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With three weeks left in this year's legislative session, California has entered the "Top Two" season.

With the Capitol in the twilight of its annual calendar, a number of seminal bills requiring compromise – especially those requiring bipartisan votes – will come to the floors in the Assembly and the Senate.

"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." - Thomas Carlyle, 19th century Scottish philosopher

The past few weeks have seen the cool-dead thump of the fall from grace of various heroes from multiple ilks and areas of society -- from the Ashley Madison hack to the embarrassments of the primary season, with no let up in sight. Nothing makes the news quite like a marred poster-child.

When Donald Trump talks about illegal immigration, ending birthright citizenship, and uses the term "anchor babies," it gets a lot of attention from the media and from the Democratic Party, who like the portray the GOP front-runner as racist for his comments. Yet, it was not long ago when some leading Democrats shared the same views about illegal immigrants.

KENTUCKY -- After entering the race with a petition of 9,000 signatures in early August, Kentucky gubernatorial candidate Drew Curtis' campaign is now in full swing. The founder of news aggregator Fark.com is running as an independent along with his wife and running mate, Heather Curtis, in this year's election.

A vote on the Iran nuclear deal is approaching and an erroneous report rerun in many media outlets could influence the vote.

Reported last Wednesday as an Associated Press exclusive, George Jahn wrote that a secret document revealed that as part of a side deal, Iran will inspect its own facilities at Parchin, a conventional military base formerly used for nuclear activity.

After weeks of pressure to release detailed policies regarding his positions on immigration, Donald Trump published a slate of reform ideas. Among these is the call to "end birthright citizenship," whereby children born in the United States – including those of immigrant parents – automatically become American citizens.

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On Thursday, Open Primaries President and CEO John Opdycke and Dr. Jessie Fields, a founding member of the Independent Party in New York City and Open Primaries board member, co-authored an op-ed in Newsweek titled, "Bernie Sanders Should Embrace Political Reform."

Here is an excerpt:

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently found that the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) had not violated current rules on access to debates. That was no surprise - when you consider that the FEC, like the CPD, is divided between Democrats and Republicans. It's a bipartisan, not non-partisan agency.