Talking Points Memo reports (excerpt): The cry of “RINO” in Virginia’s fifth Congressional district is starting to sound a bit familiar as Republicans have opted for a primary election to choose their nominee to challenge freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA). Tea party activists in the district don’t think the favored candidate Robert Hurt, a state [...]

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Lynne Torgerson is running for Minnesota’s fifth Congressional district as an independent, against Democratic incumbent Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. On Torgerson’s website, she claims that we cannot discriminate against anybody on the basis of religion, race, sex, etc, but she goes on to declare that Islam is not a religion protected [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side: Amityville Record & Babylon Beacon Roger Snyder The Green Party of Suffolk is proud to announce that its chair Roger Snyder and secretary Ian Wilder have been elected to be cochairs of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) Accreditation Committee (AC) and Presidential Campaign Support Committee (PCSC) [...]

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Posted at LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, Tomorrow, December 15, is Bill of Rights Day. I don’t know how much we’ll hear about it in the media, but you and I know how important the Bill of Rights is. The Founders recognized that it was important to be specific about what government must not [...]

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Following a protest outside the White House featuring many antiwar leaders, from Cynthia McKinney to Dennis Kucinich to Lynne Williams to Mike Gravel, journalist Chris Hedges wrote a piece titled “Gravel’s Lament.” A video is also included here featuring Gravel’s speech and him leading a chant, saying, “Hey, hey, Obama, say, how many kids did [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org: By: Anne Gamboni Only the defeat of ‘great nation’ imperialism will end war In a seemingly surprising move this past October, the Nobel Prize Committee named U.S. President Barack Obama as the recipient of its prestigious peace prize for 2009. Alfred Nobel, ‘merchant of death’ The nomination is ironic for at least [...]

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Socialist Webzine reports: Two dozen people braved the cold and rain last week in Memphis to protest against Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Memphis Socialist Party members participated in the demo and joined thousands of others across the country in demanding an end to the war and occupation of Afghanistan. For news coverage [...]

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Libertarian Common Sense updates a previous IPR story: When I read this on the Independent Political Report: Angry citizens vow arrests at Sen. Dodd fundraiser with Vice President Biden What: Protest at Senator Dodd fundraising event with Vice President Biden to demand single-payer health reform When: Friday, December 11, 2009, Human Rights Day at 11 [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab: Theresa Amato, who served as campaign manager for Ralph Nader’s 2000 Green and 2004 independent runs for president, has an opinion piece in the Harvard Law Record entitled “The Two Party Ballot Suppresses Third Party Change”. She notes that although Nader wrote a piece on discriminatory ballot [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea: The Boston Herald reports on recent appearances by independent libertarian candidate for US Senate in Massachusetts, Joe Kennedy, and highlights his campaign to be included in upcoming debates: The long-shot candidate at the center of a Senate campaign spat yesterday dismissed the Democratic and Republican parties as “two sides of the same [...]

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by Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution Eric Schmidt just may be the world’s most powerful CEO. He is not the highest-paid CEO and the company he heads is not the largest in size. Schmidt’s vast power stems from the fact that he controls the largest collection of personal data ever amassed. [...]

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By Wayne Allyn Root Have you read the headlines the past few months? Obama has proposed trillions of dollars in new taxes, and trillions of dollars of irresponsible, unsustainable big government spending. With no way to pay for it all…except to wipe out small businessmen and women, and wipe out the upper middle class…and enslave [...]

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