the victims and all who were harmed by the senseless and violent bombing in Boston on April 15 and its aftermath. We applaud the efforts of Boston-area residents and law enforcement officials who helped to remove the […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Gov. Gary Johnson, 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for president, and the voters of Michigan were robbed last year, and the Republican Party is the thief. Johnson was barred from appearing on the ballot during November’s election at the behest of the GOP establishment and Republican Secretary of State […]

For Immediate Release Monday, April 15, 2013 Every year, federal, state and local governments seize an enormous percentage of the money Americans earn. For several months of every year, taxpayers are effectively working for the government without compensation. This year, according to the Tax Foundation , Americans must work until April 18, what they call […]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Estate Contribution Limits Case Certified to D.C. Circuit ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Setting the stage for a groundbreaking First Amendment test of campaign finance law, federal judge Robert L. Wilkins certified to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, sitting en banc, the question of whether […]