August 18, 2009
We have just confirmed that Rio Grande Foundation president Paul Gessing will be included as a member of Rep. Martin Heinrich’s health care panel at his upcoming town hall meeting this Saturday, August 22, 2009. The event will be held...
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06:46 PM
June 29, 2009
(Albuquerque)— Congress recently approved $8 billion for President Obama's high-speed rail program without ever asking what the total cost would be, how to pay for it, or who would ride the trains. The administration’s proposed high-speed rail plan will cost...
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12:18 PM
June 18, 2009
Albuquerque)—David Boaz, one of the most prominent libertarian thinkers in the nation and one of its best public speakers, will be discussing “Freedom in Crisis” at a luncheon event in Albuquerque on Tuesday, July 28. With Newsweek having proclaimed “We...
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06:11 PM
June 15, 2009
(Albuquerque) – Victor Bruno is one of the best-known and most respected commercial real estate brokers in Albuquerque and the entire state of New Mexico. He has been involved in commercial real estate in Albuquerque since 1973. Bruno will be...
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05:14 PM
June 02, 2009
(Albuquerque) – Media outlets, politicians, and planning bureaucrats often cite Portland, Oregon as being a “model for urban (government) planning. Government officials from around the nation, including Albuquerque, have studied Portland. Many would like to make their cities more like...
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05:43 PM
March 25, 2009
(Albuquerque, NM)—Specific proposals that several Western states would implement to comply with a proposed cap-and-trade carbon emissions control pact would destroy jobs and erode income, according to a report co-released by an economics institute. In a thorough review of the...
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12:44 PM
March 16, 2009
(Albuquerque) – Are you concerned that our elected officials are mortgaging our nation’s future? Do you worry what our government really owes to debtors in China, the Middle East, and around the world? Did you know that the federal debt...
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06:13 PM
March 02, 2009
(Albuquerque) – Will you be able to get health care if Obama succeeds in socializing American medicine? Will New Mexicans be able to obtain care or just sit on a waiting list waiting for a bureaucrat’s approval? Find out the...
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09:48 PM
August 14, 2008
(Albuquerque) The Rio Grande Foundation has launched a new online tool for New Mexicans wanting to better follow how legislation moves through their Legislature. This site, called “New Mexico Votes” which can be found online at www.newmexicovotes.org will be available...
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07:23 PM
August 05, 2008
Albuquerque — The Rio Grande Foundation and Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy will be hosting a series of free screenings of the British documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle” statewide August 20-August 22. A discussion of the film and the...
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03:10 PM
May 08, 2008
Mark you calendars now! The Rio Grande Foundation and CARE (the Citizen’s Alliance for Responsible Energy) are partnering to bring a powerful film event to New Mexico! On May 20-22 we will be showing the movie Mine Your Own Business...
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05:59 PM
February 05, 2008
(Albuquerque) With the legislative session in full-swing and health care at the top of the agenda, it is easy to forget that K-12 education is the single-largest item in the annual budget, consuming nearly 50 percent of the state’s general...
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11:10 AM
January 17, 2008
(Albuquerque) Governor Bill Richardson’s health care proposal, the so-called “Health Solutions New Mexico” plan, would essentially enslave physicians and would greatly harm New Mexicans’ ability to obtain private health care if it is passed, so says Linda Gorman, author of...
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03:21 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 17, 2008 CONTACT: Jay Stanley, (202) 715-0818, JStanley@dcaclu.org WASHINGTON – A systematic analysis of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) final regulations for the Real ID Act reveals that the regulations still address only 11 percent...
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11:11 AM
January 07, 2008
(Albuquerque) When the 2008 legislative session kicks off next week, health care, specifically the passage of Governor Richardson’s proposed “universal coverage,” plan will be at the top of the agenda. Unfortunately for New Mexicans, the proposal fails to address the...
