Posted on the Constitution Party national website:  Why not join  thousands of others who will declare their independence Wednesday, December 16th by changing their voter registration?  Join National Exodus of the One Party System  Day. If you have a facebook account check out ” Say No to the 1 Party System – December 16th National Exodus of [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic–or at the very least, challenging–days. In fact, most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events. That is, if one would call being out of [...]

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This past weekend, the Modern Whig Party held its first National Council Meeting in Washington D.C., bringing together members and volunteers from across the country. At Northern Virginia Whig, Rob Withers supplied a summary of the proceedings. At The Whig blog, Septimus also provides an overview: First, at the meeting, we had a presentation and [...]

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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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The LP blog reports that “Libertarian Patty Tweedle has filed to run in the special election for Missouri State House, District 62. The election will be held on February 2, 2010.”  In her mission statement, Tweedle makes a case for voting Libertarian:

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The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that has helped many minor parties and independent candidates in ballot access fights, has lost their largest donor, reported the New York Times.  This anonymous donor had previously contributed more than $20 million every year.  Other organizations are working to raise this money now, which represented a quarter [...]

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Huffington Post reports: Sometimes you just have to get a little unparliamentary to get your point across. Or so goes the thinking of Paul Gogarty, a member of Ireland’s Green Party, who unloaded some fairly colorful language on Labour Party member Emmet Stagg during a debate about cuts to social welfare Friday. “With all due [...]

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In an email to supporters, Green Party congressional candidate Matt Reichel talked about a “holiday party” that gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney, Cook County Board Presidential candidate Tom Tresser, and he would attend.  Details are below. Just a reminder that our Green Party Holiday Party will take place this Tuesday, Dec 15th. Here are the logistics: [...]

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California Libertarian Alliance reports that Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has launched a new campaign organization to promote libertarian policy issues and back libertarian candidates for public office. Governor Johnson calls his committee Our America Initiative with a website @ http://ouramericainitiative.com Johnson has (at least in the past) been a member of the Libertarian [...]

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