The 8th Annual International Students For Liberty Conference set all kinds of records! We had a stunning turnout with over 1700 attendees, a 25% increase from last year. The lineup of speakers was better than ever before, with special guests like Edward Snowden, Dr. Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, former President of Mexico Vicente Fox, Dr. Deirdre McCloskey, and Congressman Justin Amash! The media has been abuzz with some great coverage of the event. Check out some of the highlights below and be sure to tune into Fox Business Network tomorrow night (Friday) at 9PM ET to watch the ISFLC taping of the STOSSEL Show.

• BBC: Rand Paul and his Ron Paul conundrum
• Bloomberg Politics: Rand Paul and Edward Snowden Will Speak at the Same Conference this Weekend
• Bloomberg Politics: Edward Snowden and Ron Paul Kick Off Libertarian Student Conference With a Little Kerfuffle About Russia
• Bloomberg Politics: Scenes From a Libertarian Gathering on Valentine’s Day
• Bloomberg Politics: Bow Ties and Slam Poetry: This Is Libertarianism in 2015
• CNN: Ron Paul: ‘I’m not pro-Russian. I’m pro-facts’
• Fox Business: Students For Liberty
• Washington Post: Hey, can somebody in D.C. let this nice young Libertarian crash on their couch?
• Independent Journal Review: Students For Liberty Seeking To Set The Tone For The Future Of Millennial Politics
• Red Alert Politics: ISFLC Panel: Higher education has become a government trap for young Americans
• Rare.us: Justin Amash says Marco Rubio “embarrassing” on Patriot Act, doesn’t understand Constitution
• The Daily Beast: The Libertarian Civil War Over Ukraine
• PanAm Post: Honduras Takes Libertarian Honors for Student Activism
• PanAm Post: Vicente Fox Stumps to Legalize All Drugs Worldwide
• PanAm Post: Students for Liberty Invade Washington, DC
• Reason: What We Saw at the Students For Liberty Conference 2015
• Reason: Libertarian Students Honor Their Chosen Hero, Edward Snowden
• Reason: Justin Amash Chastises Marco Rubio Over PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Stance
• FEE: Competition in the Marketplace of Libertarian Ideas
• Liberty.me: It Really Is (Finally) Happening
• CNS News: Congressmen: Enough Small Gov’t. Conservatives Like Us to Influence Policy
• CSGlobe: Ron Paul: Get NATO, other states out of Ukraine
• Liberty Briefing: Students for Liberty and the Future of the Liberty Movement
• Liberty Conservatives: Live Updates from International Students For Liberty Conference
• NewsMax: NSA Braces for News Leak of Its Cyber Surveillance Work
• The News Doctors: Ron Paul: ‘I Am Not Pro-Putin, I Am Not Pro-Russia, I Am Pro-Facts’

Your new profile picture have arrived! Thanks so much to the team that worked the photo opps to help get as many people through as possible.

The full album can be found here!

Since many of you have asked about the change in locations, I wanted to provide a little more information on our new host hotel. For those of you who are not as familiar with DC, the Marriott Wardman Park is located 3 metro stops away from Metro Center (the previous location of the event), which translates to about 5-15 minutes away depending on your metro luck.

The neighborhood around the hotel is commonly referred to as Woodley Park and is completely great. There are tons of places to eat, including a Chipotle, and just two doors down is my personal favorite bar in all of DC, The Gin Joint. If you’re interested, this article mentions the GJ (I just made that up but hoping it will catch on) along with some of the other much-loved spots in the area.

In addition to the Marriott Wardman Park boasting far more conference and hotel room space than the old location at the Hyatt, it’s a historic DC landmark in itself. The first televised broadcast of “Meet the Press” took place there in 1947 and in the hotel you will find a plaque that commemorates the hotel as the site where, Langston Hughes, then a busboy, slipped famed poet Vachel Lindsay three of his published poems under a dinner plate. Impressed, Lindsay shared Hughes’s poems during a reading with a hotel audience later that night and by morning, reporters were lined up to meet the “busboy poet.”

But while the history of the hotel is swell and all, one of the most important strategic features of the hotel is it’s proximity to the notorious Adams Morgan neighborhood. You would be hard pressed to find a more happening row on a Saturday night, than Ad Mo. Between cheap dive bars, dance clubs and the all-around good time of Madam’s Organ, it’s hard not to have the night of your life there. So once the learning of each day dies down, plan to grab some of your new-found friends and head out on the town.

If you haven’t already booked yourself a discounted hotel room at the Marriott, what on earth are you waiting for? Reserve your spot today to make sure you don’t miss out on any of the fun that is to be had!