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Posts published in February 2011

Bob Barr: TSA grows even more powerful

By Jordan Willow Evans on February 26, 2011 4:50 PM

Bob Barr at The Barr Code:

George Washington, our first and in the view of many, our best president, once said, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.…

Michael Badnarik: Money

By Jordan Willow Evans on February 26, 2011 4:37 PM

2004 Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik at Liberty for All:

When my brothers and I were very young, one of our neighborhood friends taught us a wonderful, new word: ALLOWANCE.…

PA State Rep. Eugene Depasquale on why he introduced ballot access reform bill

By Ross Levin on February 26, 2011 12:10 AM

Recently, Pennsylvania State Representative introduced a version of the Senate’s Voters’ Choice Act in the State House.  The York Dispatch reports on the bill and why it was introduced (video included on the newspaper’s webpage):

DePasquale’s proposal would make the number of signatures independent and third-party candidates need to get their names on the November ballot the same as what is required of the Republican and Democratic parties.

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Poli-Tea: Independents for Independence

By Jordan Willow Evans on February 25, 2011 7:44 PM

Damon Eris at Poli-Tea:

Following the CUIP’s National Conference of Independents earlier this month, I provided a roundup of some of the immediate reaction in the third party and independent blogosphere, a good deal of which was highly positive in character.…

Ralph Nader: ‘Mad as Hell’ in Madison

By on February 25, 2011 7:23 PM

Ralph Nader at Nader.org:

The large demonstrations at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin are driven by a middle class awakening to the spectre of its destruction by the corporate reactionaries and their toady Governor Scott Walker.…