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On February 5, U.S. District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove issued a 22-page opinion in Libertarian National Committee v Holiday, e.d., 14-63. The issue is whether Kentucky Educational TV excluded the Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. Senate from Kentucky, David Patterson, because of prejudice against him and his views. The ruling grants permission for the Libertarian Party to take depositions from the Kentucky Educational TV officers who made the decision to exclude Patterson. The Defendants had tried to get the case dismissed without any further evidence-gathering. Patterson was one of only three candidates on the …read more

Miami Gardens, FL — On February 15, Lavall Hall had a schizophrenic episode when he grabbed a broom and then went outside in his underwear. Unable to get her son back inside, Hall’s mother called the police for assistance to get her son back to the hospital, as he was only released one week prior.
Hall’s mother says that the police were aware of her son’s condition as they had responded to calls for medical assistance at her home in the past, and that she repeatedly told the officers that he was schizophrenic and bipolar on this evening.
“Don’t hurt my child,” …read more

Scott McLarty, media spokesperson for the Green Party, has this essay at Counterpunch. One of the original ideas is that while Bernie Sanders is campaigning, and easily available (at least for New Hampshire residents), he should be asked to take a position on the Commission on Presidential Debates. …read more

Billings, MT — In January of 2015, two former Yellowstone County Sheriff’s deputies Jason Robinson and Christopher Rudolph opened fire on Loren Simpson and killed him as he attempted to flee their stop.
According to the police, Simpson matched the description of a suspect in an “allegedly stolen vehicle,” and had pursued him down a dead end road. During the officers’ attempt to block him in, Simpson veered to his left to avoid the deputies. However, Robinson, with an AR-15, and Rudolph, with a Shotgun, both opened fire, dumping 54 rounds within 5 seconds into the SUV and Simpson.
The rifle caused …read more

It is rare in recent years for mainstream media to cover the political parties in the U.S. that hold themselves out as socialist. But Politico has this major story about those parties, and the Green Party, and how they react to Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. …read more

Jim Murray has been a student of Nikola Tesla’s work for decades and his inventions based this work have been nothing short of paradigm shifting.
In a recent interview with the Free Thought Project, Murray explained that he was fascinated by Tesla’s incredible claims concerning power generation and transmission, and he vowed to rediscover the great scientist’s undisclosed secrets. Jim’s efforts eventually led him to individuals like Otis T. Carr, who claimed to have known Tesla personally. They also gave him a greater understanding of several lost Tesla secrets.
Murray devoted his life to learning these secrets and because the government seized …read more

NOTICE: The amicus brief we proposed for U.S. v. Graham has been filed by our sister organization, Downsize DC Foundation. You can read about it on the Zero Aggression blog. In fact, you can actually download a pdf of the brief, which is only 7 pages long. Thanks to all who contributed to make this happen.
A great start on One Subject bill by Mia Love & Rand Paul. The next move… Retweet

In our last message, we told you that Representative Mia Love of Utah has re-introduced our “One Subject at a Time Act” (HR 4335) in the House. We told …read more

On February 2, the Georgia Green and Constitution Parties filed this reply brief in Green Party of Georgia v Kemp, n.d., 1:12cv-1822. The issue is the Georgia law that requires independent presidential candidates, and newly-qualifying parties, to submit over 50,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot. …read more

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. -Joseph Stalin (allegedly)

Just after 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton declared herself the winner of the Democratic Party in the much-anticipated Iowa caucuses. Immediately after the ‘victory,’ Clinton went on CNN to bask in her counterfeit fame.
“I am so thrilled,” Clinton told Wolf Blitzer in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “My luck was not that good last time around, and it was wonderful to win the caucus, to have that experience.”
However, as a C-SPAN …read more

The Ninth Circuit has chosen May, 2016, for oral arguments in two important election law cases: (1) Arizona Green Party v Reagan, 14-15976, over Arizona’s February petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties; (2) Democratic Party of Hawaii v Nago, 13-17545, over the Democratic Party’s request for a closed primary for itself. …read more