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Rand Paul was supposed to be a different kind of Republican -- a Republican who championed individual liberty, but who also did not wade into the culture wars or any war for that matter. He was supposed to be the Republican who could pull in younger and perhaps even more liberal voters frustrated by the lack of progress on civil issues. However, the senator from Kentucky's campaign has been troubling to some who believed he would be a standard bearer for a new kind of Republican. Instead, he is

Another month goes by and another black man has died at the hands of the police -- almost as if the clock that counts the days since the last killing of an unarmed minority in America went back to zero. Naturally, political networks and pundits could not wait to weigh in on how the riots in Baltimore are a prime example that reinforces their world view. While both candidates condemned the riots and violence that have gripped the city in recent days, Hilary Clinton and Rand Paul had distinctivel

Farmers can yield, at most, $1,000 per acre from corn. Moonrise Extracts, an industrial hemp operation in Colorado, expects to reap tens of thousands per acre, from what started as a few dozen feral hemp plants. Moonrise Extracts was lucky to obtain local hemp seeds to start their plants. Seed procurement and local adaptation from foreign seeds are a big hurdle for the industrial hemp market. The dozens of plants harvested in the summer of 2014 became 12,500 square feet of greenhouse productio

The media is obsessed with Hillary Clinton -- especially now that she has officially launched her 2016 presidential campaign. Unlike Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and soon Marco Rubio, Clinton didn't host a big event or make a major speech at a carefully chosen venue with a name that the candidate wants to be associated with -- like Liberty University or the Galt House Hotel or Freedom Tower. No, Clinton made her announcement in a two-minute video on social media, claiming she will be the champion for ev

He’s the guy named Rand who launched his campaign at the Galt House Hotel. He’s not named after Ayn Rand, says his father. And the Galt House is named after Dr. W.C. Galt, not John, says the hotel’s website. But, he does have a strong libertarian streak. Rand Paul is an eye doctor from Kentucky, who didn’t intend on running for Senate until his father’s supporters drafted him to run in 2010 to replace the longtime Republican from Kentucky, Jim Bunning. Rand caught the interest of Ron Paul’s

Rand Paul is expected to announce the launch of his 2016 presidential campaign on Tuesday. In anticipation of the announcement, people have wondered if his father, former U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas), will be involved in the campaign at all. The New York Times reported Monday that Ron Paul will likely take a minimal role at most. The Times reported that Ron Paul has been mostly quiet over the last couple of weeks, refusing all interview requests. However, according to Bloomberg, he is

The LA Times reported Saturday that potential 2016 presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) advocates term limits for Supreme Court justices. Huckabee said the Founding Fathers "never intended to create lifetime, irrevocable posts." ""Nobody should be in an unelected position for life," the former Arkansas governor said in an interview, expanding upon remarks he made during an hourlong speech at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda. "If the president who

I was impressed to find such a far-reaching conglomerate of individuals at the National Conference of Independents in New York City, which took place during the weekend of March 13-15. Illinois, California, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, Virginia, Oregon, Mississippi, Colorado, Kentucky, New York, Arizona, and the list could go on and on. We all know that New York City is not cheap, let alone travelling from the other side of the country, but we were primed and ready for a fine weekend of events.

The Washington Post reported Monday that the way voters participate in presidential primary elections, who will be allowed to participate, and when may change in a handful of states based on how particular systems will help an individual candidate. "Earlier this month, Kentucky Republicans took the first step toward abandoning a presidential primary in favor of a caucus, at the behest of Sen. Rand Paul. Elsewhere, supporters of more centrist candidates such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Re

In Athens of antiquity, the inventors of democracy set up a law that required every person to vote. Anyone found not voting would be publicly marked and labeled an idiot; someone who thought their own personal needs trumped those of the society around them, wrote Isaac DeVille. I begin here by asserting that the one certain measure of any democratic society is the measurement of those who vote and those who don't. That said, looking at the general elections in San Diego and California last yea