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Hey everyone! Did you know you have a choice?
Most of us vote for the Republicans or the Democrats, but what people don't realize is that we have other options. The third parties have their own solutions to problems, and they're adults like anyone else. The media treats them like they're little kids playing dress-up, while the big boys play real politics.
Please do some research into the third parties before you vote this November. I know they will not win this year, but if more people started supporting them, we could oneday see a Libertarian or Green president, or even, logic and reason-forbid, a Constitutionalist president.
Oh and, for those who read my last post on this blog, I appologize for the use of a poster by the Nazi Party of Switzerland. I didn't know. I can't read German.
Back to this, imagine if you could only choose between two brands of milk, and both were old and stale and full of cow shit. That's what the two major parties are like. We need fresh ideas in the white house. Most of us vote for the Republicans or the Democrats, but what people don't realize is that we have other options. The third par... more -
Bush shuts Barr out
Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics notes that Bob Barr apparently requested that President Bush allow him to be involved in the bailout negotiations, with predictable results. Here’s the press release from Barr’s campaign:
“I respectfully request to be included in the discussions with congressional leaders, Senators McCain and Obama and representatives of your administration,” Barr.... Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics notes that Bob Barr apparently requested that President Bush allow him to be involved in the bailout ... more -
"I Am Mad As Hell And I Am Not Going To Take It Anymore!"
There's only one thing that can stop the Government bailing out Wall Street. You! You! So, I want you to get up now. I want you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the phone. I want you to get up from your chairs, go to the phone, and call your congressman, call the White house, Email them Fax them. I want you to Email and send a Fax to the White House. By midnight tonight, I want millions of Emails and Fax's in the White House and to Congress. I want them wading knee-deep in Fax's and Emails at the White House and in Congress. There's only one thing that can stop the Government bailing out Wall Street. You! You! So, I want you to get up now. I want you t... more
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Campaign Update 09/24/08
Joe Biden continues to speak, Sarah Palin talks kids with Karzai, and Ron Paul throws the libertarian community into a non-governmental tizzy.
CAMPAIGN UPDATE knows that election news and weird jokes go together like a popped-collar meathead and a vacant-eyed blonde. Created by Mark Ganek and Brett Erlich, Campaign Update strives to be the dumbest smart show on television.
Bookmark us and check us out every weekday at current.com/campaignupdate. Joe Biden continues to speak, Sarah Palin talks kids with Karzai, and Ron Paul throws the libertarian community into a non-governmenta... more -
Time to Fight the Real War on Terror
The terrorists we must fight are not crouched in caves thousands of miles away.
The terrorists we must fight are threatening us with financial weapons of mass destruction that are destroying our economic system. The terrorists we must fight are not crouched in caves thousands of miles away. ... more -
Washington Times Video Interview of Bob Barr
As always, Bob Barr manages to make his case for less government and more freedom with wit and humor. Poking fun at his background with the CIA and the Republican Party, this interview with host Ralph Z. Hallow highlights the current administration’s infringement of our rights in the name of security and Senator McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin. As always, Bob Barr manages to make his case for less government and more freedom with wit and humor. Poking fun at his background wi... more
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Barr’s strategy to win Texas?
Over at TalkLeft, there is dismissal of Barr’s lawsuit aimed at getting the major party candidates removed from the ballot:
Barr thinks the two major party candidates missed state-imposed deadlines to be certified as their party’s candidate and should therefore be removed from the Texas ballot. Over at TalkLeft, there is dismissal of Barr’s lawsuit aimed at getting the major party candidates removed from the ballot: ... more -
Setup For A Crash
Nothing like a midnight press release from the SEC to let us know that all is well:
SEC Halts Short Selling of Financial Stocks to Protect Investors and MarketsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Commission Also Takes Steps to Increase Market Transparency and Liquidity
Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008 — The Securities and Exchange Commission, acting in concert with the U.K. Nothing like a midnight press release from the SEC to let us know that all is well: ... more -
The CBLDF Defends Liberty
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has appointed a new Deputy Director and Fundraising Manager. Here’s some of the press release:
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Scigliano as the organization’s new Deputy Director, and Jill Friedman as Fundraising Manager. Under long-time Executive Director Charles Brownstein, Scigliano and Friedman will advance the organization’s mission, fundraising, and membership programs. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has appointed a new Deputy Director and Fundraising Manager. Here’s some of the press release: ... more -
Barr’s Lawsuit: An Exercise in Futility
Having been covered by newsites, several blogs and even the main-stream media (see here, here, and here), the details and background behind the lawsuit filed by Bob Barr against the Texas Secretary of State, requesting the removal of McCain and Obama from the Texas ballot, has become fairly common knowledge. Having been covered by newsites, several blogs and even the main-stream media (see here, here, and here), the details and background ... more
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Gas prices, market crash, and the future
Recently, I was in a discussion about a good friend of mine who serves in the Alabama legislature. In the conversation, I mentioned this individual and said you can count on that person to do what is right. Recently, I was in a discussion about a good friend of mine who serves in the Alabama legislature. In the conversation, I mentioned th... more
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Abolish the Department of Education!
Interestingly, this video is from a government-funded television show in the United Kingdom. The idea of government interference being cumbersome to the intentions of a program, and the bureaucracy that accompanies it is not all that foreign,...Read more... Interestingly, this video is from a government-funded television show in the United Kingdom. The idea of government interference bein... more
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Presidential Debate Live Blog
Please join us for the first of three Presidential Debates at 8:30 PM Eastern time on Friday, September 26th for a live-blog of the evening’s discussion. United Liberty will be providing commentary to complement the live television coverage, and your comments are certainly welcome. This event will be covered by the United Liberty writers along with special guest bloggers Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Nancy Robbins of Liberty Cafe, and Matt Colvin of campaignforlibertea.com. Please join us for the first of three Presidential Debates at 8:30 PM Eastern time on Friday, September 26th for a live-blog of the ev... more
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Nader, Barr muscle onto the Nov. ballots
Third-party presidential candidates Ralph Nader and Bob Barr will be on nearly all of the state ballots on Nov. 4, according to their campaigns and independent tallies, raising the threat they could be spoilers on Election Day and siphon key votes away from Barack Obama and John McCain.
