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Everybody hates gerrymandering. That’s the takeaway from a new poll that finds dramatic majorities of Americans in favor of limiting the ability of politicians and partisans to draw their own districts. The survey – a bipartisan poll conducted by Democratic researcher Celinda Lake and Republican analyst Ashlee Rich Stephenson – found that 71 percent of Americans would like the Supreme Court to define a standard that ends extreme partisan gerrymandering. This cuts across party lines: 80 percent

Nebraska State Senator Bob Krist made two big moves Wednesday: (1) He switched his party affiliation from Republican to independent, and (2) he announced he is running for governor. Krist, a retired Air Force veteran, has served in Nebraska's unique unicameral legislature for 10 years. Yet during that time, he says the once nonpartisan chamber has succumbed to the same partisan-driven politics in Washington. “Voters are fed up with partisan politics that divide us rather than unite us. Partisa

Crazy times in America these days.  The wrathful hurricanes pounding the South and the East Coast and the wildfires devouring the Northwest echo our storm-tossed politics. Everything is turned upside down, everything is fevered, everything is being washed away. And yet (and this is the craziest thing of all) nothing seems to change. Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan once observed, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. True that. If you’re an independent, you can lick your fi

Competition is the American way. In business, you hear the following saying: “If we don’t take care of the customer, somebody else will.”

Competition is the American way. In business, you hear the following saying: “If we don’t take care of the customer, somebody else will.” As a nation, back to Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting and before, we’ve been well trained to distrust monopolies, or even situations where competition is limited to a handful of providers. We have about eight major airlines in the U.S., and that choice is often painful enough. But would we ever let our airlines merge such that there were just two? How about o

SENATE PASSES FISCAL PACKAGE, HEADS TO THE HOUSE In a much discussed move by President Trump, the Senate, led by Demorcrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer reached an agreement on funding the government for three more months and providing billions of dollars in relief for Hurricane Harvey victims. The president also noted he was open to eliminating the need for Congress to hold votes on raising the country’s borrowing limit. After the deal was struck, the president was asked if this signals a

President Trump recently urged support for tax reform as a benefit to the middle class at the Andeaver oil refinery in Bismarck, ND. However, he didn't reveal specific details of the plan, instead, reiterating his prior ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxkdB80TivA President Trump has promised a tax plan that would provide relief to middle-class Americans so that they could achieve the American dream, let people keep more money in their pockets, and increase after-tax wages. Quotes from

419-3. Three Republicans voted against a bill that, in part, provides $7.85 billion in emergency financial assistance to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, and Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs said no to the aid package. Minutes before the vote, Amash tweeted that funding for the disaster relief should be offset instead of being added to the deficit. https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/905465795416862720 Trump Sides with Democrats It’s alre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfjWIpnfjgQ As voters, we’ll be asked to ignore the dereliction of duty demonstrated by our elected leaders; threatened with horrible outcomes if a federal budget isn’t passed and the debt ceiling isn’t increased; then, suffer through the traditional blame game, where the two major parties take turns distorting the truth and casting aspersions at each other in an attempt to gain a political advantage in next year’s midterm elections. As I’ve said in the past, pe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxHHENYh8bw Video Credit: CNN The response to President Donald Trump's decision to end DACA in six months unless Congress acts has been felt across the Internet. https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/904734772546740229 https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/905144084892860416 https://twitter.com/itscollmc/status/905148707393429504 It's an emotional issue, for sure. We are talking about approximately 800,000 sons and daughters of immigrants who crossed into