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10:54 AM
November 27, 2007
(Albuquerque) On Tuesday, December 4th at 7pm, the Rio Grande Foundation will host the New Mexico premier of the new film “The Call of the Entrepreneur.” This is a free event. This short (approximately one hour long), dynamic documentary presented...
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10:19 AM
November 05, 2007
(Albuquerque) New Mexico has seen a variety of educational reforms over the years. In fact, the one constant in New Mexico education has been constant reform. Unfortunately, as a new study by Rio Grande Foundation scholar Harry Messenheimer, PhD, illustrates,...
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04:43 PM
September 24, 2007
(Albuquerque) Roundhouse watchers expect health care reform to be the most important single issue dealt with during the 2008 legislative session in Santa Fe. Among the reforms on the table is the Health Security Act, which would set up a...
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04:32 PM
September 10, 2007
Economist Challenges Leading Anti-Smoking Advocates in Econ Journal Watch (Fairfax, Virginia) In the latest issue of Econ Journal Watch, economist David Henderson dissects and rejects the claims of anti-tobacco researchers Benjamin Alamar and Stanton Glantz that smoking-bans are good for...
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06:47 AM
September 06, 2007
(Albuquerque) New Mexico’s free market think tank, the Rio Grand Foundation, the state’s leading journal of public policy, Capitol Report, and the New Mexico Alliance for Legal Reform are hosting Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund for lunch at the...
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04:38 PM
August 23, 2007
The New Mexico Outrageous Law Contest, organized by Rio Grand Foundation and the New Mexico Alliance for Legal Reform, seeks examples of New Mexico laws, local ordinances, and administrative rules and regulations that ought to be repealed. A total of...
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04:32 PM
August 13, 2007
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) New Mexico’s free market think tank, the Rio Grande Foundation, has made public on its website www.riograndefoundation.org the first known tool for comparing local tax burdens in New Mexico. Using publicly-available property tax and gross receipts tax...
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11:43 AM
July 02, 2007
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) Over the weekend, New Mexico’s 2007 fiscal year ended and its 2008 fiscal year began. With that transition, the Rio Grande Foundation’s “Spend-O-Meter,” which tracks the amount of money the state spends, will start spending 9 percent...
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11:27 AM
May 17, 2007
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) – The respected business accounting firm Ernst & Young has released a new study of state and local business tax policies among the 50 states. Among the study’s important findings is the fact that New Mexico’s state...
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11:48 AM
April 09, 2007
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) – The 2007 legislative session was by all accounts one of the busiest 60-day sessions in memory. With action taken on issues ranging from the momentous to the mundane, sometimes important legislation slips by unnoticed. This was...
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12:16 PM
March 05, 2007
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) – A new study released today by the Rio Grande Foundation called “Hood or Robin Hood? State Governments and the Reduction of Poverty,” takes a close look at the states’ records on poverty reduction during the 1990s....
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11:09 AM
February 22, 2007
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) – With the House of Representatives having just passed a spending increase of nearly 11 percent for FY 2008, taxpayers may be left wondering how they are going to pay for this largesse, especially when oil and...
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11:10 AM
February 16, 2007
(Alexandria, VA) -- By ordering federal agencies to strictly comply with a recently enacted law designed to curtail special-interest "earmarks" in spending programs, the White House has lent an ear to taxpayers and a helping hand to budget process reform....
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06:24 PM
February 14, 2007
Arlington, Va. - “Eminent domain has become what the founding fathers sought to prevent: a tool that takes from the poor and the politically weak to give to the rich and politically powerful,” concludes Dr. Mindy Fullilove in her new...
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08:45 PM
February 05, 2007
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) – New Mexico’s gross receipts tax is the dominant and defining feature of tax policy in the state. No other state in the country levies such a broad tax at such high rates while also taxing personal...
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12:32 PM
January 16, 2007
Arlington, Va.—“Your money or your property” may soon become the mantra of politically connected developers nationwide as the result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s announcement today that it will not consider the appeal of an eminent domain case involving attempted...
