WDSU reports: Marijuana Legalization Key In Jacobs’ Platform Mayoral Candidate Pushing For ‘Social Change’ NEW ORLEANS — Independent candidate Jerry Jacobs says social change is the cornerstone of his political platform, and he’s pushing the legalization of marijuana. Jacobs said legalizing marijuana will do for the city of New Orleans what ending Prohibition did for [...]

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As reported at SouthCoastToday.com: STEVEN SENNE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Candidates for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., from the left, Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley, and Joseph L. Kennedy, a Libertarian candidate running as an independent and who is no relation to the late senator, make [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side and GP.org: The Green Party of New York State decries the “historic” deal reached in the US Senate as historic only in the sense of its betrayal of American working people, women, and democracy. Green Party members across the United States still demand single-payer, universal health care, which is [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side. Also found at Green Party Watch and GP.org. US Green Party leaders expressed their dismay with the failure of the UN summit in Copenhagen to reach an agreement on international action to curb climate change. Greens have been especially critical of: the grossly inadequate emissions reduction proposals that the [...]

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by Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith, Thomas A. Steitz, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak, and Barack Obama. Recognize any of these names? All seven are Americans but, aside from the last name listed, few people other than relatives, friends and colleagues [...]

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Posted by David Weigel in the Washington Independent: He didn’t get as much coverage as, say, Dick Armey, but 2009 was a very good year for one of the more ambitious figures in conservative politics, Wayne Allyn Root. A self-made millionaire who rose to prominence as an expert on gambling — especially sports betting — [...]

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Posted by Peter Tharaldson on the party’s website The Independence Party has been increasing in support every election. The U.S. Senate race last year marked a dramatic climb in support. 2010 provides some amazing opportunities for the Independence Party to become the sole voice of honesty in a broken political system. It is also the [...]

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Posted by Rob Taylor at Examiner.com, December 10: Attending the WICFA coalition meeting on Saturday December 12th for the Constitution Party of Wisconsin (CPoW) will be their US Senate Candidate for WI, Rob Taylor. He will be there to gain information, build support and to spread the word of what is happening to our freedoms [...]

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At the Florida Progressive Coalition blog, 2010 Green congressional candidate Nicholas Ruiz III riffs on Baudrillard and critiques the two-party system, and urges voters to “[seek] out other political party options as a matter of principle” – Few would argue that the two party system is a benefit to us, while we argue that monopolies [...]

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According to Politics1.com, SOCIALIST ACTION – Socialist Action is a Trotskyist political party of “revolutionary socialists” originally founded by expelled members of the Socialist Workers Party. While the SA shares the SWP’s pro-Castro views, the SA still tries to retain its Trotskyist ideological roots (versus the SWP, which has drifted away from Trotskyism towards a [...]

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LP blog: by William Redpath (originally published in the December 2009 issue of LP News) I can’t know what each of you thought when you read the headline above, but probably the most charitable thought was “Poor Bill Redpath. He almost made it to the end of his second term as Chair before he cracked [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com As we approach the celebration of Christ’s birth, I am reminded of the words of John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words: “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? [...]

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Even though Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders was forced to withdraw his amendment for a national single payer system recently, he has managed to put language into the health care bill that would allocate somewhere between $10 billion and $14 billion for thousands of primary care clinics around the country.  He is also working to [...]

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Posted at rpusa.info: Take Survey here For each of the following issues from the Reform Party Principles or Platform, indicate whether you agree, disagree, or can not rate the issue (because you have no opinion or for some other reason). America should: Eliminate NAFTA and similar free trade agreements. Negotiate trade agreements that promote US [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Agent of Change The ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus (535-475 BC) said that “character is destiny.” He might have added that “personality is decisive.” Where is Barack Obama in this framework? The venerable historian, James MacGregor Burns, in his book “Transforming Leadership,” drew an important distinction between “transforming and transactional leadership,” [...]

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On The Wilder Side, also at GP.org and contact.ipr@gmail.com: Asa Gordon Green Party calls Asa Gordon’s action a demand for fair elections, voters’ rights, and racial justice A major voting rights civil action filed by Green Party leader Asa Gordon is scheduled for oral argument in the US Court of Appeals for the District of [...]

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Lew Rockwell reports: UPDATE from David Kramer: Michael is reportedly conscious, and has had a pacemaker installed. His family requests no visitors or calls for now. H/T Steve LaBianca on the original article posted earlier today to IPR by Tom Knapp.

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WBUR reports: Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley and Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy take questions during a live radio talk show on WBZ-AM on Monday. (Steven Senne/AP) BOSTON — The three candidates running to fill the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat sparred on everything from Afghanistan to health care during their first debate [...]

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From an email apparently written by Gary Franchi, national director of Restore the Republic, and forwarded by a Campaign For Liberty activist: I just received word that the President of the 2009 Continental Congress and 2004 Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, Michael Badnarik had a Heart Attack this morning and [is] in an unconscious [...]

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Sent to IPR by an anonymous source who is not currently on the LNC. Minority Report of the Donor Confidentiality Committee By Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D. Executive Summary The Donor Confidentiality Committee was formed to propose policy to protect the confidentiality of donor information and to prevent further instances of the negligence which resulted in [...]

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