As the CPAC conference chugs on in Washington, Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian Party, issued this statement reminding the world that the GOP has no moral claim to small government or fiscal responsibility.
It’s interesting that conservatives only notice “big government” when it’s something their
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had barely begun to give his acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention when a clamor went up in the upper levels of St. Paul’s XCel Center. Adam Kokesh, a marine who had become a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the More…
Jonathan Martin takes the measure of libertarians’ enthusiasm for Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico — he left office in 2003 — who has edged back into politics after a long stint as, in the words he used when I last spoke to him, a “businessman More…
Carly Fiorina announced her 2010 campaign for California’s U.S. Senate seat in the usual way. She rolled out a new Website. She bounded across a stage at a “green detergents” factory to the strains of “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and gave a short More…
It’s hard to ascertain the impact of Senate candidate Rand Paul’s honest, impolitic statement that he’d consider backing Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) over Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The latter man would, of course, be Paul’s colleague from Kentucky if he does make it to the Senate. Trey Grayson, the More…
Joe Kennedy II, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy who became a six-term congressman from Massachusetts, has passed on a run for his uncle’s Senate seat, even after a poll portrayed him as the clear favorite. But Joe Kennedy, a Libertarian Party activist, has thrown his More…
As the fourth annual Values Voter Summit wound down, Benjamin Paulding found a seat near the lobby to relax and reflect. An 18-year-old student who was studying accounting at an online university, he had arrived under a cloud. He was leaving in a much better mood.
“I had been thinking More…
Rand Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is touting the first public poll on the GOP primary for next year’s U.S. Senate race. According to the survey, conducted for WHAS11, Paul trails GOP frontrunner Trey Grayson by only 11 points, 37-26. Among “conservative” Republican voters, he only More…
The man carrying an AR-15 at yesterday’s presidential speech in Arizona participated in a video project by RP4409, a channel of Ron Paul fans from the far right; Ernest Hancock, who designed the “Ron Paul rEVOLution” logo, appears in the video, too. The man, identified as “Chris,” and identified elsewhere More…
At the Washington, D.C. office of FreedomWorks, the conservative non-profit that has promoted and trained organizers of anti-tax Tea Parties, no one knew what Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) was going to say. A TV was tuned to the press conference Sanford had called to explain a confusing four-day absence from More…
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