The current incarnation of the LP radical caucus was created in 2006 by Susan Hogarth and other party members unhappy with the outcome of the 2006 party platform vote.…
Posts published in December 2008
UK Green Party Parliamentary candidate Peter Tatchell: ‘allowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s alternative Christmas message is aiding and abetting a homophobic tyrant’
From pinknews.co.uk:
Channel 4’s decision to allow Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to deliver the Alternative Christmas message is aiding and abetting a homophobic tyrant says gay rights campaigner and Green Party Parliamentary Candidate Peter Tatchell.
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Orange County Weekly: Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake believes he still has a prayer of unseating Barack Obama
Article by Matt Coker in the Orange County (California) Weekly, December 17.
Interview with Drake is at http://www.ocweekly.com/2008-12-18/news/wiley-drake-barack-obama/
The Preacher vs. the President-Elect
Pastor Wiley Drake thinks he still has a prayer of unseating Barack Obama—sorry, Barack Hussein ObamaFirst Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park’s irrepressible Pastor Wiley Drake is not discouraged in light of the Dec.
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Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party: ‘Will the feds bust Santa Claus?’
From the Libertarian Party email list
We at the Libertarian Party would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. We hope that you are truly blessed, and find comfort in families, friends and loved ones over the holidays.…
Kimberly Wilder: Proposal to restructure the national Green Party (GP-US)
Posted at On The Wilder Side by 
Kimberly Wilder
As some (but not all) readers may know, the national Green Party (GP-US) is experiencing some money problems.
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Green Party’s holiday gift to the Obama Administration: a plan for environmental action
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
“First 100 Days: Energy and Environmental Policy” (http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/documents/First_100_Days.pdf) from the Green Party’s Eco Action Committee
Green Party leaders today said that Obama has the chance, when he becomes President, to take the lead on curbing global warming.…
Angela Wittman, Laurence Vance challenge Chuck Baldwin’s statements about Ron Paul’s sanctity of life Congressional bill
From Christian Liberty Party. Excerpt:
An Interview with Dr. Laurence Vance, author of “Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State”
Angela Wittman: [I]n the article “Lesser of Two Goods,†in reference to Chuck Baldwin’s platform and his plank on abortion you wrote:
Like Ron Paul, and unlike John McCain, Chuck Baldwin is unabashedly pro-life.
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Techpresident.com compares 2008 Presidential candidates web presence
Techpresident.com has the following comparisons, some of which include alternative and independent presidential candidates (others not included here do not). The original pages have charts showing how these numbers fluctuated throughout the campaign; go to the link and see “charts”.…
Libertarian Party: ‘Bailout mania’
Posted at http://www.lp.org/bailout-mania. This is the full article, except for the financial appeal at the end of the original piece.
Everybody is looking for a handout.
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