Ailing Economy Needs Independent Solutions to Become Healthy Again

Democratic strategist James Carville may be wrong about a great deal, but he did have it right when he started the popular phrase, “It's the economy, stupid.”

The health of the U.S. economy drives the outcome of pretty much every other major issue before us. In particular, what happens with the environment, national debt, and the effectiveness of government is inextricably linked with the activities of our economy.

71% Say Government Has No Business Monitoring News Content

While we are in constant disagreement over what issues should be covered in the media, 71 percent of Americans agree that it is not the government's job to monitor what issues the media does decide to cover, according to a recent poll released by Rasmussen Reports.

Religious Freedom in the Public Sphere

There are people in the world who have sincere religious objections to taking their clothes off in public places while total strangers stuff money in their underwear. These people should not become strippers.

There are other people who have a sincere and constitutionally protected right not to engage in usury, or the lending of money at interest. These people should not own banks.

Constitution Party Chairman Calls Top-Two Fairest Primary System

Recently, Bob Haran, chairman of the Constitution Party of Arizona, issued a press release announcing his support for the nonpartisan top-two primary. Haran said he appreciates the partisan argument that non-members of a party should not have a say on who represents the party in a general election. However, he pointed out that candidates selected in the primary are not only being selected to represent the party, but the constituents of their electoral district or state.

"I believe the voter has a right to vote for any candidate they want, regardless of party," Haran said.

The Tangled Remnants of an Empire

If one wants to get a slight taste -- just a slight taste -- of those worried, hopeful days of 1989 when the Berlin Wall was coming down, murderous communist leaders like Nicolae Ceausescu finally got their just desserts from the people they had tortured for so long, and we all wondered when these leaders’ patrons in Soviet Russia would put an end to it all with the hammer of the Red Army, as they had in Hungary and Czechoslovakia before, just watch the unfolding events in Ukraine.

The dispute in Ukraine is, on its face, a fairly simple one.

Congressman Rush Holt's Retirement Sparks Fierce Primary in New Jersey

Year after year, his campaign slogan read, “my Congressman IS a rocket scientist.” A nuclear physicist and former college professor, Rush Holt, the eight-term congressman from New Jersey’s 12

th District, was perhaps best known as the legislator who won Jeopardy five times and beat the computer, Watson.

5 States With The Worst Ballot Access Laws

Third parties that have a national infrastructure such as the Green Party and Libertarian Party have waged legal battles from California to North Carolina to improve their ability to get on the ballot. In California, a more lax state regarding ballot access laws,

Terry Baum went through several legal hurdles in her race against U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi as the Green Party candidate.