On this day 162 years ago, Victor Luitpold Berger was born to a Jewish family within the Austrian Empire. When he was 18, he would immigrate to America with his parents to avoid military conscription, spending some time in Bridgeport, Connecticut.…
Posts published in February 2022
This is the open thread for March, please feel free to use this for discussions that don’t have a more appropriate home on another post.
HELP WANTED: With many minor parties currently nominating their candidates for 2022, the news cycle is about to get busy.…
At this point in my life, I’ve been consistently opposed to war for about twice as long as I spent as a Marine infantryman (with precisely the attitude toward war you would expect).…
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE: “The Green Party condemns Russia’s military incursion, which is in violation of international law, regardless of real or perceived provocations. We also recognize the US government and Western powers are responsible for 30 years of provocations by failing to respect the promise to not expand NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.…
Thomas P. Schneider, the former mayor of Florissant, Missouri has announced that he is going to run run as an independent for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Roy Blunt.…
On Wednesday, February 16, Wyoming House of Representatives Speaker Eric Barlow named the Libertarian Party an official minority party in the state legislature for the first time in state history.…
The past couple of weeks have been interesting for the Movement For A People’s Party, many major events showing they will continue to be in a never-ending stance of attempting to be more than a footnote in the minor party scene.…
When debating immigration policy with people who have deluded themselves into believing that it’s any of their business where other people choose to live or work, I run into a lot of bad arguments.…
WYOMING WEED: A new multi-partisan bill in the Wyoming state house would “remove criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of cannabis, replacing the state’s current misdemeanor charge with a $100 fine.”…