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Entries from February 2009

Peace and Freedom Party: California community college students announce major march to Capitol

February 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Contact: Kevin Akin 951/675-2813 kevinakin1950 AT hotmail.com www.peaceandfreedom.org Richael Young, Student Senate for CA Community Colleges 650/678-2064 Community college students announce major march to Capitol; Peace and Freedom Party endorses it, challenges ‘big-money parties’ to do the same SACRAMENTO – Community college students from throughout the state will hold a nearly two-hour march and rally [...]

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

Tom Knapp: ‘Stimulus,’ libertarian-style

February 2nd, 2009 · 74 Comments

Tom Knapp is a declared candidate for the Libertarian and Boston Tea Party 2012 Presidential nominations. He’s also still listed as an IPR writer. He hasn’t posted any entries here since July, but does continue to read and comment here. Article excerpt posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclaimer: I’ve tentatively endorsed Knapp, at least out [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties

Green Party video: Laura Wells, 2002 and 2006 candidate for California State Controller

February 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments

Video posted on the front page of GP.org today. “To understand what is happening in Washington, follow the money” Laura Wells 2002 & 2006 GP candidate for CA State Controller Posted to IPR by Paulie

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Libertarian Party blog: Obama $1.2 trillion spending plan riddled with pork

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Despite promises by the Obama administration his $1.2 trillion government spending plan will be free of earmarks and pet projects, The Politico reports today the bill is so laden with lard the Capitol may have to be rezoned as a rendering plant. According to [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Socialist/left parties · Uncategorized

Small victory for Leonard Peltier

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

On The Wilder Side: Action items at the Free Peltier Now website: here. From IndyBay News: Peltier transferred out of USP-Canaan and back to USP-Lewisburg by AIM-West ( gazelbe [at] yahoo.com ) Saturday Jan 31st, 2009 5:06 PM Peltier transferred out of USP-Canaan and back to USP-Lewisburg. While Leonard will never be totally safe so [...]

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

Wayne Root’s stimular package proposal

February 2nd, 2009 · 10 Comments

Wayne Root wrote a long article for Gambling911.com on January 19th that somehow escaped our coverage. Root was the Libertarian Party’s 2008 vice presidential candidate, and has claimed that he is going to campaign for the Libertarian Party’s 2012 Presidential nomination. , on the other hand, offer today an economic stimulus plan that is unlike [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Libertarian Party blog: Wayne Root talks job recovery on Fox Business

February 1st, 2009 · 83 Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson on Jan 31, 2009 at LP.org. Posted to IPR by Paulie. 2008 Libertarian vice-presidential candidate Wayne Root discusses job growth, economic recovery and Obama’s government expansion plan with Neil Cavuto.

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Progressive Dane endorses Green Party’s Todd Price for WI State Education post

February 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Progressive Dane, an Independent Political Party in Madison, Wisconsin (Dane County) has endorsed Todd Price for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction. There are five candidates in the state wide race, with a Feb. 17 primary and April 7 general election. The race [...]

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Tags: Green Party

Libertarian Party blog: Obama spending plan more expensive than New Deal, Iraq war combined

February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The blog Suitably Flip puts the cost of Obama’s $1.2 trillion government expansion plan into perspective. "So how big is the resulting $1.2 trillion spending package?  Big enough to dwarf any government program in history, even after adjusting for inflation.  It’s bigger than the [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Cynthia McKinney: Back to Kuala Lumpur to criminalize war

February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Message from Cynthia McKinney posted at On The Wilder Side. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Hello, I’m so sorry to fill your box with so many messages lately, but a lot is happening. I am on a long layover in Seoul, Korea on my way to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Many of you will recall that [...]

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Tags: Green Party

Libertarian Party blog: Should we send Obama a Snuggie?

February 1st, 2009 · 10 Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. If I was wearing a hat right now, I’d tip it to "The Chilling Effect" for picking up on this. Candidate Barack Obama on May 16, 2008, campaigning in Oregon: "We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Ralph Nader: Wither Wall Street

February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Ralph Nader (Nader.org). Posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclaimer: I helped Nader get on the ballot in several states as an independent contractor or subcontractor in 2004 and 2008. Soon after the passage in 1999 of the Clinton-Rubin-Summers-P. Graham deregulation of the financial industry, I boarded a US Air flight to Boston and discovered [...]

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Tags: Independents

Mary Ruwart: Consumer protection is ‘compassion that kills’

February 1st, 2009 · 18 Comments

by Mary J. Ruwart at Liberty For All. Ruwart was the 2008 runner up for the Libertarian Party nomination, and a past Libertarian candidate in several elections. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Disclaimer: I voted for Ruwart on every ballot after my candidate, Steve Kubby, was eliminated, and recommended other delegates to do so as [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Ballot Access News, Libertarian Party comment on new RNC Chair and a losing candidate for the job

February 1st, 2009 · 13 Comments

In Ballot Access News, Richard Winger writes Ken Blackwell Loses Bid to be Republican National Chair On January 30, the Republican National Committee chose Michael Steele of Maryland to be its new national chair. One of the other candidates for chair, Ken Blackwell, dropped out and endorsed Steele after placing last in the fourth ballot. [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party

Two-man race underlies split in Green Party

February 1st, 2009 · 10 Comments

Article by Jim Merkel in Suburban Journals. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Years of infighting in the second biggest party in the city is breaking into the open, as not one, but two candidates are running for the Green Party nomination for mayor. Donald E. DeVivo, 51, a real estate broker, is vying for the [...]

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Chuck Baldwin: ‘More on the New World Order’

February 1st, 2009 · 10 Comments

By: ChuckBaldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com Posted to IPR by Paulie In my last column, I attempted to wake up my fellow Americans, who are either currently slumbering through the collapse of our constitutional republic or in a protracted state of denial regarding a very real–and very dangerous–burgeoning New World Order. The information that I need to disseminate [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party

Five candidates compete for Burlington, Vermont mayorship

February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Citizens of Burlington, Vermont will vote on March 3rd for their next mayor (or they will keep the current mayor).  The mayor right now is Bob Kiss, a member of the Progressive Party. The candidates running are currenty City Council member Democrat Andy Montroll, independent Dan Smith, Green James Simpson, current City Council President Republican [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Independents · Socialist/left parties