November 22, 1963, we are often reminded, was the day John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated and an entire generation lost its innocence. Unfortunately, Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullets inadvertently claimed another victim. Later that same day, in a hospital in California, the writer Aldous Huxley passed away after three years battling throat cancer.

Gallup poll, 67 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with wealth distribution today.

There are three methods of proportional representation advocates most commonly present: cumulative voting, limited voting, and ranked-choice voting. Each has been used in the United States, mainly in local and county elections, with decent success.

The first two systems only simulate proportional voting while ranked-choice can fully incorporate proportional voting.

California's political season ramped up Saturday at San Diego's third annual Politifest, hosted by Voice of San Diego. The event featured two of the state's prominent political figures: Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins and Neel Kashkari, the Republican candidate for governor and former assistant secretary to the U.S. Treasury.

While attendees enjoyed the sun and beer garden, Atkins and Kashkari laid out competing views for California's future.

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In June 2014, the government announced that all of the jobs that were lost during the Great Recession have been recovered. Since then, we have had a net growth of jobs higher than pre-recession levels. However, the question remains as to whether the jobs that are being created are of the same caliber as those we lost.

According to a report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP)

California Democrats are struggling to hold on to their supermajority in the State Assembly as the California GOP prepares to take back a number of seats in the lower chamber. One of the many races vital to the GOP's efforts to regain some ground in the legislature is Assembly District 36.

Slate's Dave Weigel recently noted that the GOP response to President Obama's decision to launch airstrikes in Iraq has been "muted." The liberty movement

This was 23-year-old Khadija al-Saadi on Gawker Wednesday: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax4a6cH1Wjs&list=UUYxRlFDqcWM4y7FfpiAN3KQ

Late Thursday, President Barack Obama announced the authorization for American military commanders to use military force, if necessary, in the form of limited airstrikes inside Iraq. The airstrikes are intended to combat advances by the militant group ISIL, also known as the Islamic State or ISIS.

In a statement to the press, the president said: