James Antle has an article on Gary Johnson’s switch to the Libertarian Party up at The American Conservative magazine website.

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Bill Redpath announced at the Libertarian Party of Virginia convention and on his Facebook page that he is running for vice-chair of the Libertarian National Committee.

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The Libertarian Party today released its full list of convention packages. Fellow Libertarian Party Member, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend 40th Anniversary Libertarian National Convention Homecoming and Reunion for Libertarians      May 2-6      Red Rock Resort     Las Vegas, NV “Why is This Year’s 40th Anniversary Libertarian National Convention Unlike Any Other in LP History?” 1. [...]

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Here paleoish conservative blogger Daniel Larison discusses Edward Luce’s Financial Times article on Americans Elect. (Registration is required to get to the actual FT article.) Suffice it to say that Luce is hopeful and Larison is not. The volatility inside the GOP primary electorate does not mean that there would be automatic support in polls [...]

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BURNET, Texas (Feb. 28)  – The Lee Wrights for President campaign now has the first Vote Libertarian TV ad available for use by Libertarian candidates and local party affiliates. The 30-second spot called “War Breeds War” ends with a simple call to vote Libertarian. “This is a universal message we think will resonate with all [...]

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Press release from the Connecticut Green Party: WHO: DR JILL STEIN, A GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE FOR U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN: THIS THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012,  5PM-7PM WHERE: FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, 190 COURT ST., MIDDLETOWN, CT Green Party presidential candidate, physician, and environmental health advocate Dr. Jill Stein will be speaking in Middletown, CT, on March [...]

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MONTEREY — The Central Committee of the Libertarian Party of Monterey County recently passed a resolution encouraging members of the House of Representatives to impeach President Barack Obama. The organization contends Obama should be impeached for waging war in Libya without any act of Congress. The use of force in Afghanistan and Iraq did receive [...]

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William Saturn, one of the contributors here at IPR, has posted an interview over at Wikinews with Virgil Goode, one of the candidates for the presidential nomination of the Constitution Party. If you were elected in 2008, what would you have done differently than Obama? Goode: I would not have pushed for Obamacare. I would [...]

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In an interview with The Daily Caller, the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, former Republican Congressman Bob Barr defends his decision to endorse former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for president, saying he is the best choice for Libertarians. Barr explains “it’s not to say that other candidates like Ron Paul don’t have very good ideas” but Libertarians should back [...]

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On January 23, 2012, Ron Paul Radio started broadcasting as a source of information and discussion for the principles of liberty as taught by Congressman Ron Paul. It currently has 22 hosts and twenty different programs, discussing monetary policies, civil liberties, non-interventionism in foreign policy and other topics which pertain to the events and issues [...]

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The Libertarian Party of Georgia is hosting a debate right now at their 2012 state convention. Governor Gary Johnson was asked about matching funds for his campaign and he confirmed that he would accept matching funds, assuming he was eligible. The entire debate can be viewed here. The run-time is around an hour and a [...]

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Dr. J. David Gillespie is a political science professor at the College of Charleston and the Citadel. He has written a number of articles on third parties and independent candidates over the years, including a new book entitled “Challengers to Duopoly: Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics“. The book, published the University of [...]

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Earth Intelligence Network CEO and Open Source Intelligence advocate Robert David Steele (Vivas) ended his campaign for the Reform Party presidential nomination. He said the following via e-mail: I got zero traction within the party — I scared them with my wild ideas of creating a team — and I got zero traction with Rocky Anderson, [...]

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BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – The Lee Wrights for President campaign has launched another project to help win votes for the Libertarian Party and Libertarian candidates in 2012. The Million Vote March  is an effort to achieve a historic one million votes for the Libertarian candidate for President, and to encourage people to vote for [...]

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In his New York Times column, Thomas Friedman expresses an interest in seeing a “smart independent” candidate participate in the presidential debates in order to “make Obama and his Republican opponent better.” The person he suggests could play this role is former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. In the article, Walker praises the presidential campaigns [...]

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Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack is running for U.S. Congress in Texas’ 21st district as a Republican. He is scheduled to speak at a Lincoln Day dinner in Idaho next month. Mack’s history of participation with other political parties has become an issue for 14 members of the Kootenai County Republican Party, who wrote a [...]

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From the campaign press release: “Tomorrow, I will formally end my bid for the GOP nomination for President of the United States. As the GOP and the networks host debate number twenty-something this evening, they have once again turned their backs on the democratic process by choosing to exclude a former Governor and Congressman. I [...]

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AlternativeRight.com posted this podcast with A3P nominee Merlin Miller. The description reads: Merlin Miller, the American Third Position Party’s candidate for president, joins Richard to discuss his party’s platform as well the prospects for outside-the-box and populist politics.

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See descriptions under the previous open threads if you don’t know what the open threads are about (although it’s pretty self-explanatory). Here is a video from Rap News AKA the Juice Media….

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Today Jill Stein’s campaign, aimed at securing the Green Party’s nomination for president, sent out a fundraising email with the pitch of “Double Your Green.”  That is, if Stein raises $5,000 in donations of $250 or less from 20 or more states, the federal government will then match donations of that amount dollar-for-dollar.  Interestingly, the [...]

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