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The Hill reported Tuesday that Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and 2016 presidential candidate, wants to completely change the way we look at campaign finance in the United States, and is offering a unique solution to fix the current system. “Prohibit nothing, disclose everything, and disclose it on the spot and let the voters make up their mind,” Huckabee said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-hosted by former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.). Huckabee bashes the role of super PACs in

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's (R) so-called tea party experiment in supply side economics has thrust the normally quiet politics of solidly-red Kansas into the national spotlight. With the first round of tax cuts nearly bankrupting the state, Brownback and supporters in the legislature have scrambled to make up the short-fall with a blend of more cuts, along with a few increases in taxes. But all of this has been under the watchful eye of the Kansas Supreme Court. The court handed the Brownba

The 2016 election is already in full swing with eight candidates having officially declared their candidacy (two for the Democratic nomination, six for the Republican nomination). Polling of these candidates among potential constituencies has already begun as well, to wildly different projections. With 18 months still to go, a lot is sure to change. However, one factor is sure to influence the election, and that is the changing demographics in the American electorate. Much has been made of the

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee launched his 2016 presidential bid on Tuesday in Hope, Arkansas, the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton. Huckabee kicked off his campaign by appealing to social conservatives, exclaiming that the United States has fallen off the moral path. The Hill reports: "“We’ve lost our way morally,” Huckabee told a cheering hometown crowd during his speech in Hope, Ark.“We’ve witnessed the slaughter of over 55 million babies in the name of choice

1. States Send Delegates to the Electoral College that Represent Parties, Not People When envisioning the electoral college, the goal of the Founding Fathers was to send electors who were “free from any sinister bias” to select the next president. “They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of Ame

Controversy over Indiana's " Religious Freedom Restoration Act" is being heralded as a bellwether for national opinion by some LGBT advocates. The bill gave businesses the right to deny service to someone if providing that service conflicted with the owner's religious beliefs. After national backlash, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a revision to the law specifying that private business owners cannot use it to justify discrimination based on sexual orientation. "I think everyone on both si

It can be hard to keep super PAC names straight. For example, there is Right to Rise, the committee supporting a presidential run by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and there is America Rising, another PAC designated to raise and spend unlimited sums of money in hopes of defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016. You may also have heard of Our American Revival (supporting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker), America Leads (New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie), and Pursuing America's Greatness (former Arkansas G

Kansas resident Shona Banda, 37, lost custody of her 11-year-old son (at least temporarily) in late March after the boy stood up for the medical benefits of cannabis oil during an anti-drug class at school. The AP reported Monday that Banda did not get custody of her son back after a hearing in Finney County District Court. Banda is a well-known activist for cannabis oil and survivor of Crohn's disease. Her son was detained by police after defending cannabis in school. The police then conducte

A collaborative effort between Patrick Miller of the University of Kansas and Pamela Johnston Conover of the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers new insight into the growing phenomenon behind political polarization in the United States. The study, titled Red and Blue States of Mind: Partisan Hostility and Voting in the United States, was published in Political Research Quarterly on March 30. The authors argue that the voters who are most likely to participate in elections are those

NORTH CAROLINA -- Recently proposed bills in the North Carolina House and Senate aim to tighten restrictions on abortion. A key point in House Bill 465 would extend waiting periods between when women consult with their doctors and when they can obtain an abortion. The waiting period under current state law is 24 hours -- the bill would triple that to 72 hours. "That bill is one of the most extreme waiting periods in the U.S.," said Amanda Allen, state legislative counsel for the Center for Rep