FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Patrick Dixon Libertarian Party of Texas Chair Phone: 512.771.3936 Email: chair@lptexas.org SB 9 would bring Texas into compliance with the unconstitutional federal REAL ID Act AUSTIN – May 9, 2011 – Senate Bill 9 will be heard by the Texas House’s Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, May 10, [...]

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Written by LPNevada News on 11 May 2011. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Libertarian Party of Nevada announces the results from Executive Committee meeting. LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 10, 2011 ― The Libertarian Party of Nevada (LPNevada), the Libertarian Party is America’s third-largest political party who believes in minimum government and maximum freedom, announced the results of [...]

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“Like the rest of America, I cheered at the news of the killing of Osama bin Laden. I was thrilled. It made my night. And the next day, too. One of the great vile, evil villains of modern history had been eliminated. If you weren’t celebrating, there is a chip missing from your DNA.

But don’t fall for the trap. Don’t be distracted and forget the truth about government. As Ronald Reagan once said, “Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Government fails miserably at virtually everything it does, year after year, day after day, hour after hour. Government is brutal. Government violates our rights. Government steals your money and property. Government steals your liberty. Government tries its best to control your thinking and your life. Government wastes billions every day, trillions over time.” – Wayne Root

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by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (May 11) – The most dangerous person in the world is the President of the United States no matter who holds the office. The president, whether his name is George W. Bush or Barack Obama, is the most dangerous person in the world because whoever the president is now [...]

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David Bernstein at the Volokh Conspiracy, a widely read libertarian law professors blog, wonders whether it is Time to Wind up the Libertarian Party. [...]

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I received the following e-mail from Gary Odom today: -Tuesday, May 10 2011- -Election Day in Alabama’s 105th Legislative District- Alabamians!–Work Today Like You Have Never Worked Before, To Get Out The Vote: Elect Bill Atkinson!! If You Live Anywhere Else In America–Pray With All Your Heart For A Victory For Our Constitution Party Candidate [...]

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Published in Liberty for America, May 2011 In a surprise move without precedent or advance warning, the Libertarian Party of Nevada State Committee disaffiliated its three County/Regional Committees, which cover Las Vegas, Reno, and the Capital District. Readers of this newspaper may recall that the Clark County, Nevada LP group is financially independent of their [...]

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May 9, 2011 Dear Friend of Liberty, We just started a new poll on LP.org. Please take the poll. Here’s what it says: After hearing the news that Osama bin Laden was killed, what are your feelings about the War in Afghanistan? I now favor a withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. I supported a withdrawal [...]

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A majority of Republicans said for the first time that a third party was needed in American politics, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. Fifty-two percent of Republicans, and an even stronger number of Tea Party supporters, support the creation of a major, third political party, underscoring the occasional tensions between grassroots conservatives and [...]

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From CounterPunch (read the whole thing here): On the evening of May 4, a day before he was to join dozens of billionaires convened by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in Phoenix, Arizona to discuss how they might spend over half their wealth for “good works,” media entrepreneur, peace advocate and environmentalist, Ted Turner joined [...]

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From the Associated Press: Three candidates running for New York’s open upstate congressional seat will debate for the first time next week. Democrat Kathleen Hochul (HOH’-kuhl), Republican Jane Corwin and Tea Party candidate Jack Davis will meet in Buffalo May 12. They and Green Party candidate Ian Murphy are competing in the 26th District vacated [...]

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Wayne Root Video – Puerto Rico – Politics

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On April 5, 2011, in a nonpartisan race, Green Party member Dr. Edward Shadid was elected to the city council of Oklahoma City.

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From Gary Odom: Saturday, May 14 · 12:00pm – 4:00pm Ryan’s Steakhouse 655 N. Shadeland Ave. Indianapolis, IN Please plan to arrive by 12:00pm noon Eastern Standard Time to enjoy lunch with others from our state party (cost of lunch is at your expense). Pay for your meal and then check-in at the check-in table [...]

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From Gary Odom: By every measure…attendence…energy and enthusiasm….reception for the speakers….and simply in terms of overall accomplishment…the Spring 2011 Constitution Party National Committee Meeting and Conference in Harrisburg was considered a major triumph!  Many said it was the best they ever attended, though travel for many of the members coming from the South and Midwest got off to [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.JimDuensing.com Jim Duensing for President It has long been whispered in Libertarian circles that when we Libertarians actually get a hold of even a small bit of power, we become everything we despise. There is no better example of that long whispered adage than the Libertarian Party of Nevada’s meeting on Cinco [...]

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On Thursday, May 5th I sat in on a conference call where the Libertarian Party of Nevada, with recent addition of Wayne Allyn Root, voted to take their functioning counties and dissolve them. Merging them in with the state. This is the exact opposite of what a state party should be trying to do. I [...]

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From Gary Odom: The National Committee of the Constitution Party, meeting in Harrisburg, PA, has, by unanimous resolution, adopted on April 30, 2011, put itself on record urging former Virginia Congressman, Virgil Goode, to seek the Presidential nomination of the Constitution Party! Immediately upon conclusion of Virgil Goode’s speech; one in which he extolled the [...]

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May Day 2011: A tribute to modern-day Haymarket heroes and heroines On this day, amid spiraling resistance around the world, we pay respects to struggles that gave birth to May Day as an international workingclass holiday 125 years ago in Chicago, Illinois. The fight for the eight-hour day, led by anarchists and socialists, was gaining [...]

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From a message from Darryl Perry of the Boston Tea Party: Nearly 3 ½ years after Benazir Bhutto reported Osama Bin Laden had been killed by Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (one of the men convicted of kidnapping and killing U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl), the US government reports to have killed Osama Bin Laden. President Obama [...]

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