FRAUD: WHY THE TAX CUT BILL IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO SPEND ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS! PROOF THAT OUR POLITICAL LEADERS HAVEN’T LEARNED A THING. Didn’t we just have a historic Tea Party election? Wasn’t the message STOP THE SPENDING, PAY OFF THE DEBT, and STOP THE INSANITY? The message was loud and clear, yet the [...]

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Thomas Sipos entertains the idea at Libertarian Peacenick. As the Libertarian Party seeks a presidential candidate for 2012, perhaps they should consider actor Wesley Snipes? Snipes is about to begin a three-year prison sentence after being convicted for federal tax evasion. But Snipes was not merely trying to save money. It seems that he’s a [...]

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“No way, no how” is he running for President says NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Yahoo has the story.

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Posted by Wes Benedict on the LP Blog, December 11, 2010 The Libertarian Party turns 39 today. We wish LP founder David Nolan were alive for this birthday. Some Libertarian Party leadership has talked about the possibility of a major 40th birthday celebration next year in Washington, D.C. No plans have been made, but you [...]

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As the presidential race begins to take vague shape, the left searches for its new Ralph Nader.

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Perennial third-party candidate Ralph Nader predicted on Wednesday that President Obama’s tax deal with Republicans will earn him a primary challenge in 2012. Though he wouldn’t rule out another presidential campaign himself, Nader, 76, said he hoped a new face would take up the progressive cause. “I’m not foreclosing the possibility … There are just [...]

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A press release from the New York State Green Party, via the Wonkster: Hawkins, Green Party, Urges Cuomo to Include Public Campaign Finance Reform and Proportional Representation as Part of Ethics Reform Push Howie Hawkins, the former Green Party candidate for Governor, urged Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo to make Public Campaign Financing and Proportional Representation the [...]

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An email sent out to Libertarian Party supporters (H/T to paulie): Dear Friend of Liberty, We have a unique opportunity to reach out to younger prospects and recruit them to the Libertarian Party. Help us raise $50,000 by making a donation today. Travis Irvine recently ran for Congress in Ohio, and along with his campaign [...]

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The following article ran in several newspapers in the Philadelphia, PA area (you can read the full thing here): On November 30, the monthly meeting of the Green Party of Philadelphia (GPOP), www.gpop.org, provided a look at a rejuvenated political organization… Much of the discussion focused on Hugh Giordano, www.hughgiordano.com, who recently ran for PA [...]

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Watch it live online on  C Span’s website. From TIME: Beginning at 10:25 am Friday morning, the independent senator took to the Senate floor in an attempt to block President Obama’s hefty new tax bill. The bill is an extension of Bush-era tax cuts to the income of the U.S.’s richest citizens and has been [...]

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I, Ross Levin will be interviewing Ben Chipman, who was elected to the Maine state house of representatives in the 2010 election. Chipman has been a Green Party activist for a long time, including being an aide to Maine’s only former Green state legislator and a member of the Portland Charter Commission. He was the [...]

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Tentatively scheduled IPR meatspace meetup, DC area Saturday at 8 PM. If anyone in the area wants to get together give me a call at 415-690-6352. I’m thinking either the Brickskeller in DC or the Swahili Village Cafe in Beltsville, MD. Speaking of the DC area, from the LP blog/Monday message: The Libertarian Party of [...]

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Green Party leaders called the attacks on Wikileaks by the US government a direct and deliberate assault on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press…Greens expressed dismay and outrage over the decision of companies like Amazon, Pay Pal, MasterCard, and Visa, as well as several Internet hosting companies, to cooperate with US government demands for censorship.

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Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont, has emerged as the most outspoken opponent of President Obama’s tax cut compromise, threatening a filibuster. This post has an article from the Huffington Post, and a video of the speech Bernie Sanders made in the Senate. The speech has been recommended and circulated via e-mail by David McReynolds, a previous socialist candidate for President and Green Party candidate for NY Senate.

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LAWRENCEVILLE – Will Costa, a long time political activist and small business owner, filed today to be a candidate in the March 15 special election to replace Charles Bannister as Chairman of the Gwinnett County Commission. Having decades of political experience, Costa has earned the trust and respect not only of the Libertarian Party of [...]

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Christina Tobin, founder and Chair of Free & Equal, will hold a press conference tomorrow at 11am. Christina will release the language for a proposed bill to allow filing fees in lieu of signatures, for ballot access. The press conference will take place at Free & Equal’s Chicago office on 407 S. Dearborn St., Suite [...]

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Ben Maski,  Wisconsin Green Party activist,  had this published in The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, December 8, 2010: Can we achieve social change at the ballot box? On Election Day, one month ago, 17,754 residents of Wisconsin’s 77th Assembly District cast votes for their preferred candidate to represent them in the state legislature. Of [...]

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Smart Politics, the blog of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, posted a list of the minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House in 2010 who got the highest percentages.

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After the nameserver provider for WikiLeaks cut ties with the organization last week, the Swiss Pirate Party stepped up and allowed them to move onto one of their registered domains. This action prompted additional Pirate Parties from the Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, Germany, Luxembourg, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to band together and support the efforts to keep WikiLeaks online.

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from Ballot Access News Minnesota Republican Party Bars Two Former Republican Governors from 2012 National Convention, Because They Supported Independence Party Gubernatorial Nominee On December 5, the Minnesota Republican Party voted to ban 18 Republican office-holders or former office-holders from participating in any official party activities for the next two years.  This even includes a [...]

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