HURRICANE HARVEY
The pictures and stories disseminiating from Texas following Hurricane Harvey are both terrifying and remarkable. From families being separated from rising flood waters, to alligators showing up on the front doors of residences, to complete washouts of roads and communities, the devastation from Harvey has been called "catastrophic."
Our liberal democracy is becoming more illiberal and less democratic. Our choices this past November were between two candidates who were both disliked by the majority of Americans.
In 1971, at 19, William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook. The book has been found at bombings, and school shootings, ever since.
It is hard to believe that the author of this infamous book left the country almost immediately afterward, to be a school teacher. He forgot about his book to the best of his ability.
“I haven’t read it since I wrote it,” he said, in a documentary film that came out in late 2016.
Earlier this month Reuters reported the results of a study at Georgia State University, in which researchers found that smoking marijuana can result in higher blood pressure.
The alarmist headline emphasized the study's purported link between smoking marijuana and dying from high blood pressure related causes:
Halfway through watching the president’s rally in Phoenix Tuesday night, I had the almost uncontrollable urge to jump on social media and blast off a post expressing my anger. Blaming the mainstream media, democrat’s, disloyal Republican senators and left-wing protesters for legislative failures and bad press doesn’t sit well with me.
Last week, two of Colorado’s presidential electors, the people who cast Colorado’s votes in the electoral college, filed a lawsuit against their Secretary of State, Wayne Williams, alleging that he “threatened and intimidated” them into voting for Secretary Hillary Clinton in December 2016.
COLORADO SECRETARY OF STATE SUED
In a story on IVN.us, two of Colorado’s presidential electors, the people who cast Colorado’s votes in the electoral college, filed a lawsuit last week against Secretary of State, Wayne Williams.
Editor’s note: This article originally published on Kate Harveston's blog "Only Slightly Biased" on August 17, 2017, and has been modified slightly for publication on IVN.
Editor’s note: This article, written by Rob Richie, originally published on FairVote’s blog on August 16, 2017, and has been modified slightly for publication on IVN.
RANKED CHOICE VOTING GETS SHOT IN THE ARM
In a story that was first published on FairVote's blog, Rob Richie looks at the latest Primaries and how to Uphold Majority Rule.