This is good news for prosecutors in California. While I believe that criminals should have important rights, these rights should prevent the prosecution from doing it’s job, especially in cases like child sex trafficking.

Cool article. There is still way to many states that have closed primaries thus disenfranchising the growing number of independents/unaffiliated voters. Without going as far as implementing top two primaries

Agreed. Political parties have always existed and are needed to organized the political world. However, when the main parties are being rejected by a growing number of citizens, something needs to change.

If I was in the position of one of these member of the House, I would do the same and stay in the majority.

I agree that his moderate positions could attract the support of independents but I am afraid that his foreign policy stance, especially about Syria could deter some independents too. I feel like American people

I would rather have a mandatory ultrasound than a prohibition of abortion after 6 weeks but it is still way to much of a burden on women to put all these requirements. The US is the only developed country that is

The treatment of nuclear waste is indeed the corner stone of the opposition to nuclear. While in the short term, nuclear is by far the best solution to reduce our carbon emission, we have no idea what we are

That was the next thing I was going to look at. Isn’t it crazy that the states with the highest number of non-affiliated voters do not let them participate in the primaries. Or maybe it is the opposite, because

I like when politicians share what they do day to day on social networks (at least the parts related to their job) it makes them less disconnected from normal citizens. It give an insight what it is to be a

California has a bigger pension deficit if you add unfunded liabilities and unfunded medical expenses for retirees, I don’t get how Illinois has a worst credit rating than California.

Any initiative to reform anything will face criticism. At least the NGSS is trying to change a system that does not work. SOmething must be done to encourage kids to learn STEM classes.

I agree it takes courage to change your position on an important issue. But I think that the voters know when someone changes their opinion because they truly evolved on an issue or when they just change their

Republicans use to be the smart people party. And smart people go beyond their natural instinct and do what is good for them in the long term. But that type of republican seems to be extinct recently.

I think that a national standardized system is much better suited than the local government to prepare the students for the global economy. They can see the bigger picture easier in my opinion.

Great article Ray. This analysis shows all the different areas that needs to be looked at to determine the success of top-two. I would add, and this something that is starting in California, that we need to look

I do agree that third parties do play a role even if they do not win. But the old system was only protecting people within a party structure and made it so hard for anybody who would like to run as an independent.

I think this story really blew out of proportion! I never looked into what people have been charged for making bomb but i would really believe that a lot of them are teens. Me and my brother use to play with

Next year’s election cycle, with voters but more importantly candidates understanding a little better how top-two changes things will be very interesting. I also understand the appeal of top-two to organization

I don’t remember exactly but it is very high! One of the highest percentage in the country but not necessarily the best results.

Again, you see how democrats and republicans have an advantage. They can raise 15 times more money than independents. This is crazy.

Congress’ approval rating has been bad for a long time now and nothing is changing. How low does it need to go for something to happen?

Without bees, the human species is doomed. Despite being much bigger creature with “bigger brains”!

A lot of money is spent on MST and considering that most soldiers will not says that they have been sexually assaulted, I cannot imagine how much it would really cost to cure the problem.

In a state where the water ressources are scarce like in California, I think we need to be very careful before going forward with fracking.

Yeah, Jane wrote on the Social Ballot about it in the past and asked the interesting question of, would we pay for facebook if we had more privacy. In the current world of most thing is free, i think most people would say no.

I used to believe in contribution limits but now i think that it would be better to remove these limits in exchange for a complete transparency. You giv more than 500$, your name needs to be public.

I had never heard of that expression, “the internet of things.” But it is true that we cannot really measure all the consequences of the connected world we live in. It is good that some organizations spend some

It is so funny to see a state the size of California with now one nuclear plant. In France, we have 80 percent of our energy coming nuclear power and we only have a little more than the double of California’s population.

I would tend to think that this a good decision. I feel that when i comes to labor related speech, the protestors are under an important duress, which is they can loose their job. I think this protection is needed.

So for everybody, all this NSA thing seems to be business as usual. Not scary at all.

“In United States v. Jones, the court stated that GPS tracking constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment, but declined to rule on the constitutionality of such a search without a warrant.” This is very useful.

I think that on societal issues like gay marriage, drugs, war, libertarians could appeal to some voters who tend to vote Democrat. But I am not sure that will be enough because their remain a big gap between the

A recent case in San Diego of a medical marijuana seller by the Feds has had a lot of publicity, especially with the Mayor calling fro jury nullification. It’s a good reminder of the risk that still exists when

He reads the case law that has been provided by the parties and tries to figure out what is going on when he is not an expert on an issue. An the judge usually has more than one case on hand.

It is true that the tech industry has donated massively to Obama but I think that laws like CISPA, SOPA, ect would have been pursued under any administration, Republican or Democrat led.

Yeah, cyberspace will be the next battle field. Not only countries that might not necessarily have a strong military might be able to have an important role, but organizations not link to countries such as

Moreover is has been working really well, especially with young voters.

I do really believe that Cory Booker will win this election quite easily. He has prepared been prepared for this election for a while now.