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A Unique Election Year Brings Out More Independent Thinking
Candidates are stepping up across the country to fill a void for voters – the void is where the Republican and Democratic parties have become so overwhelmingly ‘controlled’ by people who refuse to hav ...
23 May, 2012
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SD 39: Independent Voters are Key to Victory in Coastal San Diego
The race for Senate District 39 will be among the most contested legislative races this year as Democrats and Republicans struggle to maintain and pickup seats. Democrats, led by Senate President pro ...
21 May, 2012
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Partisan gridlock happens because Congress manages too many aspects of our lives. Americans will never agree on everything, but they don’t have to unless their decisions are centralized and made for everybody by one group.
Partisan gridlock happens because Congress manages too many aspects of our lives. Americans will never agree on everything, but they don’t have to unless their decisions are centralized and made for e ...
18 May, 2012
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1 min read
Solve Partisan Gridlock by Leaving More Decisions to Individuals and Local Communities
Every election season, American voters behold the clamor between Republican and Democratic candidates over what they will or will not do in office. The winners then go to Washington DC as members of C ...
18 May, 2012
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4 min read
The U.S. Has A Lot Of Shale Oil, So What?
Quite a few conservative commentators are making waves about a Government Accountability Office statement (PDF) which says that 1.5 trillion barrels of shale oil in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming m ...
16 May, 2012
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3 min read
My City Council Experience With a Public Sector Union in Colorado
In November 2001 I was elected to my local city council. In January 2002 I journeyed to the state capitol where I attended a training session for newly elected municipal officials. At the coffee and d ...
12 May, 2012
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4 min read
Swing States Crucial for Presidential Race
One of the enduring oddities of the American political landscape remains the electoral college, the antiquated system that makes selective states disproportionately important to the election pro ...
11 May, 2012
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9 min read
Mexican Immigration Reverses: More Mexicans Leaving The US Than Entering, Study Finds
According to a new study from the Pew Research Center, Mexican immigration has slowed dramatically over the last decade, and net migration may have even gone negative. That’s right, Mitt Rom ...
10 May, 2012
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3 min read
Same-Sex Marriage Meets the Jim Crow South
There was an amazing list of things that a white boy growing up in Virginia wasn’t allowed to do – not in the 1950s. You couldn’t use the same restrooms as blacks, couldn’t eat at the same resta ...
09 May, 2012
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3 min read
Independents Hitting the Opt-Out Button
Republicans versus Democrats, liberals versus conservatives, Hayek versus Keynes, religion versus spirituality– unlike an independent mindset, the “us versus them” mentality and modality can be quite ...
09 May, 2012
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3 min read