LNC Chair Nicholas Sarwark was featured in a live, 40-minute segment on C-SPAN and C-SPAN Radio's Washington Journal on April 12. He made a compelling case for joining the Libertarian Party and responded to several calls from listeners. Listen here.
Hear from Libertarian councilwoman Elizabeth Dahl on "Libertarians Working For You". Elizabeth was elected to the Crystal City Council in November 2014 and explains her work cleaning up unnecessary freedom-infringing city ordinances, stopping a railroad from taking private property, being a truly responsive leader, and more.
How can libertarians best take action to move forward toward our goal of a free society? Is involvement in the political process a good way to achieve this? Or should libertarians drop out of the system and embrace agorism? Is either way better? This continues to be a topic of much debate in the libertarian movement.
Many in the public see large corporations as having tremendous power, and the government as the only entity large enough to check that power. Internet users cheered when the FCC acted to regulate the telecommunications companies on the federal level. But will this move really help individual consumers? We dive into the history of government regulation, starting with the Railroads.
Love your internet? Don’t we all. But it might be about to change. We consider what's made the freewheeling internet such a success and shine some light on what "net neutrality" means. Few understand it; isn't "neutrality" a good thing? Well, here’s a hint: the government is about to get involved.
A new chapter for the Libertarian Party began yesterday with the Grand Opening of our State Party Headquarters in Minneapolis. It was kicked it off in fashion with over 60 attendees enjoying the amazing food and the Super Bowl. Attendees were a mix of new and old faces, with 4 state chairs in attendance! Thanks again to all who made it happen.
Unconstitutional surveillance by state and local law enforcement can stop with your help. Senator Petersen has authored a bill, SF32, to restore the 4th amendment that extends data privacy to electronic communication via a constitutional amendment. While it would not stop the federal government from collecting warrantless information, this measure can stop it's use at the state level.
Help us make a necessary and important step to properly grow the party by moving us into an office! This is a professional setting located centrally in the metro. Perfect to suit our staff, volunteers/interns and event hosting. We are very excited about the opportunity and feel it is the right time to expand to an office ahead of 2016.
The tragedy of deaths such as Eric Garner, and the subsequent refusal of a Grand Jury to indict the officer involved in his death, highlights several related systemic problems we have in the United States. Until we address all of these issues, tragedies like Garner's will continue to happen.
What would fix elections is a free market competition, in politics. The same excitement and involvement that the free market generates in other areas would be transferred to politics. This would include having third parties in the debates and allowing more major parties other than boring “Pepsi” and “Coke.” Not only do citizens need to acknowledge that our system of elections is flawed, but that the suggestions to remedy it by the Star Tribune are flawed as well.