By Robert W. Peck Chairman, Constitution Party of Washington As a new year begins and a new Congress comes on the stage promising reform, fiscal accountability and a return to conservative principles, I’ve got to remind us all to stay focused on the big picture. Too often, our attention is diverted from the real and [...]

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Chuck Baldwin will live stream his Sunday message from Liberty Fellowship again, this Sunday, January 23, 2011. Please tune in and be sure you don’t miss it! To view the live stream from Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana, this Sunday (and every Sunday at approximately 2:25pm MDT), click here: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?page_id=2606

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http://www.bostontea.us/: The National Committee voted to hold the 2012 National Convention from May 1-7, 2012. With a separate convention to select the Presidential & Vice Presidential nominees to begin on December 22, 2011 and lasting as many days as needed to chose the nominees. To make Presidential & Vice-Presidential nominations, please leave a comment on [...]

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Gold America Group: Julian Assange, Australian journalist and creator of wikileaks (still up at wikileaks.NL), was asked which political party he as closest to in his beliefs. His answer: The American Libertarian Party. This is significant because his answers were not limited to US parties, but could have involved any political party in the world.

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Gold America Group: The Libertarian Party of Massachusetts has restored ballot access for Massachusetts Libertarians. Ballot access was lost in 2008 when LP U.S. Senate candidate Bob Underwood outdid himself and received 3.1% of the vote, making “Libertarian” a political (major) party, and under Massachusetts’ arcane ballot access laws making it nearly impossible for Libertarian [...]

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Gold America Group: The LSLA Meeting scheduled for Seattle in February has been canceled for a litany of reasons, which we will be covering in more detail later. IPR will also strive to bring more details as we learn them. The LSLA is the Libertarian State Leadership Alliance, which includes a meeting of state chairs [...]

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From Socialist Party USA co-chair Billy Wharton at the Examiner via Third Party and Independent Daily: If there is a political crisis, there is an opportunity. Jared Lee Loughner’s attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona certainly created a crisis. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is now ready to cash in on the [...]

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Ballot Access News: On November 2, the Oregon Independent Party nominee for State Representative, 48th district, polled 42.71% of the vote in a two-person race against the incumbent Democrat. The Independent Party nominee was Jeff Caton, a professional financial planner. Although Oregon permits fusion, Caton was not the nominee of any party other than the [...]

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From JR Myers via email and IPR comments: J.R. Myers, Acting Chairman of the Alaska Constitution Party was unanimously approved to fill a vacancy in CES Seat B at the regular monthly meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Joint Operations Board for the Central Emergency Emergency Service Area Board of Directors in Soldotna. The CES [...]

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Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: The shootings of at least 18 people (6 killed, at least 12 wounded) in Tucson, Arizona, has predictably ignited a firestorm of anti-gun, anti-right, and anti-anything not “liberal” diatribes from the typical big government talking heads in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Anti-freedom congressmen railed for more gun control, including [...]

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On The Wilder Side: Today – on the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC decision that legalized unrestrained corporate spending on federal elections – the Green Party re-affirms its opposition to corporate personhood, corporate speech rights, and corporate control of America’s public spaces, media, and elections. After the Supreme Court decided in a [...]

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By Kim Ives, first published by Haïti Liberté. Via Party for Socialism and Liberation. The big question Haitians are asking is: who is behind Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s surprise arrival in Haiti with an expired Haitian passport on Jan. 16 aboard an Air France flight from Paris? “I have come here to see how I [...]

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CNN reports that A former U.S. congressman was among a group of American attorneys accompanying former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as he spoke in the country’s capital Friday. Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr said he is not serving as Duvalier’s attorney, but is in Port-au-Prince to consult, assist and be Duvalier’s voice to [...]

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Christopher Keating in the Hartford Courant’s CapitolWatch: Consumer activist Ralph Nader, who has tangled publicly with both Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman, is quite pleased that Lieberman will be leaving the U.S. Senate after 24 years. Democrats praised Lieberman throughout the day on Wednesday, but Nader did not join in on the accolades. “He couldn’t [...]

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Ballot Access News: Kentucky holds its gubernatorial election on November 8, 2011. So far, it appears there are no minor party candidates running in this race. However, one independent candidate, Gatewood Galbraith, is running and is already collecting signatures. Galbraith has been invited to a Kentucky Press Association forum for the gubernatorial candidates, to be [...]

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Rob McNealy interviews Texas based Libertarian activist John Jay Myers on the future of liberty and the Libertarian Party in the United States on his radio show. John Jay Myers’ Bio John Jay Myers, a small business man from Dallas, Texas, ran for chair of the LNC in 2010, is a member of the Texas [...]

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Randy Eshelman at LP blog: The latest blunder in a string of blunders by Omaha Mayor Jim “I’m not subtle about Omaha” Suttle and his “Forward Omaha” lackeys may impact local charities that help the homeless. Fears are rising that donations to homeless shelters will dry-up if Omaha citizens blame charities for the Mayor’s attempt [...]

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Staff at LP blog: We have posted a table with results for 800 Libertarian candidates in the November 2, 2010 election. Link to November 2010 election results page. At the bottom of the page there is also a spreadsheet file for anyone who would like more details or would like to analyze the results. Libertarians [...]

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From Foreign Policy via Third Party and Independent Daily: After weeks of public protests on- and offline the Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali resigned and escaped the country last Friday. Today, the head of the transitional government, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, announced his new cabinet members which include a familiar name. Slim Amamou, [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl Perry on January 12: The 112th Congress was sworn in on January 5, 2011. Much news was made about the Republican majority reading the Constitution & over the weekend the shooting of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a federal judge and 17 others. These actions have overshadowed the bills introduced thus [...]

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