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Read about what really matters from the news last week. We provide you the least-biased news about current events so you can go about your day informed, not brainwashed. What to focus on: * Three JROTC cadets who acted heroically during the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, were awarded medals of heroism by the U.S. Army. One, Peter Wang, whose dream was to attend the United States Military Academy, commonly known as West Point, was posthumously admitted to the school. * In the wake of t

There are two big lies going around in the wake of the Parkland school shooting last week. They are the same two big lies that go around every time one of these tragic events occurs. The first is that we can keep this from happening again just by passing a few laws about guns. We can't. The idea that people who want to break laws will find ways to get guns to break laws is not entirely wrong. Legislation is a blunt instrument not a magic wand. The second lie is that we can find a way to solve t

IVN is going to the Democrat and Republican conventions this weekend to ask the leaders of the two parties some tough questions. In San Diego, the California Democrats State Convention is being held. IVN's Jeff Powers will be in attendance where we will carry keynote speeches from gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newson as well as Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris. IVN will then ask the politicians tough questions on gerrymandering, two-party duopoly and how can they improve the fracture

 Another major independent campaign officially announced its launch Thursday. Craig O'Dear, a prominent attorney in Missouri, has officially entered the race for US Senate. "On this tough day for our nation, I am more resolved than ever to chart a new way forward," O'Dear said on his Facebook Page. O'Dear's campaign is founded on a number of core princip

"The path to a bloc of independents in the Senate Tuesday in Maryland." That’s how POLITICO’s Isaac Dovere’s reported on businessman Neal Simon’s official announcement to run for U.S. Senate as an independent candidate yesterday. As Neal told the Baltimore Sun, “I do not believe that having another party-line Republican or party-line Democrat go to Capitol Hill is going to change anything.” The path to our “Fulcrum Strategy” in the U.S. Senate is long and winding, but we are one big step clo

We are seeing new energy in our campaign to elect independent candidates nationwide. The Associated Press on Thursday featured the Centrist Project's efforts to recruit and support independent candidates in 2018: "Washington infighting breeds new independent candidates." * "Following this week’s government shutdown and the 2016 election, in which both parties nominated historically unpopular candidates, there’s new energy in the movement to reclaim the political center." * "In a Denver co-wo

In an order issued on Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the district lines “clearly, plainly and palpably” violate the state Constitution and gave the Republican legislature until February 9 to draw new ones. It is the second ruling in less than two weeks where a court has struck down an entire state congressional map as unconstitutional and demanded that the state legislature oversee a redraw in time for the November 2018 elections. However, the U.S. Supreme Court quickly issu

Vermont is the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana legislatively Marijuana will be legal in nine states and the nation’s capital when Vermont law takes effect MONTPELIER, Vt. — On Monday, Gov. Phil Scott officially signed a bill into law that makes marijuana legal for adults in Vermont. H. 511 eliminates Vermont’s civil penalty for possessing one ounce or less of marijuana and removes penalties for possession of up to two mature marijuana plants and

It's rural v. urban. farmland v. concrete jungle. and, yes, red v. blue. The latest headline grabbing effort to divvy up the Golden State comes from the founders of the state of New California. With the reading of their own version of the Declaration of Independence, the group announced they want to remain in the United States, just leave California. Map of New California Here is a section from the group's Declaration, "The history of the present Governor and Government of California is a his

It was probably only a matter of time before one of the very most politically relevant– and therefore most controversial – individuals of our day would run for a seat in Congress. Chelsea Manning made history when in 2010, as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, she accessed 750,000 Department of Defense documents, and leaked them to journalists at the WikiLeaks organization. The leak was the largest of its kind, eclipsing even the Pentagon Papers leak by Daniel Ellsberg to the New York T