Staff at LP blog: The "Republican Wall of Shame" page is active. Take a look and learn why people should not believe Republican rhetoric about "cutting government," and also learn some good reasons to join the Libertarian Party. The wall has been graphically redesigned from the earlier version, but the content is still the same. [...]

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Posted by Andy Jacobs in IPR comments on a previous post: Libertarians won’t get anywhere if we just sound like Republicans, and this includes “Republicans who really mean it.” If people just want somebody who sounds like a Republican, then they can vote for Republicans. I want less taxes and spending, but one of the [...]

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Lee Anderson at American Conservative Party Highlights from the 2007 study by Randall Eberts: Teachers Unions and Student Performance: Help or Hindrance reveal the following about the impact of collective bargaining on public education system: 1. Teachers unions can, and have, come out strongly against state referendum to allow charter schools and voucher systems, which [...]

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Conservative Party of New York State: You may remember Lewis E. Lehrman writing about the gold standard in the year before the ’82 campaign, when he ran on the Conservative Party line for Governor.     Here’s a video of Lew talking about the gold standard on Fox Business News Wednesday night.  (February 23, 2011) [...]

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Emailed to IPR: CONTACT: Bruce Gagnon (207) 443-9502 Lisa Savage (207) 399-7623 Mark Roman (207) 643-2356 Augusta, March 9 – Governor LePage and legislative leaders were invited to meet with representatives of Maine’s Bring Our War $$ Home campaign via letters sent by certified mail in February. As no responses have been received, a second [...]

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Press release emailed to IPR: “I was pleased with the tone and subjects covered by the Governor. We strongly support Governor Scott’s efforts to bring the state budget under control and be on the side of the taxpayers of Florida.” “Governor Scott will have a tough fight on his hands to overcome the forces of [...]

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Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3249 There are over 300,000 evangelical Christian churches in America. That equates to tens of millions of professing Christians and hundreds of thousands of Christian ministers. Think of the church sanctuaries, educational facilities, schools, camps, radio broadcasts, television programs, colleges, seminaries, preschools, youth retreats, etc., that grace America. In some communities there is [...]

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Bob Barr at the Barr Code: Like the little girl said in the 1982 movie, Poltergeist, “They’re baaaaack.” In real life, it’s not the evil spirits emerging from haunted television sets that are returning, but the discredited national identification card program, known as “RealID.” This law was passed in 2005 by Republicans in the Congress [...]

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Michael Badnarik at Liberty for All: Conventional wisdom asserts that nothing is certain but death and taxes, however this ancient rubric is being challenged more frequently, and more aggressively with each passing day. While no one doubts that the IRS will use intimidation and force to collect the income tax, there are serious doubts being [...]

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Staff at LP blog: Fox News has published an AP story about a federal judge’s decision to reject the Libertarian Party’s request that the District of Columbia count the write-in votes cast for Bob Barr in the 2008 election. Ballot Access News: On March 8, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, ruled [...]

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Ballot Access News: On March 10, a California Superior Court Judge in Solano County tentatively dismissed the lawsuit King v Robinson on procedural issues. Here is the two-paragraph ruling. This case, or similar cases, have been pending since 2008. They concern the identity of the legitimate state officers of the American Independent Party of California. [...]

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A new congressional seat is open after the resignation of Representative Chris Lee, with a special election to be held on May 24th. The Republican and Conservative Parties have settled on the nominee for their ballot lines, State Representative Jane Corwin. However, one candidate rejected for the nod is looking to run on his own [...]

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In the wake of revelations about Congressman David Wu’s mental health, poll numbers show the incumbent in trouble for re-election. A recent Survey USA poll illustrates his problem. Some of the findings: In the sample, 52% voted for Democrat David Wu, 38% for Rob Cornilles, and 1% for Constitution Party candidate Don LaMunyon. However, in [...]

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WASHINGTON – While Republicans and Democrats battle in Wisconsin over a bill to reduce the collective bargaining power of state employee unions as a means of balancing their budget, Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle points out that the problem lies with government control of activities it has no business running. Hinkle comments, “Libertarians are neither [...]

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From Nicholas Hunt at the Knoxville News Sentinel: Speaking to a crowd of about 350 on the University of Tennessee campus, Nader posed the following: ‘We (the public) are the sovereign power,’ he said. ‘We are the power. When people say we are powerless, it is not because of the Constitution. The preamble begins with [...]

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From New York LP chair Mark Axinn via LP blog: Libertarian Party Candidate Files Lawsuit against NYS Board of Elections for Failure to Count Votes Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor of New York in the 2010 election, today filed a lawsuit in Albany County Supreme Court against the New York State Board [...]

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WASHINGTON – According to CBS, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been involved in undercover operations to smuggle high-powered weapons into Mexico, probably as some sort of tracking operation. Now many of those weapons are in the hands of ruthless drug traffickers, which they are using to intimidate and kill [...]

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Via John Jay Myers at facebook and Grassroots Libertarians: Description at youtube (with slight corrections): The Dallas County Libertarian Party wants you to know that all elections are not about the Presidency. With a solid group in Dallas we could influence politics as usual a great deal. Too often voters get hung up believing that [...]

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Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: On tonight’s GreenStream Wednesday the Green Party will be discussing the US military’s intervention in Libya. The guests will be Keith Harmon Snow, Patricia Hill, Glen Ford and Bernard White. Don DeBar will be the Host. Participate in the live chat room! Please note that they are starting [...]

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Emailed by Boston Tea Party chair Darryl Perry to IPR and posted at Free Patriot Press: The U.S. Supreme Court 8-1 ruling in the case of Snyder v Phelps is a victory for free speech, particularly the freedom of unpopular “speech” in the form of protests. The ruling states in part, “Westboro stayed well away [...]

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