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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 perspectives.  But, opportunities to challenge this deeply entrenched political system are beginning to increase, especially this year as anti-incumbent sentiment reaches historic levels. Jake Towne, an independent candidate for Congress in Pennslyvania's CD-15, announced late last week that he has been

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 since 2008, and the trend looks to intensify in 2010 and beyond.  Here are some of the more eye-opening statistics of the review, covering the period between 2008 and the present: 9% increase in independent voters in Colorado 11% increase in independent voters in Florida 13% increase in independent vote

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 companies such as themselves. AB 178 is the bill in question, which Amazon alleges is “unconstitutional,” and is similar to that of New York’s bill last year (which Amazon and Overstock have also contested). The bill could raise $150 million in state revenues. Of course, if they discontinue their

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 for a while. The Peanut Corp. of America recall, which started inJanuary and continuesto this day, stemmed from salmonella contamination that sickened 700 andkilled nine. Close to 4,000 foods have been removed from shelves. Kellogg alonedestroyed $70 million worth of product. Closer to home, in Te