Toward Freedom, Greg Guma via Vermont Progressive Party: “It’s time for a change…real change.” That was Bernie Sanders’ slogan in his 1981 campaign for Burlington Mayor. The race had begun as a long shot, but Sanders had turned his shoestring operation into a real challenge. Nevertheless, even on Election Day, March 3, 1981, the incumbent [...]

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Kenric Ward in Sunshine State News, by way of the Florida TEA Party: …Limbaugh… tweaked establishment Republicans by predicting that disgruntled tea partiers could bolt the GOP to form a third party. “They know they’re a majority in the country. If they conclude that they have no influence with the current crop of Republicans, they’ll [...]

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Posted on the web page of the Libertarian Party of Ohio. H/T Kevin Knedler. In this tumultuous time of debate on Senate Bill 5, and Ohio’s attempt at collective bargaining reform, let’s take a look at the Right to Work laws which seem to have been placed aside. Right to Work laws are statutes of [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Robert Bird, 2008 US Senate nominee of the Alaskan Independence Party: “My country, wrong or right” is an old folk-slogan meant to demonstrate the importance of patriotism in war, but any person with a brain understands that such a mouthing has only limited virtue. It is time that conservatives wake up [...]

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Press release from Free and Equal emailed to IPR: Two new bills in the California legislature would make it harder to register voters, and harder to circulate petitions for initiative, referendum and recalls. SB205 would make it illegal to pay people to register voters on a per-registrant basis. SB168 would do the same for people [...]

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Miami-Dade Green Party via On The Wilder Side: The Miami-Dade Green Party adds its voice to the growing coalition of groups and individuals standing in opposition to anti-immigrant bills that have been recently introduced in the Florida legislature. These bills–modeled after Arizona’s racist SB 1070 law—allow for racial profiling and if passed, will result in [...]

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Press release from the Libertarian Party: WASHINGTON – Giving little thought to the lessons of history, President Obama has begun attacking Libya with the full support of virtually every member of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans. Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: "President Obama’s decision to order military attacks on Libya [...]

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Reposted by Mark Hinkle at Libertarian Party blog: The official website for Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 includes a database of all theaters where the film will open in the United States on April 15 (www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/theaters). Without a major Hollywood studio behind the production, the distribution plan for the film is modeled after several successful internet [...]

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Mark Hinkle at Libertarian Party blog: Thomas Jefferson once urged us to “educate and inform the whole mass of people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of liberty.”  The Foundation for Economic Education has taken Jefferson’s words very seriously, seeking to continuously educate and engage students about the intellectual principles that underlie [...]

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From an article by Jill Terreri in the Democrat & Chronicle: The Green Party has selected Ian L. Murphy, editor of the irreverent Beast web site, based in Buffalo, to be its candidate for a special election in the 26th Congressional District… Murphy, of Amherst, gained national attention last month following a phone call he [...]

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Boston Tea Party national chair Darryl Perry via IPR email and Free Patriot Press: On March 19 the American military joined a United Nations backed coalition, in what is being called “Operation Odyssey Dawn” (I refer to it as “Operation OdD” or simply “OdD”). According to the U.S. Department of Defense OdD is “to enforce [...]

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John Jay Myers via facebook and Free Patriot Press: “But Gadhafi is killing Libyans!” We will show him, we will show him how to kill some Libyans. Our country keeps getting involved whether the story is “weapons of mass destruction”, or “slaughtering of their people”, or that “the guy is evil incarnate”. This is a [...]

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Australia’s Rap News takes a jaundiced look at US politics, comparing it to middle eastern tyrannies and saying the American people need to be liberated from “this fascist prison and the two party dictatorship that’s arisen under the iron fist of the Republicrat system, preventing democracy and fair elections as well, siphoning massive wealth to [...]

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In an interview with Democracy Now, Ralph Nader calls for the impeachment of President Obama and calls Obama and former President Bush war criminals. This interview was about a protest on the 8th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States as a Green [...]

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From an opinion article by Daren Bakst in the Beaufort Observer: When you go to the polls in North Carolina, you have less freedom to choose who you want to elect than citizens of virtually every other state. A recent North Carolina Supreme Court decision (Libertarian Party et. al. v. North Carolina et. al.) will [...]

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California Libertarian Party: Now’s a great time for voter registration drives. According to the latest Report of Registration from California’s Secretary of State, 1,135 voters registered Libertarian just in the past five months. But compared to the May 2010 Report of Registration, our voting ranks have swelled by an amazing 5,571 Libertarians in only nine [...]

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by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (March 19) – After weeks of vacillation, uttering veiled threats that Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi must go while his key advisers made contradictory statements, President Obama has followed the example of his recent predecessors and decided that it is okay for the United States to attack another sovereign nation [...]

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Famed consumer advocate Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate, and more recently, as an independent. Nader offers his views on the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, and suggests steps that citizens and government can take in the United States, to make sure that nuclear disaster does not happen here.

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From an editorial by the News & Record, of Greensboro NC: Voters deserve choices at the polls, but not too many, the N.C. Supreme Court said in a disappointing ruling last week. The 5-1 decision denied the state Libertarian Party’s challenge to North Carolina’s strict ballot-access law. Oh, but the law isn’t really so strict, [...]

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From an article by Doug Caruso over at the Columbus Dispatch: The Libertarian candidate who dropped out of the Columbus City Council race this week says he knew nothing of a deal with Republicans to head off a primary election. Andrew S. Ullman, who was running as part of a slate of three Libertarians, said [...]

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