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12:10 PM
December 16, 2006
The Loudoun County, Virginia Board of Supervisors will on Tuesday, December 19 honor the life and works of free-market economist Milton Friedman by naming his birthday, all subsequent anniversaries, as "Milton Friedman Day" in the county. "Loudoun County owes its...
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07:39 PM
October 17, 2006
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) If New Mexico were to adopt strict Constitutional limits on taxes and spending, personal incomes in the state could see significant gains, so say Dr. Harry Messenheimer and Paul Gessing in a new study. In 1992, Colorado...
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04:26 PM
September 27, 2006
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) In a just-released study by the U.S.-based National Center for Policy Analysis www.ncpa.org and Canada-based Fraser Institute http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/, New Mexico government is taken to task for burdening its citizens with some of the highest taxes and regulatory...
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11:24 AM
September 16, 2006
Arlington, Va.—Blazing Bagels owner Dennis Ballen and the Institute for Justice Washington Chapter (IJ-WA) won an important First Amendment victory today when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that the City of Redmond’s ban on portable signs containing...
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01:42 PM
September 02, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ryan Lynch August 31, 2006 (773) 512-3546 ryan@SecureOurFuture.org President Bush Names Social Security Reform One of Top Domestic Priorities Washington, D.C.-Students for Saving Social Security (S4), a non-partisan group with over 4,000 members, was re-energized today...
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06:31 AM
August 23, 2006
For further Information, Contact: Paul Gessing 505-264-6090 (Albuquerque, New Mexico) The Albuquerque Journal recently publicized Census data indicating that New Mexico is becoming an increasingly popular destination for people to move to from other states. According to the August 17...
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05:08 PM
August 03, 2006
For further Information, Contact: Paul Gessing 505-264-6090 (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Parents in our neighboring state of Arizona enjoy the greatest array of school choice programs available nationwide. Earlier this year, those choices were further expanded for an especially needy group...
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04:07 PM
July 26, 2006
Arlington, Va. - Today, in an historic ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously held that the City of Norwood could not use eminent domain to take Carl and Joy Gamble’s home of 35 years, as well as the rental home...
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03:03 PM
July 13, 2006
(Washington, DC) By the close of the 2006 Libertarian National Convention that took place in Portland, Ore. on July 1 and 2, it was clear that history had been made. While delegates conducted their standard business of electing new Libertarian...
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01:49 PM
July 12, 2006
For further Information, Contact: Paul Gessing 505-264-6090 (Albuquerque, New Mexico) In cooperation with the Washington, DC-based grassroots organization Americans for Prosperity, the Rio Grande Foundation is calling for New Mexico’s elected officials in Washington to stop abusing earmarks. The “Ending...
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10:19 AM
July 11, 2006
For further Information, Contact: Paul Gessing 505-264-6090 (Albuquerque, New Mexico) In late June, the Governor’s Task Force on Ethics Reform issued recommendations that included paying salaries to legislators for their work. The panel cited the expenses legislators bear in communicating...
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12:50 AM
July 03, 2006
Reform Caucus Finds Huge Victory at Libertarian Convention (Portland, OR) In a dramatic weekend at the Libertarian Party National Convention in Portland, OR, Libertarian Reform Caucus (LRC) members worked to substantially alter the party platform. The Libertarian Party (LP) is...
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11:48 PM
July 02, 2006
For further Information, Contact: Paul Gessing 505-264-6090 (Albuquerque, New Mexico) How fast does New Mexico’s state government spend taxpayer dollars? In FY 2006, the state spent approximately $380 of your money every second. In FY 2007, with total state spending...
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03:31 PM
May 11, 2006
(Albuquerque, New Mexico) The Rio Grande Foundation raised new questions today about the funding sources for New Mexico’s commuter rail system, known as the “Rail Runner,” which is set to begin service later this year. Signage (shown below) at commuter...
