Congressman Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee, takes a look at Barack Obama’s proposed "cap and trade" $1.9 trillion National Energy Tax in his weekly column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Click here to read Barr’s column. Barr writes, in part:
For Immediate Release Sunday, July 5, 2009 Blunt, Calzone, Root among Scheduled Guests (Columbia, MO) – ‘Missouri Viewpoints’ Producer and Host Mike Ferguson will take to the radio airwaves next week. Ferguson will fill in for Tom Bradley as host of ‘Wake Up Columbia’, KSSZ’s morning drive time program, Monday through Thursday (July 6th through […]
Friday’s Washington Times editorializes on the July 4 "tea party" movement, many of which are being organized by Libertarian activists or Libertarian Party affiliates. Click here to read the full editorial, or if you live in the metro D.C. area pick up a copy of The Washington Times (click here to subscribe). The Times writes, […]
Click here for the full story. The Los Angeles Times reports, in part: Indiana is one of five states — along with Arizona, California, Mississippi and Pennsylvania — bracing for possible shutdowns this week as time runs out for lawmakers to close billion-dollar gaps in their fiscal 2010 budgets. Of the 46 states whose fiscal […]
Guillaume Vuillemey, a researcher at France’s Institut Economique Molinari, and Philip Stevens, a researcher at Britain’s International Policy Network write in today’s Washington Examiner about how Obama’s proposed government takeover of the health care system has worked in Europe. Hint. Not so well. Click here to read the column, or if you live in the […]
For Immediate Release Tuesday, June 30, 2009 President considering backing what he called the ‘biggest middle-class tax increase in history’ WASHINGTON — America’s third largest party Tuesday reminded President Barack Obama that supporting a proposed $246 billion tax on employer-provided health care benefits – a proposal he opposed as ‘the biggest middle-class tax increase in […]
"I pledge that under my plan, no one making less than $250,000 a year will see any type of tax increase…Not income tax, not capital gains taxes, not any kind of tax." – Candidate Barack Obama in Dover, N.H., Sept. 12, 2008 Barack Obama, who won the presidential election promising absolutely no tax increase of […]
In a victory for individual rights, the Supreme Court Monday announced it is throwing out a decision by Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who ruled the city of New Haven, Conn. could deny several firefighters promotions because the racially-neutral test they passed did not produce politically correct results, and it could theoretically result in lawsuits […]
For Immediate Release Friday, June 26, 2009 LGBT Democrats express outrage over Obama administration defense of DOMA WASHINGTON — Representatives from America’s third-largest party greeted Democrats protesting the Obama administration’s legal arguments defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) outside a Thursday Democratic National Committee fundraiser aimed at gay and lesbian donors, and shared with […]
Noted commentator Matthew Vadum, writing for The American Spectator, highlights what Obama’s proposed government takeover of health care means for the elderly. You may click here to read it. Here’s a hint. If you’re suffering from a painful fracture, Obama tells yesterday’s town hall, "maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the […]
A new poll from the independent firm Rasmussen Reports finds what Libertarians have said for years – Americans trust their own judgment on economic issues more than that of President Obama and Congress.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a physician and resident fellow at the independent, non-partisan American Enterprise Institute, writes in today’s Wall Street Journal about the inescapable truth of government-run health care — it can only make health care cheap by rationing your access to it. You may click here or pick up a copy of the Journal […]
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