“The Middle East is in flames, we’re now fighting wars on three fronts, Japan has suffered a catastrophe, real unemployment is twenty percent, the housing market is in free fall, and the country is drowning in debt. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama chooses to play golf, make Final FourMarch Madness picks, and party with his family in Rio.” – Wayne Root

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From an article by James Quigley (chairman of the Peninsula Libertarian Party and 2010 candidate for U.S. congress in Virginia’s 3rd district), published on JamesRiverJournal.com: By now every regular reader has read that Howard Everette was issued a summons for a traffic violation last week, and that his mother, Sandra Everette, was arrested for failing [...]

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From an article by Julie Bykowicz and Larry Carson in the Baltimore Sun newspaper: In a ruling sure to be welcomed by Marylanders with sloppy pensmanship, the Court of Appeals has decided that petition signatures need not be legible to be valid. “We hold that a signature on a petition for referendum is but one [...]

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By Rebekah Monson at the Sun-Sentinel: A sign banning weapons at Boca Raton’s City Hall is under fire from the county’s Libertarian Party. The Libertarian Party of Palm Beach County sent a letter Tuesday to city officials stating that the “No weapons allowed” sign at the entrance to City Hall violated state law and asking [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders today warned that western military intervention, now unfolding with air strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi’s forces allegedly to create a no-fly zone, could escalate into a new US/NATO war on a Muslim nation rather than the stated goal of humanitarian protection for Libyan civilians and aid for rebels. [...]

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From the Libertarian Party of Texas: Bills would ban unwarranted, invasive physical searches and “virtual strip searches” in Texas AUSTIN – If the Texas Legislature’s Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approves HB 1937 today, Texas will have the opportunity to lead the nation in banning the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) “enhanced pat-downs” that have created so much [...]

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From Free & Equal: Rochester, NY is holding a special election for Mayor after former Mayor Robert Duffy won election as Lieutenant Governor. In New York, special elections do not have primaries and independents must collect the same number of signatures as in a general election, but have only two weeks to do so instead [...]

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by R. Lee Wrights “War is violence at large scale, conducted by imperfect people using imperfect weapons on the basis of limited information. There’s nothing humanitarian about that. Innocents and non-combatants will be killed.” –Thomas L. Knapp BURNET, Texas (March 22) – When you drop a bomb, you cannot be sure who will die when [...]

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Emailed to IPR: LPRI to hold series of meet & greets around Rhode Island: Sunday, 4/10 @ Clark Memorial Library 7 Pinehurst Drive Richmond, RI 2-4pm Saturday, 4/16 @ Providence CCRI Campus 1 Hilton Street Providence, RI Room #2316 2-4pm Saturday, 4/23 @ Warwick Public Library 600 Sandy Lane Warwick, RI 02889 Room #100 2-4pm [...]

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PSL: Click here for details about demonstrations By Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition Washington, D.C., March 19.Photo: Bill Hackwell Rubble at the site of the main government building in Tripoli following an airstrike by foreign forces. The same global powers that used the force of arms to colonize Africa, suction out its natural resources [...]

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C.T. Weber on the homepage of the Peace and Freedom Party: Remember the so called sneak attack on Pearl Harbor? That awakened a sleeping giant, the United States of America. Well the sneak attack on state workers in Wisconsin may have just awakened another sleeping giant, the working class. This is a fight for unity [...]

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Sent to IPR by David Colborne: The Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Nevada is happy to announce that it will be hosting its first meeting since it was elected on January 29th. Here’s the agenda: Libertarian Party of Nevada Executive Committee Meeting Friday, March 25th, 2011 Call-in Number: (702) 851-4044 Access Code: 1776 [...]

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The latest video from John Jay Myers: Special thanks to Clayton Gee who provided all the photos. John Jay Myers is looking for input for possible future videos on this same theme. See also: Andy Jacobs: Libertarians need to make it clear that we are just as far from being Republicans as we are from [...]

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By Charlie Earl, 2010Libertarian Candidate for Ohio Secretary of State. Forwarded to IPR by Ohio LP chair Kevin Knedler. On May 25th, 1787, a number of delegates assembled in Philadelphia for the expressed purpose of correcting some deficiencies in the Articles of Confederation, the national document of law and purpose for the United States of [...]

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Bob Barr at the Barr Code: In a breathtaking statement delivered in an official court proceeding, the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims authority to strip search every airline passenger; and to begin such a practice without even soliciting comment from the public. This outrageous statement recently was delivered to the American people by [...]

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Ballot Access News: Solomon Kleinsmith has this article about how top-two systems disadvantage candidates who are not backed by established figures in the two major parties. Kleinsmith is the founder of the blog “Rise of the Center”.

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Libertarian Party Monday Message via email and LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, It’s with great sadness that I read about the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan. I feel sympathy for the victims of these tragedies, and I hope the best for them as the tragedies continue to unfold and as they struggle to [...]

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Archived column by Lee Wrights reposted recently at Liberty for All and suggested for IPR by the author: “The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.” – St. John Chrysostom Rules can be useful tools and tricky devices. They can be written and formed and debated and passed and enforced. They become creations of [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Dear Vice President Biden: Word has reached us from reliable sources that the unions in Wisconsin tendered an invitation sometime last week or earlier for you to appear at one of the growing rallies in Madison protesting the legislative straitjacketing of public employee unions. Since you have just returned from trips [...]

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Socialist Party USA, International Commission March 17, 2011 Although we are barely two months into 2011, tumultuous revolts have already made history in the Middle East and North Africa. Masses of people, from all walks of life, broke free from their respective authoritarian governments to protest and fight for freedom, democracy, and better living conditions. [...]

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