Free & Equal gives an overview of some ballot access hurdles in New York State, as well as specific independent and third party candidates facing challenges to their petitions.

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By Alan Keyes
http://loyaltoliberty.blogspot.com/
As I said in my last posting, for me to offer a health insurance proposal is rather like a weatherman offering to design a jet fighter: though he’s familiar with its operating conditions, odds are that his ideas won’t fly. That said, I suppose I have at least as much expertise on the [...]

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By Deborah Dupre’, Examiner.com, via GP.org:
Green Party U.S.A. is launching College Greens, the new nationwide network of college Green Party chapters.  
The Green Party aims to help all students, faculty members, alumni, and parents meet College Democrats’ and Young Republicans’ challenge by organizing a better, Greener option at schools.
The new College Greens webpage includes [...]

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Written by Staff Writers | Canberra Times
It’s quite likely that after the next federal elections the Senate will have representatives of a new minor party, the Australian Sex Party, but with every likelihood that the impact on government policy won’t be minor.
Minor parties have been characteristic of Australian politics for [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin
ChuckBaldwinLive.com
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column questioning why it was necessary for
our federal government to be constructing internment camps all over America.
See the original column at

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20090811.html

I felt it was time for someone such as me to publicly broach the subject.
Needless to say, the response was overwhelming. Even more interesting is [...]

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Posted at Nader.org:
Among Senator Ted Kennedy’s many accomplishments in the U.S. Senate was a little-heralded but critical boost he gave to the Freedom of Information legislation in 1974. At a time when the opposition to this key bill was in need of a countervailing champion, we visited Senator Kennedy, had a very substantive meeting and [...]

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by Bob Barr
as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
The impressively named President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology counts an august array of academics, engineers and scientists among its members. Even the council is impressed with its own stature — describing itself as “an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers.” PCAST [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:
The ACLU and the Green Party of Arkansas has filed a law suit against Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels who has determined that the Green Party will no longer be recognized based on not exceeding 3% of the vote for President in Arkansas in 2008. In [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
ROOT Explains the Libertarian-Conservative Coalition to Take Back America from Socialist-in-Chief Obama
Root Announces V.E.T.O- a Movement To Vote Out Every Incumbent in 2010 and 2012
“Our 1776″- The Shot Heard Around The World- 435+ New Unemployed POLITICIANS!
The Wayne Root Interview at FrontPageMag.com:
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Wayne Allyn Root, a Fox News regular who [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:
2009 Green Party Candidates
Close to 150 Greens are running in races around the nation in 2009. In the upper right corner of this site we now have a page listing these candidates and the offices they are running for. You can also click here to go [...]

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Posted at LP.org:
From the Missouri LP:
Missouri Libertarian Party Vice Chair Cisse Spragins will be testifying at a Missouri House of Representatives Interim Committee on State Intelligence Analysis Oversight public hearing August 31st in Grandview, MO.
In March, a "Strategic Report" on "The Modern Militia Movement" written by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) was leaked to [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:
Former Brazilian Environment Minister and life long defender of the Amazon Marina Silva has responded to the outpouring of petitions for her to run for President by taking the next step – joining the Green Party of Brazil. While she has not announced that she is a [...]

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Posted by Mark Meranta at LP.org:
Dear Friend of Liberty,
If you look at the donation counter on our home page, you will see we recently surpassed our $200,900 goal for online donations for 2009. We’re at just over $210,000 at the time of writing this.
That’s good news — but unfortunately, there’s bad news too. Our donations [...]

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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted an early victory to the plaintiff, Asa Gordon, in the opening round of motions in the Democratizing the Electoral College Civil Action now on appeal from the United States District Court.

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Transcript posted on the Tom Hartmann Program website:
Thom asks Wayne Root why distribute risk with military, police & fire departments but not for health? 25 August 2009
Thom Hartmann: I want to start off the programme today with a discussion of health care, and this on-going debate. Wayne Root is with us. [...]

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