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Entries from February 2009

Modern Whig chairman on the radio

February 4th, 2009 · 7 Comments

A very happy announcement from the Modern Whig Party: The Modern Whig Party continues to draw interest from various electronic media outlets througout the country. The latest scheduled appearance is Thursday, Feb. 5 in the 10 am (CT) hour on KRMS News-Talk 1150 AM and 97.5 FM in Missouri. National Chairman Mike Lebowitz and Missouri Chapter [...]

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Shameless Plug

February 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments

In a bit of self-congratulatory back-patting, i’m going to ask all of you to take a look at my company’s newest product, SEOSummary. I promise this won’t happen often. If you are interested in boosting traffic to your blog/website or increasing your google rank, give it a shot.

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Freedom Socialist Party: Will Obama’s ‘New Deal’ save workers?

February 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Posted at socialism.com, the website of the Freedom Socialist Party (AKA Radical Women). Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Roosevelt era shows that labor upsurge is the key to outcome by Megan Cornish     “We demand relief!” is the slogan of protesters outside St. Louis City Hall in 1931. Inside, workers occupy the chambers to demand [...]

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Libertarian Party Monday Message: 2009 off to a hot start

February 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments

Via LP email list. Also posted on LP blog. Posted to IPR by Paulie. 2009 may be a “down year” for Republicans and Democrats looking ahead to congressional and gubernatorial races in 2010, but Libertarians are on the move. Your Libertarian Party is hard at work fighting for open elections in West Virginia and Oklahoma, [...]

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Communist Party USA: ‘An extraordinary Black History Month’

February 3rd, 2009 · 25 Comments

Posted at http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/1012/1/27/. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. African American History Month is celebrated every February. It is always an important time to not only look back at how a courageous people made great strides towards freedom but also think about how to advance that struggle to new heights. The election of Barack Obama, our [...]

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Glenn Beck: ‘I’m more and more libertarian’

February 3rd, 2009 · 62 Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson at Libertarian Party blog. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Popular conservative talk radio personality and Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck is bringing more than his trademark wit to cable news. He’s bringing an evolving philosophy. “‘Every day that goes by, I’m more and more libertarian,” Beck told The Miami Herald. [...]

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Green Deputy Mayor for the environment transforms Paris

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Found at Green Change. Posted to IPR by Paulie. A driving force to change Paris Robert P. Welzer |  International Herald Tribune |  01.30.2009 For his efforts to reduce the privilege of car drivers in Paris, Denis Baupin has been saddled with nasty nicknames, including "Monsieur Embouteillages" (Mr. Traffic Jam), Khmer Vert and worse. As the transportation chief [...]

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Libertarian Party blog: ‘Republicans now trying to sound like Libertarians’

February 3rd, 2009 · 8 Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Syndicated columnist Paul Mulshine of the Newark Star-Ledger expresses his surprise today over reports the Republican Party has discovered fiscal conservatism again. As Mulshine points out, the Libertarian Party and its 2008 presidential nominee, former congressman Bob Barr, opposed taxpayer-funded bailouts and explosive government [...]

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Party for Socialism and Liberation: Army suicide rates highest ever recorded

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Posted at PSLweb.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. According to statistics released by the U.S. Army, branch personnel committed suicide at a rate of 20.2 per 100,000 in 2008, or at least 128 suicides. The figures are the highest since data collection began in 1980, and mark an 11 percent increase since 2007 and a [...]

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Boston Tea Party invites other party groups to affiliate

February 3rd, 2009 · 43 Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted to IPR by Paulie FEBRUARY 3, 2009 – With a vote of 5-0-1 today, the Boston Tea Party National Committee (BTPNC) has passed a resolution inviting all state and county party groups who are considering disaffiliation with their national party organizations to join the Boston Tea Party. The idea was [...]

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US Court of Appeals sets oral argument in Nader v Democratic National Committee

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Ballot Access News: The U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. will hold oral arguments in Nader v Democratic National Committee on March 20, 2009 (case no. 08-7074). The Court set the oral argument on its own motion, without attorneys for either side needing to ask. Not all cases in appeals courts necessarily have oral arguments. [...]

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Debate: Is ‘California Freedom’ too Antiwar?

February 3rd, 2009 · 141 Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by current California Freedom editor Thomas Sipos. For some background on this discussion, see the comments at Thomas Sipos: On Angela Keaton and Ron Paul. Posted to IPR by Paulie. I have emailed Brian Holtz for a response, and have not yet heard back. If he chooses to respond by email or [...]

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Ralph Nader: Letter to Rush Limbaugh

February 3rd, 2009 · 20 Comments

By Ralph Nader Nader.org Posted to IPR by Paulie Dear Mr. Limbaugh, The Associated Press reports your new contract with Premiere Radio Networks will enrich you with at least $38 million a year over the next eight years. You are making this money on the public property of the American people for which you pay [...]

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Libertarian Party blog: ‘Facts about the so-called stimulus’

February 3rd, 2009 · 9 Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Washington Examiner editorial page editor Mark Tapscott, with the help of the Heritage Foundation, takes his pen to Obama’s $1.2 trillion government spending plan, citing some of the better reasons to oppose it. Tapscott also covers something that annoys me when anti-capitalists talk about [...]

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Green Party elected officeholders Cam Gordon and Annie Young oppose plan to eliminate independent park board

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Found at GP.org. Posted to IPR by Paulie Contact: Annie Young, Commissioner At Large, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board 612-729-3359, anniey@visi.com Cam Gordon, Minneapolis City Council Member, Second Ward, 612-673-2202 cam.gordon@ci.minneapolis.mn.us Minneapolis — Second Ward Council Member Cam Gordon and At-Large Park and Recreation Board Commissioner Annie Young were surprised this week to learn that [...]

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Eric Sundwall: ‘A shot in the dark’

February 3rd, 2009 · 10 Comments

Campaign commercial at http://www.sundwall4congress.org/. Posted to IPR by Paulie

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Party for Socialism and Liberation: Why we’re marching on the Pentagon

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Posted at PSLweb.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Statement from the ANSWER Coalition We are organizing a Mass March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 21, and it is important that you and your family, friends, co-workers and fellow students put on your marching shoes that day. People are coming from all over the country. [...]

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Mike Renzulli: Results of Arizona Libertarian Party Convention

February 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

From Mike Renzulli. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Hello Everyone, I thought you all might like to know that the AZLP had its convention on Saturday and we churned out some great results! Clint Bolick was on hand to give a great speech on constitutional rights. David Nolan and John Buttrick gave some excellent speeches [...]

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Party for Socialism and Liberation: A statement from Leonard Peltier

February 2nd, 2009 · 30 Comments

Posted at PSLweb.org A statement from Leonard Peltier Thanks to an urgent campaign launched by his supporters, Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was recently transferred back to Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Native American political prisonerLeonard Peltier has been fightingfor freedom for 33 years.Peltier had recently been transferred to Canaan prison, where he was [...]

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Libertarian Party of Washington State Convention scheduled March 28

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Press release posted at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The Libertarian Party of Washington will hold its state convention Sat., Mar. 28, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Issaquah.  The convention opens at 9:00 a.m., with the business session beginning at 10:00 a.m. The convention will select a new Executive Committee, workshops on grassroots [...]

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