Press release: WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders challenged Democrats and Republicans in the 112th Congress, as well as President Obama, to end a decade of reckless violations of the U.S. Constitution, international agreements, and other laws by the U.S. government and begin a new era of respect for the rule of law. “The new [...]

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From the front page of Constitution Party national website: Helen Keller and Politics What do the world’s most popular deaf and blind woman and the topic of politics have to do with each other? Plenty and I’m not refering to Helen Keller’s decision to join and follow the Socialist Party of the United States. I’m [...]

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LP.org: Dear Friend of Liberty, Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. MLK suffered serious personal risk to fight against government violations of the rights of minorities. I’m glad we remember him each year. Although it’s a day off for many people, we’re hard at work at LP Headquarters today. We’ve spent the weekend working on [...]

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Party for Socialism and Liberation editorial: On Jan. 5., anti-immigrant lawmakers from across the country held a press conference in Washington, D.C., announcing new legislation in 14 states aimed at undermining birthright citizenship. The same racist Arizona lawmakers who authored SB 1070 are introducing a bill that would issue a different type of birth certificate [...]

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Resolution adopted by the State Executive Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party on January 9, 2011: There are many alarming disclosures within the WikiLeaks documents which deserve scrutiny and further investigation. It is therefore all the more outrageous that instead of investigating what has been uncovered, the U.S. Government has, instead, focused its vast [...]

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From the Socialist Party USA website: Jan 21st: Walk and Vigil Against Torture and to Close Guantanamo- Join members of the Socialist Party of New Jersey and other civil rights organizations in a walk and vigil against torture and to shut down Guan- tanamo. 3:00pm starting at Montclair Public Library 50 So. Fulerton Ave. Montclair, [...]

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http://www.pirate-party.us/comment.php?comment.news.29: Pirate Solidarity As some of you may know, there have been demonstrations and protests in Tunisia regarding dismay over unemployment and less than stellar living conditions, among other things. These protests began in December 2010. So far five have died, maybe more. From the official Tunisia Pirate Party press release (the English version of [...]

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Jim Cook has updates on Americans Elect activities in Arizona, Nevada and Ohio. The petitioner grapevine has it that Americans Elect petitioning has been completed in Arizona and Kansas, but Nevada is the only state that their signatures have been verified to have been turned in to the state through sources I have seen. Petitioning [...]

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Last week three members of the Green Party (US) Steering Committee resigned their positions as co-chairs of the Party days before two of them were to face votes to “Recall” them from office. The two co-chairs facing recall were Mike Feinstein and Craig Thorsen.

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Eliot Cutler, the Independent candidate for Governor in Maine who came within 2% of victory in 2010, recently posted a note on Facebook entitled “Civil Discourse”. I have quoted it in full, as it appears no other news outlets have picked it up. When I decided, early in my campaign for governor, that I would [...]

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An excerpt from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is “picking smart and credible people, and that’s a necessary and important first step to governing well,” said Penny, the former congressman and Independence Party candidate for governor in 2002 who now heads the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation. “This is as good a cabinet as [...]

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Richard Winger at Ballot Access News reports on the strong performance of  Libertarian Rex Bell in the recent midterm elections: 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 [...]

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(This is a follow up to an earlier post on Richard Mack http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/01/former-arizona-sheriff-richard-mack-greatest-threat-is-not-terrorists-it-is-the-federal-government/comment-page-1/#comment-308275) The New American reports that Judge John M. Roll, murdered in Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, was the leading judicial voice supporting former Graham County, Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack in his 1997 lawsuit against the federal government. Mack is a speaker, states’ [...]

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[Posted by Paulie] The Maryland Green Party submitted 14,842 signatures and the Maryland Libertarian Party submitted 13,787 signatures towards a requirement of 10,000 valid signatures. The deadline for submitting additional signatures has been extended to March 7: The Maryland petition deadline for a party that wishes to obtain, or regain, its qualified status is not [...]

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Since I’ve pretty much filled up the front page with new articles today, I’m putting up a new open thread for readers to post news tips (you can also send them to contact.ipr@gmail.com and CC iprtwo at googlegroups.com). I’ll just copy and past the text from the previous thread explaining what this is about: The [...]

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IPR roundtable show on blogtalk will be on 1/16/2011 (Sunday) at 8:00 PM Eastern. Call-in Number: (646) 200-0264 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (646) 200-0264 It’s a practice show for IPR editors to become familiar with the blogtalk interface and an open format for discussing the issue of the day in the alternative [...]

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Chuck Moulton in IPR comments: I had heard several people mention the idea of leaving David Nolan’s at-large seat vacant. It seemed like a good idea to me, but when I read the bylaws I found that the LNC is required to fill the vacancy. LP Bylaws, article 8, section 7: The National Committee shall [...]

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Saturday, January 22, 2011 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm First Ever Wedding Between A Corporation And A Person 527 N. Dixie Lake Worth, FL Contact: gparty@pbcgreenparty.org On January 21st, 2010 the Supreme Court of the United States re-affirmed that Corporations have the same Constitutional rights as people (Citizens United v FEC). In commemoration of [...]

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http://wrights2012.com/: BURNET, Texas (Jan. 13) – It will be all too easy and popular to claim that the shooting in Arizona that killed six people was caused by the vitriol prevalent in American political discourse, but as usual the easy and popular explanation of this tragedy will avoid the truth, R. Lee Wrights, libertarian writer, [...]

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Ballot Access News: On January 14, Alaska Representative Max Gruenberg (D-Anchorage) introduced HB 77, to provide for a top-two election system for state office and congress. The bill says that anyone who doesn’t qualify for the general election ballot may file as a declared write-in candidate for the November election, even if that person ran [...]

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