A Home-schooled Scholar/Athlete Has Tough Questions for Obama and Congress. By Wayne Allyn Root and Dakota Root I’m very proud of my daughter Dakota. She is a 17-year old high school senior who has been home-schooled since birth- literally. She has never seen the inside of a classroom. The results? She has attained perfect SAT [...]

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Libertarians oppose census questions WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party (LP) Chairman William Redpath released the following statement today regarding the 2010 census: “The Libertarian Party believes that the federal government’s current census procedures are unconstitutional, unnecessary, and too expensive. We believe that the census is constitutionally limited to collecting only one piece [...]

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Note: this press release is from March 19. The bill has since passed. WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party adamantly opposes the health care bill passed on Christmas Eve by the US Senate that is currently being considered in the US House of Representatives. The Libertarian Party calls on the US House to vote down this [...]

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Samuel Wilson writes at The Think3 Institute: Three Choices for NY Conservatives The New York gubernatorial race is getting more interesting on the right. As expected, Conservative party leaders endorsed Rick Lazio this weekend, but their verdict doesn’t guarantee him Row D this November. He doesn’t become the party’s official nominee until its convention takes [...]

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Ballot Access News: Dennis F. Bradley is the Veterans Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2010. Because the Veterans Party is ballot-qualified in Florida, Bradley will have no trouble appearing on the general election ballot. Bradley was also the U.S. Senate nominee of the Veterans Party in Florida in 2004. He polled 166,642 [...]

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Posted at Third Party and Independent Daily: From the Columbia News Service, via the Memphis Socialist Party: The economic crisis may have sounded a death knell for investment banks, construction companies and countless small businesses, but there are some groups that are benefittng from the general malaise. Alternative political movements such as communism and socialism [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Rich Whitney, the Illinois Green Party’s 2010 candidate for governor who earned over 10% of the vote in 2006, has called for legalization of cannabis in his comprehensive plan to solve Illinois’ budget crisis. Whitney’s plan for fixing Illinois’ structural budget deficit includes a proposal to “raise [...]

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Hugh Giordano, a Green state representative candidate in Pennsylvania’s 194th district, was featured today in a story that ran in a group of newspapers published in Philadelphia and nearby Montgomery County.  Read the full story here. Giordano works as an organizer for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 142. According to his [...]

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Via email, GP.org, Green Party Watch, and On The Wilder Side (immediate source is the last link): GP OH Guv Cand Dennis Spisak Several Green candidates have launched campaigns in their states’ races for governor in 2010. The Green Party of California will have a contested primary election for the gubernatorial race, with Laura Wells [...]

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Via email and LP.org: Dear Friend of Liberty, Like you, I am upset that the health care bill passed last night. Another huge expansion of government spending and government control is not good for our freedom or our health. When I heard about the passage, I was reminded of the many hateful emails I received [...]

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From Ballot Access News: The Mountain Party of West Virginia is that state’s affiliate of the Green Party. This year it has chosen to nominate by primary rather than by convention. Therefore, anyone who wanted to run as a Mountain Party candidate was required to file for the primary by January 30. Five individuals filed, [...]

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In recent elections, international Green Parties have had election victories in Colombia and in regional elections in France. Posted to the GreenChange.org social network by a Green in Colombia (h/t to Green Party Watch): Colombian congress has 268 seats; 100 seats for the senate and 168 seats for the equivalent of the house of representatives. [...]

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From the PR Newswire, via Poli-Tea: CHICAGO, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yesterday was an historic day in Washington for a different reason than the passage of a healthcare bill that essentially goes into effect some four years from now.  All over national television, throughout the day and into the night, the leadership of the Democrats [...]

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Independent candidate for Congress in 2008 and former Green Party member John Murphy writes in Dissident Voice, The Democrat Party is just another voice of the corporate elite that is trying to control America. It does not want us to have any choices other than the corporate candidates and it will do its best to [...]

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Speculation from a Green Party member in New York about who the GPNYS/Green Party candidates for NY Governor and other statewide office might be for 2010.

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A newspaper from Portland, Maine claims that it is now too easy for independent candidates to get on the ballot in Maine. Ballot Access expert Richard Winger critiques the newspaper’s position.

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At the Broward Palm Beach New Times blog, Gail Shepherd reports on a local event planned for today on “electoral disenfranchisement,” that will bring together Green Party, Libertarian Party, Tea Party and independent activists: [Green Party activist] Jayne King has banded together with some strange bedfellows: She says that the Electoral Reform event she’s helping [...]

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On March 19, the Governor of Mississippi signed SB 3058 which sets a 5 p.m. deadline for presidential elector paperwork. This bill came into existence in part because of a dispute over a 2008 filing by Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore.

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Green Party activist, and former Green Party candidate for Babylon Town Supervisor, Ian Wilder, gives his thoughts on the health care debate. Includes a critique of the reaction to Kucinich on the part of: Daily Kos, MoveOn, Black Agenda Report, Democracy Now!, and Ralph Nader.

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Cindy Sheehan will be on the independent radio and television program Democracy Now! on Friday talking about her new project Camp OUT NOW, an encampment on the national mall, and the peace march on Saturday in Washington DC.  An email sent to supporters: On the 7th tragic commemoration of the uneccessary invasion of Iraq, Cindy [...]

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