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County Health Officials: San Diego Opioid Crisis Growing
County Health Officials: San Diego Opioid Crisis Growing
San Diego is ground zero for a two-day opioid addiction summit designed to educate parents, doctors and the public on the country's "most aggressive epidemic." Health leaders from across the country a ...
09 Nov, 2017
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3 Indisputable Reasons the Two-Party System is Failing America
3 Indisputable Reasons the Two-Party System is Failing America
In a nutshell, here’s how I would describe the state of American politics. The regulators are unqualified to regulate. The parties are unqualified to govern. The political scientists are unqualified t ...
08 Nov, 2017
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5 min read
Disrupt Politics: The Partisan Duopoly is Protecting Putin -- And Endangering Us
Disrupt Politics: The Partisan Duopoly is Protecting Putin -- And Endangering Us
Shortly after the Second World War, a Republican legislator sought to temper criticism of a Democratic president. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Arthur Vandenberg declared that we should ...
03 Nov, 2017
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6 min read
Independents Can't Win: The Biggest Lie in the Two-Party Playbook
Independents Can't Win: The Biggest Lie in the Two-Party Playbook
There’s no argument that candidates affiliated with the major political parties have tremendous, built-in structural campaign advantages over independent candidates. The range of major-party advantage ...
17 Oct, 2017
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"Poor Prognosis": What Happens If Sen. McCain Retires?
"Poor Prognosis": What Happens If Sen. McCain Retires?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlpmQJvHv10Senator John McCain said on on CBS's "60 Minutes" Sunday that his brain cancer prognosis is "very, very serious." The Arizona Republican added that his docto ...
27 Sep, 2017
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6 Lawmakers Who Are Defying The Party Line on Health Care
6 Lawmakers Who Are Defying The Party Line on Health Care
Is anything less immutable these days than a political party’s orthodoxy? We all like to mourn the death of compromise, but the truth is this: even the Republican and Democratic parties aren’t that fa ...
27 Sep, 2017
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5 min read
Gary Johnson: President Must Get Congress' Approval to Go to War
Gary Johnson: President Must Get Congress' Approval to Go to War
Don’t blink or you might miss it.While much of our attention, and that of Congress, is appropriately focused on hurricane recovery, the United States Senate this week is quietly taking up the National ...
13 Sep, 2017
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Debt Ceiling Duel: President Sides with Dems; 3 House GOP Members Say No
Debt Ceiling Duel: President Sides with Dems; 3 House GOP Members Say No
419-3.Three Republicans voted against a bill that, in part, provides $7.85 billion in emergency financial assistance to the victims of Hurricane Harvey.Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, Kentucky Rep. Thomas ...
06 Sep, 2017
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Morning Report: August 31, 2017
Morning Report: August 31, 2017
Assange Ready to PublishWord that the FBI was not willing to release its findings into the Hillary Clinton email scandal, due to concerns over public interest, caused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ...
30 Aug, 2017
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Gary Johnson: Sheriff Joe Does Not Deserve Pardon
Gary Johnson: Sheriff Joe Does Not Deserve Pardon
The Constitution vests the president with the power to pardon anyone he or she wishes. It’s one of the clearest authorities the Founders established.As with any power granted an elected official, the ...
30 Aug, 2017
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