A mixture of governmental and personal restrictions have kept me insulated enough actually to have time, and perhaps misguided motivation, to read comment threads on Facebook. Now, I don't consider myself a popular fellow by any means, with a triple digits friends list comprising of people I know (and a couple of libertarian celebrities that
A few people asked my opinion regarding Ron Paul's 'hoax' article now that Rand Paul has been diagnosed with COVD-19. The media and social networking are missing an essential point that Mr. Paul was attempting to convey. Ron Paul's reference to 'the hoax' is to question government takeover in regards to civil liberties and whether
*URGENT POLICY CHANGE REQUEST ~ TO ACCOMMODATE THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY DECLARATION MADE FOR MINNESOTA HEALTH SAFETY ~ AS IT APPLIES TO CURRENT MINOR POLITICAL PARTY PETITIONING PRACTICES AND REQUIREMENTS* TO: Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan; Secretary of State Steve Simon; the State Senate’s Government Finance and Policy and Elections Committee; and the
Below are the results for every race included in our February 25th caucus. In addition to the Presidential race, we also included Vice President, The Libertarian National Committee Chairman, and the Vice Chairman of the LNC. This is a straw poll, but the delegates elected to go to the National Convention in Austin, TX in
Though the major parties insist that the 2020 Presidential election will be the most important election of our lifetime, many Minnesotans refuse to accept this repeated lie and showed up to vote at the Libertarian Party caucus on Tuesday, February 25th, 2020. The LPMN does not have a virtual, absentee, or early voting process, therefore every vote was cast
Any mention of the word socialism in the same sentence as libertarian often provokes a variety of skeptical responses: “But that’s an oxymoron!” “That’s just not possible.” “That exists?” However, anti-authoritarian politics and socialism have been closely tied since nascency, and libertarianism combined with visions of worker ownership of production and non-hierarchical property relations is
Around 30% of payments are made using cash, making it still the most popular form of money transfer. However, research suggests that Generation Z are significantly less likely to carry dollar bills than Millennials and soon we could be entering a cashless society. In the future all transactions could be electronic, meaning that they can
The Department of Housing and Urban Development recently revealed that OneWest would pay $7 million to the California Reinvestment Coalition [2], after it was found that the bank was biased against certain applicants who wanted to apply for mortgages. Latinos and African Americans found it harder to apply for loans, and the entire process
Breaking down the LPMN lawsuit over MN voter suppression: On 8-21-19 The Libertarian Party of Minnesota filed a lawsuit case no. 19-cv-2312 in US District Court. The complaint was filed by Erik Kaardal of Mohrman, Kaardal and Erickson, p.a. This was announced in a joint press conference earlier today at the Minnesota State Office
Firm science indicates that people globally need to do more to protect the Earth's natural systems, but the vast sums of money spent by governments in pursuit of this are making slow progress. Despite the likes of the USA funneling over $5 billion per year into climate change, according to World Resource Institute figures, the influential
