Press Release For Immediate Release Monday, January 26, 2009 Libertarian Party asks Congress to give everyone a “Tim Geithner tax break” Nominee’s problems a sign tax code should be scrapped Washinton, D.C. — Congress should give all taxpayers a “Tim Geithner tax break” by significantly simplifying the Internal Revenue Code, Libertarian National Committee chairman Bill [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Dear President Obama: Underneath many of our country’s economic problems is the thirty-year collapse of consumer protection—both of the regulatory kind and of the self-help kind known as proper access to justice. Last month major consumer groups sent you a letter proposing action to rein in exploitation of consumers as debtors, [...]

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http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=844: by Raymond Kish Constitution Party of Missouri Today is the day. Coronation day…oops, I mean inauguration day 2009, the day this whole steaming mess is dropped into the lap of Barack Hussein Obama. He is already retracting many of the campaign promises he has made. He now admits that he won’t be able keep [...]

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Originally posted at http://www.bostontea.us/node/568. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. On January 22, the Boston Tea Party National Committee (BTPNC) passed a resolution supporting the February 1st 2009 Tea Party. The Tea Party effort originated at Market-Ticker.org, where Karl Denninger wrote, “It is time for We The People to send a strong message to Washington DC [...]

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Ballot Access News: Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, has asked the Nevada legislature to move the deadline for all non-presidential candidates to January of election years, even though the Nevada primary is held in August. The bill to make this change is AB 82, introduced by the Assembly Committee on Elections, Procedures, [...]

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Ballot Access News: Even though the Nebraska Director of Elections tried to find a sponsor in the legislature for a bill to make it easier for a party to remain on the ballot, no such bill has been introduced, and the deadline for new bills has passed. This newspaper article explains that the Nebraska legislature [...]

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Ballot Access News: Indonesia holds presidential elections, but does not permit independent presidential candidates. According to this news story, a lawsuit is currently pending in Indonesia’s Constitutional Court, over whether the ban on independent presidential candidates violates the Constitution. In the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that the Constitution requires states [...]

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Ballot Access News: Alabama Representative Cam Ward (R-Alabaster) has agreed to introduce a bill to lower the number of signatures needed for minor parties and non-presidential independent candidates. He has been in the legislature since 2003. Thanks to Steven Gordon for this news. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclosure: I am a member of the [...]

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By Steve Kubby, 2008 candidate for the Libertarian Presidential and VP nominations, 2000 and 2008 VP nomination runner-up, and 1998 California Libertarian candidate for Governor. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclosure: I worked on Kubby’s 2008 campaign for nomination. Originally posted at Shawdowcabinet.US as well as emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Steve Kubby. Former US Intelligence [...]

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In a press release today, Alan Augustson – one of five Green party candidates currently running in Illinois’ fifth district – criticized Independent Voters of Illionois Independent Precincts Association for hosting a forum for Democratic candidates but failing to host one for Republicans or Greens. Augustson said, “Frankly, I do believe that a lot of [...]

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In a recent column, penned on January 20th, Bob Barr writes on how the “constancy of government’s intrusion” is “unlikely to change”. Bob Barr was the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 2008. George W. Bush was president. The federal deficit was under $400 billion; and the national debt was “merely” a little over $9 trillion. [...]

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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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