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08:56 PM
May 06, 2006
For Immediate ReleaseTuesday, May 2, 2006For further information, contact:Paul Gessing at 505-264-6090 (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Today, the Rio Grande Foundation and 52 other grassroots and policy organizations nationwide called on Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to bring to the Senate...
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12:11 PM
May 02, 2006
Thanks to political columnist Bob Ingram, Loretta Nall is best known lately for two things -- both of them on her chest. "In 55 years of political writing," Ingram noted in a recent column about a photo of Nall, "that...
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05:32 PM
November 04, 2005
For Immediate Release October 31, 2005 Arlington, VA USA – The Wingbeat Project - a non-partisan social entrepreneurship venture - has announced it will launch a series of monthly contests designed to gather the best ideas in social change. Winning...
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05:18 AM
July 18, 2005
Washington, D.C.-The U.S. Supreme Court has one final chance to correct one of its most-despised decisions in recent memory-its ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, which allows the use of eminent domain for private development. Today the Institute...
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02:15 PM
June 28, 2005
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND -- The Rhode Island House today passed medical marijuana bill H.B. 6052, the Edward O. Hawkins/Thomas Slater Medical Marijuana Act, by a 52-10 vote. The bill now awaits a procedural vote in the Senate-which previously passed companion...
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11:07 PM
May 16, 2005
Institute for Justice, Small Wineries and Consumers Toast U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Washington, D.C.-In a case with huge implications for interstate and electronic commerce, the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Justice and its clients today hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision...
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02:03 PM
March 30, 2005
Bill Would Allow Compassionate Care to Seriously Ill Patients Medicine with a Recommendation from their Doctor 76% of Alabama Residents Believe Adults Should be Allowed to Use Marijuana for Medical Purposes MONTGOMERY - This Thursday, an Alabama legislator will introduce...
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02:40 PM
March 23, 2005
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has joined the “Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances” coalition, citing specific concerns over the threat to medical privacy as a result of provisions of the Patriot Act, as announced at a news...
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05:07 PM
March 10, 2005
IJ Pledges to Defend Utah’s Carson Smith Scholarships Washington, D.C.-The Institute for Justice today hailed the signing of the nation’s newest school choice program and the second for specifically special needs students. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is scheduled to...
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12:15 PM
March 09, 2005
Washington, D.C.-Today the Mississippi Senate voted to let African hairbraiders get to work and to set them free from the unnecessary and irrelevant cosmetology regulations that had kept them from legally practicing their craft. With only two dissenting votes, the...
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10:29 PM
March 07, 2005
Consumer coalition mobilizes appeal against HHS in two-year legal battle to restore protection of private health information Philadelphia, PA-- In April 2003, every American lost a precious constitutional right—the fundamental right to determine who has access to their personal health...
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04:21 PM
January 02, 2005
(Alexandria, VA) – The House of Representatives rules changes proposed by the Republican Study Committee (RSC) could help improve Congressional stewardship of hard-earned – but easily spent – tax dollars, according to an issue brief released by the non-partisan National...
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01:44 AM
December 22, 2004
On Tuesday December 14, 2004 the New York chapter of Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT NY) filed suit against the Student Association of the University of Albany, State University of New York. The suit was filed in U.S....
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01:01 PM
November 24, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Just in time for Thanksgiving, Congress has passed another obscenely expensive budget bill crammed with pork -- and turkey, and potatoes, and soybeans, and bananas, and 11,768 other items that have no business being purchased with taxpayers' money,...
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06:27 PM
November 11, 2004
David Cobb and Michael Badnarik, the 2004 Green and Libertarian presidential candidates, today announced their joint intent to secure a recount of presidential ballots cast in Ohio. "Due to widespread reports of irregularities in Ohio's voting process, we are...
