Posted at Nader.org. H/T On The Wilder Side. It’s time for that Holiday reading period and here are some deserving but little publicized recommendations: 1. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Spectre of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008). Princeton Professor emeritus Wolin examines how the pathology of concentrated corporate power [...]

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Critics of instant runoff voting (IRV) are gaining steam in Minneapolis, which instituted the alternative form of voting a few years ago. They are challenging the constitutionality of the Minneapolis voting system, and they are claiming that it leads to confusion and the kind of voting troubles that have complicated the Minnesota Senate race. IRV, [...]

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From Ballot Access News:

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US Supreme Court: Federal law DOES NOT trump state laws on medical marijuana by Steve Kubby, Director, The American Medical Marijuana Association Last Monday, the US Supreme Court Monday quietly, but overwhelmingly destroyed the allegations by state law enforcement that, “Federal law trumps state laws on medical marijuana.” The Supremes declined to review a lower [...]

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Posted at LP.org Libertarian Party founded on Dec. 11, 1971 The Libertarian Party, America’s third-largest political party, is celebrating its 37th birthday. “Since we began in 1971, we’ve elected hundreds of Libertarians to public office across the country,” says Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath. “These Libertarians make a significant impact on their community, and [...]

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From the Wausau Daily Herald, by way of Madison NORML: COLUMN: PROHIBITION NEVER HAS WORKED This month marks 75 years since America repealed its disastrous alcohol Prohibition. Toast! Prohibition was the work of the early 20th century progressives’ grand social engineering agenda. It failed miserably. The great social critic, H.L. Mencken, wrote of prohibition: “Five [...]

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From the Los Angeles Times blog: You see some strong stuff on the streets of Mexico City. Women begging with babies in their arms, young kids, high on glue, washing car windshields and children no older than 5 trying to sell chewing gum and lollipops to people eating at sidewalk restaurant tables. This month, there [...]

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Posted at On The Wider Side Dear Supporters of Malik Rahim for Congress: Thank you for your hard work, monetary contributions, and dedication to Malik’s Green Party Congressional campaign. As Malik Rahim’s campaign manager, I really cannot thank you enough! As you have probably heard, Malik did not win in the 2nd Louisiana Congressional District [...]

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By Mark Pazniokas in the Hartford Courant: BRIDGEPORT – — A political scientist strongly defended Connecticut’s new program of publicly financed campaigns Wednesday against discrimination claims by the Green and Libertarian parties. Donald P. Green, a Yale University professor and expert on American campaigns, testified in federal court that the state has imposed reasonable requirements [...]

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An LNC member who has asked to remain anonymous explains, There is no “policy” (on what is included in the LNC binder which committee members and interested members of the gallery receive at LNC meetings), or at least not a policy that is followed fairly. ******* sent The Libertarian Temperament versus the Anarchist Temperament by [...]

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Forwarded by an anonymous source. These have not been approved by the committee, and there are likely to be revisions. They were made available in two formats: 1. Word document: lnc-2008-12-06-san-diego 2: HTML file.

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The following resolution was considered and rejected by the LNC in San Diego. During the live reporting of the event, the question came up from at least one of our readers what the resolution under discussion was, and I incorrectly determined that what was being discussed was another document that we had already previously posted [...]

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.PDF file Libertarian Party HQ staff reports distributed at LNC meeting in San Diego Great thanks to a source who wishes to remain anonymous.

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Posted at On The Wilder Side On the morning of December 10, 2008, Cindy Sheehan, Nelson Valdes, Saul Landau, and I signed a declaration as the U.S. delegates to an international conference assessing sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sponsored by the Network of Networks in Defense of Humanity. Here is our [...]

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In an appearance on Fox Business Channel’s “Cavuto” program Wednesday evening, Libertarian presidential hopeful Wayne Allyn Root discussed the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, among other issues. Root said in part, “It is a terrible and awful and disgusting and disgraceful that the governor of Illinois was selling a senate seat, but I don’t [...]

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Wisconsin’s Baraboo News-Republic reports, “Former Libertarian Party U.S. Congress candidate Kevin J. Barrett asserted his innocence Wednesday in the face of allegations he swatted one of his children as he confronted the next step in his legal cases in Sauk County Circuit Court.” Barrett attorney Greg Sacra “said after receiving an offer from the county [...]

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From The Norwhich Bulletin The Connecticut Green Party is interested in filling Christopher Coutu’s seat on the Norwich City Council. State party co-Chairman Mike DeRosa said he will contact the party’s New London office to see if anyone is interested in running for the seat. Coutu, a Republican, resigned last week as required by the [...]

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From Jake Wagman in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Political Fix” The Green Party’s Elston K. McCowan, a preacher and union official, was the first mayoral hopeful to declare his intention to challenge incumbent Francis Slay. And while he has been stumping for weeks, McCowan is yet to officially file. Last week, McCowan lead a rally [...]

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Found at PeaceChicken.com: Good news: we were all able to testify against the bill today, and we gave them a response they weren’t expecting. There were 10 of us who spoke out against it, ZERO who spoke in support. Members from Campaign for Liberty, Ohio Freedom Alliance, We Are Change Ohio, John Birch Society, Institute [...]

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