From DelawareOnline.com: House Bill 245, which was signed into law Feb. 1, effectively doubled the number of registered voters a party must have to be on the ballot.And it did so two months before voters are restricted from changing their party, when it was difficult, if not impossible, for the smaller parties to meet the [...]

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From Cincinnati.com: Libertarians Jared Croxton and Jim Berns both want to run for the 1st Congressional District seat held by Democrat Steve Driehaus. It’s the only contested race in Southwest Ohio for any of Ohio’s four minor parties – Libertarian, Constitution, Green and Socialist. This is the first year minor parties have been allowed to [...]

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From EmpireStateNews.net: FT. HAMILTON STATION – The budget is 7 days late and no progress has been made to cut spending.  Instead, newspaper reports indicate that the items on the table legislators are considering to solve the fiscal morass include ways to raise taxes, fees, and borrowing. “The budget deficit will not be closed by [...]

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On March 21 I wrote to Ernest Hancock and Wayne Root: As a contributor for Independent Political Report, I’m writing to the two of you because in Austin you emerged as the front-runners in the race for Libertarian National Committee Chair. I’ve prepared for each of you a separate set of ten tough but fair [...]

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On March 21 I wrote to Ernest Hancock and Wayne Root: As a contributor for Independent Political Report, I’m writing to the two of you because in Austin you emerged as the front-runners in the race for Libertarian National Committee Chair. I’ve prepared for each of you a separate set of ten tough but fair [...]

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Independent, and former Libertarian candidate, Kurt Evans will be running for Senate against Senator John Thune, a Republican.  The deadline has passed for South Dakota Democrats to put someone on the ballot, but the deadline for independents to get on the ballot is in June. From ABC: A former South Dakota teacher who has run [...]

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From the Pirate Party of Oklahoma: Wikileaks has released footage from a US Apache helicopter firing and killing Reuters journalists and civilians in Iraq. It appears that the soldiers saw the cameras the journalists were carrying and thought that they were RPG’s. After engaging and killing the journalists the US forces also engaged a van [...]

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Jim Clymer is the current National Chairman of the Constitution Party and a former candidate for local, state, and federal offices in Pennsylvania for the CP. Recent FEC filings show that since May of 2009 he has donated over $17,000 to the Constitution Party National Committee, which means he is almost certainly the top donor [...]

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A measure to legalize marijuana in California is getting some support from long-time Libertarian Party members. The most high-profile Libertarian Party member in California to endorse and campaign for the measure is Judge Jim Gray, who is a Superior Court Judge in Orange County, California. Underscoring the importance the backing of law enforcement will play, [...]

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2008 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential candidate Wayne Root speaking at the Mar. 27 Tea Party rally in Searchlight, NV:

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Via email and LP.org: Dear Friend of Liberty, The April 15 tax filing deadline is right around the corner (a week from Thursday), and along with it, lots of tax day protests and Tea Party protests. In addition to other groups’ events, your local Libertarian Party affiliate may have protest plans for that day. I [...]

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Forwarded by Eric Sundwall. I was hoping to investigate the speculation that it is a “shadow convention” further, but have limited time and would like to get at least a minimal article up. That issue can be addressed in the comments and/or followup post(s). This is an invitation-only event with 16 or fewer people and [...]

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LP.org: The Convention Committee has extended the Early Bird pricing until April 12. Part of this is due to confusion and mixed messages over which speakers are scheduled for when. Our speaker lineup continues to evolve and is always subject to change. One recent change is that Neal Boortz has been moved from the Sunday [...]

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From the Providence Journal: Moderate Party candidate Kenneth J. Block, who announced his candidacy [for governor -p] the third week of February, raised about $32,000 and loaned his campaign $250,000, party spokeswoman Christine Hunsinger said. Also from the same article: Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee — an independent who has led in the polls [...]

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Emailed by Don Grundmann to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Mr. Noonan – With this letter I issue an official debate challenge to you regarding the upcoming primary election for United States Senate candidate of the American Independent Party. Said debate will be filmed and recorded for placement upon YouTube and all other possible outlets so that American Independent [...]

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Ballot Access News: On April 3, officers of the state Alabama Republican Party voted to prevent State Senator Harri Anne Smith from placing her name on the June 1 primary ballot. She wants to run for re-election to the State Senate, 29th district, in southeast Alabama. The party said she was denied the right to [...]

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Ballot Access News: Dan Quayle has this op-ed in the Sunday, April 4, Washington Post. Thanks to Nancy Hanks for the link. Quayle repeats the cliche that a minor party or independent candidate always injures the major party closest (ideologically) to that minor party or independent candidate. Social science and historical research substantially rebuts that [...]

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By Scott Williamson http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4132 Did you ever read the book “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum? If not, I am sure you have read Dr. Ruwart’s “Healing Our World in An Age of Aggression”? While the books are different, they both remind us that when we were young [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal carried a story entitled “Obama Steps Up Confrontation.” It said in part, “On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, ‘Go for it.’ Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Why would Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, so mistreat and silence one of their top molecular biologists that a federal jury in Connecticut awarded her $1.37 million in damages last week? The unraveling answer promises to tear open the curtain covering hazards confronting tens of thousands of scientists and assistants [...]

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