This story says Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering running for U.S. Senate in 2018 as an independent. If he does that, his own top-two law will not permit him to have the ballot label “independent”.Source: Report Says Arnold Schwarzenegger is Thinking of Running for U.S. Senate in 2018 as an Independent...
Happy Women’s History Month! This year has already seen historic large-scale demonstrations celebrating women and demanding equal rights, starting with the day after President Trump’s inauguration, when millions gathered on the National Mall and around the globe for Women’s March events.Source: Women candidates under attack (really!) by outside groups. (Men, not so much.)...
Former FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel left a lengthy note as she left town to explain how bad things had gotten at the FEC. Her agency would not help drain the swamp; a bloc of Commissioners had scuttled the agency’s mission to enforce campaign finance disclosure and limits.Source: The FEC and the Draining of Swamps -...
Last month a 2,500-word hit piece by Nancy Cook was published in Politico magazine with signs of Deep State intervention.Source: National Review: ‘Deep FEC’ Goes After White House Counsel Don McGahn (In the News)...
Social media gives us ways to nurture ever more elaborate online communities, but is it friendly to the kind of democracy diverse societies need? In #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media, Cass Sunstein, the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to StarSource: Cass Sunstein on the echo chamber and his new book,...
Donald Rumsfeld once famously said, “There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns.”Source: The Worst $1 Million Trump Ever Saved...
Supporters of greater campaign finance regulation often claim that their issue is of paramount importance to voters. Their evidence is often biased polling.Source: Gallup Poll Shows Less Than 0.5% of Americans Think Campaign Finance “Reform” is Top Problem Facing the Country...
I think people here probably can't wait that long before solving the air pollution problem, so I think the domestic pressure itself is already large enough for China to take action.Source: What exactly was Watergate and is it happening again?...
The New York Times has carried two pieces in the last days on the Internet politics, each making a case for its contribution to degraded democracy. Michael Birnbaum writes about the influence of rightist websites in Europe as both the Netherlands and France head into national elections.Source: Internet Politics-Is the Problem the Politics or the Internet? -...
