Volume 4, Issue 1 | February 2025

"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles." -Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

In this Issue... 

Hello Liberty Lovers of North Carolina! Did you miss us? We missed you. We took a nice break for the holidays, plus a little extra, but we are back with a stellar issue of the Tar Heel Libertarian. Our Chair, Ryan Brown has announced his intention to run again at Convention in May, and also breaks down some of the bills that NCGA will potentially consider in the coming weeks. We also include some information on convention, including the silent auction and registration.

Trevor Miles shares his new undertaking, exploring the Bible in deep study in Trevor's Takes. Jon Warren exposes the extent of the grift that is U.S. government farm subsidies. Strategic Communications Director Joshua Glawson pens an ode to the greatness of the Old North State.  LP National Vice Chair Paul Darr has a guest article preaching a message of hope, and Comms Director Rob Yates breaks down the dramatic and inevitable differences between libertarians and the uniparty.

Since it has been so long since we sent you something, we dug deep for some extra content, and we have an article from our very own Susan Hogarth from 2007, as well as the 2016 LP Presidential candidate debate that we hosted in 2016, featuring the late, great John Mcaffee. We have Ryan on State Lines, Joshua on Where the Dogwood Blooms and two LPNC articles in the Carolina Journal. To close strong, Justin Hinckley has two banger articles this month in 2A Talks. And all the regular features you know and love are back. Enjoy!

Columns

From the Chair

Monthly message from the Chair of your Libertarian Party of North Carolina Executive Committee.

Featured Articles

Timely ruminations, calls to action, extraordinary insights, and so much more in the articles featured in the Tar Heel Libertarian.

• Trevor's Takes - Introducing Down South Salvation
• Thankful For North Carolina, by Joshua Glawson
• How We Subsidize Corporate Farm Monopolies, by Jon Warren
• NCGA Proposes Series of Bills, by Ryan Brown
• OpEd: To my Friends in the Libertarian Party, by Paul Darr - LP Vice Chair
• Why the Libertarian Party is Different..., by Rob Yates
• Blast from the Past: Meeting Ricardo in the Stables, by Susan Hogarth
• 2A Talk: Weapons of War, by Justin Hinckley
• 2A Talk: The Philosophy of Fudd, by Justin Hinckley

LP in NC

• Blast from the Past: 2016 Libertarian Presidential Candidates Debate - Hosted by the LPNC
• LPNC State Chair Ryan Brown on State Lines with Kelly McCullen, January 17 2025
• Who Was Robert Doughton - LPNC Strategic Communications Adviser Josh Glawson on Where the Dogwood Blooms
• The Libertarian Party’s identity crisis, by Jeff Scott (Carolina Journal)
• Reports of the NC Libertarian Party’s death have been exaggerated, by Rob Yates (Carolina Journal)
  

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