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The Fight for Free Speech: What Is Happening on Our College Campuses?
"This is not a day care. This is a university!"This was the reaction from the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Dr. Everett Piper, in response to a student's complaint about a ...
08 Dec, 2015
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7 min read
The Wedging of America: How Party-Focused Elections Suppress The Real Majority
The United States is made up of about 1/3 moderates and has more Independents than any other party affiliation.Even within the Republican and Democratic parties, and among liberals and ...
01 Dec, 2015
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4 min read
With Louisiana in Play, Candidates Even Less Likely to Care About Your Vote in 2016
Historically, presidential races have come down to only a handful of toss-up states being the difference between victory and defeat -- the red/blue map has become fairly well-defined.Enter John Bel Ed ...
30 Nov, 2015
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Kentucky Governor Restores Voting Rights to Over 170,000 Non-Violent Felons
Democratic Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, who is set to leave office and hand over the governorship to Republican Matt Bevin next month, signed an executive order on Tuesday which will grant vo ...
25 Nov, 2015
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2 min read
There's No Empathy in Partisanship: New Study Highlights Key Problem in Washington
Our leaders lack empathy.That, in a sense, is one of the conclusions of a new study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.The study assigned participants the task of creating a compe ...
24 Nov, 2015
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5 min read
The Debate You Didn't Hear About: Independent Candidates Discuss Economy, Education, and Syria
Mitchell Bupp's Independent Voter Radio Debate aired on Freedom Slips on Halloween 2015 -- did you miss it? Candidates included Denise Bedio, Lynn S Kahn, Marque Lundgren, and John Ferguson. The ...
24 Nov, 2015
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6 min read
Independent Voter Project Conference: Manufacturing Gap Leaving Middle Class Behind in California
At first glance, it would appear that the Golden State has beaten the odds when it comes to creating jobs following the Great Recession. In 2014, the 1.3 million jobs that were lost during the Great R ...
20 Nov, 2015
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3 min read
New Study Shows More Mexicans Leaving U.S. than Entering
There is no doubt that immigration is one of the primary hot-button issues for the 2016 presidential election -- in particular the influx of those entering illegally or staying beyond their legitimate ...
20 Nov, 2015
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2 min read
Independent Voter Project Conference: Practical Solutions Missing in Debate over Rising Energy Costs
At the national level, the conversation on energy and climate is usually portrayed as a zero-sum game, where a victory for one side means a defeat for the other. One is either a climate science denier ...
19 Nov, 2015
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3 min read
Why ISIS is Islamic, and Why it Matters
Since the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, the world is once against debating how to understand and respond to such tragedies. French President Francois Hollande has said that the country is ...
19 Nov, 2015
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11 min read