via Socialist Webzine: by Josh Hatala, Faith & Socialism Commission memberfrom Socialist Party USAThe Holidays are a time filled with stark contradictions. While most religions offer inspiring messages of peace and love, commercial enterprises attempt to put a price tag on every human emotion and social relation. But the shiniest presents in the world can’t [...]

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A revolutionary New Year’s greeting for 2010 from the Freedom Socialist Party, U.S. and Australia Warm greetings to the workers, fighters and poor of the world. The last year has confronted us with scores of challenges — economic, ecological, and political. Yet many at home and around the world are fighting back. Students and their [...]

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IPR note: Although they now run as Republicans, both Paul and Johnson either have been or are members of the Libertarian Party. By JOHN DISTASO in the Union Leader: Another potential 2012 presidential candidate is headed to first-in-the-nation New Hampshire. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who has been described as a “libertarian-leaning” Republican in [...]

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Ballot Access News: Minnesota will hold a special election to fill the vacant State Senate seat, 26th district, on January 26. The Independence Party nominee will be Roy Srp, Mayor of Waseca, a city of about 10,000 people. Five Republicans have also filed so far. There will probably be a Republican primary on January 12. [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea: American Idolatry considers the future of the “liberty movement” inspired by the presidential campaign of Ron Paul in 2008, and argues that beyond vetting potential movement favorites for president in 2012 (with specific mention of Gary Johnson) a top priority of the movement should be “challenging the two-party system”: Another top priority [...]

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forwarded by libertariangirl in the comments on the original thread: I just got off the phone with Michael Badnarik’s Mother, Elaine. She informed me that his condition seems to have “backslid”. They were were hoping that he would have been released on Wednesday to his Mother’s care in Indiana but his condition is still critical. [...]

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Jana Kemp is running for governor of Idaho as an independent in 2010.  The former Republican state representative has announced that she has amassed the necessary signatures to qualify for ballot access, as reported by the Idaho Statesman.  Kemp remarks that some were hesitant to sign her petition “because their names would be public and [...]

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The Libertarian Party Monday message reads:  “stop subsidizing health care!”  The piece calls out Republicans and Democrats alike for their uniform support of subsidization:

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http://socialistparty-usa.org/statements/no3962.html Socialist Party USA Statement While citizens in most other industrialized nations enjoyed the benefits of publicly administered healthcare from the aftermath of WW II forward, Americans have suffered under a healthcare system dominated by private corporations. For-profit healthcare has produced negative health outcomes at all levels of the system. More than 48 million people [...]

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Posted at peaceandfreedom.org During each month of 2009, the Democratic Party elected officials in Washington DC have abandoned one or more of the issues that got them elected. Peace went by the wayside fairly early, though there seemed some chance that some troops might be withdrawn. Reforming labor laws to give workers a real chance [...]

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Posted by Richard Burke in response to Wes Wagner’s ‘My open apology to the Libertarian Party of Oregon for destroying it’. As promised, IPR is letting both sides have equal space to have their say without endorsing either version of events. We realize that there will be further replies – indeed, Wes Wagner has already [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side: An Interview with Cindy Sheehan Obama, Progressives and the Press By MIKE WHITNEY You know a lot of people across the country. What’s the mood among Obama supporters? Have they thrown in the towel already or do they still think he’ll turn out to be the leader they hoped [...]

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Original article by Tom Knapp: The Senate left an extra present under your tree … … and it really didn’t attract much notice with all the fanfare surrounding the vote on Cannibal Care, which passed and is now on its way to conference to tussle out the differences between the House and Senate versions. Your [...]

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Forwarded by Lou Novak to contact.ipr@gmail.com; also posted at Green Party Watch: Ohio Green Party’s candidate for Governor Dennis Spisak would clean up Ohio’s water and air! Lessen our dependence on dirty coal plants, unlike current Governor Ted “Dirty Coal” Strickland. Dennis Spisak would also bring in renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and [...]

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Thomas Simmons comments at The Concord Monitor In 2010, in New England, a vote for a third party is not a wasted vote; in fact, it is the direction that many Independents and dissatisfued Republicans and Democrats are heading. Third-Party and Independent candidates have won major statewide office in Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut, and have [...]

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At Nolan Chart, Thomas Simmons is contemplating a run for governor of New Hampshire as a Libertarian and is looking for feedback as we approach 2010.  He writes: Dear Fellow Libertarians, I am asking for your measured, sober thoughts on the 2010 election.  As you may have gathered from my last email, I am seriously [...]

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The Green Party of Arizona is running a petition drive to try to get ballot access for the 2010 elections. They have also filed a lawsuit, Arizona Green Party v Barnett, to challenge some of the parameters for the petition drive. There has been recent publicity about the petition drive and the lawsuit (though, some of the articles have incorrect information.)

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On June 8, 2010, there will be a measure on the California ballot concerning top-two open primaries in elections. California State Senator Abel Maldonado has established an organization to campaign for the “top-two primary.” Richard Winger of Ballot Access News takes a point from the web-page which claims “all voters will have the opportunity to vote for any candidate they choose” and shows that that statement is incorrect, because under the top-two scenario the measure proposes, no write-in votes will be counted.

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David Redlawsk writes at NJ.com: Chris Daggett’s campaign received much more visibility and attention than most observers had expected, but his debate performance, clever ads and early endorsement by The Star-Ledger were not enough to establish permanent traction with the voters. Too many of them never learned much about him, and he never polled high [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and also previously posted in IPR comments. Due to the highly litigious nature of the warring sides in the Libertarian Party of Oregon internal dispute, I’ll point out what is standard IPR procedure and usually goes without saying: neither I nor IPR are taking sides in that dispute by posting this account, [...]

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