The Green Party organized a protest earlier today in front of the Hearts Tower in New York City, the former workplace of the newly appointed schools chancellor in the city.  Retired teachers were asking to be hired as the head of the publishing company, since that was Cathie Black’s – that is, the new chancellor’s [...]

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Originally posted on Green Party Watch: In New London, Connecticut, local politics makes for strange bedfellows. In this case, it may result in Green Party City Councilor John Russell being appointed Deputy Mayor. If all goes according to plan, Councilor John Russell, a member of the Green Party, will be nominated and elected deputy mayor. [...]

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Washington Post blogger Mike DeBonis and DC Statehood Green Party activist David Schwartzman have gotten into a verbal tiff lately, started by Debonis’ assertion that “the Statehood Green Party has withered into near-oblivion.”  Schwartzman responded in an online newsletter, and DeBonis posted a lengthy reply today.  As of yet, there has been no reaction to [...]

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From the Huffington Post: That’s the main reason why I think Nader shouldn’t run again in 2012; it would only get liberals riled up, impeding the more important task of making the Obama presidency less dreadful. Also, Nader has been there and done that; he’s fought the good fight and he deserves a hero’s rest. [...]

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Various news about the Rhode Island Moderate Party since the election: Most recently, the party’s chairman Robert Corrente stepped down from that position so that Ken Block, who had resigned while he ran for governor, could take over. Party executive director Christine Hunsinger says former U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente (kuh-RENT’-ee) resigned the week after [...]

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The Hill.com  reports: If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) decided to wage an independent bid for president in 2012, he would end up aiding President Obama’s reelection prospects, according to a new poll out Monday.  Numbers from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling show Bloomberg polling at 11 percent in a hypothetical three-way matchup with [...]

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Third party candidates often do well in areas where one major party is substantially weaker than its rival. One can list numerous examples of this phenomenom: Minneapolis,  San Francisco, parts of Massachusetts, rural Nevada, and Rhode Island among others. Other areas, like Democratic Hawaii, have not yet reached this point. However, Wyoming may be the [...]

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The Associated Press reports: Less than a year after removing most limits on election spending by corporations and organized labor, the Supreme Court is signaling trouble for another campaign law that aims to curtail the political power of big money. The court on Monday said it will consider dismantling Arizona‘s program that gives extra cash [...]

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According to the blog of Dr. Tom Stevens: On November 23, 2010, Alden Link, the Libertarian Party’s Candidate for Lt. Governor of New York State in 2010, resigned his membership in the Manhattan Libertarian Party in protest to the way it and the New York Libertarian Party has treated Libertarian Party of Queens County members [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: The Libertarian Party 2012 presidential convention will be in Las Vegas, May 4-6, 2012.  This is the earliest the Libertarian presidential convention has been since the 1992 presidential election, when the national convention was in September 1991.  The latest Libertarian presidential convention was in 1996, and was in early July. The [...]

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Originally posted on LewRockwell.com, by John Jay Myers: With all the naked viewing and groping going on, I wonder if this is the United States of America or the back room of an adult video store. We have two major problems here, the TSA and their intrusive unconstitutional invasions of our rights, and the bigger [...]

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Sara Jerome @ The Hill reports: Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) wants moderate Republicans and conservatives in Colorado to meet so they can come together to prevent divides that could lead to election losses. Tancredo ran for governor this year against a Republican in a three-way race. Democrat John Hickenlooper wound up winning. Tancredo said [...]

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Business executive Cathie Black has been nominated by NYC Mayor Bloomberg to head the NYC School System, despite lacking the minimal educational qualifications. On Tuesday November 30, several current and former teachers from the Green Party of New York City will apply for the job of Chair of Hearst Magazines that Cathie Black is vacating.

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(Orlando) The Tea Party (TEA) is demanding a halt to full body scans by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA).  “The level of screening by TSA employees of American citizens has crossed the threshold of from security to a violation of rights,” stated Dunmire.  “Constitutional rights must be maintained at all times, including traveling on our [...]

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“As a Libertarian, I applaud the call for full legalization. However, as an activist, I recognize that the non-medical use of cannabis is absolutely forbidden by federal law and international treaties…” – Steve Kubby

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On November 19, 2010 the Boston Tea Party National Committee passed a resolution opposing the TSA, naked porno-scanners & enhanced pat-downs; Whereas the TSA was created after 9/11; and Whereas the TSA has consistently violated the 4th Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches & seizures”; and Whereas the TSA has begun using naked porno-scanners; and Whereas the [...]

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The Los Angeles Times today ran an obituary on David Nolan on the front page of the Late Extra section: David F. Nolan, whose disgruntlement with conventional politics — especially President Nixon‘s imposition of wage and price controls in 1971 — drove him to launch the Libertarian Party with a small group of friends, has [...]

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This came to me form the America First Party: Boulder, CO – The America First Party denounces the escalation of humiliating and illegal searches of Americans in the airports nationwide by the Federal Government’s Transportation Safety Administration (TSA). As usual, Republican and Democrat public officials, who have collectively imposed these assaults upon us, along with [...]

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A post at the World Socialist Web Site describes one view of “Thanksgiving in America”.

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The Libertarian Party of Citrus County and The Humble Libertarian website created Thanksgiving posts which reflect on lessons from the Pilgrims.

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