Posted at idaholibertariantimes.com, by way of http://newpathforthelp.org/: Podcast#32 Sat May 22 2010 George Phillies comments on Proposition 14 in California & gives useful website links to help defeat it & talks about this week in his campaign & the upcoming Libertarian Convention in St. Louis.  https://www.stoptoptwo.org/donate/  orhttp://libertymanager.comcontact: Beau Cain, 1-877 884 1776go to the prop14 [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Aida Edamariam at The Guardian has an interview with Caroline Lucas, who recently became the Green Party of England and Wales’ first member of parliament: Whatever you think of the Greens, it would have been hard not to feel that one of the few truly inspiring moments [...]

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Email from Pat Dixon to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Fellow delegate to the Libertarian Party national convention, Very soon you will be deciding the direction and nature of our party. I only ask if you want results? Do you want to see achievement? My name is Pat Dixon. I have been the chair of the Libertarian Party of [...]

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From Bludgeon and Skewer via TPID: ATLANTA, GA – Delegates to the state convention for The Constitution Party of Georgia unanimously passed a motion recommending that its members and supporters strongly consider supporting Libertarian David Chastain for the Office of Secretary of State in the 2010 Georgia elections. Party chairman Ricardo Davis explained the reason [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Monterey Herald of May 23 has this somewhat ambivalent endorsement of California’s Proposition 14, the top-two ballot measure on the June 8 ballot. The Herald discusses some of the problems with Proposition 14, but ends by saying it still endorsed the measure because the California League of Women Voters supports it. [...]

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Posted by Jeff Sexton at SWGAPolitics.com: I’m a State/Local specialist. I don’t track National politics that closely, but seeing as how the Libertarian National Convention is next weekend and we have a fairly hotly contested race for LNC Chairman going on, I decided to take a look into it and let my voice be heard. [...]

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Posted by Rob Power at LibertyForAll.Net. Link to full piece at the end. Rob Power is the New Path candidate for Secretary of the LNC and serves on the Libertarian Party Platform Committee. If there’s any committee more politicized than the Texas textbook and curriculum committee, it’s the Libertarian Party’s Platform Committee. The overwhelming majority [...]

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Email from Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: “For years the Libertarian Party has had the best ideas- we have the answers that will bring senseless wars to a stop, restore our civil liberties, eliminate our deficit and debt, and allow our economy the freedom to provide opportunity for all those who seek it. But for years [...]

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News tip to contact.ipr@gmail.com from Tom Blanton: http://www.sanderhicks.com/truthparty.html DEBUT OF THE TRUTH PARTY This Sunday will be historic. We are talking about starting what will soon become a major political force: something optimistic, smart, and savvy. We will win elections. We will change the world. As many of you saw from my blog, I have [...]

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Posted on the front page of the Liberty Union Party website by Rosemarie Jackowski: The missing part of the news report about the Texas textbook fiasco is that this is not new news. History textbooks used in most US schools have been suspect for decades. Enlightened teachers have been quietly using alternative texts for years. [...]

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Ballot Access News: Firedoglake has this detailed analysis of California’s Proposition 14, the top-two ballot measure in the June 8, 2010 primary. Firedoglake was founded in 2004 by Jane Hamsher, and has received award for being one of the best political blogs. It now has 20 writers. This particular analysis is by Jon Walker. Thanks [...]

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TPID: rom a press release at Earth Times: A Swedish political party that campaigns against restrictions for internet users said Tuesday it will provide internet access for the Pirate Bay file-sharing website.”We got tired of Hollywood’s cat-and-mouse game with the Pirate Bay and decided to offer the bandwith,” said Rick Falvinge, leader of the Swedish [...]

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From The Liberator Online published by the Advocates for Self-Government Dr. Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian communication. [IPR note: She is also an at large member of the Libertarian National Commitee, and is believed to be running for reelection to that position.] In this column she offers short answers to real questions [...]

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There is still a chance that we may be able to buy some more of the Green/P&F type cable TV ads but time is running out. It will take 2 days to produce an LP version (although at this point I personally don’t care whose names are on them). If people will pledge money (please [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: In the end, late on Thursday’s Senate passage of the financial regulation bill, the Senate had no time for independent, non-government consumer power. In the end, after listening to swarms of corporate bank, brokerage, hedge fund, private equity, and insurance lobbyists, the Senate had no time for Senator Chuck Schumer’s [...]

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From the Miami Herald: Charlie Crist’s declaration of independence is paying off — so far. The governor narrowly leads Florida’s topsy-turvy U.S. Senate race, despite nearly half of the voters saying he made a “purely political” decision to bolt the GOP and run as an independent candidate in the Nov. 2 general election, a new [...]

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TPID: Progressive and liberal commentators have now begun to attack Rand Paul for his past association with the Constitution Party.  From the Progressive Fix: I don’t know how long it’s going to take before the past views and associations of new Republican superstar Rand Paul all come to light, but he’s currently on track to [...]

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Story By JESSE McKINLEY in The NY Times. H/T Starchild in comments on a previous post. Starchild is a Libertarian Party activist. SAN FRANCISCO — Starchild, a self-described sex worker and a candidate for San Francisco supervisor, says there is absolutely no reason that his beloved city needs any more rules. “I think that with [...]

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Email from Redlich campaign manager Eric Sundwall: May 22, 2010 – Primary Challenge Event Warren Redlich challenges Carl Paladino about his contributions to Chuck Schumer. Warren Redlich is the Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York, and is also seeking the Republican nomination (New York allows candidates to run under multiple parties). Carl Paladino is [...]

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Septimus writes at The Whig: Ah, the benefits of having a moderate political party to mediate between the left and the right. It seems that the Liberal Democrats (the British successors to the Whigs) are already receiving rave reviews here in the United States: Houston Chronicle: Britain’s fresh start: Coalition government offers a contrast to [...]

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