Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh

The LP-PGH Needs Petitioners!

We have good news - our presidential and statewide candidates should be on the ballot! However, we have a candidate in the PA House 35th district (Homestead, West Mifflin, White Oak) named David Posipanka who could use your help. We are also doing what we can to help FACT with their Stop the Drink Tax referendum efforts. We will be meeting up the next 2 Saturdays around 10AM to petition, and volunteers are needed! If you can help out, please contact either David Posipanka at dpos...

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe hits 4 million percent

The Germans have halted shipments of the paper that Zimbabwe was using to print their 250 million dollar notes with. A billion Zimbabwe dollars = 10 U.S. cents. Do we here in the U.S. need to worry about hyperinflation? There is a big debate on economics blogs about whether the U.S. is experiencing inflation or deflation. Perhaps it is some hybrid of both. Credit card and mortgage defaults should be deflationary, the money that is lost in foreclosure instead of being profit just goes po...

Government power simply corrupts; So why do you keep buying?

What a classic example this video is of abuse of power, cowardice, and the nature of politics and politicians. Let's face it: It is human nature to try to live as comfortably as life will allow.  This is the human condition, and civil and government service folks are as human as anybody.  Yet for some reason - irrational idealism, we'll call it -- the average person can't seem to comprehend that the same fallibility they see day to day in the average person translates directly to governme...

Quotes: True Patriots are not…

With the Fourth of July fervor fast approaching, we thought a little sobriety is necessary.  Please be careful for what it is you are waving that flag whose origins are in liberty, not global intervention and the at home police state such folly requires. "The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a ...

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