On Tom’s Silver Bullet Hello Libertarians. This is the seventh of a series of opinion articles I’ll be privileged to write for you once per month on an “inside baseball” topic for the Libertarian Party. I encourage everyone who has an opinion on whatever we’re talking about this month to comment or send phillies@4liberty.net your longer editorials, which may well be…
Posts published in August 2025
Notice was given that the motion will be made at the next LNC meeting. The motion reads: Whereas, on August 10, 2025, a motion was considered to amend the policy manual to include, among other changes, the language that “Communication with LNC Counsel: Only the LNC Chair and ExD shall have free and direct contact with LNC Counsel. LNC members…
How is Puerto Rico governed? We have found an extensive discussion, though fact checking is needed. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/30/2339945/-Caribbean-Matters-The-unelected-junta-controlling-Puerto-Rico-s-economy
There is significant circumstantial evidence that some factions within the Libertarian National Committee were pursuing disaffiliation in order to secure a friendlier state party delegation at the next National Convention. In 1996, the Arizona Party delegation had been filled with supporters of Rick Tompkins, who was supported by the Phoenix group. There were sound reasons to believe that a delegation…
We are getting some remarkably impolite comments. They are not passing moderation. If you attempt to make a point by making up your own words, you will probably find that we are not accepting any of your comments.
The dismissal has now been granted. You can read the very short document at https://thirdpartywatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Dismissal.pdf This is a request by Jacobs and the LNC to end without a hearing Jonathan Jacobs’ appeal of certain LNC actions at their June meeting, on the grounds that issue no longer exists. Hector Roos has written the Judicial Committee on this topic. He writes:…
We gather that the LNC netted $633,000 from the sale, on a gross of $650,000. A usually reliable poster indicated that the purchase price was closer to $800,000, but there was a major roof leak and water damage.
The Editor is quoting part of a longer article that appeared on Daily Kos from NoFortunateSon. Most of the article is about Governor Pritzker’s statement today threatening legal lawfare against illegal Trump actions. NoFortunateSon was addressing Democrats, but this message also works for Libertarians: There is a lot Democrats can legitimately say… if they have the courage: Are you a…
Or perhaps Communist. Trump has solved the socialist problem…How do the workers and peasants get control of the means of production? He has solved the problem The American Way. He is bombing the problem with money. He’s buying the means of production, leading to a “National Wealth Fund” and hence a guaranteed minimum income to keep the workers and peasants…
Voter registration instead became part of the Kahn for Mayor campaign in Tucson, which by report received $50,000 in state Clean Elections funds, and apparently used the larger part of those funds to register Libertarian voters. The National Party apparently provided manpower for the effort. The Tucson group then launched the first of a series of lawsuits to establish its…