Written for IPR by Starchild at the request of  Jill Pyeatt   A couple days after Christmas, I went to Iowa to help Ron Paul’s presidential campaign in the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses. I’d never been there before, and I like traveling, but mainly it was just something I felt like I needed [...]

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Nine candidates vying for the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party in 2012 have been listed on the ballot in California’s Presidential primary. They are, in alphabetical order, Roger Gary, R. J. Harris, Gary Johnson, Scott Keller, James Ogle, Carl Person, Bill Still, Joy Waymire, and Lee Wrights. Richard Winger points out that the primary [...]

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Ralph Nader, the former Green Party and Independent presidential candidate writes in the Register Citizen concerning higher education spending cuts in California and how students should feel about them. Students of California, arise, you have nothing to lose but a crushing debt! The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial [...]

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Rocky Anderson is the former mayor of Salt Lake City.  In August, he denounced and left the Democratic Party.  Earlier this month he announced the formation of a new party, the Justice Party, the nomination of which he’ll be running for.  The party is starting its organizing by recruiting interested volunteers online and attempting to [...]

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This article by Paul Mitchell highlights how Top Two has impacted California elections, as opposed to how it was supposed to effect elections. Mitchell sets out to separate myth from reality: Much of this year’s legislative and congressional drama has focused on the decennial redistricting, but the greater impact could come from our seemingly annual [...]

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It is not very often that you see a member of the Green Party partner with a member of a far-right party like the American Independent Party in government. However, that is just what happened at a meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors. A couple of days ago former Congressman and Green Party [...]

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Laurie Roth is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host based out of Washington. Roth’s talk show is reflective of her own conservative beliefs. Ms. Roth has, in the past, been active at the local level in the GOP, but has now announced a run for President in which she will seek the ballot-lines of [...]

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  Found  today on Facebook, on the Libertarian Party of California Page   America is at a crossroads. We borrow and print forty-three cents of every dollar the federal government spends and are now choking on debt. One candidate not only understands we must reverse this policy before heading down the path of Greece or [...]

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Email from Richard Rider: Wayne Allyn Root has been a very effective spokesperson for liberty. Not perfect, but a much better communicator than most libertarians. That is perhaps both his strength and his weakness. At heart, Root’s a salesman. Nothing wrong with that. So am I (and I’m FAR less effective than he is). But [...]

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Written by Alan Pyeatt for ”Independent Political Report” for publication on this special day.               On June 1, 1954, Congress passed a law which officially changed the annual November 11 holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.  The Korean War had ended less than a year earlier, and according to President Eisenhower’s Proclamation 3071, Congress [...]

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Video via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:

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Ballot Access News (excerpt): On October 7, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB 205, which made it a crime to pay registration workers on a per-registration card basis. Because Proposition 14 has left California minor parties with only one means to remain on the ballot, by having registration equal to 1% of the last gubernatorial [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to this story, the Kansas Secretary of State’s office has released a new voter registration tally, as of October 1, 2011, and that tally shows that one person in Kansas is registered in Americans Elect. This appears to be the first official registration data in any state that shows any registered [...]

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The Peace and Freedom Party issued the following statement on September 24, 2011. To download this statement as a flyer to print and distribute click here. Peace and Freedom Party of California, the only working class, feminist-socialist party on the ballot in California, expresses our solidarity with the activists participating in the Occupation of Wall [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: KALW News has published an interview with Terry Baum, Green Party candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, at SFGate.com: This year’s SF mayoral election is ranked choice, meaning San Franciscans can all vote for more than one candidate. If the frontrunner doesn’t get a majority of first place votes, [...]

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As I type this rant, I am sitting here in the State Board of Equalization’s office in Ventura where I just handed them a check for $5581 in sales tax. Today is a special day, a little victory for me. You see, moments before I walked in and paid my final sales tax to the [...]

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Ballot Access News: California Governor Jerry Brown’s web page has this area for commenting on a bill that he is about to either sign or veto. Near the top is a section “Please choose your subject” and there are many generic issues listed. Underneath the alphabetical list of generic subjects is a list of bills [...]

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by Mike Seebeck on Saturday, September 10, 2011 Ten years after 9/11, 521 and 5 days, we memorialize those innocent people that lost their lives that day. I’m fine with that. We should do that, and we should commemorate those victims and heroes. (Sidebar: One of the victims in WTC2 that day was…Michael Seebeck. See [...]

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by Alan Pyeatt Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor. Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (September, 2000)   The tragic loss of innocent lives that occurred [...]

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FREEDOM FEST: Does it live up to the hype? This was my second year in a row attending Freedomfest in Las Vegas, Nevada.. The conference which bills itself as the “world’s largest gathering of free minds” is held yearly in mid July in Bally’s on the strip. Last year, I attended as candidate for Congress [...]

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