John Jay Myers: I hope this video helps to tone down some of the rhetoric in regards to whether “Muslims are out to kill us all!!!” This video talks about how Foreign Aid isn’t charity, or charitable for that matter. It just hurts: This video has a great section (I think) in regards to how [...]

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Email from James Libertarian Burns: Political reporters and pundits claim that there was a political Tsunami in the last election for members of the House of Representatives. There was, indeed, a record turnover. Yet, the substitution of power only amounted to about 15%: That is, approximately 85% of incumbents were reelected. It remains to be [...]

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Staff at LP blog, February 18: House Republicans, who claim to be dedicated to cutting government spending, opposed an amendment to their spending bill yesterday that would eliminate funding for the Selective Service System. Saving money is less important to Republicans than making sure they can collect information needed to coerce American males into military [...]

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Mark Rutherford at LP blog: The latest political rumor in Indiana is that the Indiana Libertarians are trying to recruit Rupert Boneham as a candidate.  Boneham, nationally known as Rupert, is a popular Survivor television show contestant.  In 2004, he received 10 million votes from television viewers as the most popular contestant (and was awarded [...]

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Libertarian Party HQ message this past Monday: Dear Friend of Liberty, The Libertarian Party hosted a booth at the 2011 International Students For Liberty Conference over the weekend. You can view a brief video of the event here. Students For Liberty (SFL) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a unified, student-driven [...]

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Apparently old news at IPR, but Politico.com is reporting that Jimmy McMillan of the “Rent is Too Damn High Party” has announed he is a registered Republican now: “I’m registered Republican now,” McMillan told PBS. “I was a Democrat, but I changed my line so that I can get the issues to the front that [...]

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From an e-mail from Gary Odom: Former Congressman to speak in the wake of increased national visibility and attention following appearance at CPAC 2011 The newest member of the Constitution Party’s National Executive Committee, former Virginia Congressman, Virgil Goode, made a splash at the recent C-PAC 2011 event when he appeared on a panel with [...]

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Via IPR pingbacks, Penigma writes, in part: …Friday, 2/18/’11 marked the shutdown of the Wisconsin legislature and the largest demonstrations in opposition to Republican lawmakers so far this week. While democratic lawmakers are ”on the lam” in the vicinity of Rockford, IL, just over the border (but safely out of the reach of the authority [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: State House Democrats imitated their counterparts in Wisconsin by fleeing the state and failing to do the job Hoosiers hired them to do: Meeting Indiana’s challenges head on. Instead of exercising bipartisanship they pulled a political stunt to kill HB 1468, or the Right to Work bill. “Legislators are hired to serve [...]

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Illinois Representative Jim Watson to introduce electoral reform bill CHICAGO (Feb. 21) – Today, State Representative Jim Watson (R-97, Jacksonville) introduced

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by Thomas Hill BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – Since I signed on as the campaign manager of the Lee Wrights for President Exploratory Committee I’ve taken some heat from some of my radical and anarchist friends in the libertarian movement, people I love and respect, for getting involved in electoral politics. Some of them have [...]

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Emailed by David Colborne to contact.ipr@gmail.com: At 14.6%, nearly 5% higher than the national average, Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Consequently, when Harry Reid, Nevada’s senior politician in Washington and the current Senate Majority Leader, came to address the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday, his focus was, logically enough, on jobs. He [...]

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“Why should taxpayers work their fingers to the bone until the day they die to support teacher and other public employee bloated wages and pensions? It’s time for anger and revolt alright. It is taxpayers who need to go on strike!” – Wayne Root

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Voter registration numbers for the state of Alaska have been updated as of February 3, 2011. The second percentage is from the same date last year. Alaskan Independence Party: 14,291 (2.86% up from 2.84%) Democrat: 74,843 (14.96% down from 15.47%) Libertarian: 8,769 (1.75% down from 2.00%) Republican: 131,805 (26.34% up from 25.90%) Non-Partisan: 81,221 (16.23% [...]

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Nevada Voter Registration Numbers as of January of 2011–the second percentage is from January of last year. Democrat: 564,681 (42.77% down from 43.51%) Green: 4,060 (.31% up from .30%) Independent American: 60,156 (4.56% up from 4.32%) Libertarian: 8,434 (.64% up from .61%) Non-partisan: 214,481 (16.25% up from 15.74%) Other: 4,861 (.37% virtually no movement from [...]

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Ira Hansen is a former plumber, radio talk show host, and newspaper columnist. He is also part of the freshman class of Republican members of Nevada’s House of Representatives. Hansen is known as a conservative and his last name is virtually synonymous with the state’s Independent American Party–which for years was composed mainly of members [...]

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IPR has been contacted by a number of top Constitution Party activists and leaders over the last couple of weeks who claim to have inside knowledge of the presidential aspirations of several would-be candidates, amongst them several former members of Congress. Former Congressmen Tom Tancredo and Virgil Goode are considered to be the frontrunners for [...]

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We previously reported here at IPR that former Constitution Party presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin might be entertaining the idea of running for Governor of Montana, either under the label of the Constitution Party or as a Republican. Now Baldwin is making news again, this time for a statement he has made in a number of [...]

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Press release from the Green Party of the United States: The Green Party supports Wisconsin public employees, urges wider protest against policies that cut benefits and eliminate collective bargaining GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES, http://www.gp.org Greens denounce austerity budgets, calling them a ploy to balance budgets on the backs of working people, destroy unions, [...]

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(Posted by Paulie) Per telephone conversation with region rep Doug Craig, the LNC is considering filling two At Large vacancies in the near future, rather than waiting for the next meeting in April. The vacancies on the committee were created when party (co-)founder David Nolan passed away in November, and when Bill Redpath was appointed [...]

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