Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik blog: Tonight I attended a libertarian meeting, in the Los Angeles area, for which no one else came. I waited over an hour, then left. This is the 4th time, in the past several years, that I was the only one to attend a Los Angeles libertarian meeting that had [...]

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On The Wilder Side: The Global Greens call in the strongest possible terms for an immediate halt to the bloody crackdown launched by the regime of Colonel Gaddafi and his clan against Libyan protesters. The bombing of unarmed people whose only ‘crime’ is going to the streets to protest, if confirmed, constitutes a crime against [...]

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Libertarian Party Monday message: Dear Friend of Liberty, In the Middle East, it’s time to cut and run like Ronald Reagan did in 1984. In 1982, President Reagan ordered American Marines into Lebanon as part of a "multinational peacekeeping force." In 1983, there were several bombings targeting Americans in Lebanon, including the well-known Marine barracks [...]

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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: CLEVELAND, Ohio — Members of the local Green Party plan to picket outside Cleveland City Hall this evening to protest a proposed rate hike by the city’s Division of Water and to call for the resignation of Public Utilities Director Barry Withers. The protest, on the front steps of City [...]

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by Richard Cooper at groundreport.com…submitted to IPR by the author The writings of Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institute reportedly influenced the young people who organized the mostly non-violent revolution in Egypt. Back in 1982, I reviewed one of his books, Social Power and Political Freedom. It may be interesting to take another look [...]

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“The world is backwards. It should be the taxpayers striking in the streets of Wisconsin. But, private sector taxpayers can’t afford to take a day off, let alone a week. Doesn’t that say everything? Only government employees with their powerful unions, lifetime job security, short work-weeks, loads of sick days, nonstop holidays, early retirement, and bloated pensions, can afford to stand in the street protesting. Common sense tells us anyone with this much time to protest and the ability to abandon their work duties, is greatly overpaid.” – Wayne Root

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Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: On January 11, 2011, I spoke before a packed house of some 500 people who had braved below zero temperatures to hear me speak here in my adopted hometown of Kalispell, Montana. Among the journalists who were there were the Flathead Beacon’s Dan Testa and the Daily Inter Lake’s Caleb Soptelean. [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted at Liberty for All: by R. Lee Wrights “The only defensible war is a war of defense.” – C.K. Chesterton One of the most misunderstood principles of libertarianism is the non-aggression principle. The belief that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being [...]

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by Robert W. Peck Chairman, Constitution Party of Washington The subject of partisan politics recently crossed my path – not just the fact that partisan politics exists (something we’re all well aware of), but rather the dangers that it holds, its subtle nature and the extent to which it has crept into our thought process. [...]

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(Posted by Paulie) In comments on my last update about the process to fill two At Large Rep vacancies on the Libertarian National Committee caused by the death of David Nolan (RIP) and the resignation of former Treasurer James Oaksun, whom former At Large Rep Bil Redpath was appointed to replace, LNC regional rep Daniel [...]

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by Darrell Castle Constitution Party Vice-Chairman Mohamed Bouazizi was a 26 year old man who lived in a small town in Tunisia called Sidi Bouzid. According to family members, he supported his mother and six sisters with the US$140 per month he earned as a street vendor selling produce from a wheelbarrow-type cart. His dream [...]

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by Darrell Castle Constitution Party National Committee Vice-Chairman What do the people rioting in the Middle East and the people protesting reductions in public-sector union bargaining rights have in common? Not much, but the driving force behind each of them is similar, and that driving force is economic hardship. What we are likely seeing is [...]

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From Monsters and Critics via TPID: Landslide victories for independent candidates in local elections in central Japan earlier this month shocked the nation’s two major parties and revived public doubt about the nascent two-party system. ‘It is the beginning of the collapse of the two-party system,’ Minoru Morita, a veteran political analyst, said. The independents, [...]

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From Black America Web via TPID: With more than one third of the country self-identifying as independent, the balance of political power is falling increasingly to whichever way this group swings. Since the presidential run of Ross Perot, those the use of “independent” has often been shorthand for “disaffected white voter.” Dig a little deeper, [...]

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From WANE via TPID: Haley Ahrendt became the first independent candidate to file for the upcoming Fort Wayne mayor’s race. “I am a true independent; I’ve voted both republican and democrat. I have always voted that way,” said Ahrendt. “I have common sense, and that’s the way I would run my administration. It’s gonna be [...]

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Following up on prior reports (see here and here): I will not name my source unless he/she wants to step forward, but this is from a member of the LNC. -Paulie 1) Redpath’s motion did not have support. According to George Phillies, that motion was: “We move to appoint Rebecca Sink-Burris and John Jay Myers [...]

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From National Review Online: Eliot Cutler, the 2010 independent gubernatorial candidate that lost by less than two percent of the vote to now-Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) told Hotline On Call Saturday that it’s “unlikely” that he will challenge Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) in 2012. While he did not definitively rule out a future run [...]

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Bob Barr at The Barr Code: George Washington, our first and in the view of many, our best president, once said, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” His prescient observation, delivered more than two centuries ago, aptly describes our [...]

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2004 Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik at Liberty for All: When my brothers and I were very young, one of our neighborhood friends taught us a wonderful, new word: ALLOWANCE. To our amazement, we discovered that a boy who lived near us was given money once a week so he could buy stuff! Without parental [...]

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