Posted at the BTP website
31 December 2008 The Missouri state affiliate was unanimously approved today. Congratulations to our members in Missouri, and happy new year!
30 December 2008 Happy New Year to everyone. May 2009 be prosperous and full of greater freedom. On this day in 1903, the Iroquois Theater fire claimed 602 lives in twenty [...]

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Posted by LPA Vice Chair Mike Rster to LPA Announce. Disclosure: I am on the executive committee of the Libertarian Party of Alabama.
The Libertarian Party of Alabama offer our best wishes for the upcoming new year!
Trying to live free in an un-free world (as Harry Browne put it) can be trying. Here is what [...]

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Letter from the LP Watergate headquarters in DC, signed by national chair Bill Redpath:

Posted by Brian Miller at Delaware Libertarian

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Posted at Nader.org
Dear George W. Bush—
Cong. Barney Frank said recently that Barack Obama’s declaration that “there is only one president at a time” over-estimated the number. He was referring to the economic crisis. But where are you on the Gaza crisis where the civilian population of Gaza, its civil servants and public facilities are being [...]

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Posted at http://constitutionparty.org/
Constitution Party Chairman James Clymer, CP Communications Director Mary Starrett and CP Vice Presidential candidate Darrell Castle all to be interviewed by Dr. Stan Monteith on www.americanewsnet.com
Tune in and hear Mary Starrett on January 2, 2009 6pm ET, Darrell Castle on January 5, 2009 at 10:00am ET, and James Clymer on January 7, [...]

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Libertarian Party national chair Bill Redpath interviewed in the Loudoun Extra section of the Washington Post. H/T Ballot Access News.
Q: How long have you been involved with the Libertarian Party and what inspired you to join?
A: I joined the Libertarian Party on April 30, 1984. I joined because – while I thought the Reagan tax [...]

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Reposted on the Constitution Party national webpage
by John Stossell
Barack Obama wants to use the recession to remake the U.S. economy.
“Painful crisis also provides us with an opportunity to transform our economy to improve the lives of ordinary people,” Obama said.
His designated chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is more direct: “You never want a serious crisis [...]

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Reposted on the Constitution Party national webpage
by Rob Hotakainen
McClatchy Newspapers
Members of Congress voted to give themselves a $4,700-a-year pay raise starting on January 1, 2009. (Photo: AP)
Washington – Members of Congress have at least one reason to ring in the new year: They’ve given themselves a $4,700-a-year pay raise starting Thursday.
With the economy in a [...]

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Reposted on the Constitution Party national webpage
by Andrew Osborn
Wall Street Journal
Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.
MOSCOW — For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a [...]

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Posted at http://www.detroitgreens.org/node/81
The Detroit Green Party condemns the brutal attack perpetrated on the Palestinian people in Gaza by the terrorist government of Israel. This genocidal attack on Gaza has resulted in hundreds of deaths of innocent civilians , mostly women and children and the wounding and maiming of many more. It has exacerbated the already [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side
Letter from Cynthia McKinney:

And one final note, President-elect Obama roared like a mighty lion onto the political scene, but now he is as silent as a lamb in the face of the death and destruction that is happening in Gaza. As we approach the [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side
KW: One of my favorite greens from Pennsylvania asked me to support Alex Walker for Senate (in California.) I have some experience with Alex Walker’s work with the national Green Party, and I like the ideas presented at his web-site. Worth checking out.
His web-site is: www.alexwalker4california.com
peace
Alex Walker — Green Party [...]

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From an email from the Advocates:
Dear Paul,
Happy New Year! Have you made your New Year’s Resolutions?
Several years ago, Harry Browne — 1996 and 2000 Libertarian Party presidential candidate, world-renowned libertarian speaker and writer, and very good friend of the Advocates — did.
The result was a compact how-to of effective libertarian communication, by one of [...]

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Emailed by Eric Sundwall to contact.ipr@gmail.com
A YouTube response from Eric Sundwall, LPNY Chair, to a YouTube piece by NYS Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines.
Sundwall Response:

Daines Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARMgjdbY93o
(this URL did not work when I tried it)
Note: If bureaucrats are making cases for legislation for their boss via YouTube, they should be prepared to respond
and simultaneously be [...]

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H/T Joey Dauben via contact.ipr@gmail.com
From an email sent by Wes Benedict to Texas Libertarians on December 31:
“Texas Friend of Liberty:
This email goes out to about 5,000 people. Our preliminary counts show 933 people have contributed a total of about $139,672.50 to the LP Texas in 2008.”
Wes goes on to say,
“Our budget for 2008 [...]

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