Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Pundit Michelle Malkin takes on President Obama’s Fort Meyers town hall/Big Government revival meeting in a Tuesday posting on Hot Air, which differed from past town halls in that instead of the president taking questions from the public, the White House put together a [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. For IPR purposes, the discussion can apply to other alternative parties as well. The Green Party at its most grassroots level is made up of local chapters around the nation. Some are small, some are large. Some are formal, some are informal. [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Babette Hogan. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Originally published at polidoc by Babette Hogan. This year, we have seen at least two unlikely political newcomers attempt to enter their respective Black Caucuses. One is a newly elected “pro-environmental” “Republican” person of Vietnamese descent in New Orleans, Louisiana, Joseph Cao. The other [...]

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Emailed by George Phillies. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Our Democratic and Republican opponents are well on the way to committing political suicide, and we should cheer them along. Most Americans have worked out that the Republican Party is the party of corrupt overage white male bigots catering to a diminishing collection of voters. (If [...]

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In light of the recent digitization of the Green Party’s “national newspaper” the Green Pages, here is a roundup of some of the most notable* pieces in the Winter 2009 issue: In the Features section, The Fight for Self-Government in Topsham, John Rensenbrink looks back at a campaign he participated in in his town of [...]

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Note from Paulie: some people have complained about the reposting of Libertarian Party blog posts knocking other reporting off the front page. This has become more of an issue as the pace at LP.org has picked up since Donny Ferguson has taken over from Andrew Davis. At the same time, other people have asked me [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The GPUS Newspaper Green Pages has moved to the GP Server and articles from the Winter issue are now online. Green Pages Home Winter 2009 Features: Giving Bush the Boot! – Protesters hurl shoes on the Presidents last day When natural gas [...]

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Eric Sundwall, the chairman of the New York Libertarian Party, has formally announced his intention to run in the special election to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in CD-20. Sundwall said in the announcement: We will have 12 days to collect over 3500 signatures to get on the ballot. We accept this challenge because the people of [...]

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Posted at The Socialist Webzine. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Statement of the SP-USA National Committee The current financial crisis is not just a temporary setback, nor is it caused primarily by the lack of regulation in the financial sector. The collapse of the financial sector is indicative of the total failure of the capitalist [...]

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82054&sectionid=3510302 By Luke Manzarpour, Press TV, Tehran Comic and writer Doug Stanhope’s ‘not for everyone’ take on contemporary America has been a voice of manic reason amid drab observations and mechanical feel-good entertainment -– an anomaly in the culture industry conveyer belt of distraction –- for nearly twenty years. Having dropped his own run for [...]

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February 2009′s Australian Sex Party News 2009 is already set to be a very interesting year for all of us. A new progressive President in the US, a global financial crisis and if southern Australia’s recent scorching temperatures are anything to go by, a global climate crisis. All of which will affect many of the [...]

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Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The non-partisan Congression Budget Office reports the current economic slump will end sometime around mid-2009. Keep in mind Obama himself admits any effect he thinks his government expansion will have on the economy won’t take place until 2010 — well after the slump will [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Kimberly Wilder has been a frequent source of Green Party news for IPR. It is with some regret, and many mixed feelings that I am announcing my resignation from the Green Party. Some of the background reasons are a shift in personal focus. Though, [...]

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Email from the campaign. Posted to IPR by Paulie. * The campaign has a manager, Mike Hope. See www.JeffDaiell.com for details on this exciting development. * The campaign named Albert Andis as Strategy Coordinator. * Stephanie Zachry is the Schedule Keeper. * Jeff has campaigned in several counties already. www.JeffDaiell.comhas all the facts. * News [...]

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Kent Williams was a Republican legislator in Tennessee who temporarily allied with the 49 Democratic representatives in the House in order to become speaker and make the Democrats the majority party in the House, despite the fact that there were 50 Republicans elected. In response to this, the Tennessee Republican Party has now expelled Kent [...]

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Former Republican Congressman Rick Lazio and currently Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo probably rarely have the opportunity to share a stage–so it must have been quite a strange site indeed to see the notoriously liberal Cuomo walk on stage immediately after conservative congressman Rick Lazio at the Conservative Party of New York’s annual conference in [...]

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Article posted at California Greening. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The fact that Sandy Stiassni has joined a long list of people seeking to be appointed to the Irvine Ranch Water District Board of Directors. It seems that a recently (November, 2008) elected member has even more recently resigned and so there is a vacancy [...]

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Thanks to Joey Dauben for sending the news to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Griffin has a youtube channel and supports 9/11 truth. Here are a couple of samples. An article at PoliTex says, What we know so far: he likes Ron Paul and Hugo Chavez and is “extremely angry” about a lot of things including high gas prices, [...]

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Ballot Access News: It is somewhat plausible that the U.S. Supreme Court will put the Arizona ballot access case on its conference of February 27. The case is Brewer v Nader, 08-648. The issues are the early June petition deadline for independent candidates, and the state’s ban on out-of-state circulators. The Court has heard from [...]

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Libertarian Party daily poll: Which Libertarian idea most helps your family? Creating jobs by opening markets and lowering taxes on employers Local control of schools and more choices for parents Income tax relief for payers, and simplifying the tax code Reducing taxes on your children by eliminating wasteful and unconstitutional spending Lowering health care costs [...]

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