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Ron Paul has another million dollar day
In a challenge to Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's frontrunner for the presidential nomination, Texas Congressman Ron Paul raised another million dollars in just 24 hours Sunday, using the online f ...
06 Jun, 2011
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Will the Tea Party change anything?
"I think it's eerily like 1994. Not much will change." That's what Rich Hamblen told me about the 2010 midterm elections on our way to a political conference sponsored by the Los Angeles-based T ...
21 Dec, 2010
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Southern California mystery missile perplexes nation
As Los Angeles commuters were making their way home Monday evening they were treated to a spectacular site. Around sunset, a large missile emerged from the Pacific Ocean north of Catalina Island ...
10 Nov, 2010
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Historic year for Third Party and Independent movements in the United States
Though the mainstream political press has naturally focused on the stinging Democratic losses and sweeping Republican gains in last week's elections, 2010 has proven to be an historic year for thir ...
10 Nov, 2010
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Temporary, high-risk health insurance option coming soon to California
On July 1, the federal government and dozens of states set up temporary “high-risk” health insurance pools for people denied health insurance due to so-called pre-existing conditions. These pools were ...
05 Jul, 2010
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Breaking the Republican-Democrat stranglehold with open debates and open minds
The two-party duopoly is a threat to the free exchange of ideas. The establishment parties, in conjunction with a complicit corporate media, often exclude third party and independent voices and ...
30 Jun, 2010
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Good-bye Republicans and Democrats, the Independent Revolution is underway
Republicans and Democrats are beginning to exit the two-party system in significant numbers. According to USA today, there has been a veritable explosion of voters registering as unaffiliated si ...
20 Apr, 2010
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Internet Sales Tax - AB 178
A little over a week ago Amazon sent a letter to California legislators threatening to end its business with marketing affiliates if legislation was passed imposing sales tax for internet purchases on ...
02 Jul, 2009
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Aw, Nuts!
Possibly the only people happy last Tuesday when the Setton Pistachiorecall was expanded to include last year's entire crop were the folks at PeanutCorp. of America. Finally, they're out of the news f ...
13 Apr, 2009
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