A Gallup Poll released on Dec. 16 that was conducted a week earlier shows that Americans disapprove of lobbyists and members of Congress the most out of 22 categories of professionals.…
Posts published in December 2013
On December 17th, Irregular Times ran this article by J Clifford that was critical of 1787. In the article, J Clifford asserted that 1787 was “a new independent political party that purports to be open to any new ideas from its members, and not promoting any particular ideology”.…
Ballot access news reports that the US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from the Gary Johnson campaign regarding the Michigan “Sore Loser” Law that prevented his appearance on the November 2012 Michigan ballot, due to his prior appearance on the state’s primary ballot (despite the campaign’s attempt to have him removed from that primary ballot — at issue was a claim by the State of Michigan that a fax from the campaign requesting same missed the deadline by about 3 minutes.)…
Significant progress and change sometimes emerge from humble beginnings. As we reach the end of 2013, and the seventh month of my IVN diary covering my run as the United Independent Party candidate for governor of Massachusetts, it’s good to reflect on all our growing team has been able to do so far in our aggressive, independent statewide campaign.…
Ralph Nader at Nader.org:
The word “inequality” is much in vogue these days. We hear almost daily about the inequality of wealth, income and wages between the richest top 2 or 3 percent of people and the majority of the country’s wage earners.…
The Oklahoma House of Representatives has established a web page, SpeakUp Oklahoma, which invites readers to suggest improvements for Oklahoma laws.…
http://fpp.cc/your-tax-money-pays-for-this:
It is no secret that the federal government spends millions of dollars on research. Sometimes those funds go to questionable studies, such as the study by Joseph Staton, of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, to determine why “most cooked, exotic meats taste like… the domestic chicken?”…
As a political party known for thinking globally and acting locally, seventeen California Greens were elected to local government on November 5th, bringing to 20 elected overall in 2013.…
From Ballot Access News:
The Sunday New York Times for December 15 has this dialogue in the Sunday Review, on whether the U.S. would be better off with a multi-party system.
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