From Liberty Cap Talk Live Liberty Cap Talk Live Episode 93: The GM Bailout, Obama’s Plan to Release Gitmo Detainees, Obama’s Cabinet Picks, and More In the ninety-third episode, Todd and Jim ask panelists Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity Movement founder James Cox, Next Free Voice blogger and Libertarian Party activist Paulie Cannoli, and Boston Tea [...]

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Via Ballot Access News Rick Jore, the Constitution Party’s only state legislator, must leave the Montana legislature in a few weeks because of term limits. Voters in his district replaced him with a Democrat. The November 2008 election in the 12th House district was between Republican nominee Ron Marquardt, and Democratic nominee John Fleming. Fleming [...]

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Posted at Knapp2012.com Brian Doherty asks “Where Did the Libertarian Party Go Wrong?” over at Reason. It’s not the first post-election critique of Bob Barr’s presidential campaign, nor will it be the last, but it’s an interesting one, and since it quotes me, I think I’ll go ahead and set my own thoughts down at [...]

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From Knapp2012.com Same as the old boss, part 1: Foreign policy My initial intention following the election was to give president-elect Barack Obama the traditional “honeymoon” period — waiting at least until his inauguration, and possibly even until the usual “first 100 days” agenda had floated or foundered, before starting to slice and dice his [...]

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California Greening writes: In my most recent posts, I have focused on the fact that the Democratic Party seems hell bent on returning William Jefferson to Congress from the 2nd Congressional District in Louisiana. This at a time when these same Democrats are cheering over their defeat of Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens. Both Jefferson and [...]

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From unicoipolitics.com blog Democratic Party Choice The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right. The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to comprehensive affordable [...]

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From BAN On November 4, Vermont elected two independents to the State House of Representatives: Will Stevens was re-elected, and Adam Greshin was elected by defeating an incumbent Democrat. Vermont has five Progressives in the House: David Zuckerman, Sandy Haas, Susan Davis, Sarah Edwards, and newcomer Mollie Burke. The Progressive had elected six in 2006. [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side Malik Rahim is running for Congress, with a focus on environmental peace and justice. What does this have to do with you, you say? Well, first of all, the unique election date of December 6th, gives all of us who believe in progressive values and alternative parties a genuine [...]

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From The Recorder A 2008 vice presidential candidate came to CCSU to share her views on the historic elec- tion and what it means to African-Americans. She was the other woman who was running for Vice President of the United States, but many may not have heard of Rosa Clemente. The title of her talk [...]

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Forwarded to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Kimberly Wilder Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus, Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the 60th year that the Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that Universal [...]

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Under the headline “Wallace, Perot — And Barr?” the Raleigh News and Observer reports Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr “was a spoiler in North Carolina after all.” While Barr “received a minuscule number of votes in November, he still got more votes than the margin of difference” between Barack Obama and John McCain. Barr’s “25,722 [...]

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New York’s Kingston Daily Freeman has a feature on resident John Wadlin, who attended Syracuse University Law School with now-Vice President-Elect Joseph Biden. While “the two were not close, Wadlin said, he had a few classes with Biden. ‘I was friendly with him,’ Wadlin said. ‘We used to play a lot of touch football. He [...]

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The following message was received from presidential hopeful Robert Milnes: Please forward to possibly interested persons or groups. I have declared my candidacy for President of the UNITED STATES in 2012. That is 100 years from Teddy Roosevelt’s run in 1912 which was the best since for a third party or independent candidate. He received [...]

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