The media regularly cover awards for their reporters, editors and producers. They regularly cover award ceremonies for movie stars, athletes, and business leaders. But they regularly ignore the far more important awards for people who ethically blow the whistle on corruption and suppression in both business and government, risking their careers and more to tell the truth to the American people. Read more »
Have you heard much lately about the 1.5 million Palestinians illegally imprisoned by the Israeli government in the world’s largest open-air Gulag? Their dire living conditions, worsened by a selective Israeli siege limiting the importation of necessities of life – medical items, food, water, building materials, and fuel to list a few – has resulted in an 80 percent unemployment rate and widespread suffering from unlawful punishment, arbitrary Read more »
Mark this down – soon you will tune into the news and hear about “All Spain, all the time.” By this summer (and maybe sooner) Spain will be on everyone’s lips. You will wish you never heard of Spain. Spain could take us all down.
We just celebrated the anniversary of the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic. Spain is the new Titanic. It’s already hit the iceberg and is sinking fast. Only 1500 died when the Read more »
Lawrence Lessig has this essay in The Atlantic. Lessig has written several books, explaining that the greatest political problem facing the United States is our campaign finance system, which puts undue power in the hands of the wealthy. Lessig believes that Americans Elect may nominate a presidential candidate who would speak about the urgent need to reform campaign finance. Lessig also believes that candidate might Read more »
On April 25, U.S. District Court Judge Garland E. Burrell cancelled the oral argument in Peace & Freedom Party v Bowen, which was to have taken place in Sacramento on April 26. He has not ruled yet, and will issue an opinion based on his reading of the briefs on both sides. The issue is whether the Secretary of State should have accepted the Peace & Freedom Party’s list of presidential candidates for printing on the party’s primary ballot, Read more »
On April 25, the Virginia State Board of Elections told the Libertarian Party that its presidential petition, which already has 2,000 signatures, is invalid. Virginia law requires petitions for president to include a list of presidential elector candidates, and says one elector must reside in each U.S. House district. However, Virginia law does not require the presidential elector candidates of qualified parties to observe any residency requirement. Read more »
Some months ago, identical bills were introduced in each house of the Tennessee legislature to lower the number of signatures for newly-qualifying parties to appear on the ballot. They are HB 3802, by Representative Harry Tindell (D-Knoxville), and SB 3687, by Senator Jim Kyle (D-Memphis). The bills are not worded very clearly, but they seem to suggest that a party that submits 1,000 signatures is ballot-qualified for all partisan office, Read more »
The Florida Secretary of State has many regulations that require qualified minor parties to conduct certain activities. Here is a link to that regulation, 1S-2.050, which is titled, “Cancellation of Political Party Filings.”
One of the regulations requires parties to have had at least $500 “aggregate reported financial activity” during a calendar year. The Florida Secretary of State’s office has Read more »
