Published in theday 11-07-2010 I received an informative e-mail regarding significant tax increases alleged to begin in 2011. To be honest, I’ve made no effort to check the veracity of its claims, but one response to the message was “That’s okay. I don’t mind contributing to the greater good … except the wars.” According to [...]

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Posted today in theday I love to backpack, surf, hike, and climb. When I’m not able to engage in these pursuits, I sometimes find myself watching video of others adventuring in beautiful, remote locales. It helps me to hold on to some of those joyous and motivating travel feelings. I enjoy footage from decades past, [...]

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Staff at LP.org blog: Having run twice as a write-in candidate in Connecticut’s second congressional district, this year Libertarian Dan Reale is officially on the ballot. He sees an opportunity in growing voter disapproval of the two major parties which refuse to tackle the ballooning national debt and creeping tax hikes. Dan Reale proposes ending [...]

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Rocky Anderson has been nominated by the Independent Party of Connecticut for President. This party last nominated a presidential candidate in 2008, receiving over 1% of the votes for Ralph Nader, which helped them to retain their ballot access for 2012. The party apparently desired a nationwide candidate for president to be on their ballot [...]

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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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The time has come for you to make a choice. You must choose where you stand. You must take a stand and decide what society you wish to live in. Do not tell us that you follow orders, we dealt with that one decades ago. We don’t want to hear that policies are set far [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Dirk Langeveld at the New London Patch has published 5 Green candidates’ responses to a questionnaire sent to all local candidates. Jessica Cartagena, Kenric Hanson, and Joan Sullivan Cooper are running for City Council. Ronna Stuller and Mirna Martinez are running for the Board of Education. With 5 local [...]

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“…revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?

Everything happening today under Obama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, Atlas Shrugged…”

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From an article distributed by Connecticut Libertarian Party activist Marc Guttman: It’s often said that if someone doesn’t like something the government is doing, he or she should convince enough people to change it.  Is this our idea for community, granting government the power to push through special interest will and expect that if innocent [...]

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From The Day: [Lori] Hopkins-Cavanagh is a member of the New London Republican Town Committee but says she would not run for mayor as either a Democrat or Republican. She said she has had conversations with members of the Green Party in the city about running as a Green candidate for mayor. If she announces, [...]

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An excerpt from a blog on The Hartford Courant’s website: But in the United States the drug reform movement is sharply focused on marijuana and not on drug prohibition as a whole. Unfortunately, this focus ignores three other longstanding and devastating social issues. First, drug war policies have needlessly taken potential taxpayers out of the [...]

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From Counterpunch, and also posted at Single Payer Action: But under the Connecticut law, minor party candidates and independents have to show public support by raising the small contributions. But then they must do more. They have to gather a certain number of signatures – or show a certain level of voter support from past [...]

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