The Australian Sex Party (previous IPR coverage here) has now issued its policies:

* To bring about the establishment of a truly national classification scheme which includes a uniform non-violent erotica rating for explicit adult material for all jurisdictions and through all media including the Internet and computer games.
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From the New Pittsburgh Courier. Article by Rebecca Nuttall, forwarded to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Kimberly Wilder. Excerpt:
With every wave of applause, activist Malik Rahim raised his hand to silence the crowd at the Thomas Merton Awards Dinner held Nov. 12 in the IBEW Hall on the South Side. When he did accept applause, it [...]

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From the Covington News
It has been a while since I had a column appear here in The Covington News. I spent the spent the last five months working for Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee and former United States Representative. It was a great experience and I will miss it.
A lot has happened over [...]

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Steve Kubby was a candidate for the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2008, and the runner up for the party’s VP nomination in 2008 and 2000. He was also the party’s candidate for Governor of California in 1998. He is currently working on a new business venture in the medical field. Disclosure: I worked on his [...]

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Posted by Andrew Davis on Libertarian Party blog
It should go without saying that the Libertarian Party is philosophically and pragmatically opposed to any sort of bailout to corporations, especially when they’ve been run as poorly as American auto manufactures.  But what are the economists saying about the auto bailouts?  I’ve compiled some snippets from various [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders called on President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a Cabinet that will pursue real reform, in accord with Mr. Obama’s promise of change in the new administration.
“Democratic and Republican presidents alike have a record of naming industry chiefs, corporate board members and lawyers, and others loyal to wealthy, elite [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News

Reporting on partisan victories is sometimes a complicated affair, especially in states that allow fusion. On November 4, Tim Ashe was elected to the Vermont State Senate from the Chittenden County district, which elects six Senators. Ashe was on the ballot as “Democrat, Progressive.”
Vermont, California, and Massachusetts allow fusion and use [...]

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by Monica Hill, Seattle, Washington
The same October weekend Sarah Palin raised money in the Bay Area for her multi-million-dollar Vice-Presidential campaign, more than 250 women and men met in San Francisco to chart a course for a feminist movement — independent of the Republican and Democratic parties.
Participants traveled from Australia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, [...]

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From the Delaware Libertarian blog
DANIEL GROW: In my U.S. House (1st District, Michigan) campaign, the three 3rd party candidates scored nearly the same number of votes, about 1%. The incumbent (Democrat) received nearly double the number of votes of the Republican challenger. As far as I know, the Green/Socialist party candidate [...]

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Baltimore Sun Op-Ed:

Democracy suffers when the news media ignore long-shot candidates and the ideas they espouse
By John F. Kirch
November 20, 2008
While the news media did an effective job this year of covering the presidential campaign between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, the press still has a major blind spot [...]

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The Independent reports,
The British National Party’s membership list has been published on the internet in defiance of a court order. It was put up on the internet on Monday night but has since been removed, although by then copies had already been made. Nick Griffin, the party’s leader, tried to cover his embarrassment by [...]

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Press release from LPHQ

Nov 18, 2008
Libertarian Party Replaces GOP as Party of Free Market Advocates
Republicans Responsible for Massive Growth in Government Regulation
Following Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, and the support of the massive bailouts by Republican members of Congress, the Libertarian Party says it has replaced the GOP as the party of free [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News

In approximately half the states, the number of signatures required for a new party, or an independent candidate, depends on how many voters voted in the last election, or on how many people were registered to vote in the last election. In some of the states with the most restrictive requirements, [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch

From Malik Rahim:
Dear friends in the struggle,
As you may be aware, I am seeking election to the United States House of Representatives on December 6. I apologize in advance for the impersonal nature of this letter. I wish I would [...]

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Posted at LP.org
As I recover from Election Day and my US Senate campaign that preceded it, it is time to take stock of where the Libertarian Party stands and what we accomplished in the election season just passed.
While I know that we are disappointed that more of our candidates did not win, and that the [...]

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