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KNAPP: I’m so sick of superlatives in 2020

“2020: The Worst Year Ever,” reads the cover of Time magazine’s December 14 issue. “There have been worse years in U.S. history,” admits author Stephanie Zacharek, but not, to her way of thinking, since World War Two. Between a heavy hurricane and fire season, police violence and the accompanying protests, a circus of a presidential election, and a global pandemic, Zacharek opines, none but the oldest among us can remember a year nearly as bad. Just how bad a given year […]

todayDecember 15, 2020

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KNAPP: There’s no such thing as a “must-pass” bill

“Congress,” The Hill reports, “is barreling toward a veto showdown with President Trump over the mammoth must-pass annual defense policy bill.” At issue: The annual National Defense Authorization Act, which as usual has little to do with actual defense. NDAA bill to fuel more corporate welfare into the military-industrial complex Trump says he’ll veto the NDAA if it requires military bases named after Confederate generals to be re-named, as Congress desires. He also says he’ll veto the bill if it doesn’t […]

todayDecember 10, 2020

Commentary

EDITORIAL: Debunking lies about Libertarians from recent article

Ah, the nonsensical drivel of Republicans crying over their cups of coffee over Libertarians. The most recent entry in this department was in the U.S. edition of The Spectator. This "article" is also a feature in the December issue of said magazine. The target: Libertarian voters who cast their vote for Jo Jorgensen on Nov. 3. Exhibit A: The logical fallacy of Libertarian votes "belonging" to Republicans Columnist Michael Warren Davis goes right to the logical fallacy. The fallacy: that […]

todayDecember 1, 2020

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COMMENTARY: A New Illinois won’t fix anything, Alan Webber

So, I'm spending a half-day on my 34th birthday working on the website when I get bombarded with a bunch of Google Alerts. One of these alerts relates to anything relating to the state of Illinois. Among one of these alert blasts, this ridiculous op-ed today from the Kankakee Daily Journal was among them. Not even two paragraphs in did op-ed columnist Alan Webber make some factual inaccuracies: Webber states, "However, if you review election returns, Biden didn’t win the […]

todayNovember 21, 2020

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EDITORIAL: Ark. U.S. Senate debate was the Harrington show due to Cotton no-show

Arkansas registered voters and Libertarians all over this country got to see a rare spectacle in politics Wednesday night. The spectacle: a one-man debate involving a Libertarian challenger to the current sitting Republican. That Republican, Tom Cotton, decided to decline and then no-show. That's right. For an entire hour and then roughly 15 minutes afterward for a press conference, the Arkansas PBS debate was the Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr. show. The lone opponent has grown to be a threat to […]

todayOctober 15, 2020

Decision 2020

EDITORIAL: It’s time to push election code reforms in 2021 for Illinois

Illinois is not foreign to ridiculous election laws. As a matter of fact, they have the second-worst and second-most restrictive ballot access laws in the nation, second to Tennessee. Allow me to elaborate. Illinois v. Tennessee regarding ballot access laws In a normal election year, Illinois and Tennessee would require third-party candidates to collect ridiculous amounts of petition signatures to make the general election ballot. In Illinois, there is a 1% requirement based on the overall vote from the largest statewide […]

todaySeptember 30, 2020

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MORRIS: Won’t lose any sleep voting for Libertarian Donald Rainwater in Indiana

I’m thinking of doing something different in the gubernatorial election. Some will say I would be wasting my vote. The same temptation teased me in the 2016 presidential election. Disgusted that our political process delivered the two worst candidates imaginable in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I flirted with the idea of going third party or simply staying home and not voting at all. In the end, I resisted the urge. Giving serious thought to voting for Rainwater It was […]

todaySeptember 30, 2020

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EDITORIAL: Wake Forest online editorial sure sounds like it’s bashing third-party voters

An editorial published Thursday morning in Wake Forest University's Old Gold & Black newspaper 'Third party voting minimizes electoral impact' surely appears to be attacking voters of third-party candidates. Let's go through this editorial hit piece by Alexandra Karlinchak paragraph by paragraph, shall we? Trump and Biden are part of the problem, not the solution With only 54 days until the 2020 election, tensions around the country are running at an all-time high. There is a lot at stake for a […]

todaySeptember 10, 2020

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COMMENTARY: The irony of voting for Joe Biden

Honestly, I don't get how anyone in the right minds would vote for presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Are you out of your gourds? What am I talking about exactly? The entire idea of supporting Biden because of the Democratic label is nothing short of irony. Allow me to explain. MYTH: Biden cares about women's rights and children THE TRUTH: Biden reveals his true colors in 1974 when he openly opposes the Roe v. Wade decision. You didn't need Snopes […]

todayAugust 3, 2020 1

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