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Independent Voters to Play Pivotal Role in 2014 Minnesota Elections

PPP, on behalf of the House Majority PAC, did a recent poll of one of the congressional districts in Minnesota that is set to be a "swing district"

By Dog Gone

/ October 25, 2013

Independent Voters to Play Pivotal Role in 2014 Minnesota Elections

The Texas Department of Public Safety - embarrassed by their misrepresentation and hysteria.

Remember mid-summer, when the reports circulated during the two very expensive special sessions of the Texas legislature called pretty much just to force through anti-abortion legislation? Remember the sight of

By Dog Gone

/ September 6, 2013

The Texas Department of Public Safety - embarrassed by their misrepresentation and hysteria.

Kendra Gill, Honor Student and Beauty Queen is the new Kiera Wilmota facing Bottle Bomb charges - where is the media sympathy?

Does the media convey information clearly, neutrally, accurately, or has it too often become something else, particularly sensationalist? Sadly, I'm finding it to be the latter. When a

By Dog Gone

/ August 31, 2013

Kendra Gill, Honor Student and Beauty Queen is the new Kiera Wilmota facing Bottle Bomb charges - where is the media sympathy?

Is Compulsory Voter Registration and Compulsory Election Participation a Good Idea for the U.S.?

There has been a global trend for decades among free nations with representative government, a decline in voter turnout in elections. In 31 nations, spread over every continent, the franchise

By Dog Gone

/ August 19, 2013

Is Compulsory Voter Registration and Compulsory Election Participation a Good Idea for the U.S.?

The Anniversary of the 2011 England Riots: What can we learn about this and other protests and riots? - part 1

On August 4th, 2011 police in a norther area of London, England shot an unarmed black man, Mark Duggan, leading to protests, which in turn were followed by outbreaks of

By Dog Gone

/ August 6, 2013

The Anniversary of the 2011 England Riots: What can we learn about this and other protests and riots? - part 1

George Zimmerman's heroic car crash rescue appears to be a fraud - Updated

This was a suspicious story from the beginning. We have seen news reports of protesters doing thousands of dollars of damage to be wrong. The claims of separate attacks by

By Dog Gone

/ July 25, 2013

George Zimmerman's heroic car crash rescue appears to be a fraud - Updated

Contradictions: the Law Versus Police and Public Safety Campaigns

There is an aspect to the Zimmerman trial that has been under-addressed in spite of the attention devoted to it. That issue is that while following a person is legal,

By Dog Gone

/ July 21, 2013

Contradictions: the Law Versus Police and Public Safety Campaigns

Guns, Murders and Suicides, and the U.S. Constitution

Although it is a statement widely attributed to Abraham Lincoln relating to a temporary suspension of habeas corpus under the Suspension Clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 9, clause

By Dog Gone

/ July 20, 2013

Guns, Murders and Suicides, and the U.S. Constitution

False Reporting of Texas Abortion Law Protests Needs Scrutiny

Earlier this week I wrote about the misinformation, and misleading by various law enforcement, media, and bloggers about the Zimmerman Verdict Protesters. We saw it in LA, with false claims

By Dog Gone

/ July 19, 2013

False Reporting of Texas Abortion Law Protests Needs Scrutiny

Zimmerman Verdict Reporting of Riots Has Been Grossly Factually Inaccurate

Police disperse protesters in Los Angeles // Credit: Mae Ryan via KPCC I've seen a few accounts of violence attributed to a backlash to the Zimmerman Verdict over the

By Dog Gone

/ July 17, 2013

Zimmerman Verdict Reporting of Riots Has Been Grossly Factually Inaccurate

The Why and How of the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision; it was not chance.

I was dismayed and disappointed, to say the lest that someone who themselves benefited from Affirmative Action, Justice Clarence Thomas, voted against it. This was all the more disturbing, as

By Dog Gone

/ July 13, 2013

The Why and How of the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision; it was not chance.

When Is Minority Participation Representation, and When Is It Tokenism?

In Minnesota, the recent decision which overturns the congressional affirmation of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act from the 1960s provoked an inappropriate tweet from a democrat in the

By Dog Gone

/ June 26, 2013