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Could Barr/Root win electoral votes?
By Administrative Team on May 30, 2008 1:26 AM
Stephen Gordon, a member of the Barr campaign and editor for Third Party Watch, has posted a hypothetical electoral map in which the LP ticket wins 18 states.…
Baldwin: The Culture of Deception
By Trent Hill on May 30, 2008 12:50 AM
Chuck Baldwin‘s latest commentary cites Scott Mclellan’s new book and makes bold statements against George Bush.
According to McClellan’s book, the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President George W.
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Reason on Baldwin’s latest videos
By Trent Hill on May 30, 2008 12:34 AM
David Weigel’s latest post over at Reason’s Hit & Run blog criticizes Chuck Baldwin’s recent comments about 9/11. Baldwin, while speaking to a crowd of Ron-Paul activists, answered a question about wether he would be open to re-opening the investigation of 9/11.…
Wayne Allyn Root flashback
By Trent Hill on May 29, 2008 11:24 PM
Lew Rockwell just posted a youtube about Wayne Root‘s disparaging comments about Ron Paul. Rockwell had this to say:
A month before the Libertarian party nominated him for vice president, Wayne Allyn Root appeared on the Bob Grant radio show in New York City.
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Vermont Progressive stands up to Dems, continues quest for governorship
By Administrative Team on May 29, 2008 11:10 PM
As reported earlier, Anthony Pollina, Progressive Party candidate for Governor of Vermont, held a press conference today announcing his plans going forward. It was widely speculated that he would abandon his gubernatorial campaign in favor of a bid for Lieutenant Governor (the two offices are elected separately in Vermont), for which he would have received support from the state’s Democratic establishment.…
Sheehan: ‘Bring the dreaded draft on’
By Fred Church Ortiz on May 29, 2008 10:18 PM
In a message sent out to supporters commemorating the birthday of her fallen son, independent congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan takes on military recruiters and proposes a “radical” change in our military:
A “volunteer” military that counts on poverty, ignorance, a tanking economy, and false patriotism is one of the tools that the Military Industrial Congressional Complex uses to keep our nation in constant war while using the deceptive phraseology of “Support the Troops;” the same troops that they are mis-using as bullet sponges and paid assassins.
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National Socialist candidate launches website
By Fred Church Ortiz on May 29, 2008 4:17 PM
Brian Holland, the presidential nominee of the National Socialist Movement, has just launched his under-construction campaign website with the following message:
Brian Holland is an American Patriot and a National Socialist.
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Huckabee: Libertarianism ‘not an American message’; LP responds
By Administrative Team on May 29, 2008 3:00 PM
LP press release:
Washington, D.C. – In a recent interview with Huffington Post contributor Will Mari, former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee called libertarianism “not an American message,” stating libertarianism was a “soulless type of economic conservatism” and a threat to Republicanism.…