This was definitely troubling, so it’s good to see that some real action was taken after the report was revealed.
From McClatchy:
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Highway Patrol this week retracted a controversial report on militia activity and will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies.
The Highway Patrol [...]

“In 2006, when then-Sen. Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, he said, “Decisions about marriage should be left to the states.” He was right then; and as I have come to realize, he is right now in concluding that DOMA has to go. If one truly believes in federalism and the primacy of state [...]

CNN takes a look and discusses what his impact will be.

I think Barr could make a big difference in Georgia and other traditional red states like North Carolina, Indiana, Florida and Ohio.
Here’s why…
Reports show 1 million Democrats have early voted in North Carolina, compared to half a million Republicans. 1.4 million people have early voted [...]

Is Barr this year’s Nader? Probably not because this doesn’t appear to be a close call.
However, he could definitely siphon off crucial votes in New Hampshire and Georgia.

So, will Barr help bring about an Obama landslide?

“Senator John McCain will not win Georgia.”
- Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr
That’s certainly a bold prediction, but let’s remember that Barr represented Georgia’s 7th district from 1995 to 2003, so he may pull support from fiscal conservatives in the state.
What’s more, at least one recent poll has shown Obama up by one.
What do [...]

And makes a lot of sense…
“Obviously, America should encourage both countries to back down and resolve their differences peacefully,” explains Barr. But “the status of South Ossetia, as well as Abkhazia, another Russian-supported separatist zone within Georgia, matters a lot more to Russia, on which the two territories border, than to the U.S. Moreover, Washington [...]

Why?
Two words: Bob Barr.
Republican strategists are privately conceding that the GOP could lose Georgia’s 15 presidential electors for the first time since 1992 because of Bob Barr’s ballot position as the Libertarian Party presidential candidate.
The most recent Georgia survey by the polling firm Insider Advantage, conducted July 2, shows 46 percent for Sen. John McCain, [...]

McCain – 45%
Obama – 39%
Barr – 5%
More evidence that solidly red states aren’t nearly as solid this time around. Because while South Carolina went for Bush by 16 points in 2004, now we’re down to single digits.
Public Policy Polling shares why Obama is keeping it close…
The demographics fueling Obama’s ability to stay within striking range [...]

Obama – 49%
McCain – 33%
Barr – 9%
Nader – 2%
This is a state that Bush took by only 1% in 2004, and barely lost in 2000.
The details…

Hispanics for Obama and self-identified libertarians for Barr make McCain a distant second.
Hispanics make up 30% of the sample, and they choose Obama over McCain, 59%-24%.
Libertarians are 10% of the [...]

Will Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr be a threat to John McCain? Apparently, McCain doesn’t think so. Often, the two major parties will try to deal with third party threats by knocking the third-party challenger off the ballot in as many states as possible. For instance, Democrats tried to block Ralph Nader’s ballot access [...]

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McCain – 44%
Obama – 43%
Barr – 6%
Undc’d – 7%
Could this really happen?
“Georgia is competitive for Obama for several reasons. First, it has a high African-American voting age population (VAP). Second, it has an unusually high percentage of younger voters (18-29). Both of these groups are more in the Obama camp, with black voters already at [...]

He admits he was wrong and that it’s now time to call this “war” off because it’s doing far more harm than good.
From Huff Post:
For years, I served as a federal prosecutor and member of the House of Representatives defending the federal pursuit of the drug prohibition.
Today, I can reflect on my efforts and see [...]

But it wasn’t an easy nomination process…
Denver — Georgia’s Bob Barr won a long and tense battle Sunday for the 2008 Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination and now faces the daunting task of doing what no third-party candidate has done: Win in November.
It took six ballots and nearly five hours of voting at the Libertarian National [...]

Could he be McCain’s Nader?
From AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr has announced that he’s running for president as a Libertarian.
His candidacy would be a wild card in the White House race and many believe it would hurt Republican Sen. John McCain.
Barr made the announcement Monday at a news conference. He first must [...]

And he’s not too fond of McCain.
From CNN:
In an interview on The Situation Room, Paul told Wolf Blitzer that endorsing Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, “would really confuse” his supporters “because they know we have a precise program and we have to defend that program.”
Having a Republican win the upcoming presidential election [...]

Looks like the Libertarians are going to field a candidate who could actually have a voice in the conversation this year…thanks to the groundwork laid by Paul.
From Philly.com:
Bob Barr, former GOP congressman from Georgia, is an all-but-announced presidential candidate – as a Libertarian.
The possibility of a run by Barr has sent shudders through the mainstream [...]