The Los Angeles Times says in a blog post that Hillary Clinton’s brother Tony, “a self-described ‘yellow dog Democrat all my life,’ is unsure who he would support in November if Clinton is not the party’s standard bearer. ‘If my sister doesn’t end up with the nomination, I gotta take a look at who I’m [...]

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The Sunday New York Times has a feature on the Libertarian Party and its national ticket, saying “some libertarians, feeling a little heady after their party’s national convention last weekend, are making a bold claim: this is the year their voting bloc will hold some serious sway in American politics.” The Times says the Barr-Root [...]

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In Saturday’s Rocky Mountain News, Dave Kopel of the Independence Institute chided Colorado’s print media for largely ignoring the Libertarian National Convention in Denver. Kopel says the Rocky Mountain News “did not even have a story about the Libertarian Party presidential nomination on its Web site by 9 p.m. on Sunday, while The Denver Post [...]

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The Freedom Socialist Party activist Henry Noble tells IPR that his party is “not running candidates this year. We are urging voters to choose socialists, though.”

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In an article entitled MSM idiocy on Ron Paul and Bob Barr, Bob Barr supporter Robert Stacy McCain (The Other McCain) says that Bob Barr will appear on Glenn Beck’s “CNN show” “this coming week.” Earlier, we reported that former congressman Barr would be appearing on the Colbert Report June 4th. Note: As pointed out [...]

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Bob Barr: The Libertarians Find a (Surprising) Nominee. It’s been barely two years since former Representative Bob Barr of Georgia renounced the Republican party, after having made his name as the scathing orator who led Congress’s campaign to impeach President Bill Clinton. “Let’s do it!” was his passionate rallying cry. As a family-values conservative, Mr. [...]

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Libertarian activist Starchild was shown very briefly on VH1′s “Best Week Ever” this weekend. Coming out of an ad break, a clip of Starchild asking a question of candidates in Denver, no longer than five seconds, was shown. While his name was mentioned, no context was offered and the fact that the clip was from [...]

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Ron Paul discussed Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr in a recent Newsweek interview. What are your feelings toward [Libertarian nominee] Bob Barr? We’re pretty friendly. We’re allies, he’s a good friend. He has called me a couple times recently, so it’s very cordial. Even though he has been targeting your supporters? I can’t blame him. [...]

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This past Tuesday, Party for Socialism and Liberation County Supervisor candidates Marylou Cabral and Stephen Hinze addressed the sitting Board of Supervisors during the public comment portion of their weekly meeting, challenging their opponents on the L.A. Unified School District’s $560 million budget deficit, the LAPD’s reputation of racial profiling and brutality (51% of the [...]

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Previously, IPR had reported that insiders from the Gravel campaign claimed Steve Kubby “stabbed Mike Gravel in the back.” The allegation was that Kubby had agreed to endorse Gravel and not Mary Ruwart. “He put friendship over principle,” the source said. Those same words appear in a recent article from Last Free Voice, sent to [...]

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Austrian economist and LRC contributor, Dr. Walter Block, has posted a nearly 4,000-word account of his experiences at the 2008 Libertarian Party convention. I had heard, beforehand, that the LP was on the verge of being taken over by conservatives, and nothing in my experience of that convention was incompatible with that surmise. Dr. Block [...]

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Libertarian Thomas Knapp is ramping up his campaign for Congress in Missouri’s 2nd district. In a message sent to his Facebook supporters, Knapp says: Over the next two months, my job is to position myself, rather than the as-yet-unnamed Democrat, as THE alternative to incumbent Todd Akin. I’m a realist, and I respect you. I’m [...]

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In a blog entry entitled LP VP on RP, Lew Rockwell posts a letter from Kevin Tuma. To the question “why do ‘they’ hate us,” Tuma quotes Bob Barr‘s running mate, Wayne Allyn Root: They hate us because we’re not Islamic. They hate us because we’re a Democracy. They hate us because we allow dissent. [...]

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Earlier, I reported that the Massachusetts “executive committee” met and decided to put the Barr/Root ticket on the ballot. George Phillies has refuted this claim on Last Free Voice, saying there is no executive committee and no such meeting has taken place. After double checking my source, a correction is in order: The alleged meeting [...]

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Ralph Nader is the subject of this weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday interview. In the course of a nearly 2,000-word piece, Nader calls Barack Obama “a corporate Democrat” and says Obama’s progressive stance is “a charade.” He also says he does not regret his 2000 campaign: “The Democrats hadn’t been challenged from my side of [...]

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CORRECTION: It was later discovered that this report was inaccurate. Please see the updated story. There had been some question as to whether the “majority neo-pagan” Libertarian Party of Massachusetts would put Barr/Root on the ballot based on Barr’s past anti-Wiccan activism. A highly placed source says the executive committee has voted unanimously to go [...]

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In his column in The Lantern, the Ohio State University newspaper, Travis Schulze offers a brief survey of alternative presidential candidates running this year. Schulze leads with Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, whose “campaign centers on a return to the Constitution. He calls for an immediate withdrawal of the U.S. from Iraq, all foreign military [...]

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Gary Hoover, a used car dealer running for Congress in Maryland’s Sixth District, has switched from an independent candidacy to a Libertarian bid. According to the AP, “Hoover says he contacted the Libertarian Party about his candidacy because he agrees with the party on many issues, including withdrawal from Iraq, opposition to the Patriot Act [...]

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South Carolina Green Party members are among those planning protests at Furman University on Saturday afternoon when President Bush comes to deliver the commencement address.

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John Bachtell, Illinois district organizer and National Board member of the Communist Party USA, was recently a guest on The Sandy Rios Show on Chicago’s WYLL radio station. Topics discussed (and debated) include healthcare, life in the former Soviet Union, poverty, and the 2008 presidential election. Listen Here:

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