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The Brain of an Independent, from Ron Paul to Bernie Sanders
It was nearly four years ago that voters did the unthinkable.They rejected the party establishments’ favored candidates. And they did so to pick literally Donald Trump as America’s next president. Tha...
OPINION: Bloomberg vs. Trump 2020 Is So Coke and Pepsi
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s entry into the 2020 race for the Democratic presidential nomination could add a jolt to a field of candidates that has so far failed to inspire much enthusiasm.While Joe Bide...
10 Facts You Need to Know About CA's Confusing and Unconstitutional Presidential Primary
On July 23, 2019, the Independent Voter Project (IVP)-- one of 7 plaintiffs -- filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Alex Padilla (Boydsten v. Padilla) for failing to provide an open presidential...
Bad Solutions and No Solutions: The Two-Party Failure on Gun Violence
Referencing events in El Paso and Dayton a week ago, the editors of The Lives of Guns, commented via Politico, “The two mass shootings this weekend have inflamed a gun-control debate that never seems ...
Basketball Battles and Political Scores (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)
With politics in a permanent state of chaos, we might have to look outside the political sphere to be grounded politically. At least I do. Sports is a good place to turn -- real sports, not the blood ...
Citizen Concerned: Proposed CCA Plan Has Major Deficiencies
Over the past year or so there has been quite a bit of 'jawboning' over the mayor's dream to create a CCA aka Community Choice Aggregation to address the issue of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere by onl...
Organizations, Lawmakers Push for Open Primaries as Crowded 2020 Field Emerges
The 2020 presidential field is already taking shape. Nine Democrats have announced their campaigns since December, many of whose announcements went under the radar because the lack of media coverage:P...
OPINION: The Behavior of Democrats and Republicans Makes the Best Argument for Limited Government
To the Founders and the thinkers who preceded them, the idea of limited government (ironically, a key concept in the history of liberalism), seemed intuitive. The United States Constitution presents a...
Apple Credits New Tax Laws For Opening San Diego Office
San Diego, Calif.- Apple has announced plans to build new office space in San Diego in the next three years.The company is making the move after new tax laws were enacted late last...
Cannabis Cash: City of San Diego Grabs Over $6 Million in First Year
San Diego, Calif.- The City of San Diego is cashing in with its first year of taxing and collecting fees for cannabis.Businesses are taxed at a rate of 5 percent of monthly gross receipts, which will ...