A commentary from Owner/Editor George Phillies:
As some of you have already noticed, we are operating two web sites, namely IndependentPoliticalReport.com and ThirdPartyWatch.com. The two sites have very different objectives and editorial styles.…
Posts published in “IPR Editorials”
The Emerging Political Realignment
The realignment theory of American politics is badly overworked. Nonetheless, there have been occasions on which American politics did re-align, and there are indications that another realignment is advancing.…
A Great Opportunity for All Third Parties
By a vote of 290 to 137, Congress voted to order rail unions to accept the contract terms that Congress chose.…
America needs honest, unbiased third party news. Actually, America needs unbiased political news, period.
We take two examples of the decayed state of American political news coverage.…
Readers only aware of 1984 and The Road to Wigan Pier may be unaware that Orwell wrote very extensively on a range of topics. Our starting point here is taken from Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the America Revolution, footnote 3 on page 2:
‘Orwell’s spirited introduction in Orwell and Reynolds British Pamphleteers was sparked by his belief that in twentieth-century society the press does not adequately represent all shades of opinion. …
I just purchased IPR. We have a vast number of archived posts. Past owners have attempted to filter out libel, slander, overtly criminal posts, material that makes no sense at all, and the like. …
Happy September, Independent Political Report!
This thread will operate as the official September open thread. Please use this for discussions that don’t have a more appropriate home on another post.…
Independent Political Report has learned that a new national Libertarian group, the
Association of Libertarian State Parties
is in the process of being formed. It is our understanding that this group:
- will have as members only state parties, not individual people;
- will be FEC-filing;
- will have a minimum of central organization, but has already raised as commitments large sums of money;
- has enough Federal candidates on the ballot to satisfy FEC regulations for being recognized as a political party;
- will have membership joining and expulsion by majority vote of the other members;
- will allow a state party to belong also to the LNC-associated group;
- will very certainly not by using Roberts as its parliamentary rules of order;
- will have a quadrennial meeting in which member state chairs will decide who they will put on the ballot as their Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates.
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Welcome to the August Open Thread!
With this message, Independent Political Report welcomes the top posting of comments. From now on, instead of needing to scroll indefinitely to find the new comments, they will be right there at the top of the comments column.…