Nader, the left-leaning independent, won more than 2.7 percent of the vote as the Green Party candidate in the 2000 election, when Republican George W. Bush barely squeaked by Democrat Al Gore. Many Democrats blame Nader for taking votes from Gore and tilting the election to Bush.
This campaign season, Nader and Barr together are drawing about 3.3 percent of the vote in recent polls – easily enough to swing the results in a tight race, as the contest is shaping up to be.
“If the race remains close, anything could tip the difference,” said non-partisan pollster Scott Rasmussen. He cautioned, however, that both Nader and Barr were slipping in recent surveys, and could decline even more by Election Day.
“People who are unhappy with a candidate say they will vote for a third party, but they get more dissatisfied with the possibility of helping the greater evil win as the election gets closer,” Rasmussen said.
Nader is on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia, but he missed the ballots in Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma and voter-rich Texas, all of which are leaning towards McCain, according to recent surveys.
“Nader was prudent,” said Richard Winger, a ballot access expert who is advising the minor party candidates and who provided an authoritative list of the state ballots for November. “He knew what all the laws were and didn’t waste his money on the five that were too hard.”
Cynthia McKinney, a former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia, is the Green Party’s candidate in November and is on the ballot in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Chuck Baldwin, the nominee of the Constitution Party, a right-leaning counterpart to the Greens, is on 37 state ballots, according to Winger’s tally.
Nader is on the ballot in two more states this year than in 2000, when he made the cut in 43 states, but his potential Electoral College tally is smaller this time because he did not qualify for the ballot in the mega-state of Texas. Instead, he added smaller states such as Idaho, Wyoming and South Dakota to the places where he will run.
Bob Barr, the former Republican congressman from Georgia who is the Libertarian Party candidate, made the ballot in at least 44 states, according to Winger. Barr did not make the ballot in D.C. or West Virginia, and he is challenging Connecticut’s decision to drop him from the rolls after the state invalidated signatures on his candidate petitions and said that he did not reach the minimum.
Barr also has mounted court challenges to rulings leaving him off the ballots in Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts and Oklahoma.
In Louisiana, Barr asserts, the Secretary of State’s office was closed for a week because of Hurricane Gustav when the petition filing deadline elapsed. In Maine, Barr submitted some petitions a day late, but he claims that deadlines were never rigidly enforced in the past. In Oklahoma, Barr is asking a federal court to hold that the state’s ballot requirements, which are among the toughest in the country, are too onerous, citing as evidence that only the Republican and Democratic candidates qualified for the ballot in 2004 and this year.
On Monday Barr defeated a court challenge from a Republican Party official in Pennsylvania who argued that the Libertarian Party had improperly substituted Barr’s name for another candidate’s who had been submitted earlier. It was the only state where Republicans have challenged him.
Massachusetts blocked Barr from the ballot for a similar reason, and he is contesting that decision as well. Third-party presidential candidates Ralph Nader and Bob Barr will be on nearly all of the state ballots on Nov. 4, according to their ... more -
Bob Barr & The War On Drugs
Bob Barr lays out why he has changed his mind on the issue of federal drug policy. He also lays out how he would change the policy as President: Read More.... Bob Barr lays out why he has changed his mind on the issue of federal drug policy. He also lays out how he would change the policy as ... more
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Bob Barr on the Presidential Debates
Libertarian Presidential Nominee Bob Barr weighs in on the upcoming debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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Bob Barr on the Glenn Beck show.
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Campaign Update 09/11/08
John McCain goes after Barack Obama, third parties have a party, and a pig tries on some lipstick.
CAMPAIGN UPDATE knows that election news and weird jokes go together like a popped-collar meathead and a vacant-eyed blonde. Created by Mark Ganek and Brett Erlich, Campaign Update strives to be the dumbest smart show on television.
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Ron Paul appears with Nader, McKinney, and others to demand Open Debates
He appeared at a news conference with three third-party candidates: independent Ralph Nader; former Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate; and Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate. Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, was invited but said at his own news conference later that he declined because Paul didn't endorse one candidate.
"We need today, now, 55 days before this election, bold, focused, specific leadership and that is not the amorphous kind that says any of the above or none of the above," Barr said.
Barr said he had asked Paul to join him as his running mate on the Libertarian Party ticket while his current running mate, Wayne Root would step aside. "We don't anticopate that he will," Barr said.
Earlier, Paul called the presidential elections a charade and said voters are faced with the "lesser of two evils."
The majority of Americans, about 60 percent, are unhappy with their choices in the race, Paul said. He urged the three third-party candidates to bring all their supporters together to vote against the "establishment candidates."
Paul, 73, a former doctor, ran for president as the Libertarian candidate in 1988. He is unopposed in the November race for his congressional seat.
Nader derided media focus on what he called "lipstickgate," referring to the bickering between the McCain and Barack Obama campaigns over whether a phrase used by Obama was a sexist comment against Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Nader, a consumer protection advocate, acknowledged differences among the third-party candidates such as government regulation of health and safety standards. But he added that he shares Paul's support for more opportunity in the political process for third-party candidates. He appeared at a news conference with three third-party candidates: independent Ralph Nader; former Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia Mc... more -
Bob Barr Asks Ron Paul to Be His Running Mate
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