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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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