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Bob Barr rejects the Bush administration’s taxpayer bailout of the housing industry.   This bill includes provisions to reward Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for their disastrous, risky strategies.
While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have used the vague promises of government support to borrow at lower interest rates and so funnel more money into home mortgages [...]

Former Congressman Bob Barr and current Libertarian Nominee for President answers questions before the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Executive Power & the Bush Administration. Introduces the “Disappearing Bill of Rights” to the Congressional record during testimony before the Judiciary Committee. July 25, 2008
http://digg.com/politics/Bill_of_Rights_Blackout_and_the_Constitutional_Clock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudP5cYlvhY&feature=user

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When Bob Barr began his campaign for President, he insisted that job one is to get control of government spending.   Obama promises all sorts of new government “investment.”  (Are there really people who are fooled by using the term “investment” to describe spending even more on wasteful government programs?)   McCain proposes nothing more than reducing the [...]

CONNELL MCSHANE, GUEST HOST: My next guest says the move today is not good news for taxpayers.
Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr is with us.
Welcome to you, sir.
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Now, why is this a bailout, first of all? Because as Brenda was going through details there, basically, what the Treasury said, what [...]

Not all Americans are “online.”   And, even those of us who are online, sometimes read the local newspaper.   Many of those people who read the local newspaper read letters to the editor.   Why not write one in support of Bob Barr?
My approach is to wait until there is a relevant issue in the news.   Better [...]

Americans are concerned about high gasoline prices.   John McCain has blamed “speculators.”   The only truth to this argument is that the speculators are the bearers of bad news.   Not only is John McCain playing the part of the tyrrant who shoots the messenger and so will only be told what he wants to hear, it is he [...]

July 10, 2008 1:58 pm EST

Atlanta, GA — “Nearly three years ago the American people became aware that the president was systematically breaking the law by spying on phone calls and emails without seeking a warrant under the Constitution or even the relaxed standards of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  [...]

July 10, 2008 1:59 pm EST

Atlanta, GA — “Former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher have proposed a new statute to encourage the president and Congress to cooperate in going to war.  But the Constitution already sets forth a clear rule:  Congress, and only Congress, is tasked with [...]

The (Not So) Lunatic Fringe
By NATHAN THORNBURGH/NYE COUNTY, NEV.
Thursday, Jul. 10, 2008

With his belly hiding his belt, with his red suspenders and white beard, Glen Parshall is a dead ringer for Santa Claus, except for the snub-nosed pistol he keeps tucked in his back pocket. Parshall spends his days behind the gun cage [...]