Gary Johnson for president | Chattanooga Free Press

Gary Johnson for president | Chattanooga Free Press | timesfreepress.com:

October 24, 2012 - "For more than 80 years, the Free Press editorial page has been a voice for free market economic philosophies, personal responsibility and limited, responsible government. Endorsing the presidential candidate who most thoroughly represents those values has been an important function of the Free Press editorial page for nearly as long.

"For most of those election cycles, we have endorsed Republican candidates for president.... This election, however, the Republican Party nominee has failed to demonstrate a consistent commitment to conservative principles.... Mitt Romney is too flawed to earn the Free Press' endorsement.... Romney may be less eager to tax, spend, attack personal freedoms and disregard the constitutional limits on government than his Democratic opponent, President Barack Obama, but only slightly....

"As a result, the Free Press editorial page endorses Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson for President of the United States."

"Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/oct/24/1024b-fp1-gary-johnson-for-president/?opinionfreepress
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Vote for your candidate for Oct. 30 debate in Washington

Free and Equal Elections (FEE) is holding an instant runoff election among the 4 candidates in tonight's FEE presidential debate in Chicago. The two candidates receiving the highest vote will debate again Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C.

In instant runoff voting, a voter ranks all candidates (in this case from 1 to 4). In the first round of voting, only the voters' #1 choices are counted. If no candidates receive a majority, the candidate with the fewest number of votes is dropped, and his voters' ballots are distributed to their #2 choices, and so on for subsequent rounds.

Vote here:
http://live.freeandequal.org/stream.html

Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson in pres. debate - UPI.com

Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson in pres. debate - UPI.com:

October 23, 2012 - "CHICAGO, Oct. 23 (UPI) - U.S. Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson should have been in the Obama-Romney debates, Larry King said before moderating a third-party debate Tuesday....

"Tuesday night's debate, in Chicago at 8 p.m. CDT (9 p.m. EDT), was to bring together Johnson, Green Party nominee and former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Dr. Jill Stein, Constitution Party nominee and former GOP U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia, and Justice Party nominee and former Democratic Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.

"The debate was to be carried live by C-SPAN, al-Jazeera English and RT, or Russia Today, and be streamed live online by Ora TV, Link TV and on the website of debate sponsor Free and Equal Elections Foundation....

"A second debate, with two of the four candidates, is to take place in Washington Oct. 30.... Viewers of the first debate were to be asked to choose through an online runoff vote, within 24 hours of Tuesday's debate, which two candidates they wanted to advance to the final debate.... The results are to be announced Thursday."

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/10/23/3rd-party-presidential-nominees-to-debate/UPI-81511350977400/#ixzz2AAB5TI4E
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Russell Means, American Indian Activist, Dies at 72 - NYTimes.com

Russell Means, American Indian Activist, Dies at 72 - NYTimes.com - Robert D. McFadden:

October 22, 2012 - "Russell C. Means, the charismatic Oglala Sioux who helped revive the warrior image of the American Indian in the 1970s with guerrilla-tactic protests that called attention to the nation’s history of injustices against its indigenous peoples, died on Monday at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was 72....

"He rose to national attention as a leader of the American Indian Movement in 1970 by directing a band of Indian protesters who seized the Mayflower II ship replica at Plymouth, Mass., on Thanksgiving Day.... Later, he orchestrated an Indian prayer vigil atop the federal monument of sculptured presidential heads at Mount Rushmore, S.D., to dramatize Lakota claims to Black Hills land. In 1972, he organized cross-country caravans converging on Washington to protest a century of broken treaties, and led an occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.... And in a 1973 protest covered by the national news media for months, he led hundreds of Indians and white sympathizers in an occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., site of the 1890 massacre of some 350 Lakota men, women and children in the last major conflict of the American Indian wars....

