Since my last update a month ago, here’s what I know about what’s new with the the campaigns for the LP presidential nomination: Gary Johnson has now participated in one debate with other candidates seeking the Libertarian nomination, and has made plans to appear in others. Johnson has received the endorsement of several state and [...]

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Excerpt from the message of a group of hackers who say they are affiliated with the group called Anonymous claiming credit for hacking the website of the white nationalist American Third Position Party: …Contained in this major dump are several thousand private forum messages, personal emails, internal organization notes, names, phone numbers, home addresses and [...]

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From Mike Riggs at Reason, describing Gary Johnson’s speech to the ACLU: Johnson said he’d cut the military’s budget and end Obama’s interventionism. It wasn’t until he got started on legalizing marijuana that the crowd (figuratively) lit up. A steady stream of applause followed Johnson’s declarations after that. “I support gay marriage equality. I support [...]

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Jim Cook reports at Irregular Times With 77 days to go before the first ballot, the combination corporation/political party called Americans Elect opened up a system today for delegates to draft presidential candidates to appear in its proprietary, privatized online presidential nominating system. The official rules of Americans Elect create three standards by which a [...]

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From an article at Chuck Baldwin Live by 2008 Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin: If one believes that the problem is out-of-control government trampling our Bill of Rights, Newt Gingrich is definitely not the solution. If one believes the problem is the lack of Christian morals among our civil magistrates, Newt Gingrich is definitely [...]

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Former New Mexico Governor and current presidential candidate Gary Johnson will be joined Monday, January 30, by nationally-known Libertarian leader and commentator Wayne Allyn Root for a live on-line Town Hall.

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“America may hate politicians, they may hate Congress, they may even give Obama among the lowest ratings in modern history at this point in a Presidency. But the media has now sunk to even lower depths than the politicians.” – Wayne Allyn Root

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According to HowardPhillips.com, Howard Phillips retired on January 11 as chairman of the Conservative Caucus, which he founded in 1974. Howard Phillips, founder of The Conservative Caucus (TCC) and its Chairman since 1974, has resigned, saying that recent health problems required that he “direct my energies on my health, my family life, my spiritual priorities, [...]

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Third Parties Are Not Spoilers Open Letter to the Wall Street Journal By Ralph Nader at Nader.org How unbecoming it is for the self-styled freedom-loving Wall Street Journal (“Ron Paul Nader?” Dec. 21) to use the politically bigoted word “spoiler” to describe a hypothetical Ron Paul-Libertarian party presidential run. Why is a third-party candidate called [...]

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Ron Paul is a GOP candidate for President in 2012, just as he was in 2008, but in 1988 he was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for the nation’s highest office. Now, Ron Paul has been endorsed by another former non-major party politician, Joel Robideaux, who served in the state house as an Independent before becoming [...]

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  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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Steven Higgs, the editor of the Bloomington Alternative, takes a critical look at the media’s lack of coverage of third party candidates, in light of a panel on Al Jazeera.  Here is the video on Al Jazeera and here is the full article.  One of the more interesting aspects of the panel, which Higgs focuses [...]

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Alan Keyes, 2008 Presidential candidate of America’s Independent Party, and himself a contender for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1996, 2000 and 2008, has a column at his blog Loyal to Liberty critiquing the 2012 Republican presidential field. Excerpt: Back in 2008 we were supposed to believe Mitt Romney’s repeated declarations that he was pro-life [...]

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Posted to RJ Harris’  Website   South Carolina Citizens; my name is RJ Harris and I am a career army national guard officer having been four times deployed in the service of our Republic. I come to you today in SUPPORT of Ron Paul’s call for a return to George Washington’s foreign policy of Non-interventionism [...]

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Gary Johnson is a Presidential candidate for the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. He was previously a candidate in the GOP primary in which a fellow competitor for votes was Ron Paul. This is why Gary Johnson’s editorial at Daily Caller calling attention to Ron Paul’s performance in New Hampshire is interesting. But something [...]

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An email sent from one Joseph Hunter to many reporters on the campaign trail purports to be from the desk of former Governor Gary Johnson’s communications director, Joe Hunter. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JOHNSON ENDORSES PAUL January 3, 2012, Salt Lake City, UT — Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is officially endorsing Congressman Ron Paul [...]

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Should Ron Paul choose to run a third party presidential campaign, radio talk show host Mark Levin has said that he will punish the elder by using his energies to unseat the younger Paul. “If Ron Paul decides that he is going to go third-party, which is detrimental to this nation, and pulls a million [...]

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Resident blogger Ross Levin has penned an article over at Polizeros. His article, which is about the Occupy Wall Street Protests generally, nevertheless manages to touch on a few personalities and parties that are of interest to IPR readers. Barack Obama’s rhetoric certainly has a populist tone to it these days, but words are cheap.  [...]

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The Daily Caller interviewed Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson today and amongst the most interesting quotes from him was one encouraging his supporters to vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primaries and then vote for him in the general election, operating under the assumption that Paul will not win the Republican nomination. “Yeah,” [...]

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“Early on, he threw a lot of red meat to the Libertarian crowd stating, “The LP is the Third Party!” He further pointed out 61% of Americans are willing to vote Third Party.”

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