IPR went live 1,000 days ago, on May 20, 2008. Since that time we have had over 7,700 posts, over 118,000 user comments, over 1.5 million visits and over 4.3 million pageviews. V is for Valentines, but it’s also for Victory. And as the folks at PrisonPlanet remind us, resistance is in itself a form [...]

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I’ve recently added a plugin that provides icons that quickly take you to various social networks including facebook, twitter and others to share our stories. You can do this not just with the new stories that are being posted now, but with old stories all the way back to when the site started on May [...]

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OK, I know this isn’t technically a third party story, but I think it will be of interest to a lot of people with alternative party sympathies (as primary challenges of incumbents often are) because it has to do with a quixotic challenger who is outside the normal two party mainstream challenging the established candidate. [...]

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H/T Marc Montoni. Laurence Vance writes at LewRockwell.com about whether the Republican Liberty Caucus is ideologically libertarian (excerpt): I was primarily attacking the worthless and evil GOP and only secondarily criticizing the RLC for the dishonest postcard. My first criticism was: “It says that the Republican Party ‘won big on libertarian themes’ in the recent [...]

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Thanks to Tom Knapp, IPR stories are now being automatically posted to our facebook page. For our readers who are facebook users, please like and share our stories. And if you haven’t signed up for our page yet, please do so. As a reminder, we are also on the twitter, so please follow us there [...]

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IPR roundtable show on blogtalk will be on 1/16/2011 (Sunday) at 8:00 PM Eastern. Call-in Number: (646) 200-0264 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (646) 200-0264      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (646) 200-0264 It’s a practice show for IPR editors to become familiar with the blogtalk interface and an open format for discussing the issue of the day in the alternative [...]

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Tentatively scheduled IPR meatspace meetup, DC area Saturday at 8 PM. If anyone in the area wants to get together give me a call at 415-690-6352. I’m thinking either the Brickskeller in DC or the Swahili Village Cafe in Beltsville, MD. Speaking of the DC area, from the LP blog/Monday message: The Libertarian Party of [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/02/10 POC Thomas L. Knapp info@x2012.us 601-533-8542 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              601-533-8542      end_of_the_skype_highlighting Ⓧ VOTERS: IT’S NOT APATHY, IT’S NON-CONSENT Coming out of the 2010 mid-term elections, it’s too early to compile exact statistics — but odds are a majority of Americans didn’t cast ballots on Tuesday. Some are disenfranchised by age restrictions, incarceration or other legal [...]

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7:33- With 10% reported, Libertarian John Monds is at 3% of the vote with 7,475 votes. The party needs 20% for major party status. 7:35- Here is my SERIOUSLY? moment of the night- with 6% reported, Green Tom Clements is at 7% of the vote in the South Carolina Senate race with 5,765 votes. Democrat [...]

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H/T Gene Berkman: Michael Blood writes in the San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press: Choosing “none of the above,” the default option on quizzes, is looming as a potential factor in the dead-heat Nevada Senate race for voters who don’t like either Democrat Harry Reid or Republican Sharron Angle. Voters in the Silver State have nine choices [...]

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All across the country, minor party and independent candidates are forced to fight an uphill battle to gain entry into forums and debates with their major party contenders.

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With the entrance of Tom Tancredo into the Colorado gubernatorial race as the Constitution Party candidate, pundits have suddenly turned their attention to potential solutions to “vote-splitting”. We recently reported about the preferred solution for Colorado LP candidate Jaimes Brown. However, Eric Fried, the Secretary of the Colorado Green Party suggest a different reform: How [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: On July 27, the Massachusetts legislature gave final approval to the National Popular Vote Plan bill. Governor DuVal Patrick is expected to sign it. Massachusetts will be the sixth state to approve the plan. The others are Hawaii, Washington, New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois. According to BAN comments that brings the [...]

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Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon lost in his bid to be the Republican gubernatorial nominee today. From the National Journal: Rep./ex-LG Mary Fallin (R-OK) won the OK GOV GOP primary in convincing fashion, easily defeating state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R). The AP called the race for Fallin with 35% of precincts reporting; she collected 59% [...]

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Kinky Friedman’s political history has been all over the map: a Republican run for Kerrville Justice of the Peace in 1986, an independent run for Governor in 2006, and finally a Democrat run for Governor and then Agriculture Commissioner in 2010. Nevertheless, Friedman continues to explore ever corner of the political spectrum. Last month, the [...]

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Yes, folks, two full years of anti-establishment political party and candidate news, views and commentary. During that time, according to sitemeter, we have had over 1.1 million visitors with over 3.1 million pageviews, and close to 89,000 comments on almost 5,500 posts. In other news, your faithful correspondent, Paulie, am turning two for the nineteenth [...]

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The popular nightly comedy-news show The Colbert Report, hosted by Stephen Colbert, will host California’s Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado as a guest tonight, April 29th, 2010. The Santa Maria Republican will appear on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” to discuss Proposition 14, the open-primary measure on November’s ballot that he has pushed. It’s unclear how [...]

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…A new Rasmussen survey in Rhode Island finds Lincoln Chafee (I) and Frank Caprio (D) running even in the race for governor at 33%…

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Both the Republican Party and Democratic Party organizations have come out in opposition to Proposition 14, the Top Two Initiative in California. However, many top politicians in both parties have endorsed the measure. However, the Republican Party organization has begun circulating petitions all over the state which push three “top” issues which encourage voters to [...]

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Excerpted from an editorial at The Liberty Ticker http://libertyticker.blogspot.com/2010/04/legalized-monopoly-ballot-access-laws.html Except for the board game of the same name, Americans have generally railed against the power of monopolies. With their ability to maintain predominance over the production and sale of some product, monopolies are seen as having the power to destroy competition and fairness. However, few [...]

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