Press release posted at LP.org: WASHINGTON – The federal trial of pornographer John Stagliano began last week. Libertarian National Committee Chairman Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: “The Obama Administration’s prosecution of John Stagliano is a travesty. “As Reason magazine’s Richard Abowitz wrote, ‘The case against Stagliano concerns the selling of movies performed by [...]

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Tom Clements, an environmental activist running for the US Senate in South Carolina, appears to have received a significant boon from the candidacy of Democrat Alvin Greene. Greene, you may recall, is the controversial unemployed veteran who unexpectedly won his primary to take on Republican Jim Demint and Clements in the general election. Now, some elements [...]

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In Connecticut, Green Party member Nicholas Payne wants to be next State Representative from the 67th District. The candidate is quite clear about his motivations: “I’m doing this so other families don’t have to bury their kids; that’s the real reason,” said Payne, whose 22-year-old daughter, Rebecca, a Northeastern University student in Boston, was shot to death [...]

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea. Last week, five third party and independent candidates participated in the IL gubernatorial debate organized by Free and Equal. The debate was hosted at Chicago State University and moderated by Free and Equal Founder and Chair Christina Tobin, who is also the Libertarian Party candidate for California Secretary of State. All seven [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO – The recently finished campaign surrounding Proposition 14 in California has revealed startling insights into the way media outlets cover essential issues facing voters. Since the proposition passed June 8, Free and Equal Elections staff have continued to follow media coverage of Proposition 14 in California and the spread of the Top Two [...]

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By Edward Spears at theamericanconservatives.org: Over the past year or so, it seems that the Conservative movement is experiencing a resurgence. The Tea Party movement and the thousands, if not millions, who have been drawn to it, are at the heart of this reawakening to our Constitution and the conservative principles our nation was founded [...]

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Ballot Access News: Four candidates are on the Arizona Libertarian primary ballot for Governor. Arizona’s public funding law provides that the state agency that handles public financing also has the job of setting up primary debates, if even one candidate in that primary (for that particular office) has applied to qualify for public funding. Such [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 13, a Reuters/Ipsos poll was released for the U.S. Senate race in Florida. Independent candidate Charlie Crist has 35%; Republican Marco Rubio 28%; Democrat Kendrick Meek 17%. See this story. The Florida primary has not been held yet, and it is possible the Democratic nominee will be Jeff Greene, not [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 4, the voters of the Rambouillet district held a special election to fill a vacancy in the French Chamber of Deputies. Green Party nominee Anny Poursinoff placed first, among a field of seven. Because she didn’t get 50%, a run-off was held one week later, which Poursinoff won. She now [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 12, Carl Romanelli, Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate in 2006, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the state employees who worked on challenging his petition while they were supposed to be working on state business. The eleven-page complaint also points out that the challengers used state government [...]

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Posted by Dave Campbell at PeaceAndFreedom.org: The Peace and Freedom Party has called for ending cannabis prohibition since its founding in 1967. It was the first (and so far the only) party on the California ballot to say “Legalize It” in its platform. This year, there are two ways we can finally achieve this goal: [...]

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Email to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted at LP blog: Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential nominee, best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian,” and elected member of the Libertarian National Committee (the governing Board of Directors of the Party), has just been elected Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee (LNCC), the chief [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Dear Chairman Bernanke: On July 17, 2008, David Rogers, the respected Congressional reporter for Politico wrote an article titled “Pelosi-Paulson tension Rises,” in which he had the following paragraph: “Earlier in the day, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke assured lawmakers that Fannie and Freddie, the two government-supported enterprises, are ‘adequately [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by David C. Larson: Iowa Illusionists astride the synonymous Donkey Journalism most foul by DC Larson “Bipartisanship is political apartheid to third parties and independents. Bipartisan means fair to a Republican and a Democrat. Bipartisan translates into manifestly unfair to those who have no intention of running in or voting for either [...]

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Email from Joe Kennedy to supporters: Well it has been a long while since the election and many of the items I predicted would happen have. I stated that ObamaCare would go through and there was nothing which could stop it; unfortunately I was right. I stated that once it went through, Mr. Brown would [...]

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On Tuesday, the Libertarian Party of Kentucky criticized the Tea Party organizations in Lexington and Louisville for abandoning their core principles and blindly promoting Republicans, despite the Tea Party movement having its roots in libertarianism. These two Tea Party organizations hosted an event together in Frankfort, Kentucky, at which only Republican candidates were invited to [...]

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From John Nichols at The Nation: Legislation that does neither breaks up “too big to fail” Wall Street banks or restore the safeguards established after the Great Depression separating Main Street banks from big Wall Street firms does not even meet the standard of effective regulation. It’s certainly not socialism.  Who says? The Socialists. Nicholas [...]

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea: Connecticut’s primary elections are scheduled for August 10, 2010. If recent voter registration trends in the state hold, unaffiliated voters will soon outnumber registered Democrats and Republicans combined. They already constitute the largest bloc of registered voters. According to Pollster.com, as of late last year, independents accounted for 42.5% of registered voters [...]

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Excerpt from an article by Austin Cassidy at Uncovered Politics: For a guy who’s enjoyed sex with farm animals, Horsley is very clear on the issue of homosexual rights. In a 2009 press release he states that if elected he will “protect homofagots from citizen violence and will provide them with due process of law [...]

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By George Phillies, originally at Liberty for All: Occasionally, buried in news from other political factions is some incredibly good news for our Libertarian Party. And here we have some, in the form of a statistical report Demographic Change and the Future of the Parties, which you can read here. The author is Ruy Teixeira, [...]

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