Political Analysis by Stewart Flood SPOILER ALERT: Love it or hate it, if you never watched this movie then go watch it before reading this! What can I say? I had to find a way to bring one of my favorite movies into this. The premise of the movie is quite simple: The USSR builds a super sub, designed to…
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Commentary by Stewart Flood Earlier in the week I was sitting here at my desk, working on some code, when there was suddenly a knock on the door. No, it wasn’t Santa Claus, it was something better. I went over the door and asked who it was. The response came back: “This is Mike Gastin and I’m running for city…
Commentary by Stewart Flood A word of advice to anyone trying to write in the modern world: don’t ever take a weekend vacation where they don’t let you talk politics or religion. It throws you off pace. But while I was on this weekend retreat at the end of June, I did manage to sneak in a few minutes on…
[Editor: Publius Valerius has sent us Part III of his, her, their, or its proposals for a new party. (“Its”? Under modern conditions, the possibility that Publius Valerius is an Artificial Intelligence cannot be completely ruled out.)] To deal with the people who are not welcome, since there is a general tendency of small political parties to attract to their…
Toward an Organizing Committee for a New Freedom-Aligned Party by Publius Valerius [Editor: We are in receipt of a new statement by Publius Valerius. His, her, or their opinions are his, her, or theirs.] The responses to my previous post raised a variety of questions that are meritorious for further discussion. Publius Valerius Publicola was a Roman patriot of the…
The LPAL successfully had its civil penalties reduced by an appeal from $10,270.74 to $2400. The issue was violations of the state Fair Campaigns Practices Act, requiring campaign filings during the last election year. The reduction in the penalties was recommended by the Alabama Secretary of State’s General Counsel. According to the LPAL Attorney, LPAL gained a new Treasurer, who…
The Free State Project Board has voted by 5-1 to remove Jeremy Kauffman from the Free State Project Board. The charge was that Kauffman refused to stop retweeting items from an account that the board felt was racist. Kauffman had been in charge of FSP communications, including the group’s Twitter/X accounts. The ouster has received local press coverage, for example…
Toward an Organizing Committee for a New Freedom-Aligned Party by Publius Valerius Surveys have shown roughly equal division between people who think that libertarians should abandon the Libertarian party and tried to take over the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, people who think that libertarians should try to cover their party from the current controllers, people who think that…
Libertarian National Committee Financial and Membership Reports have recently become very late. However, the Treasurer on September 26 filed the end-of-July report, which includes a graph of National Party memberships at the end of each month for some years previous. Membership at the end of June was 13,620. Membership at the end of July was about (read off graph) 11,900-12,000. …
It is September 20, and the LNC filed its FEC report in a timely way. The outcome could be said to leave something to be desired. The August LNC Financials show Cash on hand, start of month $266,368 Receipts for month $73,300 Disbursements for month $122,019 Cash on hand, end of month $217,649 However, debt increased markedly, from $14,397 last…