Third parties and independent candidates since 2008


Chuck Baldwin: ‘Let it come’

July 25th, 2009 · 197 Comments

By Chuck Baldwin, 2008 Constitution Party Presidential Candidate ChuckBaldwinLive.com During Patrick Henry’s famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, he said the following: “Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song [...]

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Tom Knapp on controversy over Cambridge arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates: It’s not about race

July 25th, 2009 · 101 Comments

Tom Knapp is a declared candidate for the 2012 Libertarian Party presidential nomination. On IPR’s email discussion group he offers this post from his blog, Kn@ppster, as a counterpoint to the commentary from fellow 2012 Libertarian Party presidential nomination candidate Wayne Root, which I published here. For additional background, see Delaware Libertarian here and here [...]

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Wayne Root: “Obama’s Waterloo- Cambridge Police Controversy”

July 25th, 2009 · 76 Comments

By Wayne Root sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com Obama’s Waterloo First Sotomayor, Now Disgraceful Attack on Police Obama’s True Radical Leftist, Socialist and Reverse Racist Colors Are Exposed Obama’s Polls Dropping Like Lead Balloon- Now Among Lowest Rated Presidents in Modern History By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee Author of “The Conscience of a [...]

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Ralph Nader: Health Care Hypocrisy

July 25th, 2009 · 43 Comments

By Ralph Nader Nader.org About the only lesson Barack Obama has learned from the Hillary and Bill health insurance debacle of 1993-1994 is to leave Michelle Obama out of his current drive to get something—anything—through the Congress labeled “reform”. Otherwise, he is making the same mistakes of blurring his proposal, catering to right-wing Democrats and [...]

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Libertarian Party blog: Oregon government health plan recommends suicide for patients

July 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org: Patients turning to Oregon’s state-run health program for assistant were denied treatment and urged to consider suicide instead. 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., looking for assistance to pay for his prostate cancer treatment, turned to the state-run Oregon Health Plan.  Plan administrators responded with a letter informing Stroup [...]

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Canadian marijuana legalization advocate Marc Emery endorses Green Party

July 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch. Vancouver-based marijuana legalization advocate Marc Emery, known as the “Prince of Pot” for his pro-legalization activism, is urging Canadians to vote for Canada’s Green Party. His wife and co-editor of Cannabis Culture magazine, Jodie Emery, ran as a Green candidate in British Columbia’s 2009 provincial elections. The [...]

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Coverage of Green Party Annual Meeting from around the web

July 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

First press conference/report from Durham Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch Live from Durham Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch Free and Equal heads to Green Party national meeting Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch Green Party Nat’l Meeting: Friday eve update – On The Wilder Side Green Party National Meeting: Workshops On The Wilder [...]

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New York Independence Party backs Republican in House special election

July 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The New York Independence Party announced it will support Republican Dede Scozzafava in the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. The party, which has about 20,000 registered members in the district, had planned to back Democrat Darrel Aubertine until he announced Thursday that he would not be seeking the seat. Independence Party State [...]

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