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Small Town May Strip Partisanship From Local Elections
Most voters, and probably you, too, recognize America’s two-party political system for what it is: a trap.Red and blue colored ties play good-cop-bad-cop on television for three years at a time while ...
Presidential Debates: New Rules for 2020?
To better understand how presidential debates really work, it might help to frame the operation in business terms.As competitors begin positioning themselves for the 2020 presidential race, they may n...
The Biggest Scandal Since Watergate!
The mainstream and social media's relentless appetite for "palace intrigue" stories about Washington bureaucrats and politicians warring with each other is absolute misery for all of us at this point....
Why Is Health Care So Expensive? The Washington Legislature Has 3 Answers
The Washington State Legislature is considering a number of health care reforms this session, all pursuing cost savings in some part of the health care value chain.SB 6416, aimed primarily at thr...
PBS Going Conservative? New Show Launches in April
Why should taxpayers be footing the bill to the tune of $445 million in recent years, for a liberal media voice?It's an argument that's been made in conservative and some independent circles for years...
Supreme Court Keeps Washington's Persecution of Some Immigrants on Pause
SO yesterday the Supreme Court declined to review a decision by a federal appeals court in California to order the White House to continue the DACA policy. It's a moment of relief for the 690,000 peop...
New Political Movement Aims to Unite America with National Slate of Independent Candidates
Unite America, formerly the Centrist Project, announced Tuesday a historic national slate of independent candidates running for governor and US Senate.The 5 candidates on the slate include: Incumbent...
A Weekend of Conventions: IVN is Coast to Coast From CPAC to the CA Dem Conventions
IVN is going to the Democrat and Republican conventions this weekend to ask the leaders of the two parties some tough questions.In San Diego, the California Democrats State Convention is being held. I...
Election Reformers: Let History Guide You. Lessons of How Slavery Formed our Two Political Parties
For me, history, the study of it and the making of it, has been an essential part of life.Growing up in the underground of the poor black community, reading became my salvation, and reading ...
From Old Glory to Old Gory: Massacres Need Independent Engagement
Is there any more grotesque example of American “exceptionalism” than our longstanding failure to respond to recurring, murderous violence in our schools?Is the nation that led mankind to the moon and...