Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com ATLANTA – In his inaugural speech, Governor Nathan Deal addressed an issue that the Libertarian Party of Georgia has long been aware of, the unusually high number of residents currently tracked by the Department of Corrections. “One out of every 13 Georgia residents is under some form of correctional control,” said Deal, [...]

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Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration Costs Reject Deal Reforms which Fail to Challenge Racist Impact After last week praising Governor Deal’s expressed concern for the wasted lives, drained treasury and depleted workforce left in the wake of the nation’s war on drugs, Georgia Green Party leaders today [...]

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Topic: Crime and Punishment Is “legalization” the right strategy?  By Steve Kubby – Libertarian Thursday, January 20, 2011 On January 29, 2011 the top guns of the marijuana legalization movement will be meeting in Oakland, California in an extraordinary event organized by California NORML.  Many of my longtime friends will be there to come up [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Free and Equal: Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it has declined to hear Coffield v Kemp, the suit challenging Georgia’s unreasonable requirements for independent candidates for Congress. According to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News, since the requirements were instituted in 1964, nobody has ever been able to fulfill [...]

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From the City Newspaper: The Green Party of Monroe County has received “several” applications from people interested in running for Rochester mayor on the Green Party line, says party co-chair Scott Brant. Citing confidentiality and respect for the applicants, Brant would not give a specific number. He did say that he is “thoroughly impressed” by [...]

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Originally posted at Green Party Watch: According to the Stamford Times, Rolf Maurer of the Connecticut Green Party failed to get enough signatures to appear as a balloted candidate for the Feb 22 special election to fill a vacant seat on the Connecticut State Senate. He will instead be running as a write in candidate: [...]

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From the Green Party of Georgia, via the Green Party of the United States: “I am so encouraged to hear Governor Deal acknowledge both the stark statistics and something of the devastation which mass incarceration wreaks on Georgia communities,” said Denice Traina, past cochair of the Georgia Green Party, mother, grandmother and Augusta based physical [...]

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From an article by Caroline Lucas, the first Green Member of Parliament in the UK, in the Guardian: The new report – entitled The New Home Front – looks at the wartime experience of those on the “home front” in Britain and the lessons we can learn in facing today’s threats from climate change and [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: After the announcement of incumbent alderman Gene Schulter’s departure from the 47th ward aldermanic election, Green Party candidate Matt Reichel has pronounced himself the favorite: “I am the only remaining candidate who has been actively campaigning and organizing in this ward for nearly two years, as part of my congressional campaign. “ [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author It’s amazing to me that there are still a few people in America pushing the dinosaur called “the progressive agenda.” How can anyone demand bigger government, more services, higher spending, and higher taxes in the middle of a financial Armageddon? [...]

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Robert Stark at the LA Nonpartisan Examiner looks at who is behind the “No Labels” faction: A new political organization called “No Labels” , founded in December, is seeking to appeal to independents who have rejected the existing two parties. No Labels does not take official positions on issues and claims that it does not intend to [...]

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For background, see earlier IPR story. In comments, Jim Duensing, Communications Director for the Libertarian Party of Nye County and former state chair, brought this TV interview to our attention:

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Posted by Michelle at LP blog, Jan. 11: On Sunday December 19, 2010, The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest newspaper, published a libertarian essay on the privatization of liquor sales. “Limited Government: Privatize Liquor Sales” appeared on the front page of the Sunday paper’s opinion section. The author and long- time Libertarian, Tom Garrison, calls [...]

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by Michael Badnarik at Liberty for All: When I shared my political views with my parents several years ago, they thought I was a radical and an extremist. They thought it was nonsense to think that most of what the government does is unconstitutional. Eventually they realized that the mainstream media was reporting the very [...]

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A rewritten version of a press release from a Green Party local previously published by IPR has been put out by the national office of the Green Party. Much of the language is the same as in the earlier version, but it contains this addition: “The court’s ruling has opened the door to the union [...]

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Public Policy Polling reports: The top two choices of Texas Republicans to be their Senate nominee next year are David Dewhurst…and Ron Paul. The duo is basically tied with 23% saying Dewhurst would be their top pick as the GOP candidate and 21% picking Paul. Maybe a couple years ago the thought of Senator Paul [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org, Jan 3: The start of the New Year is a good time to talk about Time. About this, we can all agree—there are only twenty four hours in a day. Zillions of companies and persons want a piece of that time from us in order to make money. But that supply [...]

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Politico.com reports:  Sen. Joe Lieberman announced Wednesday that he will retire when his term expires in 2012, saying the time has come to move on after 40 years in politics, 24 of them in the Senate. The independent Democrat and onetime vice-presidential nominee said he was not stepping down because of the difficult reelection campaign [...]

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By John Jay Myers at Liberty for All: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy Call me a sucker, but I still believe strongly that we can achieve a peaceful revolution in America. This tells you two things, that I believe we need a revolution in this [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: At the November 2, 2010 election, Green Party nominees for the State House outpolled their Republican opponents in four districts. The best Green showing was in Brunswick, in the 66th district. See this pre-election story, which has an interview with all three candidates. The results were: Democratic 38.62%; Green 33.33%; Republican [...]

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