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Four contenders for the GOP's presidential nomination are polling competitively with President Obama among registered voters, according to a new poll.  How do potential Independent or third party presidential hopefuls match up against the candidates of the major parties?  We don't know, because the pollsters never ask. The new survey, published on Monday, asked just over 1000 registered voters how they would cast their ballots if the 2012 presidential election were held today, matching up the P

Unelected partisans came face-to-face with a genuine independent voice this week in the form of American icon, Warren Buffett.  In Monday’s New York Times, Buffett – CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Investments – asked the nation that allowed him to become one of the richest men in the world to relieve him of some of his money.  Why?  Because his country, and its poor and middle class citizens, need it.     “While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggl

With a field of eight Republican presidential challengers in Iowa this week, Texas Governor Rick Perry (reported to soon declare his candidacy) claims he can reach across the partisan divide and win over California's Independents and even a few Democrats. "Now I'm enough of a realist to know that California is a pretty high hurdle for a Republican. But I'm going to go out there and I'm going to have a story that'll  a lot of people-Independents and maybe even some Democrats-look at me and go, '

Opponents of a recently proposed House bill that cracks down on undocumented workers say that if it becomes law, it threatens to topple the agricultural economy of California – the nation's new breadbasket – risking the food and financial security of millions of Americans. The last time the numbers were compiled, California continued its reign as the largest agricultural producer and exporter in the nation, benefiting mostly from its fertile Central Valley region. In 2009, state farmers brought

While many journalists still qualify any mention of Congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul with assertions that his candidacy is a "long shot," the most recent polls have put Ron Paul firmly "in play" with other top-tier contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. In the key early voting state of Iowa, Ron Paul is performing well in the polls as his campaign aggressively ramps up efforts to make a strong showing in the Ames Iowa Straw Poll. Rasmussen reported that in a t

Although he clashed with other Republican candidates over the nation's foreign policy during the 2008 presidential primary, Congressman Ron Paul outraised every single other presidential candidate in both major parties when it came to donations from the military. With even more of the public seemingly warming up to Ron Paul's non-interventionist foreign policy this time around, it's perhaps no surprise that he's done it again. Wading through the data in the Federal Election Commission's report

As Republicans and Democrats intensely spar over raising the nation's debt ceiling, the first official ad from 2012 presidential contender Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) bills him as one who is standing up to the Washington machine.  Directly touching on the issues of raising the debt ceiling and achieving a balanced budget, Paul's ad attempts to give his viewers a history lesson, a glimpse into past debt ceiling negotiations that also ended with compromise. "In the 80's, they did it to Reagan, a debt

A few years ago, at the height of his popularity, Tiger Woods had become the beige template for humanity.  His fall from grace has done little to push that idea into the background as racially-mixed athletes, performers, academics and executives seem omnipresent in our lives.  The malevolence of what used to be called "mongrelization" has transmuted itself into the vigor of diversity. Another of those transformations -- long underway in our society -- was kicked well past the "apparent" role in

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has published an update and a revision of a 2007 study entitled “Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom”. The report analyzed three primary “freedom variables” for each state, determining the overall burden that local and state policies place on individual residents. So how did California stack up? Frankly, not so good. In fact, California was only underperformed by New Jersey and New York. The authors, William Ruger a

A bipartisan group of six representatives, led by presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Texas), released a letter on Thursday calling on President Obama and Congress to scale back military commitments abroad and reduce war spending. Signed by Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), John Campbell (R-CA), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Walter Jones (R-NC) and Gwen Moore (D-WI), along with Paul, the main subject of the letter is deficit reduction. “This requires a reevaluation of the mismatch between our current national sec