From IPR’s twitter page: Text follow I_P_R to your carrier’s shortcode (40404 in the US, see the link twitter page linked above for other countries). IPR’s facebook group is now more conversational. While the ability to post and discuss other members’ comments was there all along, for several months it was mainly a twitter-like posting [...]

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Wayne Root in this week’s “Seven magazine” in Las Vegas: America is in shambles from sea to shining sea. National unemployment hovers near 10 percent. The real estate market is scorched-earth terrain. The stock market is crumbling—along with our retirement accounts. Retail sales are vanishing. Consumer confidence is plummeting. And our U.S. credit rating has [...]

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Alex Walker at California Greening: Dear Green Friends, Scott McLarty, Green Party U.S. Media Coordinator, posted a Facebook link to an interactive web site known as Political Compass. According to Scott, the site returned these scores based on his reply to a battery of multiple choice questions: “Economic Left/Right: -7.12; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05, which places [...]

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Ballot Access News: Steve Kornacki, Salon’s news editor, has this commentary on the chances of a powerful third force presidential candidate next year. The column, and similar commentary, usually say that minor party and independent candidates for important office never win. These articles should acknowledge that in the period starting in 1970, there have been [...]

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Bob Barr was the Libertarian Presidential candidate in 2008. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of NYC is widely considered to be the likely Presidential or Vice Presidential nominee of Americans Elect, a new centrist party currently pursuing ballot access in all states and DC with plenty of money to get the job done. Bloomberg is also a [...]

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Ballot Access News: Wired has this story about Righthaven, the company that contracted with various newspapers to seek out blogs that re-print newspaper stories in full, and then sue those blogs. For example, Righthaven sued Independent Political Report, and IPR had to pay several thousand dollars so that Righthaven would drop the lawsuit. As the [...]

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Michael H. Wilson at Evergreen Libertarian: Can you imagine if the garage mechanic was doing unnecessary repairs on your car or doing repairs poorly that customers died and were injured, then the government made it difficult to find out the reason? Well that is what we have developing thanks to the new health care law. [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Anita Rios is running for Toledo City Council. On Tuesday she finished second of three candidates. Although the race is non-partisan, Rios proudly portrays herself as a Green, and the other two candidates are well known as a Democrat and a Republican. From the Lucas County Green Party: Friends [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Friday, September 16, 2011 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on criminal justice and the death penalty: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-criminal.php WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United [...]

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by Darrell Castle Vice-Chairman, Constitution Party National Committee Last night President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and the nation on the subject of jobs. The result was a proposed bill he called “The American Jobs Act,” which he repeatedly urged Congress to pass right away. The president summarized his proposal in a pre-speech [...]

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From the PSL’s Liberation News: The statement below was released today by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a member organization of ANSWER. 10th anniversary of the ANSWER Coalition Building a nationwide movement for justice during a decade of war, racism and repression [...]

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Emailed to IPR by the Freedom Socialist Party. I don’t have time right now to copy the embedded links over from email; other IPR writers can fix that if they wish. You may also be able to find this with the links included on the FSP’s website or elsewhere; I haven’t checked. -paulie Stand with [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to this story, former Florida State Senator Nancy Argenziano will run for Congress in 2012 as the nominee of the Independent Party. Earlier, Argenziano had expressed a desire to be a Democratic Party nominee in 2012, but the new election law passed this year forbids anyone from running in a party [...]

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Posted at LP blog by Wes Benedict: On August 19, 2011, Libertarian leaders gathered in Columbus, Ohio for the 2011 Libertarian State Leadership Alliance conference (LSLA). Below are videos from the conference.  

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New York, NY, September 16, 2011. Carl Person, Candidate for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for President, made the following statement about the issue of any Republicans or Democrats seeking to capture the Libertarian Party nomination for President: Every four years the Libertarian Party is provided an opportunity to nominate for President a prominent politician from [...]

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Press release from LPHQ: WASHINGTON – In honor of Constitution Day, Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict released the following statement today: "Tomorrow, September 17, is Constitution Day: the anniversary of the agreement on the U.S. Constitution by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. "When I think about that anniversary, I am saddened by [...]

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“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the [...]

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Newsmax has the story. Consumer advocate and progressive liberal Ralph Nader said Thursday he will send a letter to a targeted group of 40 former university presidents, retired congressmen, progressive business leaders and civic activists and ask them to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. “The pitch is this: Look, take six months off from [...]

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Posted on the website of RJ Harris, a candidate for the Libertarian Presidential nomination: Video of RJ Harris at Liberty Fest 2011 in NYC: Edmond Sun Article Lisa Wexler Interview Liberty Underground Interview There’s also a campaign announcement video I already posted to IPR earlier, a “welcome to RJ Harris 2012″ video that I have [...]

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Anna Tinsley in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram points out that Libertarians Lee Wrights and Roger Gary, Independents Jeffrey “Jeff” Barea, Michael David Elder, John Hoelzel Jr. and Scott Andrew Cain, Eco-Green John “Green” Ferguson and Madisonian Federalist Thaddaus Hill are among 17 candidates from Texas to file with the FEC for President. The Texans running [...]

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