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47 U.S. Representatives Co-Sponsor Bipartisan Industrial Hemp Farming Act
Vote Hemp, a major grassroots hemp advocacy group, on Thursday announced the introduction of complementary bills in the U.S. House and Senate, S. 134 and H.R. 525, titled the "Industrial Hemp Farming ...
Pentagon Officials Send Mixed Signals on ISIS Threats to Military Families
Several weeks ago, ISIS issued a threat against military members and their families, saying that their jihadist supporters would seek them out and kill them where they live. When asked about it during...
The Next President Can't Win Without the Youth Vote in 2016
Polls suggest young voters’ preferences, in regards to both candidates and policies, have become more socially liberal in the past 15 years.Millennials: The Politically Unclaimed Generation, a report ...
Most Memorable Political Bloopers of 2014
As expected of every election season, political gaffes were bound to happen. Gaffes have been associated with campaign exhaustion, an unsuccessful attempt at humor, or a lack of emotional discipline. ...
The Case For Traditional Party Primaries
Primaries, despite all appearances, are actually necessary as vehicles of Democracy. Most readers of IVN have a general idea of what primaries are and how they function. However, I would argue th...
Ron Paul: Power May Shift in Washington, But The Philosophy Stays The Same
On Sunday, November 9, former congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) published a post on The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity's website, discussing the political ramifications of the 2014 mi...
Looking to the Founders: Congressional Residency
"No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that Stat...
5 Key Issues The Lame Duck Congress Needs to Resolve in Final Two Months
No one party is going to hold the majority for long. For all the rhetoric from the vice president, by the end of Election Day, the results were not that surprising. The Democrats were not going to kee...
The Fight for the Senate: Who Will Win Control?
The main talk of the 2014 election has been which political party will control the Senate after the votes have been counted. Democrats have been on defense throughout most of the country as President ...
In The End, Low Voter Turnout Comes Down to Competitiveness in Elections
No matter what political ideology a voter identifies with, every single election comes down to one thing: voter turnout. If voters don't go to the polls to cast ballots, their party affiliation, or la...