“Closed-door interactions.” That’s what the American Political Science Association (APSA) has recommended as one way to tackle congressional inaction. An APSA task force suggests that less transparency in government has clear and actionable benefits which can bolster the ability of Congress to resolve difficult policy issues.
It seems that in every cycle there is debate about which states should hold the first presidential primary elections. Some state always seems to try to jump ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire. Since
1972, the Iowa Caucuses have been first in the nation and New Hampshire has been the first "primary" since 1920.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxmGjcTWKuo
Meet Kay Shea, now 86 years old, 83 at the time of her accident. In August 2011, Kay was hit head on by a 17-year-old boy on a two lane road in central Missouri. She was taken by air ambulance to the hospital where she would stay for the next 5+ months. Her injuries are too many to list here, the hospital bills were over $800,000.
There was never a question of fault. The boy admitted at the scene of the accident that it was his fault, in deposition he admitted it was his fault, at trial he admitted it was his fault.
Occasionally, an editorial from another publication will catch my eye while looking through Google about how independents are either a myth or nothing more than "political hipsters." In a recent op-ed in the
Washington Blade, written by Peter Rosenstein,
The number of
marijuana legalization initiatives vying for the November ballot in California is now four.
The “Cannabis Policy Reform Act of 2014,″ by marijuana activist Ed Rosenthal, was submitted late last month to the California Attorney General’s office. The AG approves language for circulation (or signature gathering). That usually takes about a month.
One of the benefits sold by former U.S. President Bill Clinton to approve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993 was that the agreement would reduce illegal immigration substantially. Twenty years after it was enacted, experts mostly do not agree on the particular effect NAFTA has on immigration.
Using the numbers to analyze it, the results are confusing. For years after the bill, the number of undocumented Mexicans in the United States skyrocketed from 2.5 million in 1995 to 11 million in 2005.
Recently, American foreign policy priorities have been highly focused on the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. Between winding down the U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and navigating the tumult caused by the Arab Spring, President Obama has spent much of his diplomatic capital in the Middle East.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the president has further increased American diplomatic involvement. For the past few years, the U.S.
As the 2014 midterm elections approach, parties and candidates are organizing, and potential swing districts are already in campaign mode.
One such district, the Illinois 13th, stretches from Collinsville in the west and south up through central Illinois and includes Springfield, as well as Bloomington and Champaign-Urbana.
The above video is embedded from BenSwann.com.
Month 8 in Evan Falchuk’s diary of his Independent campaign for Governor of Massachusetts
Any campaign for public office is busy, I’d guess, but I didn’t realize quite how busy until I began running as an independent in Massachusetts.