From an article by Justin Elliott over at Salon.com: This one does not look good for the Democratic Party in Michigan: Two county-level party officials have been hit with felony charges in an alleged scheme to put bogus Tea Party candidates on the ballot to draw votes away from Republicans. (Via Jim Geraghty.) Former Oakland [...]

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Via Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch: The national Green party issued the following press release. It addresses the situation in Japan from the perspective of someone with family there. It’s by Wes Rolley, former co-chair of the Eco-Action Committee, and writer at California Greening FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Contact: Laura Wells [...]

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The latest update from ConstitutionParty.com, featuring statements from their supporters on what drew them to the Constitution Party. As far as I can tell, this latest installment does not feature the author’s name, unlike past posts in this series. I am from Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Political [...]

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by Andrea Pason and Billy Wharton, co-chairs Socialist Party USA March 15, 2011 – The Socialist Party USA extends its most sincere wishes of sympathy and solidarity to the people of Japan as they suffer from the greatest tragedy since World War II. We have watched in horror as the deadly Tsunami wiped out whole [...]

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From a news story on the website of KOMU-Channel 8 in Columbia, MO: COLUMBIA – If voters pass Proposition One on April 5, city council members and the mayor, won’t be able to call their civic work volunteerism. If passed, Proposition One would pay the mayor $9,000 a year and each of the six council [...]

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By Tom Humphrey, Knoxville News Sentinel, Knoxville, TN, March 16, 2011: NASHVILLE – A Senate committee unanimously approved Tuesday a bill that would make it easier for third parties to be listed on Tennessee ballots and bring the state into compliance with a federal court ruling. U.S. District Judge William Haynes of Nashville ruled last [...]

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From an editorial by the The Observer-Reporter newspaper (Washington & Greene Counties of PA): Minor political parties in the country are viewed with suspicion. Many of us dare not question the sanctity of the two-party system and consider third parties as gaggles of eccentrics on the lunatic fringe. For sure, some of them are. The Libertarian [...]

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March 16, 2011 By Brian Irving The N.C. Supreme Court has upheld the state laws that give North Carolina the second most restrictive ballot access requirements in the nation. The justices ruled 5-1 that they were “not persuaded” that ballot access is a “fundamental right.” “Indeed, ballot access rights, though distinct from voting rights, are [...]

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Via IPR email and LP blog: Today the Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) announced their endorsement of Mark Noble for Columbus City Council. Mark Noble has been involved with and actively advocated firearms freedoms in past runs for office. He’s a life member of the Gun Owners of America (as a candidate, achieving their highest rating) [...]

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From Richard Winger over at Ballot Access News: On March 17, the Massachusetts Libertarian Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an extension of time in which to file a cert petition in Barr v Galvin. Such extensions of time are fairly easy to obtain. Barr v Galvin is the Massachusetts case over whether unqualified [...]

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From Public Policy Polling via Third Party and Independent Daily: We’ve found a lot of brutal poll numbers for Sarah Palin so far in 2011: down in South Dakota, down in South Carolina, down in Arizona, only up by 1 point in Texas, only up by 1 point in Nebraska to name a few. But [...]

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Press release from LPHQ: WASHINGTON – The Libertarian National Committee (LNC) is challenging certain aspects of the McCain-Feingold political speech restrictions in a new lawsuit filed today against the Federal Election Commission (FEC). In 2007, a Libertarian Party supporter passed away, leaving the party over $217,000 in his will — an amount over seven times [...]

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From Thomas M. Sipos over at Libertarian Peacenik: On February 3, 2011, Birther conspiracy source and Libertarian embarrassment, Wayne Allyn Root, suggested that the vast majority of Egyptians loved Hosni Mubarak. One week later, on February 10, after an outcry from Libertarians, Root did a 180 flip-flop and condemned Mubarak for being a tyrant. This [...]

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Following the sex scandal driven resignation of Republican Chris Lee in NY-26, Scott Walker’s prank caller Ian Murphy (see previous IPR story) is described by Steve Peoples at Roll Call as “likely to capture the the Green Party ballot line” according to state Green Party co-chairman Peter LaVenia: “The local out in western New York [...]

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Wayne’s political commentaries are literally everywhere in the mainstream media…plastered throughout the Internet…sent via email chains across the country. Now even major newspapers are taking notice.

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Wayne Root predicts the Great Depression 3.

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Here are a couple articles regarding Mr. Root and his comments (or lack of) about the controversy of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Reposted to IPR by Jill Pyeatt. Wayne Root and Julian Assange Written by Ayn R. Key Although Wayne Root has a multitude of media appearances, and has his own blog, and publishes articles [...]

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From CAIVN: Bidding opened early last Friday on an eBay auction for Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson.  The seller was Randy Miller, founder and president of the Utah League of Independent Voters.  Judging from the original listing, which has since been deleted by eBay, Miller was not confident that he would find a buyer.  Indeed, [...]

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The Mideast remains America’s foreign policy hot spot — and political hot potato. It’s the locale of our current (and potentially future) wars.

The classic libertarian position is one of foreign non-intervention. Peace and friendship with all nations, alliances and entanglements with none.

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John Jay Myers at http://www.youtube.com/user/clearsky24:

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