TechCrunch has a profile of the Pirate Party of the United States, “a legitimate political party whose goal is not to make it so that you can download the latest Lady Gaga release with impunity, but rather to effect change in the more general realm of copyright and governmental transparency.” The party “is looking to [...]

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At Big Hollywood, comics creator Mike Baron calls for the creation of a “Leave Me Alone Party”. He writes, “There is a right not specifically spelled out in the Bill of Rights but implicit in every restriction on the federal government: the right to be left alone. … Rugged individualism isn’t merely a conceit of [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: The Cato Institute‘s Daniel Griswold, writing in the Orange County Register: From their zenith in the 1950s, labor unions have witnessed a relentless decline among non-governmental workers. Fifty years ago, about one in three Americans working in the private sector belonged to a labor union. Since then, “union density” [...]

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Posted by Dennis Spisak at Green Party Watch: Green Party Candidate Brian Cummins won a run-off election for a November General Election seat to Cleveland, Ohio City Council on Tuesday Night! Here is the message from Brian about his victory last night, including the very impressive vote totals. This is especially good, because he became [...]

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Posted by Brian Holtz at Libertarian Intelligence and in IPR comments: Not having a binary litmus test for libertarianism doesn’t mean that one thinks the term is meaningless. Just because I can’t tell you what number of hairs you need to be non-bald doesn’t mean I think only the absolutely hairless are bald. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox. [...]

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Posted at ModernWhig.org: Immediately after Labor Day, New Jersey state assembly candidate Gene Baldassari will begin a major push to demonstrate that a national movement that places mainstream common sense, rational solutions ahead of partisan bickering and ideology can indeed be viable. Then, as an organization revived by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, it is only [...]

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Posted at PeaceAndFreedom.org: Brother Van Jones, It is clear to the Peace and Freedom Party that Glen Beck and other right-wing baiters have waged an unfair campaign to discredit you, and they based the campaign on misrepresentations of your past support of working people and working-class issues. Many of our members are outraged and have [...]

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Posted at BostonTea.us and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com On Wednesday Sept. 9 President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to push his health-care agenda. He opened his speech by saying he “would not let up until those Americans who seek jobs can find them…those businesses that seek capital and credit can thrive…(and) all responsible homeowners [...]

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In a guest column at Slack Bastard blog, former Socialist Party presidential candidate David McReynolds provides an article and analysis about the history of American socialism. Of possible interest to some IPR comment readers, it mentions the Catholic Trotskyist Party of America and Protestant Stalinist Party, and links to my previous reporting on these parties [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: THE BIG LIE: Obama Says Healthcare Won’t Add to Our Budget Deficit. The Smoking Gun That Proves Obama’s Government-Run Healthcare will Fail: The Bankruptcy of OTB (New York’s Off Track Betting). Any Government That Can’t Make a Profit in the Gambling Business or the Brothel Business, Can’t Be Allowed to Run the [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com Contact: Michael Darden 917-868-8780 mdarden@perfectpitch-media.com Energy Drilling Consultant Levi Hancock a Unity Party Candidate for Colorado Governor Parachute, Colo. — Energy Drilling Consultant Levi Hancock is running as the first Unity Party candidate for Colorado Governor, against incumbent Bill Ritter. “The Unity Party of America slogan says, ‘Not Right, Not Left, But [...]

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New Jersey independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett has launched what Mike Memoli of RealClearPolitics calls a “must-watch TV ad using look-alikes to mock the two major party candidates.” In the ad, “an escalator breaks down, probably at one of the Garden State’s wonderful shopping malls. One passenger, Gov. Jon Corzine (D), is portrayed as an [...]

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On its website, the Boston Globe reports Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy Cahill has annouced he will run for governor next year as an independent. Cahill left the Democratic Party earlier this year. A late July poll showed Cahill tying Democratic incumbent Gov. Deval Patrick against two possible Republicans, Charlie Baker and Christy Mihos, both of whom [...]

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John Mertens, an engineering professor at Hartford’s Trinity College, has entered the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut, and is seeking the backing of a number of parties. Mertens heads the Connecticut For Lieberman Party, which was Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s vehicle in seeking reelection in 2006 after losing the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont. Despite its [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com Lest anyone doubt the communist leanings of President Barack Obama, look no further than to his decision to hoist the Red Chinese flag (for the first time in history) over the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, September 20. According to China Daily, “Chinese associations in [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org by Eugene Puryear: Racist gentrification determines redevelopment It has been four years since the worst natural disaster of this decade. On Aug. 29, 2005, Category 5 Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast region, leaving massive devastation in its wake. Over 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded, with whole parishes such [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: Independent Political Report has been running and/or excerpting and/or linking to a number of reader reviews of Wayne Allyn Root’s recent campaign book, The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts. While there’s certainly some overlap between IPR’s readership and KN@PPSTER’s, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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