Ever visit a major prison? The vast majority of Americans have not, despite our country having by far a higher incarceration rate per capita than China or Iran. Out of sight is out of mind.
Imagine the benefits of the average taxpayer touring a prison. The lucrative prison-industrial complex would definitely not like public exposure of their daily operations. Prison CEOs have no problem with a full house of non-violent inmates caught with possession of some street drugs (not Read more »
An Arizona Superior Court Judge will hear arguments on August 3, in the lawsuit over whether the Arizona initiative for a top-two open primary system violates the “Single Subject” rule for initiatives.
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The Pharos-Tribune, a daily newspaper in Logansport, Indiana, has this article talking about ballot access in Indiana. The story does not mention, although it could have, that Indiana is one of only four states in which Ralph Nader never managed to qualify for the ballot, in any of his runs for the presidency. Nader is the person who came in third in the last three presidential elections.
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The Unified Membership Plan was a construct that the Libertarian Party implemented in the late 1990′s. It was designed to increase the funding available to state affiliates, and to make those state affiliates partners in membership growth for the Libertarian Party as a whole.
I am proposing that the Party re-adopt UMP. Some lessons learned from its previous iteration can be adopted to make it work better. Read more »
Back in May, when Americans Elect, the group formed to put a bipartisan third party ticket on the 2012 presidential ballot, closed shop, everyone stopped talking about whether a third party candidate would enter the race in 2012 — and the focus since then has been on Obama and Romney in a two person race.
This two person race has been a dead heat for months, and most people expect this to be one of Read more »
HAWAII, July 23, 2012 — The most savvy thing that America’s TV networks could possibly do this year is to promote Gary Johnson with the intent of placing him in at least one, if not all of the Fall presidential debates. Such a move would almost certainly drive viewership and interest in the debates to stratospheric levels, and Johnson’s penchant for snappy redirects and crowd-winning zingers would be the kind of fan service that scratches the itch for spontaneous, unscripted reality Read more »
Last fall, GQ ran a profile of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, then a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, under the headline “Is This the Sanest Man Running for President?” The piece noted that in 2003, Johnson scaled Mount Everest with a broken leg, and in 2005, broke his back paragliding off the highest mountain in Maui. “Sanest”? Well, maybe not.
But Johnson, now running on the Libertarian Party ticket, is certainly the most interesting Read more »
Constitution Party presidential candidate Virgil Goode submitted 541 signatures to the state Board of Elections yesterday, qualifying him as write-in candidate in North Carolina.
Goode, 66, of Richmond, Virgina, served 16 years in Congress as a Democrat, Republican and independent. He said he petitioned to be certified as a write-in because “North Carolina’s harsh ballot access laws made it nearly impossible to get my name on the ballot.”
