Posted at MassPirates.org on April 29:
Thanks to everyone who participated in Pirate Con 2015 last Saturday! It was great of Evan Greer of Fight for the Future to kick it off and Rick Falkvinge to end it on a high note.…
Posts published in May 2015
Ralph Nader at blog.nader.org:
Suddenly, the mass media is writing about or televising the conditions in West Baltimore. Conditions that Washington Post columnist, Eugene Robinson, summarized as decades long “suffocating poverty, dysfunction and despair.”…
A new write-in candidate has entered the race for Flint mayor: Giggles the pig. Gary Ridley reports at MLive.com:
In a bizarre turn of events that has already set the stage for the possibility of a blank mayoral ballot in Flint, local defense attorney Michael Ewing is trying to enter his pet pig, Giggles, into a race that could already consist of all write-in candidates.
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From the American Freedom Party website:
Congress is inching toward fast tracking a Trans-Pacific Partnership that critics call “suicidal.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren accused President Barack Obama of lying about her and other TPP opponents.…
Marc Montoni at Free Virginia:
Christopher Michael-Martinez didn’t deserve to die. He was among the victims of the UCSB killings last year.
Since then, Christopher’s father, Richard Martinez, has been using his son’s killing to promote gun control.…
Last Sunday, May 3, was my 63rd birthday. Accordingly, it is time for my annual “Come Clean” column. I think it only fair that readers should have an opportunity to learn a little something about the person who writes the words they read.…
David G. Briceno has this op-ed in The Union of Grass Valley, California. He advocates the repeal of the California top-two system.…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On May 7, the Libertarian Party and the Green Party of Arizona asked the Ninth Circuit to reconsider the April 2015 decision in Arizona Libertarian Party v Bennett, 13-16254.…