Ron Paul / Barry Goldwater Jr. makes ballot in Louisiana

September 8th, 2008 · 46 Comments

We here at IPR were the first ones to scoop the news that a group in Louisiana, going under the name “Louisiana Taxpayers Party”, was going to put Ron Paul/Barry Goldwater Jr. on the ballot for President/Vice President. Although it is technically unofficial, the Louisiana Taxpayer’s Party submitted their paperwork on the same date as [...]

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Tags: Right-wing minor parties

W.A.R. and David Nolan on McCain’s selection of Palin

September 8th, 2008 · 15 Comments

“Hockey Mom and Hunter Leaves Two United States Senators as Road-kill!” That should have been the headline in newspapers following Sarah Palin’s convention speech, says Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root. He says McCain’s selection of Palin will ensure Obama’s defeat in 2008. Of course, W.A.R. himself is a former (?) advocate of McCain-Lieberman, [...]

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Walter Block: Barr-Root ‘arguably less libertarian’ than Sarah Palin

September 8th, 2008 · 86 Comments

In an article published today on LewRockwell.com, Austrian economist and libertarian philosophe Walter Block calls Bob Barr a “theif” who has “stolen our Libertarian Party from us.” Block says he will not support the national Libertarian Party “until all vestiges” of Barr’s “theft” have been swept away.
Furthermore, Block says he has sympathy for the Constitution [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties

Dave Brownlow, Jim Rogers on U.S.’s expropriation of mortgage giants

September 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments

“The collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae was the inevitable consequence of a banking and financial system that is based on a complete illusion,” says Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Oregon, Dave Brownlow.
“There is NO money! When we go to a bank or mortgage broker to finance the purchase of a home, [...]

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The latest from Angela Keaton

September 8th, 2008 · 15 Comments

For distribution, from Ms. Keaton:
Comrades:
After my first night of more than four hours of sleep, I have a little, a wee little, clarity. I’m also more objective now that I have a little distance and some protein. In the meantime, I have agreed to nothing but to listen and contemplate the advice [...]

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Bob Bird video on guns, Heller, and the Constitution

September 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Alaska Independence Party U.S. Senate candidate Bob Bird says why the Heller decision applauded by Bill Redpath and the Libertarian Party was wrong, and why the “Bill of Rights” is misnamed. The right to keep and bear arms, he says, is not for sport or even for personal defense against intruders, but against the tyranny [...]

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