"In 1985 and 1986, he went to Nicaragua to support indigenous Miskito Indians whose autonomy was threatened by the leftist Sandinista government. He reported Sandinista atrocities against the Indians and urged the Reagan administration to aid the victims.... In 1987, Mr. Means ran for president. He sought the Libertarian Party nomination but lost to Ron Paul, a former and future congressman from Texas. In 2002, Mr. Means campaigned independently for the New Mexico governorship but was barred procedurally from the ballot."

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/us/russell-means-american-indian-activist-dies-at-72.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Frightened GOP tries to shut down election competitors

Frightened Republicans Try To Shut Down Election Competitors - Forbes - Doug Bandow:

October 22, 2012 - "The Republican Party claims to believe in freedom.  But not really.  Certainly not if that means being able to vote for someone who truly believes in liberty.

"Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican who cut spending while advocating legalization of marijuana, originally ran for the GOP presidential nomination.  But most of the debate organizers refused to let him join the largely undistinguished candidate herd which included another unknown former governor ... and a businessman with no political experience....

"Johnson switched parties and won the Libertarian Party nomination (joined by former Judge Jim Gray, the vice presidential nominee). Now Republicans fear the LP might take votes away from their candidate....  GOP operatives were able to keep Johnson off the Michigan ballot — after the LP filed the paperwork three minutes late. In Pennsylvania state Republican officials unsuccessfully challenged Johnson’s petition campaign (as elsewhere, the major party duopoly requires its competitors to collect signatures to go before the voters)....

"This is the most important election in a generation (or is that millennium?), GOP apparatchiks proclaim, so any vote for anyone else is wasted. Of course, they said the same thing four years ago. And eight years ago. Alas, in those elections most Americans end up 'wasting their votes' on the two RepubliCrat candidates dedicated to the failed status quo."

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2012/10/22/frightened-republicans-try-to-shut-down-election-competitors/2/
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Libertarian candidates wage online campaigns in races for U.S. Senate, House

Libertarian candidates wage online campaigns in races for U.S. Senate, House - Mike Dennison, Billings Gazette:

October 21, 2012 - "HELENA - "Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Dan Cox ... 36, the owner of a fishing-lure manufacturing firm in Hamilton, is the third man in what has become the most expensive race in Montana history. He’s taking on the incumbent, Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, and the other challenger, Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg.

"But rather than buy campaign advertising by the bushel, as his opponents have done, Cox is relying on the Internet and social networking for his campaign – much like his counterpart in the U.S. House race and fellow Bitterroot Valley resident, Libertarian Dave Kaiser of Victor.

"'I don’t have a yard sign, I don’t have a bumper sticker, I don’t have a (campaign) business card, I don’t have a political powerhouse team protecting me from the media,' says Kaiser. 'I am not a politician. I just speak my mind.'"

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/libertarian-candidates-wage-online-campaigns-in-races-for-u-s/article_cdb9d2db-d90f-5b3b-93dc-82dd02a320ad.html#ixzz29zNxHsHz
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Romney's in a Cult and Ryan's a Satanist? The GOP's 2012 Religion Woes | Alternet

Romney's in a Cult and Ryan's a Satanist? The GOP's 2012 Religion Woes | Alternet - Bruce Wilson:

October 17, 2012 - "Back in 2011 a series of attacks from leading conservative evangelicals darkly warned that Ayn Rand devotees, Paul Ryan included, might be worshiping at the altar of crypto-satanism. Now... a flurry of mainstream media articles cover a controversy erupting after evangelism superstar Billy Graham prayed with (and in effect endorsed) candidate Mitt Romney and observers noticed that an article on the website of Graham's flagship Billy Graham Evangelistic Association identified Mormonism as a 'cult'.

"Yes, really: This year, the Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower is championed by one candidate [whom] conservative evangelical Christians suspect of worshiping odd, fecund Gods who live, love, and multiply on strangely-named foreign planets, and by another candidate enthralled by an economic philosophy that helped birth Anton LaVey's Church of Satan."

Read more: http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/brucewilson/romneys-cult-and-ryans-satanist-gops-2012-religion-woes
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