2008 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Bob Barr has been writing editorials and guest column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the past couple of months, which we’ve covered here, here, and here (and there is much more where that came from). Now Barr is moving up in the world–the Atlanta Journal-Constitution just released information saying that Bob [...]

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Jake Porter was Bob Barr’s Iowa Campaign Coordinator and is a longtime Libertarian Party activist. He recently penned an interesting piece on the successes and failures of Bob Barr’s campaign for President as a Libertarian.
Shortly after the Bob Barr 2008 Presidential campaign ended, I received many questions regarding both the successes and failures of the [...]

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A press release was posted today on the Libertarian Party website. The Libertarian Party asked today why President Obama signed the $490 billion stimulus bill, which contained around 8,500 earmarks. Here is an excerpt:
WASHINGTON – America’s third largest party asked Wednesday why President Obama enacted the $490 billion FY09 omnibus spending and its [...]

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The Daily News of Richmond, Missouri covers the Modern Whig Party:
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today he might find some familiar and welcome company in Missouri.
The “Modern Whig” Party has made a revival, and on Lincoln’s 200th birthday party members are trying to make some noise politically much like Lincoln did in his career.
Lincoln was [...]

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According to the Associated Press, Ralph Nader’s group Public Citizen has filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers over issues relating to the border fence along the US-Mexican border.  Public Citizen is suing over the failure of the agencies to provide documents in a [...]

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An Arkansas House committee has rejected two bills introduced by Representative Richard Carroll, the legislature’s only Green Party member, that would increase the exposure of third party and independent candidates in political campaigns.
One of the bills would require anyone who has been certified to appear on the ballot to be allowed to participate in election [...]

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An article posted on the website of the Party for Socialism and Liberation criticizes today’s Supreme Court decision on the case of Bartlett v. Strickland. The case arose from a lawsuit filed by North Carolina county officials, over a voting district that was drawn over two adjacent counties. An excerpt from the article:
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that the state of Arizona could not require independent candidates to register earlier than major party candidates was upheld yesterday, when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt to overturn that decision.  Here is an excerpt:
LOS ANGELES, March 9 /PRNewswire/ — In a significant move for open-election laws, [...]

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