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Congress blocks 15,000 ticketholders from inauguration — and they want to run health care?

The Politico reports California senator Dianne Feinstein is trying to make it up to as many as 15,000 inaugural ticketholders who were blocked from entering the event — by sending them a photo of Barack Obama. Thousands of now-angry people secured tickets to the historic inauguration of Barack Obama through the Joint Congressional Committee on […]

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Barr hails Obama orders on Guantanamo, torture, tribunals

For Immediate Release Friday, January 23, 2009 Says steps start process to restore rule of law in America Former Republican Congressman and Libertarian Presidential Candidate, Bob Barr, today issued a statement praising executive orders signed yesterday by President Obama ordering the closure of the military detention center at Guantanamo, restoring the practice of treating detainees […]

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Obama inaugural’s “carbon footprint” five times larger than a coal-fired power plant.

Even though Obama proposes job-destroying tax hikes on employers who emit carbon dioxide, the Institute for Liberty reports his $170 million inauguration had a total "carbon footprint" of 575,000,000 pounds. According to the EPA, the average American coal-fired power plant produces 10,237,509,070 pounds of CO2 per year. That’s 112,191,880 pounds of CO2 every four days. […]

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Libertarian Party Congratulates President Barack Obama

For Immediate Release Tuesday, January 20, 2009 America’s Third-Largest Political Party Comments on Obama’s Inauguration as the 44th President of the United States ‘Congratulations to President Barack Obama on his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States,” says Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath. “I think all Americans ultimately want what libertarians want […]

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Bush Gets Ramos/Compean Commutation Right

When Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were arrested and convicted for crimes surrounding the 2005 shooting of drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, they became a symbol of the immigration problems facing the United States. They were given a prison sentence of more than 10 years for what some believed to be them "just […]

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Say ‘Yes’ to Sweatshops

"But, sweatshops are evil!" you say. Tell that to the kids collecting plastic out of smoking piles of refuse in the landfills of Cambodia for $.05 a pound. At least in the sweatshops you don’t get run over by garbage trucks. In a nation where minimum wage is $6.55 (and more than 98 percent of […]

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Barr: No Defending DOMA

For Immediate Release Sunday, January 18, 2009 Article Originally Published in the LA Times In 1996, as a freshman member of the House of Representatives, I wrote the Defense of Marriage Act, better known by its shorthand acronym, DOMA, than its legal title. The law has been a flash-point for those arguing for or against […]

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Volunteer Appreciation Spotlight

The Libertarian National Committee would like to recognize Daniel Kamerling as an outstanding and exceptional volunteer.  As a person who has been voting Libertarian for almost a decade, Daniel volunteers because he "thinks the Libertarian Party has a lot of good ideas to help America, and [he] wanted to spread those ideas beyond [his] own […]

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The Skeptics

Not everybody is pumped about Obama’s $825 billion stimulus plans, especially the part that includes billions of taxpayer dollars being spent by the government in the hopes of jump-starting the economy.  Here’s what we’ve said about it: If Obama’s Plan Doesn’t Seem to Make Sense, it’s Because it Doesn’t We’re Not Going to Spend Our […]

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Most Dangerous Part of Bush Legacy is What Cannot Be Seen

For Immediate Release Friday, January 16, 2009 Libertarian Party Faults Bush Administration With Pushing Idea that Government is an Agent of Good America’s largest third party says the most dangerous part of President George Bush’s legacy is that which cannot be seen. “President Bush leaves office after eight years having pushed the idea that people […]

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Barr Supports Closure of Guantanamo Prison

For Immediate Release Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Endorses Obama Proposal Former Congressman Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s 2008 nominee for president, issued a statement Wednesday morning applauding President-elect Obama’s reported plan to close the controversial military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where many suspected terrorists have been held, often without hearings, since shortly after 9/11. […]

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