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Austin Petersen, our former Director of Outreach, and young libertarian Caitlyn Korb discuss the current trends of new media and how it is affecting libertarian politics.  Korb mentions the Libertarian Party, saying, "We’ve got so much access to knowledge and everybody I know doesn’t believe that there is anybody out there can make a better […]

October 12, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, I am disappointed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Barack Obama. That prize should go to individuals who end wars and make peace, not those who make war. President Obama has utterly failed to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has increased American […]

Dear Friend of Liberty, Libertarian Party chairman William Redpath invites you to join him at a book forum sponsored by the Cato Institute. It will be held in Washington, D.C. this coming Tuesday, October 13, at 12:00 p.m. The featured book is Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and […]

On September 30, 2009, several Libertarian Party interns went to the "Save School Choice Rally" at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.  The rally was organized to show support for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program for residents of the District of Columbia.  If continued, the program would give parents a scholarship for […]

October 5, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, I’ve been serving as the LP’s Executive Director for about ten weeks now. While I do spend some time on visible things like blog postings or writing email broadcasts like this one, I’ve also spent a lot of my time on unseen things like database improvement and fundraising. […]

The following is a partial calendar of upcoming speaking engagements and other activities of members of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC). LNC members are listed here. You may contact them directly for more information. Week of October 5-9, time and date to be determined Stewart Flood may testify at an FCC hearing "against the need […]

September 28, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, During the 2008 primary, many Republican presidential candidates claimed to be like former President Ronald Reagan. This was apparently intended to mean that they supported small government. I recently listened again to this speech promoting free enterprise, which Ronald Reagan gave in 1977 (before he was elected president).

Link to the video here.

September 21, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, You may have heard today’s prominent news stories about President Obama’s military commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, and his request to greatly increase the presence of U.S. armed forces there. The Libertarian Party opposes this plan. We want to end the war, not escalate it. In September 2008, […]

Excerpt from a Sep. 18 Foxnews.com article: "It’s absurd when nanny-state bureaucrats want to regulate things we buy at mom-and-pop shops or second-hand stores," Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian National Committee, told FOXNews.com. "Consumer product safety is best left to a free market where suppliers can compete based on reputation and track records.

Excerpt from the Brownsville Herald: Several other political parties exist, although most of them are single-issue groups like the Green Party, America First Party and the U.S. Marijuana Party. Some, however, do offer comprehensive philosophies that can be applied to all aspects of life and government.