On July 20, Gene Amondson died at the age of 65. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for president in 2008.

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A citizen’s lawsuit in Minneapolis, Minnesota, uncovers apparent wrong-doing by the incumbent, Democratic Mayor, as well as interesting revelations about the elected, Green Party City Council member.

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KCPW Radio of Salt Lake City reported that Utah Constitution Party Vice Chairman David Perry, a past candidate for Congress, “will now take on Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan this election cycle. Perry’s campaign manager Leonard Olds acknowledges Dolan is a popular mayor, but says Perry’s expertise is needed in what he believes will be very [...]

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Ballot Access News reports that the Communist Party USA “will no longer produce a paper edition of its weekly newspaper, the People’s Weekly World. The paper will be an internet publication.” The article goes on to observe that few national political parties in the U.S. still publish print newsletters or newspapers, with the Libertarian Party’s [...]

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In “Sicko,” iconoclastic filmmaker Michael Moore extols the virtue of health care in such liberal “paradises” as the United Kingdom and Cuba. Leaving his audience to wonder where he would choose to go for treatment if he were facing a life-threatening illness — the People’s Hospital in Havana or the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. [...]

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Austin Petersen, the Libertarian Party’s Director of Outreach and Affiliate Relations, is leaving the LP on August 19th, to take a position with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

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Walter Cronkite died Friday, July 17, 2009. Among the media reflections of his career are: Cronkite was invited by John Anderson to run for Vice President in Anderson’s 1980 presidential bid; and Cronkite jokingly asked Margaret Thatcher if she would accept the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

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By Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party 2008 Presidential Candidate ChuckBaldwinLive.com It seems that every time someone such as myself attempts to encourage our Christian brothers and sisters to resist an unconstitutional or otherwise reprehensible government policy, we hear the retort, “What about Romans Chapter 13? We Christians must submit to government. Any government. Read your Bible, [...]

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Ralph Nader observes Chinese-American trade and asks, “What is the US getting out of this continually deteriorating imbalance of trade?”

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The Libertarian Party of San Angelo, Texas, is gearing up for 2010, according to the San Angelo Standard-Times. Local LP chairman Dennis Higgins said, “We’re trying to get the party back up. We are regenerating interest for sure. There is a lot of new interest.”

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See UPDATE below in red. The following is supposed to be the live broadcast of the LNC meeting, starting 8:30 AM Central time today. Tom Knapp plans to twitter from the meeting as well. For some background see here, here, and here. In regards to some of the agenda items discussed in the last two [...]

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In Louisiana’s Shreveport Times this morning, J.C. Allen of the Caddo Parish Republican Party responds to a letter published earlier in the week in the newspaper, written by a former Republican who has joined the Constitution Party because the GOP “is moving away from its Christian Conservative Constitutional roots and is no longer for less [...]

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The Carbondale Southern of Illinois reports Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney “said Thursday that, while he had a strong showing in 2006 when he captured 10 percent of the vote, he’s not looking to repeat — he’s looking to win. And with the wind of a faltering state legislature at his back, Whitney said [...]

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David Nolan shares his thoughts on the present and future of the Libertarian Party with its current leadership in an open letter posted at Nolan Chart. A few selections from the letter: I hope that you will proceed in a spirit of amity, and urge you to use your time productively. Do not waste it [...]

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Newsday reports on its website that Independence Party of America National Chairman Frank MacKay will be in Alaska later this month when Gov. Sarah Palin formally leaves office. Calling it a “bizarre coincidence,” MacKay said he arranged the trip before Palin announced her decision to resign. He “would not saying who he is meeting with [...]

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Jim Reef is collecting signatures on a petition to be delivered to the Libertarian National Committee at this weekend’s business meeting in St. Louis. The petition reads in full: To:  Libertarian National Committee We, the delegates of the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver, do hereby direct the Libertarian National Committee to censure Aaron Starr [...]

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The Libertarian Party is voicing it’s opposition to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, based on her stance on the Second Amendment. In response to a question of whether or not there is a Constitutional right to self-defense, she stated, “I can’t think of one. I could be wrong.” “The Libertarian Party is the only party [...]

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Ever since the first licensing laws were passed well over a century ago, healthcare in America has not been part of a free market. Those laws were passed with pressure from one group of medical professionals to give them protection from competition. The laws had little to do with protecting patients’ health, and nothing to do with protecting their freedom to choose among medical practitioners.

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From The Socialist Webzine In Solidarity with the People of Honduras by the SPUSA National Action Committee July 7, 2009 – The Socialist Party USA condemns the coup recently carried out in Honduras by the military and backed by a section of the Honduran elite. We call for the immediate reinstatement of democratically elected President [...]

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Posted by Steve Newton at Delaware Libertarian: From Jim Rash, Chair of the Libertarian Party of Delaware: The Libertarian Party of Delaware is proud to announce that Gwendolyn (Wendy) Jones will run for the 19th Senate District in the special election to be held August 3rd on the Libertarian Party ticket. Wendy is looking forward [...]

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