Ballot Access News:
Florida State Senator Fredericka Wilson (D-Miami) has introduced SB 230, to impose filing fees on declared write-in candidates. The Florida legislature does not convene until March, but bills are being introduced now. According to an assistant to Senator Wilson, the Wilson office did not know that courts have struck down filing fees for [...]

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Updates emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by campaign manager Joey Dauben, and posted here by Paulie.

In this youtube clip, Cooper and Dauben are on the way to the Alex Jones radio program. Cooper says he is “99% sure” he is running, and says he has a “stash,” but not more than what he can eat – [...]

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Posted at Kn@ppster and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Posted to IPR by Paulie.
POC Thomas L. Knappadmin@shadowcabinet.us
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23 — As President Barack Obama completes his administration’s move into the White House and his cabinet appointees take their posts, the libertarian opposition gave American life today to a longstanding British tradition — the “shadow cabinet.”
“In [...]

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Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

Even though Obama proposes job-destroying tax hikes on employers who emit carbon dioxide, the Institute for Liberty reports his $170 million inauguration had a total “carbon footprint” of 575,000,000 pounds.
According to the EPA, the average American coal-fired power plant produces 10,237,509,070 pounds of CO2 [...]

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posted by Donny Ferguson on Jan 23, 2009 at LP.org. Posted to IPR by Paulie.

The Politico reports California senator Dianne Feinstein is trying to make it up to as many as 15,000 inaugural ticketholders who were blocked from entering the event — by sending them a photo of Barack Obama.
Thousands of now-angry people secured tickets [...]

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Press Release from the Libertarian Party posted to IPR by Paulie.
Barr hails Obama orders on Guantanamo, torture, tribunals
Says steps start process to restore rule of law in America
Former Republican Congressman and Libertarian Presidential Candidate, Bob Barr, today issued a statement praising executive orders signed yesterday by President Obama ordering the closure of the military detention [...]

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by Darrell L. Castle
Constitution Party 2008 Vice-Presidential Candidate
Posted to IPR by Paulie
Is the current tactic being employed to save the American financial system, the bailout, working? The answer to that question depends on your definition of the word “working”. If by “working” you mean the transferring of the nation’s wealth from working Americans to the [...]

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by Kathleen Gilbert
LifeSiteNews.com
Reposted at http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=843. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the hours before Mr. Obama was to take the oath of office, anonymous reports confirmed that the new president intends to immediately open U.S. foreign aid funding to abortion proponents, and begin the process of opening funding [...]

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By Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein
Nader.org
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to urge you to avoid the disregard for international legal obligations that condemned your predecessor.
The issue concerns investigating or prosecuting torture.
The United States ratified the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) in 1994. Article 12 of the CAT provides: “Each State Party shall ensure that [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

Rosa Clemente, 2008 Green candidate for Vice President, announces ‘Path of Most Resistance’ speaking tour
WASHINGTON, DC — Rosa Clemente, the Green Party’s 2008 candidate for Vice President of the United States, has announced a national speaking tour with a focus on Hip Hop [...]

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Ballot Access News:
On January 21, the Israeli High Court of Justice restored two political parties to the ballot for the upcoming national elections. See this story. The two parties, United Arab List-Ta’al and Balad, had earlier been banned from the ballot because they advocate separation of church and state.
About 40% of the population of Israel [...]

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Ballot Access News:
On January 21, the Libertarian and Green Parties filed their brief with the North Carolina State Court of Appeals. The case is Libertarian Party of N.C. et al v State, COA08-1413. The brief focuses mostly on the ballot access laws, but it also includes other election law issues, such as the state’s policy [...]

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Ballot Access News:
Back on September 22, 2008, Bob Barr won a federal court injunction against Massachusetts, over whether his name should be on the ballot even though the party had used a stand-in on its presidential petition. The case was called Barr v Galvin. The memorandum and order of Judge Nathaniel Gorton is now reported [...]

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First Obama DEA raid in California: Change?
by Steve Kubby
Posted to IPR by Paulie
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raided a medical marijuana dispensary today in South Lake Tahoe, California, in the first days of the new Obama Administration. Even though President Barack Obama had made repeated promises during his election campaign to [...]

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Contact: Jim Davidson
planetaryjim@yahoo.com
http://www.bostontea.us
Posted to IPR by Paulie
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com
KANSAS SHOULD WELCOME “TERRORISTS”
Boston Tea Party of Kansas Says Send G’tmo Detainees
Lawrence, KS – 23 January 2009 – Today Boston Tea Party of Kansas chair Jim Davidson called on President Barack Obama’s commission to promptly resolve the fate of all Guantanamo detainees. “Please close the prison as [...]

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