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On Immigration Reform and Public Opinion Since 9/11
Nineteen strangers were all it took to pick up our welcome mats and lock our doors. Two buildings in New York City, a field in Pennsylvania, and the always invincible Pentagon quickly became the symbo ...
27 Jun, 2013
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Nationwide Fair Redistricting Would End Gerrymandering
credit: Votecitizens.orgGerrymandering has become a prevalent hurdle to meaningful political participation across the country (with few exceptions, including California*). The duopoly at their finest ...
26 Jun, 2013
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Parties Offer A Poor Solution to Immigration Reform
Former Senator Rick Santorum // Credit: unitedliberty.orgIn a shining example of how even a blind squirrel can occasionally stumble across ACORN, former Pennsylvania senator and presidential candidat ...
25 Jun, 2013
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Independent Pennsylvanians Fight for Nonpartisan Primary, Ballot Access
A group of Pennsylvanian citizens, known as the Independent Pennsylvanians, have been working for the past 15 years towards changing undemocratic and archaic state laws which grossly favor the Democra ...
20 Jun, 2013
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Mental Health Experts Say Military Culture Condones Sexual Trauma
Credit: dvids / FlickrDespite the best efforts of the Department of Defense (DOD), the sexual assault crisis in the military continues, and now many mental health experts and former service members a ...
19 Jun, 2013
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The Facts versus the Myths about Our Flag, and how they relate to commerce and politics
Friday, June 14th 2013 was flag day, a day which tends to go uncelebrated, and about which most people know very little.This post will be a brief detour from my continuing series on the different face ...
18 Jun, 2013
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Independent Voters Critique Pennsylvania's Closed Primaries
On Tuesday, Pennsylvania held primary elections where voters could choose either a Democrat or Republican candidate who would then proceed to the November ballot in the state's municipal elections. Li ...
23 May, 2013
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Rick Santorum Returns to Discredit Himself
(Credit: Gage Skidmore)We're not trying to turn IVN into the Rand Paul channel, but this comment about him from Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal bears comment:"Rand Paul's brand do ...
23 Apr, 2013
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New California Corrections Secretary to Restore Prison "Luster"
On Thursday, Governor Jerry Brown’s appointment to California corrections secretary, Jeffrey Beard, was sworn in at the capitol. The appointment as head of the California Department of Correction ...
29 Dec, 2012
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Who Holds Jurisdiction over the TSA?
The Aviation Subcommittee held a hearing on Thursday, November 29. Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, Charles Edwards, and Government Accountability Office Director of Ho ...
02 Dec, 2012
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