Bailout of Newspapers Threatens Free Speech and Editorial Independence. Bailouts Constitute “Legal Bribery.” By Wayne Allyn Root, Author “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts” Members of Congress have recently suggested that the federal government should undertake a billion dollar newspaper bailout. President Obama seems interested. [...]

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Posted by Alex Peak at LPAnarchists.com: It’s often asked, do we wish for the Libertarian Party to be a political party, or a philosophical debate club? The person asking is almost always implying that the party must be a party and thus not a philosophical debate club, although conceivably, one could ask the question with [...]

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Ballot Access News: The U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th circuit, has set a briefing schedule in South Carolina Green Party v South Carolina Election Commission. All the briefs will be in by October 30. The case concerns the constitutionality of a South Carolina law that says if one party has already nominated its candidate for [...]

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Posted at Free Libertarian by Mike Renzulli. Other reviews include Judge Andrew Napolitano, Tom Knapp (fuller review forthcoming), CLS, John Hospers, Steve Kubby, Peter Orvetti, George Phillies, Eric Sundwall, and Richard Winger. I was at a bookstore the other day and came across a copy of Wayne Allyn Root’s book The Conscience of a Libertarian. [...]

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Ken Driessen has announced that he is seeking a Congressional seat in Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district. He is an advocate for “Direct Participatory Democracy” and listed that he represents “People for Direct Participatory Democracy” on his Declaration of Candidacy.

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Posted by Roy Fischler in Socialist Webzine: I’d like to tell about a variety of socialism that doesn’t even seem to have a name, despite the fact that many socialists such as myself advocate it. I call it automation socialism. Probably the most common criticism of socialism is that if people are given equal wealth [...]

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Posted by Thomas Knapp at Center for a Stateless Society I missed ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” yesterday, but the transcript is pure gold. It’s not often that one sees a sitting president ambushed by a prominent member of his own party — an official from that party’s last presidential administration, even — with [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side: Several state Green Parties are working to win ballot access and you can help! You can help take the next step to getting Green Party candidates on the ballot in all 50 states in 2012 today. We currently need your help in: Illinois. The Illinois Green Party must collect [...]

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By: Brian Becker PSLweb.org Gen. McChrystal, Pentagon scramble to avoid appearance of defeat The statement below was issued by Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a member of the Steering Committee of the ANSWER Coalition. The U.S. public [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin NewsWithViews.com Let’s face it: most Americans live in a world of false security. This is somewhat understandable, given the fact that the majority of the U.S. population was born after 1945. Few remember the dangers and hardships of World War II; fewer still remember the Great Depression. Few Americans know what it’s [...]

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By David Weigel in the Washington Independent: Joe Kennedy II, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy who became a six-term congressman from Massachusetts, has passed on a run for his uncle’s Senate seat, even after a poll portrayed him as the clear favorite. But Joe Kennedy, a Libertarian Party activist, has thrown his hat [...]

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Posted at PeaceAndFreedom.org: Regressive taxes are those which hurt poor people more than they do the rich. Flat taxes, which charge the same percent, are the most regressive. Income tax in the United States is “graduated.” People who earn less money pay a lower percentage on that amount. As you earn more, you pay a [...]

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Dear Friend of Liberty, You may have heard today’s prominent news stories about President Obama’s military commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, and his request to greatly increase the presence of U.S. armed forces there. The Libertarian Party opposes this plan. We want to end the war, not escalate it. In September 2008, the Libertarian National [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Contact: Christine Hunsinger 401-368-9875 Chunsinger@moderate-ri.org WARWICK, RI – September 18, 2009 – The Moderate Party’s groundbreaking mission to bring centrist governance to the voters of Rhode Island by focusing on the Four Es – Economy, Ethics, Education and the Environment – has entered a new phase. To best position the Party for [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org: On 38th Anniversary of Attica Uprising, socialist mayoral campaign calls for closure of jail On Sept. 9, socialist mayoral candidate Frances Villar held a press conference at the gates of Rikers Island Prison in Astoria, Queens to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the Attica State Prison uprising. Joseph Little, a veteran of [...]

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by Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution Internet gambling, which was dealt a body blow by the GOP-controlled Congress in late 2006, may be making a quiet comeback, thanks to the lure of tax revenues in an economy that is still struggling to regain its footing. At least three bills have been [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Green Party gubernatorial candidate, Rich Whitney, will team up with the Green candidate for congress in Illinois’s 5th congressional district, Matt Reichel, for a fundraiser the evening of Wednesday, September 30th. This event will conclude Reichel’s Money Bomb, wherein he has been asking supporters to pledge to donate online on the final [...]

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LP blog: Excerpt from a Sep. 18 Foxnews.com article: "It’s absurd when nanny-state bureaucrats want to regulate things we buy at mom-and-pop shops or second-hand stores," Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian National Committee, told FOXNews.com. "Consumer product safety is best left to a free market where suppliers can compete based on reputation and [...]

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