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Posts published in October 2012

Lee Wrights: Support our troops. Bring them all home now

By Brian Irving on October 5, 2012 11:02 PM

by R. Lee Wrights

Samuel Johnson said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” H.L. Mencken expanded that definition when he said, “Patriotism, in truth, is the great nursery of scoundrels … Its chief glories are the demagogue, the military bully, and the spreaders of libels and false history.”…

LP.org: Gary Johnson Foreign Policy Video

By on October 5, 2012 6:33 PM

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Posted at LP.org today. …

Rocky Anderson’s Ballot Access

By Jordan Willow Evans on October 5, 2012 3:55 PM

Found at http://www.voterocky.org/. Note that there are quite a few states where they are still seeking qualified write-in status.

Anderson is behind Gary Johnson, Jill Stein and Virgil Goode in ballot access, but is the only one of those candidates participating or planning to participate in every forum with the other candidates known so far: A Democracy Now!…

Barbara Howe responds to gubernatorial debate she wasn’t invited to

By Brian Irving on October 5, 2012 1:04 PM

The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters excluded Libertarian candidate Barbara Howe from their first gubernatorial debate, broadcast from the taxpayer-funded UNC-TV studios in Durham. Howe was excluded despite the fact she’s ballot-qualified and polling as high as nine percent, quite an accomplishment for a third party candidate.…