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Rand Paul, who has surprised a lot of people by becoming a real contender for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, bows to political reality — he’s blasting the Obama administration’s policy on terror trials and proposing to “try, convict, and lock up terrorists in Guantanamo.”
Paul’s father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is one of the [...]

Global warming skeptics hope “SuperFreakonomics” will continue to shift attitudes toward their cause.

The 2008 Democratic and Libertarian presidential hopeful resurfaces to give a barely audible endorsement to Adam Kokesh, a libertarian activist who’s running for Congress in New Mexico’s heavily Democratic 3rd District. Kokesh is running basically unchallenged for the Republican nomination, running an anti-war campaign in a district Republicans are not really targeting for 2010 — [...]

A finding that the Second Amendment protects individuals’ right to own a gun could also provide more solid ground for recognition of the right to abortion, to sexual privacy, to gay marriage, and to a wide variety of other rights that conservative justices on the court and “originalist” Constitutional scholars have long opposed.

Jake Tapper, the Twitter-addicted senior White House correspondent for ABC News, wrangles a frightening number of scoops and under-reported stories. He’s also, arguably, the mainstream media reporter most beloved by conservatives. One reason for that is that Tapper chases down stories that bubble up from the conservative media or establishment that other reporters might sit [...]

The first week of Rand Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Kentucky has drawn the sort of coverage most first-time candidates wouldn’t dream of.

The Ron Paul quarters of the GOP are buzzing about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) speech to this past weekend’s state party convention — a combative performance in which he took on conservative activists and Paul supporters. One heckler yelled out: “You’re a hypocrite!” Graham snapped back: “I’m a winner, pal!” When Paul supporters started to [...]

Bill Kauffman reports that Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, is thinking about a run for the presidency in 2012. Kauffman compares him to Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), two libertarian heroes.

Yes, as a congressman Sanford opposed the U.S. intervention in Kosovo under a Democratic president; Gary [...]

It’s worth reading through Jason Zengerle’s long, definitive piece on tax resistance, but I want to highlight one section — an expose of how Wesley Snipes’ experiment with cheating on his taxes was egged on by libertarians.

After getting bounced from the ballot in the special election in New York’s 20th Congressional District, former Libertarian candidate Eric Sundwall has endorsed Democrat Scott Murphy.
I will be voting for Scott Murphy on Tuesday. While we disagree on some important issues, I find him to be a man of honor, a good family man and [...]