President Obama wants us to imagine an America that is within reach. I would rather have you imagine a world a little further down the road. The President wants “[a] country that leads the world in educating its people. An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs. A future where [...]

Dr. Adrian Krieg, a paleoconservative author and historian wrote the response to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address for the American Third Position Party (A3P). General Comments, to Mr. Axelrod’s: prepared speech: Great delivery, little substance, a great deal of misinformation. “Where’s the beef?” is our first observation. We heard 65 minutes of spend, spend and spend some [...]

See descriptions under the previous open threads if you don’t know what the open threads are about (although it’s pretty self-explanatory). Here is a video from Rap News AKA the Juice Media to start your new year. Happy New Year everyone!

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (Jan. 27) – A year ago, after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union message I wrote an op-ed entitled “The State of the Union is a State of War.” Lamentably, a year later, after his 2012 address I am compelled to write that the State of the Union [...]

Darrell Castle was the Vice Presidential candidate of the Constitution Party in 2008 and is now the Vice Chairman of that party nationally. He delivered the Constitution Party’s official response the Barack Obama’s State of the Union. The speech, in it’s entirety, follows: Last night President Obama delivered his constitutionally required State of the Union [...]

An editorial from SocialistAlternative.org advocates leftist support of third party and independent candidates rather than Democrats.  Read the full thing here. Those who want to build the strongest electoral challenge to the two parties of the 1% need to act urgently. Socialists, left Greens, trade unionists, community groups, and other activists that want to fight [...]

From Ballot Access News: Roseanne Barr has taken several steps to make it possible for her to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. She filed with the Federal Election Commission on January 25, and she has fulfilled the requirements of the Green Party to seek the nomination. She is a registered Green Party member in [...]

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will be delivering her own response to the State of the Union address tonight, in what she is calling “The People’s State of the Union.”  The text is now available – it can be read below and the original is here – and there will be about thirty house [...]

From an e-mail:   “A Libertarian Foreign Policy” Webinar Tonight http://studentsforliberty.org/news/a-libertarian-foreign-policy-webinar-tomorrow/ Webinar Wednesdays continue tonight, January 25 at 8PM. Join us for a discussion of “A Libertarian Foreign Policy for the 21st Century” to be led by Chris Preble. Check out the dedails!   Wednesday, January 25 at 8pm (Eastern Time) “A Libertarian Foreign Policy [...]

“Mr. Krugman, please stop lying about capital gains.” – Wayne Allyn Root

From an article by Josh W. Evans on his blog, “Net Lounge”: Invisible Hands: A Q&A with Tiffany Briscoe, Presidential Nominee of the Boston Tea Party In continuing coverage of the many different candidates in the 2012 presidential election, I was fortunate enough to conduct a question and answer session with Ms. Tiffany Briscoe of [...]

From an article on the Freedom Socialist Party website: Let’s provide socialist alternatives to the electoral farce in 2012 December 2011 Photo credits: ABC News (sign); Philly Workers Voice (protest); Joey Lawrence (homeless) Everywhere you look people are marching in the streets, conducting general strikes, defying cops, occupying banks, joining each other’s protests. One thing [...]

From an article at Tom Stevens’ blog, “Liberty Lion”: Sam Sloan Demands Carla Howell Release The Names Of The 5 Libertarian National Committee Members Who Voted In Favor Of Listing Each Of The Other LP Presidential Candidates At LP.ORG. Sam Sloan, an announced Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, who met all the published criteria for being [...]

Carla Howell, LP Executive Director, Tells Sam Sloan All Libertarian Party Presidential Candidates Now Need The Approval Of 5 LNC Members To Be Listed At LP.ORG From an article at Tom Stevens’ blog, “Liberty Lion”: There are four published criteria for declared Libertarian Party Presidential Candidates to be listed on the national party’s website at lp.org. [...]

Posted by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Dear President Obama: As you prepare your State of the Union address, please be advised that those who support you are very cognizant of what you do not mention in such annual presentations to the Nation. For example, last year, environmentalists were shocked that global warming-climate change received no [...]

Though most media attention two weeks ago focused on the Republican Party’s New Hampshire primary, the Democratic Party held a primary in the state as well. As expected, President Barack Obama came in first place, far ahead of several lesser-known candidates.  He finished with 49,080 votes or 81%, which was three percentage points shy of incumbent President [...]

“America may hate politicians, they may hate Congress, they may even give Obama among the lowest ratings in modern history at this point in a Presidency. But the media has now sunk to even lower depths than the politicians.” – Wayne Allyn Root

From Politico. The Washington Post has the original story. More than two-thirds of Americans would consider voting for a third-party presidential candidate, while nearly half of all voters think a third-party is needed, a new poll shows… The most likely to support the creation a third party? A majority of independents (61 percent), liberals (60 percent) [...]

The North Carolina Libertarian Party will ask the State Board of Elections to conduct a Libertarian Presidential Preference Primary which may be the first in the state’s history. The party’s executive committee directed Acting Chair J.J. Summerell to make the request which must be sent to the SBOE by February 7. The candidates listed will [...]

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