Posted on the front page at constitutionparty.com: George W. Bush had just been re-elected to a second term, but his remark, “the Constitution is nothing but a G.. D… piece of paper”, really turned me off, but I had not voted for a Democrat since I was compelled into the Kingdom of God on the [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org (for working embedded links see original): Socialism Conference & WorkshopsCapitalism Is A Crime! Click here to get a PDF of the conference palm cardOrganize To Fight Back! Saturday, Oct. 24, 9am-4pm African American Art & Culture Complex, 3rd floor (Accessible)762 Fulton St. at Webster St., San Francisconear MUNI 5, 21, 22, 47, [...]

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Posted at http://www.moderate-ri.org/news/worstinthenation.htm: Forbes magazine just released its most recent national ranking of the Best States for Business. The rankings of all 50 states can be viewed here: http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/23/best-states-for-business-beltway-best-states_table.html Unsurprisingly to many, Rhode Island came out dead last in this ranking. While many of us are aware that Rhode Island’s tax climate and posture acts [...]

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Posted in IPR comments by Aaron Starr, treasurer, Libertarian National Committee: The Dems and Reps invested a lot of resources these past couple of election cycles in boosting turnout amongst eligible voters who rarely vote. So, if you are going to use percentages, it would be better to use percentage of eligible voting population, rather [...]

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by Marcus E. Howard Marietta Daily Journal h/t Heather S. There’s a new political party in town. The Georgia Modern Whig Party was established six months ago, and its state party leader, a Cobb resident, is recruiting members among disaffected voters in the county. Robert Madayag III of Marietta, an intellectual property lawyer in Atlanta, [...]

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Originally published at LibertyForAll.Net by George Phillies: Mind you, when you aren’t up to publishing the LNC newsletter regularly, threatening to take it away loses savor as a threat. A motion now before the LNC, would amend the Policy Manual. In the following quote, Sections 2, 4, and 5 are new as worded. The motion, [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: This last spring, Deb Leticia Gordils was one of five candidates seeking the Illinois Green Party nomination to run in the special election for Rahm Emanuel’s seat. She was beat out by Matt Reichel, who is now running again for that seat next fall. As for Deb [...]

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By Bob Barr Atlanta Journal-Constitution via BobBarr.org Last week, Muntadar al-Zeidi was freed from the Iraqi prison in which he had been held for nine months. Al-Zeidi is the Iraqi journalist who last December threw both his shoes at then-President George W. Bush, who at the time was standing behind a podium answering questions from [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org At a little noticed meeting with Senate Democrats, Warren Buffett, the famous investors’ guru, told the lawmakers that rich people are not paying enough taxes. A tax increase for the very wealthy? Many of the Senators backed away from that recommendation, even though it came from the world’s second richest man. [...]

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Posted by Brian Holtz at Libertarian Intelligence: Anti-school-voucher anarchists are often so mired in their anarchist abolitionism that they can’t bring themselves to confront this simple question: would vouchers decrease the entanglement of school and state? Even an anarcholibertarian like David Friedman has spoken favorably of vouchers as a way to start getting the government [...]

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By NYC Green Party mayoral candidate Billy Talen, Huffington Post by way of On The Wilder Side: The nation-states act like adolescents. Every diplomatic vowel that comes from an open mouth has the shout of peace in it, but the leaders can’t hear this. Are the ministers jealous of peace? Are they angry that it [...]

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Posted by Thomas Knapp at Center for a Stateless Society: Most examinations of the doctrine of “states’ rights” are constitutional in scope. That is, they consider the meaning, import and impact of the term in light of the 10th Amendment. In order to get to where I’m going with this look at “states’ rights,” we’re [...]

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