It’s happening! Former two-time New Mexico Governor and two-time presidential candidate Gary Johnson has decided to jump into the New Mexico Senate race.
Ron Nielson, the man who ran Johnson’s presidential campaign told Matt Welch at Reason that Johnson’s candidacy is “moving forward” and “[H]e’s begun the process filing.”
Is Harvard really this triggered by the concept of free speech? Also, there are Libertarians at Harvard? Who knew?
The College Fix reports:
Harvard student club removes ‘free speech’ from event name to avoid shutdown by officials
“Free speech” is such a touchy subject at Harvard University that a student club took the phrase...
This is an update from a post we ran a few days ago. Some Duke students are not happy that a professor suggested Libertarian ideas are caused by autism.
Campus Reform reports:
Duke students rebuke prof for saying libertarians are autistic
Duke University students are circulating a petition condemning a professor who labeled conservatives...
Many liberals are clueless when it comes to Libertarian ideas but you would expect better than this from a professor.
Campus Reform reports:
Duke prof suggests libertarians are ‘on the autism spectrum’
A Duke University history professor recently suggested that many of...
Young Americans for Liberty was supposed to hold a campus panel on various topics but got shut down.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown wrote about it at
It almost seems like the school was looking for an excuse to cancel. This is so petty.
The College Fix reports:
Libertarian students: American U canceled our event because we called it a ‘meeting’
Last night’s “Unsafe Space” event sponsored by the British online magazine Spiked was supposed to be held in an auditorium...
The professor assigned reading from the Cato Institute. What a crime.
The College Fix reported:
Student tries to get professor in trouble for assigning her libertarian reading
University of St. Francis student Jennifer Martin tweeted Wednesday that her professor (an adjunct, it turns out) gave her an assigned reading on “national health care systems”...
So many progressives don’t even seem to understand what Libertarians believe. If they did, more college students would probably be Libertarians.
The College Fix reports:
Students launch libertarian club at small Oregon college and get harassed, investigated,...
Libertarian VP candidate Bill Weld has apparently given up campaigning for himself and Gary Johnson, instead opting to sing the praises of Hillary Clinton on the Rachel Maddow show.
Real Clear Politics reports:
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Former Massachusetts Governor and current Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate Bill Weld has a new political mission and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with helping Gary Johnson win the presidency.
Weld simply doesn’t want Trump to win, so he plans to focus on attacking him.
The Boston Globe reports:
VP hopeful Weld is more...
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson earned another high-end endorsement when the Chicago Tribune editorial board picked him as their choice for president. The board wrote:
This ye...
According to new polling, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has more support from military veterans than the other presidential candidates. Recent polling of active military showed 37% of respondents chose Johnson, reports The Hill.
Depending upon the accuracy of the polling, it may serve as further evidence that military service members are increasingly Libertarian.
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson and running mate William Weld has pulled in more than $2.9 million since the beginning of August. From The Wall Street Journal:
The campaign ran an online “money bomb” asking supporters to donate $15 by Aug. 15 with a goal of raising $1.5 million. It reported that...
Amid the cries of #NeverTrump on the right, some conservatives are saying they’ll vote Libertarian in 2016. Even conservative pundit Mary Matalin has endorsed Libertarian candidate Austin Petersen.
The favorite to win the nomination however, is former New Mexico...
