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In addition to Ron Paul’s victory in the 2012 straw poll at CPAC, there were also these interesting results, which seem to show that mainstream conservatism may be moving in a move libertarian direction:
First, this shows that limited government is at the core of the attendees beliefs:
And, this chart shows that the primary concern among [...]
Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, spoke to Reason.tv recently about her new book:
My review of Burns’ biography can be found here.
In part two of Reason.tv’s week-long series on Ayn Rand, Reason Magazine co-founder Robert Poole discusses the role that Ayn Rand played in giving birth to the modern American libertarian movement:
David Nolan explains why neither Sarah Palin nor Glenn Beck are friends of liberty:
Reason’s Nick Gillespie was on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Internet-only Freedom Watch this week talking about the role of libertarianism in any revival of conservatism:
Over at Nolan Charts, one writer suggests that the Libertarian Party might want to look at a certain former Alaska Governor:
After decades of being forced to choose between voting for the lesser of two evils or wasting our votes on someone whose chance of winning was considerably less than that of the proverbial snowball in [...]
Wayne Allyn Root was Bob Barr’s Vice-Presidential running mate in 2008 and has already stated that he’s running for the Libertarian Party’s Presidential nomination for 2012.
Here he is being interviewed by Matt Welch of Reason:
Shortly before the 2006 elections, the Cato Institute published a study that argued that libertarian-oriented voters were abandoning the Republican Party due in large part to the war in Iraq, the Bush Administration’s reckless fiscal policies, and a War on Terror policy that showed little regard for civil liberties. That hypothesis seemed to be confirmed [...]
The Libertarian Party issued the following Press Release on Friday:
White House orders Dems to ‘punch back’ as union organizers attack citizens
WASHINGTON — America’s third largest party Friday called on Democrats to end what appears to be a budding campaign of union violence targeted at citizens who differ with the White House at town hall meetings [...]
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