Third parties and independent candidates since 2008


Mark Rutherford: Merry Christmas – and thanks to our elected Libertarians

December 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Posted at Mark W. Rutherford’s Electing Libertarians Merry Christmas and thanks for all who helped make 2008 a very, very good year for the Libertarian Party of Indiana and the Libertarian Party. There was growth in so many different ways, not only in Indiana, but across the nation. Partisan Libertarians are being elected (despite the [...]

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UK: Social Liberalist Party

December 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

http://voteliberalist.org/ The Social Liberalist Party is a liberal party. It’s about freedom and social progress. We were set up because we want the fundamental reforms needed to make Britain a better country to live in. We are all about setting out practical policy for Britain, and then making it a reality. We also want to [...]

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Season’s greetings from the Boston Tea Party

December 25th, 2008 · 19 Comments

http://bostontea.us/node/153 23 December 2008 Happy Winter Solstice, Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, and Felicitous Eid. Or we could just say happy holidays, meaning no disrespect to any particular holiday celebration. On this day in 1783 George Washington relinquished his command of the victorious Continental Army. On this day in 1913, Woodrow Wilson signed the [...]

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Update on the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus

December 25th, 2008 · 24 Comments

The current incarnation of the LP radical caucus was created in 2006 by Susan Hogarth and other party members unhappy with the outcome of the 2006 party platform vote. Radical Caucus Key Points The Radical Caucus believes these four points are key strategic principles in furthering the work of the Libertarian Party toward, as our [...]

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UK Green Party Parliamentary candidate Peter Tatchell: ‘allowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s alternative Christmas message is aiding and abetting a homophobic tyrant’

December 25th, 2008 · 30 Comments

From pinknews.co.uk: Channel 4′s decision to allow Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to deliver the Alternative Christmas message is aiding and abetting a homophobic tyrant says gay rights campaigner and Green Party Parliamentary Candidate Peter Tatchell. President Ahmadinejad is a torturer and a murderer. His regime executes gay people, children, journalists, Sunni Muslims, political dissidents and [...]

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Orange County Weekly: Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake believes he still has a prayer of unseating Barack Obama

December 25th, 2008 · 36 Comments

Article by Matt Coker in the Orange County (California) Weekly, December 17. Interview with Drake is at http://www.ocweekly.com/2008-12-18/news/wiley-drake-barack-obama/ The Preacher vs. the President-Elect Pastor Wiley Drake thinks he still has a prayer of unseating Barack Obama—sorry, Barack Hussein Obama First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park’s irrepressible Pastor Wiley Drake is not discouraged in light [...]

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Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party: ‘Will the feds bust Santa Claus?’

December 25th, 2008 · 27 Comments

From the Libertarian Party email list We at the Libertarian Party would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. We hope that you are truly blessed, and find comfort in families, friends and loved ones over the holidays. To bring some holiday cheer, we wanted to share this article written by our [...]

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