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Jesse Ventura says it's time to abolish parties
Former 3rd party Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura claims that political parties, including third parties, should be abolished in order to root out corruption in a broken system. In a recent ABC G...
The Independent movement of 2012 has already begun in 2010
Political pundits and news commentators continue to speculate about the possibility of a strong third party or Independent political movement arising as we approach the 2012 presidential elections. Bu...
2010 could be historic year for Independent and Third Party candidates
Whatever the outcome of the November elections, 2010 is shaping up to be an historic year for the nation’s Independent and third party movements, as well as for voters who desire viable alternatives t...
Temporary, high-risk health insurance option coming soon to California
On July 1, the federal government and dozens of states set up temporary “high-risk” health insurance pools for people denied health insurance due to so-called pre-existing conditions. These pools were...
Zero-sum thinking and California's budget
With California's budget in crisis mode, the solutions have been presented by lawmakers and the media in strictly zero-sum terms. You can think of a zero-sum game as a pie. If one piece of that pie ge...
California school among the first to introduce iPad in classroom
The Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville has replaced its history textbooks with the iPad for use in the classroom. Introduced as a pilot project among AP students last week, competition ...
Third party candidates still face innumerable political obstacles
Obstacles facing third party candidates for state office have always been great, and for a time seemed all but impossible to overcome in California. As Green Party gubernatorial candidate, Laura Wells...
Jesse Ventura calls out Democrats, Republicans, and the Tea Party
In a Larry King Live interview, Jesse Ventura, the former Independent Governor from Minnesota, warned that the two major parties were "leading us down the road to ruin". In classic Ventura style...
California not alone in passing on budget pain to public university students
The 550,000 students enrolled at the University of California and the California State University system have been served a steady diet of tuition and fee increases over the past few years. In p...
Free & Equal press release rebuts \Top-Two\ open primary
Over at Free & Equal, ballot access expert, Richard Winger, delivered a point-by-point rebuttal of Jonathan Alter's advocacy of a top-two, open primary system in Newsweek. Here is the f...