It appears that the Wyoming Libertarian Party may be imploding: CHEYENNE — Several top figures in the Wyoming Libertarian Party, including the party’s chairman, have left to try and form a new political party in Wyoming. The “County Party,” [sic] as the new party’s tentatively called, is a “less radical” version of the Libertarians or [...]

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Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch: Patty Winsa, a staff reporter at The Star, reports that Sandra Finley, 61, was found guilty of not filling out her long-form census from 2006. Finley is a former leader of the Saskatchewan Green Party, and faces both jail time and fines for violating Section 31 of the Statistics [...]

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Staff at LP blog: Watch last week’s interview of LP executive director Wes Benedict. The topic was the prospects for the 112th Congress. Link to the interview page.

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Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch: Mark Easton of the BBC reports on Mark Kennedy, a police officer who “infiltrated” environmental groups in Great Britain. Kennedy apparently lied to environmental activists about his identity, interests and goals, and found himself in the leadership of some of these groups, even handling meetings and finances. Green Party [...]

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Posted by Wes Benedict at LP blog: Michael Roberts, the airline pilot who helped raise public awareness of the full-body scanner program, gave a very libertarian-sounding speech at a recent conference. The text of Mr. Robert’s speech follows. On January 6, I participated in a panel at a conference hosted by the Electronic Privacy Information [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Bob King, the new president of the United Auto Workers, whose membership is down under 400,000 from a peak of 1.5 million in 1979 is rolling out an initiative to organize foreign auto plants in the U.S., expand the union’s reach overseas and forge alliances with social justice organizations. Ordinarily, the [...]

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From the Flathead Beacon via Third Party and Independent Daily: Chuck Baldwin hasn’t stated outright that he plans to run for governor of Montana. But in a speech to a packed room at the Outlaw Inn in Kalispell last week, he all but declared his candidacy, describing the prospect as, “so thrilling I just get [...]

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Posted by Mark Hinkle at LP blog: The concept of “airport security” is actually Access Control.  ”Access Control” is a catch-all concept that basically boils down to the idea of controlling who can get into a particular area and who can’t. The reason that access control is impossible in an airport is very, very simple. [...]

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From the Syracuse Post-Standard (video included on website): “Power for people, not for profit!” and “PSC doesn’t represent me!” were among the chants raised on the sidewalk at the building’s Erie Boulevard West entrance. The coalition, activists from Syracuse United Neighbors, the Green Party, the Syracuse Peace Council and other group who want to bring [...]

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From Ballot Access News: At the November 2, 2010 election, the Arkansas Treasurer’s race had only two candidates on the ballot, Democrat Martha Shoffner, and Green Party nominee Bobby Tullis. Tullis polled over 40% of the vote in thirteen counties. His highest percentages were in Baxter County (45.01%) and Howard County (46.57%). Statewide, the Green [...]

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by George Phillies at Liberty for All Do you truly believe a President can stop with just one? Last year the Obama Administration took a step without historical precedent. It ordered the assassination of an American citizen. The citizen is Anwar al-Awlaki, described by the New York Times as “an eloquent Muslim cleric.” Anwar al-Awlaki, [...]

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Email from Don Wills forwarded by George Phillies: Hello LP leaders, A new chairman of the Wyoming LP was elected in convention today, I have resigned from the Wyoming Libertarian Party, and I am hereby resigning as Region 4 alternate rep to the LNC and from the LP. I have come to the conclusion that [...]

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Compiled from Ballot Access News: Indiana Libertarian 2010 Legislative Candidate Set Record Going Back at Least 85 Years On November 2, 2010, Rex Bell, Libertarian nominee for Indiana State House, district 54, polled 20.78% of the vote in a race with both a Democrat and a Republican. That is the first time in at least [...]

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Associated Press report from The San Francisco Chronicle: Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo, who quit the party last year to run as a third-party candidate for Colorado governor, is headed back to the GOP. Tancredo told The Associated Press Tuesday he is coming back to the GOP “because they’re the only game in town.” Read [...]

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Ross Levin at Op-Ed News (H/T Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch): The quickly growing Green Party of Philadelphia has a community dinner, citywide meeting, and fundraising concert with folk singer Tom Neilson/the bard insurgent all coming up in the next few weeks. We’re also supporting a march to end foreclosures in Philadelphia on Monday. [...]

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WASHINGTON – Mark Hinkle, Chairman of the Libertarian Party, sort of commends President Obama for his decision to just barely ease travel restrictions and restrictions on sending private financial assistance to the people suffering under the socialist government of Cuba. Hinkle said, “The president has shown less-than-tremendous courage here. I suppose it’s a tiny positive [...]

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From Darryl Perry: I have posted parts of this article in the past and it seems every time I mention Martin Luther King, someone always points out his “faults” (eg. his name wasn’t really Martin, he plagiarized speeches, he supported big government, etc). People get so caught up in attacking the person, they lose sight [...]

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http://www.cpnys.org/: Our 44th Annual Conservative Party Political Action Conference – CPPAC- is just around the corner and the line up is fantastic! You can read about it on our Newsletter, the article begins on Page 2 and the Registration Form is on page 3. Print page 3, fill it out, and mail with the appropriate [...]

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By Cynthia McKinney via GP.org: People in Atlanta don’t drive well when it rains, why in the world would anyone down here want to drive in the snow/sleet/ice today? And yet, I can see drivers outside my window! As for me, I’m going to watch videos and read until it all melts. I know every [...]

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After Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announced she planned to retire, speculation soon began as to who would enter the race. One of the first to enter the race is David Smith, a Libertarian who plans to run as a Republican. In 2010 he ran against Republican Ted Poe in TX-02, earning 11.38% of [...]

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