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Several weeks ago, several people criticized the article about comparing America's tax rates to the rest of the world, countering with comments on Facebook like: Who cares? These comparisons are always intended to show us just how lucky we are to be in indentured servitude to the state when we should be trying to be a shining light of individual freedom and liberty to the rest of the world. Fair TaxMichael Storc In a very long thread, the Fair Tax proposal was debated, with at least one reader

Greg Orman ran for U.S. Senate of Kansas in 2014 as an independent candidate against a 16-year incumbent, Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts. Despite the obstacles in running for U.S. Senate without the benefit of a political institution to help fund, promote, and otherwise support his campaign, he gave Roberts a serious run for his money. Now, he has joined independent leaders across the country in an ambitious project to open the presidential debates to more voices. He argues that at the core o

The LA Times reported Saturday that potential 2016 presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) advocates term limits for Supreme Court justices. Huckabee said the Founding Fathers "never intended to create lifetime, irrevocable posts." ""Nobody should be in an unelected position for life," the former Arkansas governor said in an interview, expanding upon remarks he made during an hourlong speech at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda. "If the president who

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed a bill dramatically changing the laws governing ballot access for Independent candidates just months after an Independent took 17% of the vote in a statewide election. The bill, Senate Bill 69, an act to revise certain provisions regarding elections and election petitions, specifically addresses how many signatures an Independent candidate must collect to get on the ballot, and who is allowed to sign the candidate's petition. The bill prevents any r

Facebook seems to be constantly inundated with memes that have similar themes to this one: There are several variations of this meme, from stating that Congress should make what our soldiers make to not paying Congress if they can't do their job. But all of these memes have a common error in their logic: the assumption that members of Congress "need" their paychecks or that the paycheck is what truly motivates them. What Does Congress Actually Make?There's a lot of social media confusion abo

After the results of the 2014 midterm elections were in, IVN published an article suggesting that Vice President Joe Biden may have intentionally sabotaged independent Greg Orman's campaign in the Kansas U.S. Senate race by saying there was no doubt in his mind that Orman would caucus with Democrats. Biden essentially gave incumbent U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R) the soundbite he needed to vindicate his claim that Orman was really a Democrat disguised as an independent. It is the go-to strategy

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has submitted two new election reforms to the Kansas Legislature that are a direct response to the 2014 U.S. Senate race, where Republican incumbent Pat Roberts was almost defeated by independent Greg Orman. Public polling before the midterm elections suggest that all the statewide incumbents, including Kobach, were vulnerable -- something Kobach wants to remedy with new rules for candidate withdrawals and reinstating straight-ticket voting. In the 2014 U.

Two weeks ago, I took an immense amount of criticism in the comments section on both the IVN page and Facebook site for the article, 3 Reasons Why Lower Gas Prices Are Not A Good Thing. Representing many of the comments was a highly liked one from Facebook: It effects the rich negatively, but enriches the middle and lower classes. Was that ad paid for by the Russians? In fairness, I'm not totally sure that many got past the title before they commented, because the article plainly stated that

On Thursday, January 15, oral arguments were made before the California State Appeals Court in San Francisco in the case Rubin v. Bowen. Third parties continue to challenge the nonpartisan, top-two open primary in the state, claiming that the system violates the association rights of political parties and disenfranchises third-party voters in the general election. Richard Winger, who runs the site Ballot-Access.org, wrote a post on the oral arguments, implying that third parties were poorly re

A 2014 Gallup survey showed that a majority of Americans – for the first time since Gallup started asking the question – believe their children’s lives and lifestyle will be worse off than their own. Gallup also reported this year that the United States Congress has the lowest approval ratings in the history of political polling. Coincidence? Or cause and effect? Deficits and debt, rising health care, housing and higher education costs, Social Security shortfalls, environmental and energy conc