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Voter turnout in the United States is disturbingly low. In the 2008 presidential election, voter turnout was higher than it had been in a generation, but barely 60% of eligible voters bothered to cast ...

Why are there more independent voters today than perhaps ever before? Is it because people are fed up with the party first and the nation second mentality of incumbents?Bill Miller, Missourian Editor& ...

Ordinarily, if a large corporation has a physical presence in a state, then that state can charge sales tax on transactions. California, in a desperate attempt to raise more money, has decreed that In ...

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has published an update and a revision of a 2007 study entitled “Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom”. The report analyze ...

Acting on information from a “key intelligence source,” CBS News claimed that terrorists are trying to poison our food supply on Monday. This may come as a shock, but some researchers have already ide ...

How do you get official approval of large-scale fraud, theft, and racketeering? You become a mortgage originator (i.e. a “Too-big-To-Fail bank”) like me. No really, it's simple. Let me walk you throug ...

A recent youtube video of a SWAT team raid on a Missouri family's home has gone viral. In it, police institute a “quick-knock” technique to serve a search warrant. Upon forcing their way into the hous ...

The legacy of Governor Schwarzenegger is still very much a work in progress.  On the one hand, he can be counted as the first Governor of California since Ronald Reagan to come from Hollywood and ...

The percapita income in Californiawas $33,749 in 2005, according to U.S. Census Bureau Data.If thealternative minimum tax fix that expired in December isn't renewed, taxpayersmaking as little as $30,0 ...