Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh

Lobbyists Not Getting Fair Shake?

In The Know: Are Politicians Failing Our Lobbyists? Sometimes humor says it best.

The Definition of Insanity: LP Presidential Debate on The War on Drugs

Here's some very sober thinking on the Drug War at a recent Libertarian presidential candidate debate. Sober thinking on a crucial subject while Congress is busy-bodying itself on steroid scandals.

Government Monopolies Don’t Like Competition

So in the land of free, you think you might be able to play a little poker, especially to raise money for a charitable cause... Well, unless the "Land of the Free" is a slogan in memory only. That's the subject of this most recent piece done by Drew Carey at Reason TV. Enter the police state mentality of the United States local governments. What's most alarming about this story is the abuse of force by the police, and the busy body neighbor who sent them to bust things up. Is this...

Police State is as Police State Does

Here's a nice video of tax dollars at work. A male driver with a pregnant wife and child in an SUV who is pulled over by the police attempts to clarify why he's been pulled over and, absent a satisfactory answer, refuses to sign the ticket he's given. The police officer immediately requests he exit the vehicle and turn his back and place his hands behind his head, during which the driver merely attempts to engage the officer in order to defuse the escalation and restate his concern. The ...

Eminent Domain Gone Wild

Pittsburgh residents are all too familiar with "eminent domain", the constitutionally sanctioned practice where governments take private land for legitimate public uses. Traditionally, that's meant things like roads and schools. Over the past several decades, however, governments have gone hog wild with eminent domain, routinely condemning property (or freezing its improvement for years like 5th and Forbes with highly publicized threats of confiscation and development plans) and turning it o...

Medical Marijuana: Medicine or Freedom?

Here's a clip from the comedian Drew Carey produced by reason.tv on Medical Marijuana and Marijuana illegality in general. Notice the people interviewed about their use for medicinal purposes. These people are not the animals Drug War zealots want you to believe. Apart from being prohibition -- which only creates a whole host of additional problems without actually stopping drug use -- marijuana prohibition is flat out immoral for people who choose to use it for their own reasons. L...

Free Market Thinking on Commuter Gridlock

16 miles from work takes an hour and a half to commute? Here is another clip from Drew Carey on Reason.TV discussing how gridlock can be alleviated with libertarian minded solutions. Pittsburgh may not be so bad as L.A., but this shows how privatization is not the evil big government apologists want you to believe.

We Can’t Argue With Ron Paul

Why would a Libertarian Party website post a video of a Republican presidential candidate? He may be a Republican by Party, but he's Libertarian by action. Libertarians believe the job of government is exclusively to protect the freedom, liberty, and property of the individual. It believes the right of individual consent is far higher than the whims of voters and politicians. In other words, you should have the right to say "no thanks" to other who want to confiscate what rightfully be...

More Ron Paul: On the Colbert Report

If Paul's comments are new to you and sound a bit extreme, we encourage you to read up on well reasoned arguments behind such thinking. It is very much in line with the thinking of the Founding Fathers, who understood liberty and its relationship to your right to say "no thanks" to government meddling you don't like.

True Patriotism

There are more than a few in politics wiling to call others unpatriotic and unAmerican. Here Ron Paul asks listeners to question for what are some cloaking themselves in the implied symbolism of the American flag. Think about it, and join libertarians as we fight to preserve and restore liberty and your god granted right to say "no thanks!" to meddlers using government to enforce their group ideologies.