Judge: Barr will be on Pa.'s presidential ballot

A Pennsylvania judge's ruling that keeps Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr on the ballot will force Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama to take him seriously in a key battleground state, a Barr campaign spokesman said Monday.

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Former Ga. Rep. Barr picked as Libertarian candidate

The Libertarian Party on Sunday picked former Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its presidential candidate after six rounds of balloting.

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Democrat Gravel Switches to Libertarian

Long-shot presidential candidate Mike Gravel told supporters Wednesday he is leaving the Democratic Party to join the Libertarian Party.

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Ex-Rep. Barr Quits GOP for Libertarians

A former Georgia congressman who helped spark President Clinton's impeachment has quit the Republican Party to become a Libertarian, saying he is disillusioned with the GOP on issues such as spending and privacy.

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40 States Re-Examining Eminent Domain

The city wants Anna DeFaria's home, and if she doesn't sell willingly, officials are going to take it from the 80-year-old retired pre-school teacher.

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Glenn Beck, the popular and outspoken Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base — formerly known as his audience — to take action.

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This past Saturday when President Obama bowed to the Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko he created a new presidential precedent.

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A self-styled Muslim cleric is accused of sending letters to the families of seven soldiers who died in Afghanistan, calling them criminals, murderers and killers who were fighting a war of invasion.

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The House ethics committee said Thursday it's investigating whether California Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock — and whether the couple benefited as a result.

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If I were a conservative, I would probably tout the new Gallup study showing that conservatives now outnumber moderates, as Bill Kristol did in his column on Tuesday.

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It really will be OK, Americans!

I have spent untold hours on Newsvine trying to become more informed about current events. I have explored everything from Obama's birth certificate debacle to the potential unconstitutionality of health care reform.

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glenn beck must be stopped !!

I'm not a big fan of glenn beck -- he's a bit too populist and bombastic for my tastes. But I do tune in occasionally to see what kind of hell he is raising with obama.

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POLL: If I had a million dollars.....

The Bare Naked Ladies had a song a few years ago that was SOOO cute and was such a "feel good" kind of song! If you had a million dollars, what would YOU do with it? Would you blow it on 'nothing and everything'? Would you spend it 'efficiently'?

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An engineer copied thousands of electronic documents and stole trade secrets before quitting Ford Motor Co. for a new job in China, authorities said Thursday in announcing criminal charges.

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"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die." Robert Reich

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Debunking pirate myths reveals how hidden economic forces generate social order

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Conventional economics suggests that, to prevent overuse and degradation of these common resources, central government control or privatization is necessary.

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A Government of the People, for the People and by the People

I've been thinking about this idea for awhile and I guess I just need to get it out, it seems timely. Our government is and has been for a number of years seemingly incapable of making the tough decisions.

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Those without health insurance are much more likely to live in strongly Democratic Congressional districts and many of those contain large minority populations with relatively low incomes.

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A San Francisco murder suspect's attorney sought assurances Wednesday that he would not be arrested for arranging what prosecutors called a "blatant act of witness intimidation" involving eight suspected gang members who stood up during a witness' testimony.

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The left detests him, and some conservatives say he's undermining the cause. The truth is, he must be doing something right.

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"Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

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As San Francisco schools have cut budgets to the bone, the city's school board president used her district-issued credit card to charge thousands of dollars for personal items and thousands more at city restaurants and cafes, according to a San Francisco Chronicle analysis of fin …

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I'm tired of it....Mr. President!

I haven't really posted much since November...I've been trying to give our not-so-humble leader time to get something going...anything...and all he seems to have accomplished is spend our tax dollars.

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The Huffington Post has made it crystal clear where it stands on the news that director Roman Polanski may have to answer for his 31-year-old crime of child rape: "Move on, everyone. Nothing to see here. Keep on directing, Roman. Love ya!"

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All politics aside, saying a hearty farewell to Bill Safire tonight

I didn't agree with Bill Safire when I was but a young 'en in Des Moines and VP Spirow Agnew came to my home town in 1972 to call the press a bunch of "nattering nabobs of negativism."

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Ron Paul Libertarian/Republican does a tag team town hall meeting with Michelle Bachman poster girl for mental illness in governance.

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We can agree that economic growth is weak. We can agree that family incomes are falling along with house values. We can agree that many Aurora families are making heroic efforts to survive. The last thing we need is another escalating tax increase right now.

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The House voted today to avert a possible government shutdown next week by temporarily extending the current federal budget. But Democrats inserted a provision saying that ACORN could not receive funding under the stopgap measure or any prior legislation.

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The fear of lawsuits among doctors does seem to lead to a noticeable amount of wasteful treatment..$60 billion a year, or about 3 percent of overall medical spending, is a reasonable upper-end estimate.

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