March 2011 Archives

Nader says: PBS-NPR are leaning right

By Kimberly Wilder on March 14, 2011 6:15 PM

Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate, and more recently, as an independent candidate. The following is a post from www.nader.org…

South Carolina Green Party endorsed Rally for a Moral Budget

By on March 14, 2011 5:51 PM

Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch:

Daisy Deadhead, a Green Party member in Greenville SC, has posted a number of photos of a Green Party endorsed “Rally for a Moral Budget” at her blog, Daisy’s Dead Air.…

Arkansas Libertarian Party Soon Will Start Petition to Qualify as a Party for 2012

By on March 14, 2011 5:35 PM

Ballot Access News:

The Arkansas Libertarian Party will launch a petition drive in April to qualify for the 2012 ballot as a full-fledged party. The party has virtually met its goal of raising $30,000 to pay for the petition drive, which needs 10,000 valid signatures, to be collected in any three months of the party’s own choosing.…

Libertarian Party Monday Message: Republican Wall of Shame ad has been placed in Washington Post online

By Jordan Willow Evans on March 14, 2011 5:26 PM

IPR Note: The original headline of the Monday message is “Wall of Shame ad is live,” but since we already reported that, and there had been questions about whether the ad had actually been placed in the Post, I thought this headline would do a better job of keeping our readers up with the news.…

Tom Tancredo: Read My Columns … Listen to my Radio Show

By RedPhillips on March 14, 2011 5:17 PM

An e-mail from Tancredo’s Team America PAC:

Dear Conservative,

One of the biggest obstacles to stopping illegal immigration is silence. Ever since we shut down the Bush-McCain Amnesty in 2007, Republicans usually oppose amnesty and support border security if prompted, but they try to avoid the topic all together.…

Libertarian Party: Press falsely credits Republicans with “deep cuts”

By on March 14, 2011 5:14 PM

Press release from LPHQ:

WASHINGTON – The mainstream press is falsely crediting Republicans for proposing "deep cuts" in federal spending. To fight back, the Libertarian Party is promoting its "Republican Wall of Shame" with an online ad in the Washington Post.…

Joe Trippi: “Social media will kill two-party system”

By Gene Berkman on March 14, 2011 4:15 PM

Joe Trippi was the consultant who built Howard Dean’s internet fund-raising operation during the 2004 Democrat primary campaign. Politico.com reports that Trippi raised the possibility of a third party challenge based on internet fund-raising at the South by Southwest interactive conference.…

Roger Gary running for Libertarian Presidential nomination

By William Saturn on March 14, 2011 1:04 PM

Via email:

At our last meeting of the Texas State Executive Committee, there was extensive discussion concerning candidates and candidate recruitment. At that time I informed my fellow Libertarians that I was running for our Party’s nomination for the office of President of the United States.…

Readers News Open Thread, March/April 2011

By on March 14, 2011 1:01 PM

The moderators here at IPR have noticed an influx of links within the comments which, while relating to the political world, do not necessarily contribute to topical discussion within their respective threads.…

Posts published in March 2011