By: Frank Levine at PSLweb.org: Private prison corporations sought increased profits for jailing allegedly undocumented immigrants Arizona’s barbaric anti-immigration law SB 1070, now facing federal court challenges, was created to not only scapegoat immigrants, but also feed the boundless greed of capitalists. Private prison corporations and politicians worked hand in hand in the law’s creation [...]

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Via IPR comments, Announcing the formation of the Rent is Too Damn High Caucus of the Libertarian Party: The idea for the Rent is Too Damn High Caucus started during a discussion on IPR. The purpose of the caucus is “to try getting the LP HQ moved out of the Watergate & into a cheaper [...]

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In IPR comments on a previous post, Dr. Tom Stevens writes In light of the continued failure of the LP in New York, the Personal Freedom Party will be giving it a shot in 2014. They just adopted a platform which you can see at: http://drtomstevens.blogspot.com/2010/11/personal-freedom-party-adopts-platform.html This assumes that the LPNY in fact failed to [...]

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Excerpts from an article by Matt Welch of Reason: New York Times columnist Frank Rich accused the Kochs of plotting “a billionaires’ coup” to secure “corporate pork,” tax cuts, and a blank check for Wall Street bailouts. “What the Koch brothers have bought with their huge political outlays,” opined Times columnist Paul Krugman, “is, above [...]

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The Pirate Party in Germany organized a protest against the full body scanners at airports (also called “naked scanners”). This post includes the Youtube video of their demonstration.

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Posted by Darcy Richardson at Uncovered Politics: ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4 — According to the Associated Press, 90 million Americans — only 42% of registered voters — pulled the lever for a congressional candidate on Tuesday. That’s just a hair under 29% of the US population of 310.6 million. “So much for the consent of [...]

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Third Party and Independent Daily: From Rasmussen, via KintlaLake: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 31% of likely primary voters say they are at least somewhat likely to consider supporting a third-party candidate for president if former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the GOP nominee. That includes 17% who say it is [...]

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We will take a variety of election predictions from readers and contributors at IPR and see how they did.

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Press release from the Wrights for President exploratory committee emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: BURNET, Texas (Nov. 9) – The most significant impact of the 2010 elections is neither a mandate for the Republican Party, nor a rejection of the Obama Administration, but in the continued growth of the Libertarian vote at the local, state and national [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Green Party of Washington State (GPoWS) will be hosting a regional gathering of members (and potential members) of the Green Party on Saturday, 13 November 2010. Greens from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, Alaska, and beyond are invited to join us in Seattle for a day of fun, [...]

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by Gary Odom National Field Director at constitutionparty.com   2010 Election   Brings Victories and Near Misses; Highlights Progress And Reveals Challenges As The Constitution Party Looks To The Future     Congratulations To Nevada…Again!    In 2006, the Independent American Party, the Constitution Party’s state affiliate in Nevada elected two of its candidates to office.  This year it doubled up and elected four:three [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Green Party national office has released a list of party members who were elected or re-elected last week. As noted at this site earlier, Ben Chipman was elected to the Maine legislature [p: as an independent], and the party won three important elections in California: in Richmond; Mendocino County; and Hollister. [...]

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Ballot Access News: In 2010, two very old political parties that had never appeared on the ballot in a partisan election finally decided to enter a partisan race. The Labor Party placed Brett Bursey on the South Carolina ballot for state representative, 69th district. He ran against a Democrat and a Republican and polled 442 [...]

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Ballot Access News: Last week, Rebecca Williamson, Socialist Workers Party nominee for U.S. House in Iowa’s 3rd district, polled 2.61% of the vote. The 3rd district includes Des Moines. That is the highest percentage that any party with “Socialist” in its name has received for U.S. House in Iowa since 1918. Williamson had a Democratic [...]

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Jim Cook reports at Irregular Times that Americans Elect is now listed as a political party with the Nevada Secretary of State. They are currently gathering signatures in Arizona and Nevada through Arno Political Consultants. Americans Elect is registered as a corporation in every US state, and Kellen Arno is listed as the Secretary of [...]

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Via contact.ipr@gmail.com and Free Patriot Press: I will be sending copies of this letter to the newly elected Congressmen on January 3, 2011. If you wish to add your name to the letter you may do so online at http://www.petitiononline.com/ol112c. You are also encouraged to print and send this letter to your members of Congress. [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Illinois Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney led all Green Party gubernatorial candidates in 2010 in total votes and percentage of the total vote, with 99,625 votes, 2.70% of the vote. Only three times in history have Green Party gubernatorial candidates exceeded 10% of the vote. The first [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: A bit of inspiring news from beautiful New Zealand: Celia Wade-Brown has become New Zealand’s first Green mayor – a moment being described as a “watershed” by the party leader. Green Party members flocked to congratulate Ms Wade-Brown when her narrow victory over incumbent Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast was [...]

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This is on the LP.org site, although it was added only fairly recently and this is the first time I remember noticing it. You can get to it from the main page by going to “Campaign Resources” from the drop-down menu under “Action” at the top of the page. Many of the images here are [...]

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