An Oklahoma State Supreme Court referee heard oral arguments in Duffe v State Question 748. This lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a new Oklahoma law that the voters passed last year. It sets up a Redistricting Commission, which draws the legislative district boundaries if the legislature fails to act. It says that all the members must be Democrats or Republicans, and specifies those two parties by name.

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By Wayne Allyn Root This isn’t insanity. It’s insanity squared. Since the day Obama took office he has tried to fleece, tax, regulate, redistribute, harass, and hound small business to death. I’ve argued again and again in media appearances and commentaries that Obama’s strategy appears to be right out of the playbook of Cloward & [...]

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WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party criticizes the Obama administration’s recent statement demanding more military spending from House Republicans. The administration claims that the Republican spending bill currently under debate does not provide enough military funding. According to the administration, "The bill…would reduce funding for the Department of Defense to a level that would leave the [...]

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Lubbock Left, a blog hosted but not edited by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Social conservatives and libertarians don’t get along. Here’s a FOX News opinion piece about the recent CPAC Conference illustrating that point. (To my friends on the right: yes, I occasionally read FOX News, holding my nose the whole time.) Social conservatives can’t stand [...]

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On The Wilder Side: Image via Wikipedia In a letter sent this morning to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, officers of the Georgia Green Party urged that he suspend five Department of Corrections employees at Telfair State Prison pending the results of an investigation into the criminal assault of January 12th on Georgia inmate Shawn Whatley. [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted at Liberty for All: by R. Lee Wrights “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” – Gandhi War is never good, no matter how moral, [...]

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Peter Tretter has a Canadian roundup at Green Party Watch: * Federal Leader Elizabeth May’s election office in Saanich got driven into by a truck! She is also saying that US-style attack ads hurt democracy. * Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner recently announced his shadow cabinet in prepation of a provincial election to [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Colman McCarthy, a former Washington Post writer and founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, must be very happy with the news from Egypt. For twenty-five years, McCarthy has been persuading high schools and colleges to adopt peace studies in their curriculum (for more information, contact him at cmccarthy@starpower.net). Now [...]

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Guy McLendon at LP.org blog; Words Do Have Meaning Co-Authored By Guy McLendon & Jeff Daiell In writing about her novel, Anthem, Ayn Rand said she did not want statists to have this excuse, once a police state had America in its grip, "But that’s not what we meant!" In some cases, frankly, a totalitarian [...]

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By Wayne Allyn Root of WinningEDGE.com None of us want to see a NFL strike threaten the 2011 season. All of us that are in businesses that profit off the success of the NFL should be working overtime to come up with ways to avoid a strike. I will today present just such a proposal. We [...]

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An e-mail from Ian Gilyeat: As is always the case, your calling and email efforts are effective… This past Saturday Representative Eddie Farnsworth called me.  We had a very productive call and spoke for nearly thirty minutes.  You will remember in my last note, sent on January 31st, I had been trying to obtain a [...]

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Ben Manski, a strong 2010 Green candidate for state representative in Madison, Wisconsin, sent the following message to his supporters: Many of you have asked me what I’ve been up to since the 2010 elections. Others have asked me who I am supporting in tomorrow’s Wisconsin primary elections. I thought I’d share my answers with [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch (with amendments from comments): Tuesday Feb 15, the Logan Square Green Party in Chicago Illinois are meeting at the Green Party office on Fullerton Ave. The Northeast Ohio Greens will meet tonight at Mac’s Backs Bookstore 1820 Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights – 7pm-9pm. Wednesday Feb. 16 the Los [...]

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Mark Hinkle posts the beginning of Tibor Machan’s column at LP blog: Now that libertarianism has gotten some publicity in mainstream forums, those who are convinced of its merit have much work to do. This is because of the well publicized distortions of the position in prominent forums, especially by well credentialed academics in law, [...]

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IPR went live 1,000 days ago, on May 20, 2008. Since that time we have had over 7,700 posts, over 118,000 user comments, over 1.5 million visits and over 4.3 million pageviews. V is for Valentines, but it’s also for Victory. And as the folks at PrisonPlanet remind us, resistance is in itself a form [...]

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From a previous discussion: Tom Knapp writes: OK, so now we’re going from a couple of discrete “this guy spams every thread with the same subject” things to “Paulie decides what each thread of discussion will be about?” I (Paulie) reply: No, not at all. There are literally thousands of threads at IPR that are [...]

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Dear Friend of Liberty, I think you’ll enjoy this video of the LP in action at CPAC (pronounced "see-pack"), the Conservative Political Action Conference. LP Headquarters staff and volunteers hosted a booth last Thursday through Saturday here in Washington, D.C., featuring the World’s Smallest Political Quiz and the "Republican Wall of Shame." Our new video [...]

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Libertarian Travis Irvine has come out with a movie about his run for Mayor of Bexley, Ohio in 2007. Irvine is a professional videographer. His youtube channel for his 2010 Congressional run: IrvineForCongress. Trailer for the movie, titled American Mayor (H/T Steven Linnabary in IPR comments): http://americanmayor.watchime.com/ Previous articles on Travis Irvine at IPR

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Press release from the Mark Noble campaign. The original press release headline is below. Background is here. Noble Achieves Ballot Status in May Primary This afternoon at a meeting of the Franklin County Board of Elections, Mark Noble was certified to appear on the ballot in the May 3rd City Council Primary. Mark Noble is [...]

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By Andrea Pason and Billy Wharton, co-chairs Socialist Party USA- February 11, 2011 Socialist Webzine: Tahrir Square transformed the idea of democracy from a stale ritual that occurs every few years to an open ended struggle for freedom. We send greetings to the working people of Egypt on the day of their victorious struggle to [...]

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