John Gray, who is Mayor of Greenland Arkansas and an atomic energy expert, will seek the Green Party nomination for US Senate in 2010.

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Posted at peaceandfreedom.org/ by Jim Smith:

[Presentation to the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) Convention Workshop on Building the Progressive Majority and the 2010 Elections, July 25, 2009]
What do Socialist do? This is a relatively simple question, and one whose answer can be ascertained from the practice of socialists around the world.
While [...]

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by Bob Barr
as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Child labor has been officially illegal in the United States since the late 1930s; that is, except for the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau is embarking on a massive, well-funded plan to use schoolchildren in grades k-12 across the country to serve as salespersons for the 2010 [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Paul McKain (FWP)
Florida Whig Party’s
Second Congressional Candidate
Launches Series Of Town Hall Meetings
Florida’s Second US House of Representatives candidate Paul C. McKain kicks off a 14 county town hall tour this week.
Tallahassee, Florida (Monday September 07, 2009) – Second Congressional district candidate, Paul C. McKain, announced a 14 part series of town hall meetings [...]

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Posted at http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2009/09/fake-libertarians-propose-alliance-with.html:
The con man from Vegas is still lurking around the shell of the Libertarian Party trying to promote a conservative agenda for the LP. Wayne Allen Root, a conservative, keeps promoting himself as the leading LP contender in the next election. The only evidence for that, to date, is his own fertile imagination [...]

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Contact:
Michael Darden
917-868-8780
mdarden@perfectpitch-media.com
Drilling Fluids Engineer Mike Nelson Declares as Unity Party Candidate for Colorado 4th
Evans, Colo. — Drilling Fluids Engineer Mike Nelson is running as the first Unity Party of America candidate for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, against incumbent Betsy Markey.
“I feel that the only way for change to happen is to make it [...]

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Former New York LP Chair Eric Sundwall emailed me to let me know that he is reviewing Wayne Root’s Conscience of a Libertarian chapter by chapter on his blog. As of this writing, he is up to Chapter Twelve.
Previews reviews of the book covered by IPR: George Phillies, Steve Kubby, John Hospers, Peter Orvetti, [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org:
By: Richard Becker

U.S. ignores Iraq court ruling in case of imprisoned Iraqi journalist
On Sept. 2, 2008, Ibrahim Jassam, a journalist working for the Reuters international news service, was dragged from his home in Mahmudiya, Iraq, in the middle of the night by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers. His family members, including his elderly father, [...]

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By way of the national LP blog:
From the Libertarian Party of Texas:
Texas Libertarians Tour Stateto Rally 2010 Candidates and Support County Affiliates
AUSTIN, TEXAS – September 2, 2009  -   Libertarian Party of Texas (LPT) officials are planning a three-month, 24-city tour through Texas to recruit local candidates and support their county parties in the 2010 elections.  [...]

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From GOOD by way of GP.org:
Reverend Billy Tallen bursts onstage wearing a white tuxedo and a black priest’s habit, his platinum hair sprayed into an Elvis bouffant. A 35-member gospel choir breaks into a soulful hum and within seconds, the packed New York City auditorium erupts in shouts of “Amen” and “Hallelujah.” “I know some [...]

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Email from Scott Lieberman to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Wayne Allyn Root national media appearances for this week…
Sept 9 (Wed) 8:15 AM ET Fox & Friends Fox News Channel
Sept 10 (Thur) 3pm ET Lou Dobbs http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?showid=5438
Sept 10 (Thur) 10 PM ET [...]

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After a Democratic committee person challenged the petitions of all of the county-wide Libertarian candidates in Suffolk County, and the Democrat and Republican controlled Board of Elections ruled all those candidates off the ballot, Libertarian candidate for District Attorney Chris Garvey notes, “We will have a Soviet-style ballot in Suffolk.”

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