Found at The Austrian Economists Murray Rothbard, delivering a presentation at the Texas State Libertarian Conference in 1989. Murray Bookchin also at a Libertarian Party conference. Interview with Murray Bookchin.

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Posted at http://www.kootenaicp.org/2008/12/12/con-con Con Con 12 Dec, 2008 “They” Have Nearly Accomplished the Coup d’Etat While our media has been entertaining us with car chases and O. J. Simpson, an effort to steal our country has nearly been accomplished. It is the 11th hour and the need for action is truly urgent. An Article V [...]

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Found at p2pnet.net I have been in Poznan Poland all week as the fourteenth Conference of the Parties (COP14) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change drags on. The goal, and it is a deadline, is to have a successor agreement for Kyoto ready the minute the first phase of Kyoto (2008-2012) ends [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch The Prairie Green Party, which ran three candidates for the Champaign County Board last fall, has announced three candidates this Spring for Urbana municipal offices. Just as with the County Board races last fall, they are running on a strong local platform that address local needs and [...]

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Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) was the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1988, and appeared on the 2008 general election presidential ballot as a Taxpayers and Constitution Party in Louisiana and Montana, in addition to running in the Republican primary. He is a life member of the Libertarian Party, and has spoken at numerous [...]

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The one election is recent history in which the spoiler effect played the most major role – or at least it is perceived that way by many – was the 2000 presidential election. In case you live under a rock, Al Gore lost Florida to George Bush by about 500 votes and that caused him [...]

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H/T On The Wilder Side The Green Party of NYS today offered a number of alternatives to resolve the state’s fiscal crisis, calling for a state budget that improves the future of all New Yorkers, rather than reacting out of fear of a budget shortfall. The centerpiece of the Party’s proposal is a carbon tax, [...]

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The Constitution Party National Committee meeting in Orlando, Florida is being broadcast live here on RepublicMedia. Currently, Howard Phillips, Jim Clymer, Mary Starrett, Chuck Baldwin, and Darrell Castle are panel dicussion on where the Constitution Party is going in the future. Individuals speeches will be broadcast later today and tomorrow from Chuck Baldwin, Darrell Castle, [...]

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The poll is at http://www.lp.org/poll/should-more-troops-be-sent-to-afghanistan. The LNC resolution which “calls on the government of the United States to withdraw the armed forces of the United States from Afghanistan, without undue delay”, is at http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/lnc-passes-afghanistan-resolution: At the September meeting of the Libertarian National Committee, the following resolution was passed: WHEREAS the government of the United States [...]

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Posted on the Constitution Party website. Excerpt: by Mary Starrett Constitution Party Communications Director In 1934, a French mathematician concluded that bees should not be able to fly. After all, he reasoned, their small wing-to-body-size ratio showed they simply should not be able to pull off lift off. His empirical data showed that bees did [...]

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Posted at http://constitutionparty.org/news.php?aid=811 Constitution Party Calls For Barack Obama To Prove Eligibility For Office Lancaster, PA, The country’s fastest-growing third party (Ballot Access News 12/08) challenged Barack Obama to release his birth certificate and dispel the grave concerns that he is ineligible to assume office as president of the United States. “The Constitution is crystal [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin. Found at Chuck Baldwin Live and at News With Views. I ask my non-Christian friends to bear with me on this column. As one will quickly see, this column is addressed to my fellow Christian conservatives. Regular readers of this column know that one of my chief frustrations is the way Christian [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch Madison Common Councilor Brenda Konkel is running for re-election this April. Konkel was first elected to the Madison Common Council in 2001, and was re-elected three times since. Brenda is a well-known and respected Madison community leader and political force, who champions tenant rights, affordable housing and [...]

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Posted at LP.org Auto Bailout Will Only “Compound the Problem” Former Congressman Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s 2008 presidential nominee, issued a statement condemning the proposed $15-billion bailout of the auto industry apparently nearing approval in the Congress. Barr said “the Faustian bargain” the Big 3 automakers reached with lawmakers “compounds the problem” of the [...]

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Ballot Access News reports official returns in the 11 states that held Gubernatorial elections last month reveal these national totals. It appears that among alternative parties, the Libertarians were the clear winners:

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George Donnelly writes at LPTC.org I have received the following feedback from this. – Several new members. – A couple terse emails from LNC Rep Dan Karlan, who claims that the third paragraph of the resolution is “flatly wrong”. – A thank you from LNC Alt Rep Jake Porter. – The following email from LNC [...]

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Charles Lenchner writes at Peace in the Middle East: The upcoming elections in Israel will see three parties with the word “green” in the name compete for votes. The Green Party (Hayerukim) is a Tel-Aviv based municipal party that has run before, but didn’t meet the threshold for getting Knesset seats. The Green Leaf party [...]

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From the West Virginia Record By Steve Korris -Kanawha Bureau ELKINS – U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey soon will decide whether to hear a suit claiming the state Division of Natural Resources violated the rights of the Constitution Party of West Virginia. At a Dec. 8 conference, Bailey said he would rule by the [...]

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The LP Transparency caucus passed the following resolution by a vote of 4-2: Whereas the LP Transparency Caucus seeks to build greater engagement between the membership and the leadership of the national party, for a more cohesive Libertarian Party that transcends ideological battles; Whereas party documents of interest to the membership such as meeting agendas, [...]

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The AP reports that Edward Pinkney, who ran for the Michigan Sixth District U.S. House seat as a Green Party candidate this year, “can post bond while he appeals his conviction” for “warning that a judge could be tortured by God.” The AP continues, “After being convicted and sentenced to probation in 2007 for paying [...]

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