Posted by Red Phillips at Conservative Heritage Times. Although Phillips also writes for IPR, I (Paulie) am posting it here to make it clear that any opinions expressed are those of Phillips, not an IPR editorial. As with many other stories I post, I am posting it for the sake of discussion, not necessarily because [...]

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Protesters from a spectrum of liberal groups protested against the Koch brothers. The groups were protesting the influence of corporate money on recent elections, made possible by the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” campaign finance case. News agencies and the protesters made a connection between Citizens United, the Koch brothers, and the success of Tea Party candidates in the midterm elections.

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Good evening. I am Peg Dunmire, Chairman of the Florida TEA Party. What is your American Dream? You may want to start your own business; invent new products; or move to take a new job. You may want to own your own house; we all want our children to have a better [...]

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John Jay Myers in IPR comments: Politicians regularly promise people things that they can never deliver. Things that they have no way to deliver. Our government cannot create jobs without losing jobs. They cannot make us safer without threatening our freedoms or making new enemies abroad. They cannot give us health care without taking away [...]

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Ballot Access News: In the 2010 election, Tea Party candidates appeared on the general election ballot under the “Tea Party” label, for federal or state office, in Florida, Nevada, and New Jersey. Even though there were 17 Tea Party nominees in races with both a Democrat and a Republican also in the race, there is [...]

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Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: The shootings of at least 18 people (6 killed, at least 12 wounded) in Tucson, Arizona, has predictably ignited a firestorm of anti-gun, anti-right, and anti-anything not “liberal” diatribes from the typical big government talking heads in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Anti-freedom congressmen railed for more gun control, including [...]

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LP.org: Dear Friend of Liberty, Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. MLK suffered serious personal risk to fight against government violations of the rights of minorities. I’m glad we remember him each year. Although it’s a day off for many people, we’re hard at work at LP Headquarters today. We’ve spent the weekend working on [...]

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http://wrights2012.com/: BURNET, Texas (Jan. 13) – It will be all too easy and popular to claim that the shooting in Arizona that killed six people was caused by the vitriol prevalent in American political discourse, but as usual the easy and popular explanation of this tragedy will avoid the truth, R. Lee Wrights, libertarian writer, [...]

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Article sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com (read the full thing here): ORLANDO – One of the first things that Peg Dunmire thought of when she heard about the tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizona that critically injured a local congresswoman was the final day of her own campaign for Congress last November. On that single day, Dunmire and her [...]

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A press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Florida TEA Party Chairman Denounces Shooting. Decries ’politics’ of hate.’ Florida Tea Party Chairman Peg Dunmire denounced the shooting of United States Congresswoman Giffords and eighteen (18) other individuals in which six were killed, including a nine-year old girl today in Arizona. “The ‘politics of hate’ that was so prevalent this past [...]

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A freshman Congressman from Florida who associates himself with the Tea Party – not the party itself, however, which has formed in several states, including Florida – said the following in an interview with CBS: CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric speaks with three new members of the House of Representatives Rep. Allen West (R-FL), [...]

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Wayne Allyn Root, the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate, best-selling author, Fox News Channel regular guest, and outspoken Libertarian-conservative media personality, guest hosts the nationally-syndicated “G. Gordon Liddy Show” on Monday December 27th. Root’s guests will include former Republican Presidential candidate, Chairman of “Campaign for Liberty,” and Best-Selling author of “End the Fed,” U.S. Congressman [...]

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“We’ve all seen the billboards with former President George W. Bush’s smiling face, and the words “Miss me yet?” But this President Obama and his cabal of socialists and fascists are so bad, so oppressive, so corrupt, I’m actually starting to miss King George III, the ruler of the original American colonies.” – Wayne Ally Root

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“…when I go home my workday doesn’t end. I toss and turn in my sleep worrying about how to pay my bills and taxes. That’s how it works when you pay your own bills…” Wayne Allyn Root

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Besides Root, speculation about potential Libertarian presidential candidates is focused on Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Reform Party Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican who could run in the GOP primary as well.

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Incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski has won re-election to her Alaska Senate seat with write-in votes. She is the first candidate to win a write-in bid for Senate since 1954.

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An interesting column from Dennis Mikolay (the full thing can be read here): Anderson received six percent of the vote, and while he didn’t get to move into the White House, he did mobilize thousands of student activists and encouraged a disillusioned nation to vote its conscience. Some thirty years later, the American political climate [...]

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Lauri Apple in the Chicago Reader alternative weekly: The Libertarian Party of Illinois ran a full slate of candidates this year, with a guy named Lex Green at the top of the ballot. A “Green” Libertarian? Confusing! No wonder they didn’t meet the five percent threshold required to more easily get on the ballot in [...]

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From Matt Miller at the Washington Post via Third Party and Independent Daily: I’m a Clinton White House alum who had hoped President Obama could usher in the debate we need. It’s hardly all his fault that we’re not there, but I’m convinced the parties’ interest groups and “thought police” make real progress impossible without [...]

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by Gary Odom National Field Director at constitutionparty.com   2010 Election   Brings Victories and Near Misses; Highlights Progress And Reveals Challenges As The Constitution Party Looks To The Future     Congratulations To Nevada…Again!    In 2006, the Independent American Party, the Constitution Party’s state affiliate in Nevada elected two of its candidates to office.  This year it doubled up and elected four:three [...]

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