From the Covington News
It has been a while since I had a column appear here in The Covington News. I spent the spent the last five months working for Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee and former United States Representative.
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Independent Political Report
Steve Kubby: The Future of Freedom
By paulie on November 20, 2008 10:22 PM
Steve Kubby was a candidate for the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2008, and the runner up for the party’s VP nomination in 2008 and 2000. He was also the party’s candidate for Governor of California in 1998.…
Libertarian Party: What are economists saying about the auto bailout?
By paulie on November 20, 2008 6:02 PM
Posted by Andrew Davis on Libertarian Party blog
It should go without saying that the Libertarian Party is philosophically and pragmatically opposed to any sort of bailout to corporations, especially when they’ve been run as poorly as American auto manufactures. …
Greens to Obama: appoint a Cabinet for real change, not big-business warhawks like Emanuel
By paulie on November 20, 2008 5:51 PM
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders called on President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a Cabinet that will pursue real reform, in accord with Mr.
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Did the Vermont Progressive Party win a State Senate seat?
By paulie on November 20, 2008 5:45 PM
Posted at Ballot Access News
Reporting on partisan victories is sometimes a complicated affair, especially in states that allow fusion. On November 4, Tim Ashe was elected to the Vermont State Senate from the Chittenden County district, which elects six Senators.
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Radical Women national conference ignites support for expanding socialist feminist movement
By paulie on November 20, 2008 5:40 PM
by Monica Hill, Seattle, Washington
The same October weekend Sarah Palin raised money in the Bay Area for her multi-million-dollar Vice-Presidential campaign, more than 250 women and men met in San Francisco to chart a course for a feminist movement — independent of the Republican and Democratic parties.…
Daniel Grow and Steve Newton discuss alternative party vote totals and staying on message
By paulie on November 20, 2008 2:45 PM
From the Delaware Libertarian blog
DANIEL GROW: In my U.S. House (1st District, Michigan) campaign, the three 3rd party candidates scored nearly the same number of votes, about 1%.…
Baltimore Sun: ‘Third-party blind spot’
By paulie on November 20, 2008 2:08 PM
Baltimore Sun Op-Ed:
Democracy suffers when the news media ignore long-shot candidates and the ideas they espouse
By John F. Kirch
November 20, 2008While the news media did an effective job this year of covering the presidential campaign between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, the press still has a major blind spot when it comes to writing about third-party contenders.
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Brouhaha in Britain over leaked list of BNP members
By paulie on November 20, 2008 1:30 PM
The Independent reports,
The British National Party’s membership list has been published on the internet in defiance of a court order. It was put up on the internet on Monday night but has since been removed, although by then copies had already been made.
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