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2017 is an off-year for US elections. November 7 will see gubernatorial elections held in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as house state legislative elections in the same states. There will also be various other local elections, mayoral races, and other citizen initiatives taking place. There is a lack of media coverage for these smaller elections, and they will certainly fly under the radar. Many won’t know where to vote, who to vote for, or what issues should help them decide. A small minor

Where do we even begin after Las Vegas? The shooting was so calculatingly evil, so tragic for the victims, and so sad for our nation. And yet we have been here before: after Sandy Hook, after the Orlando night club shooting, after Louisiana GOP Rep. Steve Scalise was shot in the capital this summer. Our reaction is always shock and sorrow – followed almost immediately by the same predictable partisan debate on guns. I fervently believe that electing more centrist independents can help break thr

The statement "all politicians are corrupt" has as much truth to it as "all Muslims are terrorists" and "all Christians are ignorant bigots." But here’s the trap in American politics: there’s one political party that makes nearly no attempt to disguise its duplicity. Many of them lie so badly and so often most of us are numb to it. The other political party does only a slightly better job representing the people. The trouble is, the average voter can no longer tell which is which. As a result

Focusing on whether a football player takes a knee or the president chooses to tweet about it misses a point. Our country is absorbed in partisan controversy, and the media plays right along. Kneel to fight for social justice? That's freedom of speech. Stand to recognize the people who have given their lives to keep us safe? That's freedom of speech. But what about free speech during the most important political dialogue between candidates and the American people ... the presidential debates

Recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, ended violently, as white supremacists clashed with counter-demonstrators, and a car driven by 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., ploughed into a crowd full of anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring at least 19 others. According to Al Jazeera, the “Unite the Right” rally, was planned for Saturday, August 12, in an effort to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate soldier and icon, General Rober

SENATE PASSES FISCAL PACKAGE, HEADS TO THE HOUSE In a much discussed move by President Trump, the Senate, led by Demorcrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer reached an agreement on funding the government for three more months and providing billions of dollars in relief for Hurricane Harvey victims. The president also noted he was open to eliminating the need for Congress to hold votes on raising the country’s borrowing limit. After the deal was struck, the president was asked if this signals a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-XqrA82CrI NEW AFGHANISTAN PLAN "Micromanagement from Washington D.C. does not win battles." - President Donald Trump In laying out his new military strategy for Afghanistan, President Trump took a shot at his predecessor Barack Obama, who was known to be a war time micromanager. IVN.us recently wrote a story about the differences between the two presidential styles. Here are highlights from his speech at the Army's Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, located nex

A federal grand jury has now raised additional criminal charges against Imran Awan, the former House Democratic IT staffer with close ties to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. Awan was arrested by the FBI last month at Dulles airport as he attempted to flee the U.S. for his home country of Pakistan, and charged with bank fraud. The charges stem from a massive rental property operation Awan and his family members were running in Virginia, while Awan and his wife were in bankruptcy. The

WAR GAMES The US and South Korea will continue with their plans of 10 days worth of military exercises beginning today, despite dire warning from North Korea. The Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercises are designed to test the readiness of South Korea and the United States, should conflict with the north break out. North Korea warned yesterday that the military exercises are "reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war." In messages printed by the

The Libertarian Party wants to be clear: they reject white supremacy, bigotry, and racism. Racists, White Nationalists Asked to Leave the Party In a press release on August 15, 2017, in the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, the LP's executive director Wes Benedict reiterated the party's stance on bigotry: "We condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant. Government should neither deny or abridge an individual human right based on sex, wealth, ethnicity, creed, age, na