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Libertarians opposed to new war plans for Afghanistan

December 2nd, 2009 · 17 Comments

Posted at LP.org: WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party (LP) today expressed its opposition to the Afghanistan war plans announced by President Barack Obama last night. Wes Benedict, Executive Director of the LP, said, "Rush Limbaugh should buy Obama a nice cigar. The liberal president has done exactly what the conservative leader wanted: escalate the war." [...]

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Libertarian Candidate May Force a Runoff in Costa Rica

December 2nd, 2009 · 19 Comments

Posted by Juan Carlos Hidalgo cato-at-liberty.org: A new poll published today by Costa Rica’s daily La Nación shows that Libertarian presidential candidate Otto Guevara has 30% of support among likely voters, trailing the candidate of the incumbent social democrat party Laura Chinchilla, who has 43% support. The news here is that in just two months, [...]

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Babylon Green Party holds holiday party in Long Island, NY

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

On Wednesday,December 2, 2009 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature musician Hank Stone for the annual Green Party Holiday Party. The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY. The event is free and open to the public.

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Arizona Libertarian Barry Hess and others to appear on Liberty Cap Talk Live

December 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

According to wikipedia, Barry J. Hess, II is an investor and United States Libertarian Party activist. He was the Libertarian Party of Arizona candidate for U.S. Senate from Arizona in 2000 finishing 4th of 4 with 70,724 votes (5.06%), and the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Arizona in 2002 (4th of 4 – 1.66%) and [...]

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Bob Barr: ‘Huckabee, Woods and the Secret Service – Lessons in Law and Politics 101′

December 2nd, 2009 · 8 Comments

by Bob Barr as published on The Conservatives.com From the Tiger Woods mansion in Windermere, Florida to the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation’s capitol; and from the coffee shop near Seattle, Washington where four police officer were savagely gunned down over the past weekend, to the Little Rock-based website of former [...]

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PSL: ‘L.A. Socialism Conference inspires struggle against capitalist exploitation’

December 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Posted at PSLweb.org: Report by PSL Los Angeles On Nov. 21, around 200 people attended the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Socialism Conference in Los Angeles. Held at Los Angeles City College, one of L.A.’s most working-class and multinational community college campuses, the conference drew people locally from Long Beach, Orange County, the Inland Empire, [...]

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Independence Party of Minnesota Shouts “System Sucks!”

December 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments

by Jack Uldrich and Jim Moore http://www.independenceminnesota.org The Independence Party definitively differentiates itself from the two entrenched political parties. At its State Party Convention in Brooklyn Park, MN, Independence Party delegates overwhelmingly reaffirmed the party’s ban on accepting special interest money (PAC money) and eliminated cross-endorsement of candidates representing other political parties. State Party Chair Jack Uldrich said [...]

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Statehood Greens to DC Council: Reject Mayor Fenty’s nominee for People’s Counsel, oppose Pepco rate hike

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org For immediate release: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Contact: Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org DC Statehood Greens urge DC Council to reject Mayor Fenty’s nominee for People’s Counsel, calling her unqualified to challenge Pepco’s rate hike WASHINGTON, DC — DC Statehood Green Party [...]

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Liberty Point: ‘How serious is the Libertarian Party about being taken seriously?’

December 2nd, 2009 · 8 Comments

Posted by Brian at Liberty Point: That’s a good question, I’m glad you asked. Rhys M. Blavier asks this question in an article on Liberty for All. He concludes with a positive rephrase of the oft cited Ronald Reagan quote. “Government is not the solution. It is the problem — which we must learn to [...]

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Chuck Baldwin: ‘Homeland Security or Homeland Enslavement?’

December 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

by Chuck Baldwin http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com By now, most readers are familiar with the story of how a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, crashed the White House State Dinner last Tuesday evening. President and Mrs. Obama were entertaining Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the first official State Dinner of the new administration. The Salahis were [...]

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