Mississippi Won’t Appeal Willie Wilson Victory to U.S. Supreme Court

Mississippi will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the State Supreme Court putting Willie Wilson on the Democratic presidential primary ballot. Also the state is sending revised ballots, containing Wilson’s name, to the overseas absentee voters. But if any overseas absentee voter, or any other absentee voter, already cast the first ballot, it counts. See this story, which focuses on an argument between the Secretary of State and the Democratic Party over who should accept blame for the mistake that left Wilson’s name off the ballot. …read more

Independent Party of Oregon Will Have a Presidential Primary

The Independent Party is entitled to nominate by primary, the first party in Oregon to have a government-adminstered primary since the Progressive Party had one in 1914. Oregon election officials plan to also provide the party with a presidential primary. It isn’t clear yet whether there will be any candidates’ names on that presidential primary. Either the party will be permitted to have presidential candidates’ names that have been suggested by the party, or else the ballot won’t have any names and the outcome will be decided by write-in votes. …read more

Say NO to the ‘Green’ Slush Fund for Dictators

Is Paris Climate Treaty a ‘Green’ Slush Fund for looters and kleptocrats? Retweet

Many third world dictators will get billions because of last year’s Paris climate talks. This was the price third world “governments” charged for supporting the resulting treaty. You will pay for this “green” slush fund for dictators. Please tell your elected reps to oppose this. Do this using our campaign to “End Aid to Dependent Dictators.” The hardwired message for that campaign reads…
End all foreign aid, especially to dictators.
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Oppose the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and all Paris …read more

Ubuntu Phone Tries Again with the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition

Would it shock you if I said that Windows 10 Mobile is not the least used mobile platform available? Probably not. I’m sure you’ve thought to yourself that their must be a slew of mobile operating systems out there that you (nor I) have ever heard of. But one that is somewhat known but is less used than Windows Phone is: Ubuntu Phone.
Ubuntu Phone (also known as Ubuntu Touch) has been around for at least a couple of years now, and has hit the market with little fanfare. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have some good ideas for it. In …read more

Harry Browne, 10 Years Gone

We lost Harry Browne ten years ago today. He was a co-founder of DownsizeDC.org. The best-selling author and former presidential candidate was also a friend and mentor to me. His work lives on at HarryBrowne.org.

Harry was a fan of the Read the Bills Act and of what became our Educate the Powerful System. But…
One Subject at a Time and Write the Laws bills didn’t yet exist.
The 2008 financial crisis hadn’t happened.
Only a couple states had medical marijuana, let alone full legalization.
And who could have predicted Edward Snowden?
Harry would’ve had something unique and useful to say about all these subjects. Instead, …read more