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01:29 PM
November 04, 2004
Glen Allen, VA - Early in the morning this election day, George Marchenko, chairman of the Henrico County Libertarian Party, was peacefully participating in electoral politics and exercising his right to express himself. At about 8:30 AM, he placed three...
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04:49 PM
October 27, 2004
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Oct. 27 -- Three-quarters of a million people have taken an online political quiz in the final months before the Nov. 2 election -- suggesting that vast numbers of undecided voters are searching for a final ideological insight...
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09:33 AM
Washington, DC: After four environmental leaders (Carol Browner former EPA Commissioner, Deb Callahan of the League of Conservation Voters, Carl Pope of the Sierra Club and Rodger Schlickeisen of the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund) wrote Ralph Nader asking for...
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12:39 AM
WASHINGTON -- Move over, Ralph Nader: A New York Times columnist says that Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik could be 'critical' to the outcome of the 2004 election, and that the party's 2000 candidate may have cost Bush at least four...
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12:33 AM
Last Friday, Governor Mike Easley announced his support for a state constitutional amendment that denies same-sex couples access to marriage and other forms of relationship recognition. Equality NC PAC had previously endorsed him based on his past statements, but the...
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12:31 AM
October 26, 2004
Public Advocate of the United States, a Virginia-based pro-family organization, is continuing its cake for marriage tour in Greenville, SC and Asheville, NC on Tuesday, October 26, 2004. Volunteers from Public Advocate wearing traditional wedding attire will participate in a...
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12:26 AM
October 08, 2004
From the Badnarik campaign: Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Party's 2004 presidential nominee, will debate John Kerry and George W. Bush in St. Louis on Friday. Or he'll go to jail instead. "A majority of Americans say that I should be...
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02:58 PM
October 07, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va. – Cornell University’s student government has pulled funding from The Cornell American, a conservative student newspaper. The American was slated to receive money from a student activities fund this September, but the board who oversees the fund recently...
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02:09 PM
October 01, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The argument on Iraq between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry in last night's debate proves that neither man is qualified to be commander-in-chief, Libertarians say. "The president stubbornly defended his decision to launch an unnecessary war...
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12:56 PM
September 28, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite growing opposition to long mandatory minimum prison terms, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will consider imposing new, even more draconian mandatory minimums on nonviolent drug offenders on Thursday, Sept. 23, in...
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04:29 AM
NEW YORK - Today, the American Civil Liberties Union launched Fighting For Marriage, an online resource designed to give local activists the tools to defeat proposals that would amend state constitutions so that same-sex couples could never be legally recognized....
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04:26 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Libertarian and Green candidates for president will hold a debate on Thursday featuring something the Bush-Kerry debate will lack: a small-government perspective. "If you like gigantic government spending, towering deficits and the festering war in Iraq, tune...
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04:25 AM
September 23, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va. – A Ball State University graduate assistant didn’t like Amanda Carpenters new online conservative student publication, BSYou.net. He fought back by superimposing Carpenter’s face on pornographic pictures and posting them on a local blog. Christopher Wendt, 29, also...
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10:02 AM
September 11, 2004
Boston, MA - Pink Pistols, a national organization dedicated to educating the alternative sexual community on the need for armed self-defense, has endorsed Michael Badnarik's candidacy for president. "We're excited to endorse the only candidate in this election who stands...
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12:44 AM
September 09, 2004
Pat LaMarche’s “Left Out Tour” to highlight those "Left Out" in America Green Party vice presidential candidate Pat LaMarche today announced her upcoming “Left Out Tour,” an unprecedented two week journey designed to draw attention to those living on the...
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10:20 AM
Las Vegas, NV - In a tight presidential election which may be decided by a few battleground states, small parties can become big players. Nowhere is this truer than in Nevada. Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik is suddenly a high...
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10:13 AM
September 01, 2004
WASHINGTON -- If George Bush is really a compassionate conservative, as the Republican Party claimed again on Tuesday night, he should prove it by reimbursing taxpayers for the $40 million cost of the New York convention, the Libertarian Party says....
