https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=997v5anKNac

In an exclusive interview, Truth In Media’s Joshua Cook talks with former Texas Congressman and liberty icon Dr. Ron Paul.

In the interview, Ron Paul shares his thoughts with Cook about his son Rand Paul’s presidential campaign. Ron also discussed with Cook his position on the Syrian refugee crisis, ISIS, foreign policy, gun control and the obstacles of overcoming a biased media.

Dr. Paul went on to request support for Rand’s money bomb at RandPaul.com.

When U.S. voters think about the ongoing war on drugs, they likely think about the billions spent by the federal government with little to no positive results to show for it. They think of the mass incarcerations for seemingly minor offenses. What most Americans don't think about, however, is the impact it has on other countries -- especially our neighbors to the south.

The U.S.-backed war on drugs has been linked to sociopolitical upheaval, mass violence, and widespread political corruption in Mexico and other countries in Central and South America.

Republican strategist Rory Cooper posted this political jab at the Democratic Party on Nov 4:

https://twitter.com/rorycooper/status/661906137562923009

Regardless of whether these are actual factual numbers (they do seem to be), he's definitely pointing out a growing concern in Democratic circles -- i.e. an inability to create vast 'coat-tail effects' during national elections.

The House and Senate ebb and flow each two-year election cycle, but losing so many state-level officials seems almost crippling to the party.

On November 3, the Maryland Redistricting Reform Commission proposed a plan that would allow an independent committee to draw legislative districts. Under Maryland’s current system, the governor and legislature decide how electoral districts are drawn, and the new commission would disallow any politician from participating.

The plan was approved 9-1 by a commission appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan to determine a new method of drawing legislative districts.

Why I Gave Up Meat

I remember the day I decided that I would become a vegetarian. It came while watching the documentary Life in a Day – in particular, the scene in which a cow receives two shots to its skull from a bolt gun (the first one didn’t kill the cow and only made it panic and flail in its narrow metal pen). The scene lasted only a minute, but it haunted me long after the lights in the theater had come back on.

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Election Day 2015 has come and gone, and voters in cities in six states again found that they were not limited to marking only one candidate, but had the ability to rank the candidates in order of choice. Voters had the chance to vote with ranked choice voting in the following city elections:

Unless you live in the east, you may never have seen the Morning Joe show on MSNBC, or know its stars Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, because it airs on the Pacific Coast from 3-6 am.