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Entries from April 2011

LP Candidate Collett: Drug War Death Counter

April 7th, 2011 · No Comments

For immediate release Steve Collett <electcollett@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM Death Counter Reports Consequences in Mexico of United States’ War on Drugs A most horrifying result of the U.S. war on drugs is widespread corruption, death and destruction in Mexico. An Educational Committee Regarding Death in Mexico Due to U.S. War [...]

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LP Rhode Island Media Release: 2011 Convention Announced

April 7th, 2011 · No Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 6, 2011 Contact: Christian Chirino E-mail: chris.chirino21@gmail.com Phone: 401-919-0121 Libertarian Party of Rhode Island 2011 State Convention: When:  Saturday, May 14 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm Location:  Warwick Public Library, 600 Sandy Ln., Warwick, RI -At this meeting we will seek to: 1) Allow fellow Libertarians from around the state (and [...]

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Kwiatkowski: Words matter, but actions and effectiveness matter more

April 7th, 2011 · 20 Comments

Virginia libertarian Karen Kwiatkowski wrote today about a local “town hall” type meeting, and reviewed congressman Bob Goodlatte’s talking points.  This article was published in the Harrisonburg, VA Daily News-Record. [Congressman Bob Goodlatte] was asked about his support for the Patriot Act, legislation that admittedly he and the rest of Congress never even read when [...]

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Jim Duensing issues statement regarding trying the prisoners at Guantanamo

April 6th, 2011 · 112 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jim Duensing for President http://www.JimDuensing.com Obama the socialist sees nothing wrong with secret Stalin show trials. Libertarian Presidential Candidate Jim Duensing Calls on the Obama Administration to Defeat the Republicans in Congress by releasing KSM from Gitmo so he can be tried by a Fully Informed Jury. Yesterday, the Obama Administration reversed [...]

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Chris Rickert: A good time to consider third-party alternatives

April 6th, 2011 · 4 Comments

From Madison.com: Ben Manski, the Green Party candidate who lost his bid for a West Side Madison Assembly seat to Democrat Brett Hulsey last year, has great ideas for opening up the political system and correctly identifies the existing redistricting process as “an incumbency protection racket.” But on the collective bargaining issue, Democrats are on [...]

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Greens Win Six Non-Partisan Elections in Wisconsin and Illinois

April 6th, 2011 · 3 Comments

From Ballot Access News: Both Wisconsin and Illinois held local non-partisan elections on April 5. Green Party members won six elections: 1. Steve Alesch was elected to the Warrenville Park District Commission in DuPage County, Illinois, in a contested election. 2. Toni Williams was elected to the Thornton Township High School District 205 board, Cook [...]

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Wayne Allyn Root’s Commentary: Obama Might Be a Socialist

April 6th, 2011 · 44 Comments

“If you think Raul Castro, the leader of communist Cuba, in firing 500,000 government employees by telling them “government can no longer employ or take care of everyone” isn’t a hint that perhaps America needs to reduce our obscene number of government employees, you might be a socialist.”

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Lee Wrights: Military tribunals are an affront to the Constitution

April 6th, 2011 · 18 Comments

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (April 6) — On the day he quietly and subtly begin his re-election campaign, President Obama again demonstrated that he has no intention of upholding the oath he took to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The president had his attorney general announce that he [...]

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Libertarians say Paul Ryan is worse than Bill Clinton

April 5th, 2011 · 6 Comments

WASHINGTON – In response to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget proposal, Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: “Americans hoping to get real about our national debt just got sucker-punched by Republican Paul Ryan. “Republicans want to spend $40 trillion over ten years. That averages a staggering $4 trillion [...]

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LP Monday Message: John Stossel video – Libertarian

April 5th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Posted to the LP Blog April 4, 2011 Dear Friend of Liberty, John Stossel, the famous reporter from “20/20,” now has his own show on Fox Business. He recently taped a show at the International Students For Liberty Conference at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Here’s a quote from the segment, “What Does it [...]

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John Jay Myers: Taste the Flavor of War

April 5th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Written by John Jay Myers           So, here we go again. Another president is starting another war in another country that is no threat to us. And our mission will be limited because our goal is not to kill Gadhafi, only to stop him from killing the people who are trying to kill him. Oh [...]

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Ken Block:”Chafee plan will decimate RI manufacturing”

April 5th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Ken Block is founder of The Moderate Party of Rhode Island and was the Moderate Party candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 2010. He received over 22,000 votes, 6.5% and came in 4th. Lincoln Chafee was elected Governor as an Independent. Among the many shocking facts that I learned on the campaign trail last [...]

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Wayne Root: Fox News TV Live Video

April 5th, 2011 · 171 Comments

Wayne Root: Fox News TV Live Video: Wayne Root on Fox News Live Wayne Allyn Root ran for the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2008 and currently Chairs the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. His best-selling Book ‘The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.’ is now out in paperback His [...]

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Wrights completes southern campaign swing

April 5th, 2011 · No Comments

BURNET, Texas (April 5) – Potential Libertarian presidential candidate R. Lee Wrights will complete his swing through the South visiting Libertarian state party conventions in Arkansas April 9, his native North Carolina April 16-17 and Tennessee April 29. Wrights is expected to make a major announcement at the North Carolina event in Hickory. The 52-year [...]

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Darryl W. Perry: Unanswered Questions in Libya

April 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Bloomberg reports, the Libyan Transitional National Council “created a new national oil company to replace the corporation controlled by leader Muammar Qaddafi whose assets were frozen by the United Nations Security Council… and designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a governor [...]

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Gallup: Americans Give Equally Low Ratings to Both Parties in Congress

April 4th, 2011 · 8 Comments

“Third Party, Independent and unaffiliated voters taken as a whole, disapprove of Congress more than voters who affilate with either of the two Stale Old Parties.”

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Steve Collett: I Am The End Drug Prohibition Candidate

April 4th, 2011 · 11 Comments

“We will someday look back at drug prohibition the way we look at segregation, woman’s right to vote, alcohol prohibition, and gay rights. We will look back with disbelief in how it used to be. I will fight for these changes at the federal level and I will stand up for California’s right to self determination on marijuana decriminalization.” – Steve Collett

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Karen Kwiatkowski: Put an End to Farming’s ‘Nanny State’

April 4th, 2011 · 4 Comments

“Socialism in the dairy business works about as well as it works anywhere else. By mistaking government-dictated and -supported prices for real market signals, overproduction (and hence over-investment in and over-leveraging of production facilities) results. Periodically and predictably, the booms are followed by severe busts, at great cost to farmers, dairy consumers and taxpayers.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

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Kwiatkowski to Hinkle: LP “vulnerable to criticism for appearing unprincipled”

April 4th, 2011 · 116 Comments

In an “open letter” to Libertarian National Committee chair Mark Hinkle, Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (USAF, Ret.) argues that the Libertarian Party coddles a vocal party minority which favors foreign policy interventionism, and that this raises real image problems for the party. Former US Representative Bob Barr and Las Vegas gambling figure Wayne Allyn Root, [...]

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Free & Equal: Ballot access reform bills in 16 states nation-wide

April 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments

From an article on http://www.FreeAndEqual.org: CHICAGO (April 1) – In the coming weeks, legislators in at least 16 states will be working on legislation to curb unnecessary restrictions on voter choice. In some of these states, ballot access reforms have already made it into law. On March 16, Nebraska became the first state this year [...]

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