Socialist Workers Party candidates in New York City held a campaign rally on health care, the economy, and foreign policy issues on September 11, The Militant reports. Mayoral candidate Dan Fein “spoke about why the economic depression is not ending but just beginning” and Manhattan borough president candidate Tom Baumann “spoke out against Washington’s wars [...]

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The Kerrville Daily Times of Texas reports, “Libertarian Party of Texas officials, currently on a three-month, 24-city recruitment tour,” visited Kerrville on Saturday “to garner local candidates and support prior to the 2010 elections.” The state LP is running a “four-part action plan known as Project GROW (gather, recruit, organize, win), meant to expand the [...]

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Posted at GoldAmericaGroup. Forwarder forwards from LibertyForAmerica Magazine: The LNC “August” filing, covering its expenditures in July, show for the month that the LNC raised $75,461, bringing its total for the year to $632,319. For the same month, the LNC spent $84,192, giving it a total of $609,124 in spending for the year. Cash on [...]

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By Bob Barr Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Last Wednesday, September 9th, the US Senate moved off the front burner issues such as record deficits, rising American casualties in Afghanistan, and the Obama Administration’s plan to take control of America’s health care. These matters were cast aside temporarily in favor of taking up and passing the “Travel Promotion [...]

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By: Enrique Vasquez PSLweb.org As Pakistan’s government continues its full-scale offensive in the northwest of the country, there have been reports of hundreds of bodies dumped on the streets. Bodies have been found with torture marks and a bullet to the neck or head. Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, a senior politician from the Swat Valley region [...]

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Posted at RootForAmerica.com: “Wayne Allyn Root (WAR) means business. In “The Conscience of a Libertarian,” he is declaring WAR on big government, big spending, big taxes, big unions, big business, arrogant career politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, and the media elite. What a refreshing change to read the words and ideas of a small businessman, homeschool dad, [...]

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Socialist Webzine by Rev. John Tamilio III, Ph.D. Candidate The nonprofit, nonpartisan religious organization Sojourners, founded by Jim Wallis (of God’s Politics fame), circulated a bumper sticker and hosted an on-line petition during the 2004 campaign under the mantra God is not a Republican…or a Democrat. That’s true. God may be a Socialist, though — [...]

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As previously reported at IPR, Joe Kennedy was looking at running for US Senate in Massachusetts, and he has now declared: My name is Joe Kennedy and I am running as an Independent to fill the open Senate seat for the State of Massachusetts in the special election. I have created this site to inform [...]

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Posted at Socialist Webzine: from WikipediaUpton Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century, gaining particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. The book dealt [...]

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Posted at http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=1082: On September 17, 1787 the U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 brave patriots who changed the course of history. Their commitment to freedom birthed a form of government designed to secure liberty. Never before was such a bold and blessed experiment attempted. Let us make a renewed commitment to honor our country [...]

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Ballot Access News: On September 18, the Massachusetts Libertarian Party won its 2008 case on presidential substitution. The decision was not surprising, because the same court had granted injunctive relief last year. The issue is whether an unqualified party can use a stand-in presidential candidate on its petition, if it is circulating its petition before [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: The Peace Party became a ballot-qualified party in 2008 in Oregon. It was formed for the purpose of placing Ralph Nader on the ballot in Oregon. At the time, it was significantly easier to qualify a new party in Oregon than to get an independent candidate on the ballot (thanks to [...]

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