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04:40 PM
August 28, 2004
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., August 25, 2004—A federal lawsuit was filed today against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) by Alpha Iota Omega (AIO), a Christian fraternity that was denied recognition by UNC because it would not agree...
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09:02 PM
August 26, 2004
New York - The first multi-party presidential debate of the 2004 election cycle comes to New York on August 31st. Representatives of Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, and Green Party candidate David Cobb, have confirmed that they will participate in...
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08:59 PM
August 25, 2004
Winchester, VA -- The Virginia Circuit Court heard arguments in a dispute between Lisa Miller, a former lesbian, and her ex-partner, Janet Jenkins, who is suing for joint custody of Miller's daughter who was born while the couple were together....
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03:31 AM
August 24, 2004
Washington, DC: The campaign of Ralph Nader and Peter Miguel Camejo notes that a report by the Center for Responsive Politics provides reliable data that, among the Nader donors surveyed, Republican donors who are funding George W. Bush are giving...
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11:54 PM
August 19, 2004
Albuquerque, NM - After two weeks of advertising and a week in New Mexico, twin Rasmussen polls show Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik right where he started: At five percent. And he's okay with that. "We're a small campaign," says...
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10:23 PM
August 18, 2004
Washington, DC: Ralph Nader criticized the the Department of Agriculture, which Abraham Lincoln once called the "People's Department," into the "Agribusiness Industry Department." Nader chided the Bush administration for filling its leadership with representatives of the industry, trade associations and...
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12:03 PM
WASHINGTON, DC -- President Bush's plan for a massive realignment of U.S. troops is half right, says Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik: All U.S. forces should be re-deployed -- right back to the United States. "Bush wants to remove U.S....
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11:52 AM
Green presidential candidate David Cobb said today that creating renewable energy independence for the United States would bolster our ailing economy and create millions of jobs. The federal government reported on Friday that the U.S. trade deficit in June was...
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11:49 AM
August 15, 2004
SANTA FE, NM - In a close presidential election which may turn on the results in a few "battleground" states, every vote counts. Or does it? Despite the 2000 Florida voting fiasco, which held up election results and ultimately sent...
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11:29 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders hailed last night's decision by Federal Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., which struck down as "contrary to the law" the Federal Election Commission's (FEC) refusal to allow challenges to the bipartisan Commission on Presidential...
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11:25 PM
Washington, DC: Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo accepted the nomination of the Independent Party of Delaware today and will appear on the Delaware ballot on their Party line. The Nader/Camejo Campaign is very pleased to receive the nomination of the...
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11:23 PM
August 12, 2004
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has created a coalition of more than a dozen non-profits opposing the policies of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) that require charities to check their employees against a...
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02:40 PM
WASHINGTON--Americans pay far more than the rest of the world for American-made "miracle" drugs, yet our law prohibits us from buying those drugs abroad and "reimporting" them home. The ban should be lifted, argues a new Cato Institute study, not...
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02:37 PM
WASHINGTON, DC -- Angry about sky-high gasoline prices? Then blame the politicians in Washington, DC, whose federal fuel tax has raised the cost of fuel by 18 cents a gallon, Libertarians say. “Uncle Sam is a greedy price gouger, and...
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02:33 PM
August 09, 2004
Albuquerque, NM - Will the 2004 election turn on New Mexico's five electoral votes? It's impossible to tell -- but the nation's presidential hopefuls are converging on this battleground state for a showdown. The decisive factor may very well be...
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04:01 AM
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Today, the Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) released its Health Insurance Mandates in the States publication. This report details the health insurance mandates found in each state. Currently there are 1,823 mandates across America. “At a...
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03:32 AM
PHOENIX -- Although many of us regularly cast an anxious eye on what's going on in Washington, our friendly local government officials are picking our pockets, stealing our property and suppressing our speech. And most of the time, we don't...
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03:21 AM