Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Reichel claims debate victory; Admonishes Mainstream Press for Failing the Public This Wednesday, the four contenders for the now-vacant 47th ward aldermanic seat met in a packed gymnasium at Coonley Elementary School, and discussed a number of issues ranging from TIF’s to environmental [...]

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Liberty for All: by R. Lee Wrights What was glaringly absent from President Obama’s state of the union address Tuesday night, as well as from the response from both the Republicans and the Tea Party movement, is an admission that the real state of the union is a state of war. The president only mentioned [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com To a packed out crowd of over 500 Montanans who had assembled in minus zero weather to hear me speak, I made the statement, “Not all Christians are our friends, and not all non-Christians are our enemies.” Indeed, being able to identify our friends is more than half the battle. When [...]

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Dover Post via Third Party and Independent Daily: Dover resident Will McVay is chair of the Kent County Libertarian Party, and he thinks Levy Court’s Democratic majority should take this redistricting cycle as an opportunity to involve minor political parties. At Levy Court’s January business meeting, McVay, who gained notoriety during a failed run for [...]

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Posted by Wayne Allyn Root on Libertarian Party blog: What Obama’s State of Union Speech Has in Common with Taco Bell By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author I agree with the liberal blogosphere- Obama’s State of the Union was “Reaganesque.” Well written and well delivered. Awe-inspiring. Except that it [...]

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Randy Eshelman at LP blog: Mayor Jim Suttle Narrowly Survives Recall OMAHA, NE – January 26, 2011-Libertarian Party of Nebraska Communications Director Randy Eshelman issued the following statement: “Yesterday, Omaha voters exercised their right to fire, or not to fire in this case, their elected CEO. Jim Suttle remained employed as Mayor after months of [...]

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Mary Ruwart at LP blog: With the economy in a tailspin, most people are concerned about the shrinking number of job opportunities. Those who have jobs fear that they will lose them; those who have already lost their jobs find that new ones are few and far between. Who is to blame for this sad [...]

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H/T Marc Montoni. Laurence Vance writes at LewRockwell.com about whether the Republican Liberty Caucus is ideologically libertarian (excerpt): I was primarily attacking the worthless and evil GOP and only secondarily criticizing the RLC for the dishonest postcard. My first criticism was: “It says that the Republican Party ‘won big on libertarian themes’ in the recent [...]

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This post is being created in order to permit the ongoing debate over petitioning controversies to continue uncensored without mucking up unrelated topic threads. Please move all such discussion here. You can also still use the original thread for discussion on petitioners, but the comment thread there has gotten long, so we are putting up [...]

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by Darrell Castle Constitution Party Vice-Chairman Last night President Obama delivered his State of the Union address, as he is required by the Constitution to do once each year. Although he covered many different areas, he concentrated on only three: the domestic economy, which includes what he called job creation, domestic policy topics such as [...]

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Posted at Socialism.com (the website of the Freedom Socialist Party): This video uses excerpts from old cartoons to accompany the reading of Karl Marx’s Manifesto and to help “explain” his ideas using humor.

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by SPUSA Co-Chair Billy Wharton January 25, 2011 Tonight’s State of the Union speech revealed just how far out of touch President Barack Obama is from the reality of working people in America. What a distance from the White House to the unemployment line. From the Rose Garden to the food pantry. Tonight’s State of [...]

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H/T Don Lake in IPR comments: 2011 Prohibition Party Convention Monday, June 20 through Wednesday June 22, 2011 – Cullman, Alabama SPEAKERS: George Wallace, Jr. Richard Winger Steve Gordon Eunie Smith Joe Godfrey Holiday Inn Express 2052 Hayes Drive NW Cullman, AL 35058 (256) 736-1906 *Be sure to tell the reservation clerk you are with [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Good evening. I am Peg Dunmire, Chairman of the Florida TEA Party. What is your American Dream? You may want to start your own business; invent new products; or move to take a new job. You may want to own your own house; we all want our children to have a better [...]

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Boston.com via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch (excerpt): A federal judge today sentenced Chuck Turner to three years behind bars for accepting a $1,000 bribe, a stinging rebuke to the former Boston city councilor. US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock rejected an appeal for leniency by defense attorneys, who had asked that the 70-year-old [...]

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Harry Davis, one of two announced candidates for the Green nomination in the race for mayor of Rochester, sent the following two statements to contact.ipr@gmail.com. The first, on why he is running: Why I am Running Our City of Rochester has had three mayors in three weeks. It is now Week Four, so we should [...]

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Justin at US Pirate Party: Last week, YouTube.com had pulled down a video that had 13 million views in 48 hours. This action not only showed us how YouTube favors their partners, and how we need to reform Copyright laws. This video was all over the internet and the news. The video was of a [...]

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MEDIA ADVISORY Wrights to attend two Arizona libertarian events BURNET, Texas (Jan. 26) – R. Lee Wrights, libertarian writer, activist and potential 2012 presidential candidate, will be a guest speaker at the Arizona State Libertarian Convention and attend the Nullify Now Conference in Phoenix Saturday, January 29. The Arizona State Convention will be held from [...]

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John Jay Myers in IPR comments: Politicians regularly promise people things that they can never deliver. Things that they have no way to deliver. Our government cannot create jobs without losing jobs. They cannot make us safer without threatening our freedoms or making new enemies abroad. They cannot give us health care without taking away [...]

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WASHINGTON – This evening, Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict spoke in response to the addresses from President Barack Obama and Congressman Paul Ryan. A transcript of Mr. Benedict’s speech follows: Good evening and thank you for your interest in the State of our Union. My name is Wes Benedict. I’m the executive director of [...]

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