From BTP National Chair Darryl Perry: President Obama began the 2011 State of the Union address by congratulating the freshman class of the 112th Congress and asking people to be “mindful of the empty chair in this Chamber, and pray for the health of” Gabrielle Giffords. The President then mentioned the supposed “debate” between team [...]

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From Brian Irving: On the heels of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina withdrawing from the Libertarian National Committee’s Region 1, the Texas Libertarian Party has directed it chair to seek the removal of the region’s representative Stewart Flood… In December, the N.C. Libertarian executive committee voted unanimously to withdraw from the region. “Region representatives [...]

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Livestream of the state of the union speech, from the Green Party US: Watch live streaming video from greenpartyus at livestream.com There is a liveblog/chat at the Green Party Livestream. If anyone would like to liveblog the speech at IPR (from any alternative perspective, not just Green), please do so in the comments.

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From Philly Now: Inappropriate analogies aside, the Green Party of Philadelphia has put out a statement on the moratorium (they’re for it), of which we’re pulling some parts: Philadelphia’s Green Party leaders voted to endorse the proposed City Council Resolution, Belinda Davis, acting GPOP treasurer, who attended Council’s hearing in September, hailed the moratorium on [...]

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From PileusBlog.com, H/T to Dale Sheldon-Hess (excerpt of the bill’s actual text below): A bill to adopt approval voting has been filed in the N.H. House, and one of the co-sponsors is a member of the relevant committee. The bill would establish approval voting for all state offices and presidential primaries. Approval voting is an electoral system [...]

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Yesterday evening, Andy Jacobs and I (Paulie) discussed harassment of ballot access petitioners, including Andy’s arrest outside a public library while petitioning to get the Green and Libertarian Parties back on the Maryland ballot. For the first hour of the show we were joined by Maryland Green Party Co-Chair Brian Bittner. Listen to the show [...]

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Staff at LP blog: In Oklahoma, AP covers Libertarian Clark Duffe’s lawsuit against the two-party redistricting commission.

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Green Party LIVESTREAM: Greens discuss the speech during tonight’s broadcast, 9 pm ET / 6 pm PT http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus Greens on solving the deficit: end the wars, cut the military budget, tax the rich. Greens on solving the health care crisis: enact Medicare For All. Greens on jobs: a ‘Green New Deal’ with massive public investment [...]

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From Michael Cloud and Carla Howell The Center For Small Government Honorable Republican Representatives, Last year, you campaigned against President Obama’s reckless, irresponsible, ‘socialist’ budget of $3.8 Trillion. You promised voters to roll back federal spending. To reduce the deficit. To get the federal government on the path to solvency and fiscal sanity. We elected [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: “Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they’re part of the crime.” (Olavo de Carvalho) BURNET, Texas (Jan. 25) –Every American who has ever worn a uniform should be offended and outraged by the claim by former President George H.W. Bush that the 1991 Iraq war was morally justified, said R. [...]

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From Doug Scribner, by way of the Advocates for Self-Government: Sharon Harris writes, Here’s a great way to improve your libertarian outreach: watch this short and hilarious video showing how NOT to do it! “What NOT To Say At A Libertarian Party Outreach Booth,” is a wonderful video by award-winning filmmaker Doug Scribner, with the [...]

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By Darryl Perry Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee In November, I reported on the petition filed by William M. Windsor with the Supreme Court. The petition asked the Court to answer the following questions: Will the Supreme Court declare that the Constitution and its amendments may be voided by federal judges? Should federal judges [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Reading a recent issue of Public Citizen’s excellent Health Letter titled “Know When Antibiotics Work,” I recalled the recent tragic loss of a healthy history professor who was rushed to a fine urban hospital, with a leading infectious disease specialist by his side. No antibiotics could treat his mysterious “superbug.” He [...]

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Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch: In the 2008 Presidential race, Roseanne Barr endorsed Cynthia McKinney for President. Now it would seem that Barr is interested in running for President of the Untied States, and Prime minister of Israel at the same time. Her Presidential campaign announcement, recorded near the White House, focuses on the [...]

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UPI writes: Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura is suing the Transportation Security Administration for allegedly violating his privacy rights during an airport patdown.

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Randy Eshelman at LP blog: The recall election of Omaha Mayor Jim “I’ll buy, Forward Omaha will Fly” Suttle happens on Tuesday. Expect politicians in Lincoln who are friendly to the Suttle administration to push for more restrictions on Nebraskans’ rights to recall political pals in the future. Especially if the recall fails (see LB [...]

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Kevin Knedler in comments on the previous post: 26 LP state chairs have voted to have a “special LSLA” meeting in Columbus OHio on August 19, Friday. This is just before the LNC meeting. We have a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. More details later. But, this meeting will [...]

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LP Monday Message: January 24, 2011 Dear Friend of Liberty, We’ve heard Republican members of Congress repeatedly claim that they are going to cut federal spending. Yeah, right. I want to suggest a way you can help hold them accountable. The new House majority leader, Eric Cantor, has created a website called "YouCut" where people [...]

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By John Jay Myers at Liberty For All: Libertarians are not extreme. In fact by most people’s definitions we would be extremely moderate. Of course most Libertarians would say that saying this damages our street cred. But let me explain. I think that the idea of taking our money and giving it to the banks [...]

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