At The Examiner, Arkady Kamenetsky interviews Joe Kennedy, independent candidate for US Senate in Massachusetts. 

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Posted in USA Today blog: Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley, winners in Tuesday's Massachusetts primaries, will have some unexpected company as they campaign for the Jan. 19 special election to fill the Senate seat that was occupied by a Kennedy family member or friend for 56 years. (John Kennedy, served from January 1953 until December 1960, [...]

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Posted on LP blog: Libertarian Taylor Bryant is running in the January 5 special election for Georgia State Senator, District 22. Mr. Bryant will face three Democrats in the election. There will be no Republicans, independents, or other party candidates in the election. If no candidate gets a majority, a runoff will be held on [...]

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Posted on LP blog: Robert Butler, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Texas, visited Abilene on December 8 and spoke to local members of the 9/12 Project group. Butler’s visit was covered by the Abilene Reporter-News. According to the article, “Butler said the state Libertarian Party, thanks to growing disenchantment with the nation’s two [...]

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Dr. John Mertens, a candidate for Senate in Connecticut seeking the endorsement of various minor parties, recently starred in an ad put on the air by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. The Committee did not endorse Dr. Mertens, or even mention his run for Senate in the ad, but Dr. Mertens did talk about how [...]

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The U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd circuit, will hear Connecticut’s appeal in Green Party of Connecticut v Garfield on January 13, 2010. The issue is whether the Constitution prohibits states from passing public funding measures for state office that are strongly discriminatory in favor of Democratic and Republican candidates, and strongly discriminatory against independent candidates.

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Green Party leaders from around the world–including Wangari Maathai, José Bové and Elizabeth May–will participate in a Global Greens Forum during the UN Copenhagen Climate Conference. The US Greens challenge Obama to stop appeasing corporate polluters and peddling inadequate measures.

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Green Party candidate for Ohio governor, and current member of the Sruthers City School Board, Dennis Spisak was interviewed on Ohio Public Radio recently.  You can listen here.  The story is about a minute long.

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Boston Tea Party National Committee has approved a resolution in support of “Honest Money” by a vote of 5-0 with 2 not voting. Darryl W. Perry, At-Large Representative to the National Committee, proposed the resolution, which reads: Whereas, the currency of the United States of America is fiat and not commodity based, and Whereas, Article [...]

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Learn More About Modern Whigs in Indiana, the Hoosier Whigs The Modern Whig Party in Indiana is known as the Hoosier Whigs. From their website: In 2007 several Afghan/Iraq War veterans began working on a veteran’s advocacy group. That group eventually formed the nucleus of the Modern Whig Party. In just over a year of [...]

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by Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution Just last month, I had the honor of speaking to three classrooms of cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point – the same venue (although for me, much smaller audiences) from which President Barack Obama delivered his Afghanistan policy speech last week. [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com Now it’s Barack Obama’s war. After campaigning against “George Bush’s War” in the Middle East, Obama has escalated that war. By transferring thousands of America’s forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and by sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, the liberal Democrat has demonstrated that his administration is not so different [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: Simply put, it’s like this: If you’re a member of Generation X or Y or whatever the hell they’re calling the various post-Boomer generations these days, you are to be boiled in hot water until you’re nice and tender and your meat and bones have separated. The insurance companies [...]

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Why the Heroes- “Moderate” Senators- are Actually the Villians Who Have Betrayed Our Trust and Bankrupted our Nation. The Greatest Taxpayer Rip-Off in U.S. History. By Wayne Allyn Root, Author The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts My understanding of human nature, negotiating, and deal making [...]

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Ralph Nader ran for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate, and more recently as an independent. Nader made a presentation to law school students at the University of Connecticut School of Law, which has received attention from attorneys and law professors.

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Socialist Webzine: Statement on Obama’s Surge by National Action Committee of the Socialist Party USAToday Obama has announced that he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The justification is paper thin. Far from creating security, the occupation itself has created a state of lawlessness in Afghanistan. The fraud ridden reelection of the puppet Karzai [...]

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Posted by Jake Porter in Libertarian Strategy Monthly: Libertarian National Committee Chair, Bill Redpath, announced on Sunday at the Libertarian National Committee meeting in Nashville, Tennessee that he would not seek a third term as Chair of the Libertarian National Committee. Redpath did appear to be open to the possibility of running for another position [...]

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The North Carolina Supreme Court will soon be hearing Libertarian Party of North Carolina v State Board of Elections, a challenge to the state’s ballot access laws for minor parties.The Court wants all amicus curiae briefs in by December 23, 2009. There are many groups that hope to file on the side of the minor parties.

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The Palm Beach Post reports: Our Jennifer Sorentrue reports that Palm Beach County commissioners this morning approved a one-year moratorium on approving new pain-management clinics amid concerns that drugs are being dispensed with insufficient controls. A recent Palm Beach Post investigation found that more than 30 such clinics have opened in the county since 2007. [...]

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Via email from Debra Dedmon: The Libertarian Party of Clark County recently voted to support Assembly Bill 273, which would require that cameras be installed on all police tasers, would require that each and every video of police taser use be made available as a public record, and would statutorily limit police use of tasers [...]

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