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What is your political ideology?
Your Result: Libertarian
 
 
This quiz has defined you as a Libertarian. Keep in mind, this ideology can be applied to the right or left in the social sense. You believe in a minimal role of the government in solving problems and believe that the “Free market” can handle almost all economic situations.

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This is actually a pretty good response:
FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY:
Huckabee is right: Libertarianism is a threat to Republican hypocrisy
Party responds to former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee’s comments about the “threat” of libertarianism
Washington, D.C. – In a recent interview with Huffington Post contributor Will Mari, former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee called libertarianism “not […]

Reason’s David Weigel chronicles in one of his latest dispatches how a former Republican Congressman managed to snag the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party:
The Bob Barr campaign couldn’t have plotted it any better. The former GOP congressman-turned Libertarian Party contender announces his candidacy two short weeks before the LP convention, and grabs more free […]

Here, in two parts, is the complete video of Saturday night’s debate between the candidates for the Libertarian Party’s Presidential nomination.
Part One:

Part Two:

Last week, Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Bob Barr, Vice-Presidential Nominee Wayne Allen Root, Mike Gravel and Virginia 10th District Republican Congressional candidate Vern McKinley spoke at a roundtable discussion on the future of libertarian politics.
Here’s an excerpt:

Here’s the video of Bob Barr’s post-victory speech to the LNC delegates:

Although off doing holiday weekend things and not really able to keep up with it, there was plenty of good coverage of the Libertarian National Convention and it’s aftermath.
Over at The Liberty Papers, Stephen and Jason did a great job of reporting from the floor and behind the scenes of the convention, scoring an interview […]

CSpan will cover the important parts of the Libertarian National Convention starting tonight at 9pm.
Also, several blogs will be semi-liveblogging the proceedings, including
The Liberty Papers, Third Party Watch, ComicsPundit, Knappster, and, Reason’s Hit & Run

Apparently, those weird Tucker Carlson for President rumors weren’t true after all:
Carlson tells me he was never running.
He’s right now with his family in Maine rather than in Denver with the Marijuana Policy Project and the like.
“I probably should have done it,” Tucker emails me.” Imagine the bus trip.”
Shoot.
Oh, well.
Yea, well, it probably wouldn’t have […]

Hey, it’s the Libertarian National Convention, lots of wacky things could happen:
“Tucker Carlson for president?” That’s the headline at the personal blog for Brendan Nyhan, a former Spinsanity editor who is now a graduate student in political science at Duke. Nyhan says that Carlson, the former “Crossfire” host and former writer for The Weekly Standard, […]