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WATCH: Log Cabin Republicans Leader Criticizes GOP

HuffPost Live | Posted 05.07.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

Is American politics tipping away from conservatives to progressives? Third Way Resident Scholar Bill Schneider thinks so. Schneider and Log Cabin Rep...

Climbing the Mountain

Write for the Future | Posted 05.05.2013 | College
Write for the Future

My resistance to censor myself forms my persona as a strong risk taker and defines my independence. Yet speaking my truth comes at the cost of some peers ostracizing me. However, taking risks prepares me for my dream to become an entrepreneur.

Boston: Beyond Tea Party Politics

Gareth_Price | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Gareth_Price

Less than 48 hours since the violence in Boston on Monday, and with scant and conflicting evidence, the divination of who is responsible has opened up significant political fissures, but also many bridges.

Marriage Equality: A Golden Opportunity for the GOP

Christian J. Miele | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
Christian J. Miele

Any public policy or law that places a badge of inferiority on certain "less desirable" personal relationships should be struck down. Marriage as a form of expression is a civil, if not an inherent, right.

The Lax Logic of Libertarians

Jag Bhalla | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
Jag Bhalla

Crucial questions are misframed by pitting J.S. Mill and free-market libertarian faith against Mayor Bloomberg, reason and experience.

Eleazar David Melendez

Bitcoin Trading Boom Bittersweet For Long-Time Traders

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleazar David Melendez | Posted 04.11.2013 | Business

NEW YORK -- Kacper Cieśla kept wondering how long it would take for the police to knock on his door. It had only been a few weeks since the 22-yea...

Libertarians: Live Free or Die of Frostbite

Floyd Elliot | Posted 04.10.2013 | Comedy
Floyd Elliot

Some weeks ago, a study by the libertarian Mercatus Center found that the freest state in the United Ss Of A is... envelope, please... North Dakota!

It Wasn't David Stockman Who Wrecked the Economy

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics
Robert Scheer

Why is David Stockman driving everyone crazy? The shoot-the-messenger frenzy that has greeted Sunday's New York Times op-ed by Ronald Reagan's former budget director leaves one searching for the message that has so unhinged his critics.

Matt Sledge

You Won't Believe Which State Was Ranked 'Most Free'

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- Go West, young Rand. A new study released Thursday by a libertarian think tank ranks New York as the least free state, and the Dakotas, wh...

Four Reasons Students Should Vote Libertarian in the Next Election

Uloop | Posted 05.07.2013 | College
Uloop

Tired of the social injustices of the Republican Party? Frustrated by the intrusive and anti-business economic policies of the Democratic Party? If you answered YES to both of these issues, you may be a secret Libertarian -- you've just never known the right label.

Florida Needs Marijuana Reform

Roger Stone | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Roger Stone

After Colorado and Washington State outright legalized marijuana in the last election it's time for the State of Florida to get on the road of drug law reform.

Orthodoxy: Liberty's Other Enemy

Robin Koerner | Posted 04.14.2013 | Politics
Robin Koerner

There are many orthodoxies -- religious, political, philosophical and more. Like all other tyrannies, they seek conformity. Orthodoxy is to the mind as tyranny is to the person.

Aaron Swartz: A Libertarian Dilemma

Gareth_Price | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics
Gareth_Price

Do we protect the freedom of the individual citizen to disseminate knowledge for the benefit of other individuals to make informed decisions in the marketplace? Or do we protect the rights of corporations to restrict access to knowledge only to those individuals who can afford it?

Welcome to Glenn Beck's Grifter Theme Park

Bob Cesca | Posted 03.19.2013 | Media
Bob Cesca

Glenn Beck is building an amusement park called -- what else? -- Independence Park. But he's pitching it to be much more than a roadside tourist trap with a tilt-a-whirl, concessions and skeeball. Beck wants his herd of followers to believe it's a real city -- his own version of Ayn Rand's "Galt's Gulch."

How to Quickly Prove a Libertarian Wrong

Ben Cohen | Posted 03.09.2013 | Politics
Ben Cohen

Have an annoying Libertarian uncle who tells you that government is the source of all evil? I thought it would be useful to have some quick-fire arguments in your back pocket to battle the five most common myths propagated by Libertarians:

Campaigning on the Cheap: An Independent Path Forward

Abel Collins | Posted 01.26.2013 | Politics
Abel Collins

Some think we should let the Democrats and Republicans continue their ruinous policies of selling out the American people to Big Business. I can't in good conscience let that happen, so let me explain why 2014 will be the year we see at least one Independent in the House.

Anthony Randazzo: What's Next For Libertarians?

92nd Street Y | Posted 01.19.2013 | Politics
92nd Street Y

Reason Foundation's Anthony Randazzo recently spoke to us about the future of the libertarian movement following the 2012 election. Anthony had a l...

The Economics of Scraps: Why I May Vote for Mitt Romney (No, Seriously!)

David J. Dunn, PhD | Posted 12.24.2012 | Politics
David J. Dunn, PhD

Often, only a major crisis can make us abandon one set of beliefs and take up another. So maybe the only way to move past the economics of scraps is to make a full return to it, letting it lead us back to the precipice of 2008, and to step off into a new Great Depression.

Blue Republican Movement Endorses Dennis, Crowell & Casida

Robin Koerner | Posted 10.19.2012 | Politics
Robin Koerner

This is the age in which the Pelosis and Corkers of our political establishment no longer oppose each other, because they find common interest in their assault on the Bill of Rights that contains those principles held dear by decent liberals and conservatives alike.

Female Candidate Watch: Meet House Of Representatives Candidate Betsy Dewey

Nina Bahadur | Posted 10.16.2012 | Women

Betsy Dewey, a former business owner and Libertarian candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Texas, graduated from Vanderbilt University with...

She Hates Obama And Romney But College Tried -- And Failed -- To Stifle Her

Posted 10.10.2012 | College

Jillyann Burns likes neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney and figured there were others students at Ohio University in Athens who are "sick of the ...

Third Party Candidates Debate Governing

HuffPost Live | Posted 10.04.2012 | Politics

HuffPost Live hosted a debate to hear the voices of our third party candidates on the issue of governing. Hosts Marc Lamont Hill and Alicia Menendez ...

Third Party Candidates Debate Health Care

HuffPost Live | Posted 10.04.2012 | Politics

Last night at the first presidential debate, America listened to President Obama and Governor Romney’s pitch on how each would approach health care...

Is a Vote for Ron Paul a Vote for Obama, or the Product of a Disenfranchised Right?

Brian LaSorsa | Posted 09.27.2012 | Politics
Brian LaSorsa

Are third-party voters betraying the Republican Party, or are these voters a product of the Republican Party betraying the ideals of small government?

Mitt Romney: Closeted Redistributionist

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.20.2012 | Politics
Bob Cesca

Of course Mitt Romney supports redistribution. Everyone supports redistribution to some extent. It's literally how the government collects and spends tax revenue.