(This is a follow up to an earlier post on Richard Mack http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/01/former-arizona-sheriff-richard-mack-greatest-threat-is-not-terrorists-it-is-the-federal-government/comment-page-1/#comment-308275) The New American reports that Judge John M. Roll, murdered in Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, was the leading judicial voice supporting former Graham County, Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack in his 1997 lawsuit against the federal government. Mack is a speaker, states’ [...]

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[Posted by Paulie] The Maryland Green Party submitted 14,842 signatures and the Maryland Libertarian Party submitted 13,787 signatures towards a requirement of 10,000 valid signatures. The deadline for submitting additional signatures has been extended to March 7: The Maryland petition deadline for a party that wishes to obtain, or regain, its qualified status is not [...]

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Since I’ve pretty much filled up the front page with new articles today, I’m putting up a new open thread for readers to post news tips (you can also send them to contact.ipr@gmail.com and CC iprtwo at googlegroups.com). I’ll just copy and past the text from the previous thread explaining what this is about: The [...]

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IPR roundtable show on blogtalk will be on 1/16/2011 (Sunday) at 8:00 PM Eastern. Call-in Number: (646) 200-0264 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (646) 200-0264 It’s a practice show for IPR editors to become familiar with the blogtalk interface and an open format for discussing the issue of the day in the alternative [...]

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Chuck Moulton in IPR comments: I had heard several people mention the idea of leaving David Nolan’s at-large seat vacant. It seemed like a good idea to me, but when I read the bylaws I found that the LNC is required to fill the vacancy. LP Bylaws, article 8, section 7: The National Committee shall [...]

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Saturday, January 22, 2011 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm First Ever Wedding Between A Corporation And A Person 527 N. Dixie Lake Worth, FL Contact: gparty@pbcgreenparty.org On January 21st, 2010 the Supreme Court of the United States re-affirmed that Corporations have the same Constitutional rights as people (Citizens United v FEC). In commemoration of [...]

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http://wrights2012.com/: BURNET, Texas (Jan. 13) – It will be all too easy and popular to claim that the shooting in Arizona that killed six people was caused by the vitriol prevalent in American political discourse, but as usual the easy and popular explanation of this tragedy will avoid the truth, R. Lee Wrights, libertarian writer, [...]

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Ballot Access News: On January 14, Alaska Representative Max Gruenberg (D-Anchorage) introduced HB 77, to provide for a top-two election system for state office and congress. The bill says that anyone who doesn’t qualify for the general election ballot may file as a declared write-in candidate for the November election, even if that person ran [...]

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From Michael Kwiatkowski at FireDogLake via TPID: I’m going to be attending a meeting of the Northeast Ohio Green Party on the 18th of January. We’ll be discussing strategies for future elections in Ohio, particularly Northeast Ohio. This is especially important in light of the GOP’s efforts to remove two of Ohio’s Democrats from Congress [...]

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TPID: Former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, Richard Mack, will be a featured speaker at the Spring 2011 Constitution Party national meeting in Pennsylvania.  In a statement by Mack reproduced at the Constitution Party discussion forum, Mack argues that “the greatest threat we face today is not terrorists; it is our own federal government.”  From [...]

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Via TPID: Wes Benedict, Executive Director of the Libertarian National Committee, recently gave a speech at a conference entitled “The Stripping of Freedom: A Careful Scan of TSA Security Procedures.” The Libertarian Party blog has republished Benedict’s comments in full. Given at “The Stripping of Freedom: A Careful Scan of TSA Security Procedures” January 6, [...]

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Liberty Point: The NC Libertarian Party has issued a statement condemning the Sept. 24, 2010 raids by FBI agents on the homes of 14 anti-war activists in Minneapolis and other cities. They also called the issuance of grand jury subpoenas in the investigations a “fishing expedition” designed to justify prosecution of anti-war activism. “It is [...]

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