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Bob Barr Coming to Pittsburgh Friday, October 10 at CMU!

October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Bob Barr’s campaign has announced that Libertarian Presidential Candidate, Bob Barr, will be speaking on the CMU campus for the CMU political lecture series on Friday evening. The event is open to the public, and there will be a meet and greet afterwords where you can have a chance to meet with Bob [...]

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Bob Barr, Libertarian President Candidate, Comments on Corrupt Bailout

October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The repubilcans and democrats want you to let them rescue the economy. Yet these are the same ones that were asleep at the switch or playing politics with the country’s economic future. Hear what candidate Barr has to say.
Enough is ENOUGH! Stop voting for the lesser of two evils; That brings you economic crisis. [...]

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Contrary to Big Govt Spin, Libertarian-minded Predicted Crisis

September 28th, 2008 · No Comments

We keep hearing from pundits on television, from Wall Street execs, and from politicians that “nobody saw this crisis coming.” That’s nothing short of the usual sping and lies we get from the status quo. Quite to the contrary, proponents of the libertarian-rooted Austrian School of Economics (a school of thought [...]

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Government’s Solutions to Economy Will Fail

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

With all that’s been transpiring in the economy in recent weeks, we thought this picture hit the nail right on the head.  Click the image for your own copy.

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Election Rules Enforced Selectively: Texas Standoff

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Just moments ago, Bob Barr and our campaign manager, Russ Verney, stood on the steps of the Supreme Court of Texas to rally a crowd of supporters and answer questions from the media.
Today, we filed an emergency stay to prevent the Texas Secretary of State from printing ballots until after our case was decided.
For a [...]

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Interventionist Candidates

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Libertarians do not believe in global interventionism like the Republicans and Democrats. Republicans like to call libertarians “isolationists” — a deliberate and simple-minded distortion of our views that unfortunately finds an audience among the masses more inclined to see the world in shades of only black and white. It’s the same line of [...]

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Candidate Bob Barr on the Issues via CNN

August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

He won’t be allowed close to the debates, and he’s relegated to 6:a.m. slots on CNN, but thanks to modern technology, the power of the media is to whomever can afford an internet connection! Enjoy learning about libertarian ideas from our Presidential candidate, Bob Barr!

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McCain Camp Engaging in “Stalinist Politics”

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

McCain is very much on record criticizing others for attempting to sideline his own election hopes a few years back through the use of legal tactics designed to exhaust the finances of less well capitalized rivals, and moreover, to simply keep competition off the ballot. Yes, this is common in this, the “land of the [...]

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R’s And D’s Granted Free Pass to Violate Election Laws of Texas

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

As it stands now, Bob Barr is the Lone Candidate in the Lone Star State.
As the filing deadline passed this week, Bob Barr was the only presidential candidate legally certified on the ballot in Texas.
The new Texas law is clear:
A political party is entitled to have the names of its nominees for president and vice-president [...]

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Two Party System Reveals the Ugly Side of Democracy

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right… The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
H.L. [...]

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