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The Reform Party was once a qualified party in California, but it went off the ballot in November 2002 because none of its statewide nominees polled at least 2% of the vote. The party has recently informed the Secretary of State that it intends to re-qualify. It needs approximately 60,000 registered members by July 11. The last time the state did a tally for the Reform Party, in January 2014, it had 16,377 members.
The Reform Party filing is not complete yet. Its notification only listed a state chairman, but the Secretary of State has said that …read more

“The Week” is an English-language publication that originated in Great Britain, but which has U.S. and Australian versions. It has this interesting analysis of Donald Trump’s appeal. It says that Samuel Francis, an intellectual and an advisor to Pat Buchanan twenty years ago, urged Buchanan to run for President as a nationalist, not a conservative. Thanks to Phil Berg for the link. …read more

(RT) — Christian refugees from Syria claim they saw a former Islamic State member living in Frankfurt, and that this is not an isolated case. Police investigated but refused to file charges because the alleged terrorist has done nothing criminal in Germany.

On his last visit to the Saarland region of Germany, on the border with France, RT’s Peter Oliver met with a group of Assyrian Christians who had been held hostage by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). They recalled that while being held in IS captivity, the only thing they prayed for was to be shot instead of being beheaded.
The …read more

Queens, NY – On Monday, January 18th, officers from the NYPD’s 103rd precinct located a baby goat that had broken loose from a local slaughterhouse and was wandering in traffic. After successfully capturing the goat, these officers went above and beyond the call of duty to save the life of an innocent creature.
According to reports, the goat had escaped from a slaughterhouse near 180th street and Merrick Ave. in Jamaica Queens. Several witnesses told police, that the baby goat was nearly hit by a car, as reported by the NY Daily News.
When Officers from the 103rd precinct’s anti-crime unit arrived …read more

There are things that I get to do that I consider exciting, and then there are things that I get to do that I consider ridiculously exciting. What I want to tell you about falls under the latter. Big time.
I get to be the panel moderator for “The Future of Internet Privacy“, one of the premiere panels at this year’s Free State Project annually-held event: Liberty Forum. Liberty Forum 2016 was already guaranteed to be an incredible event with one of the keynote speeches at the event being given–remotely–by none other than Edward Snowden himself! Add into that mix a …read more

Two Tennessee legislators have introduced bills that amend the election code. The bills prohibit the Secretary of State from placing any presidential candidate on the general election ballot if the candidate is not a natural-born citizen. Here is the text of SB 2625. The other bill, HB 2595, is identical. The sponsors are two Democrats from Nashville, Senator Jeff Yarbro and Representative Jason Powell. …read more

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(RT) — An incident in which several civilians with a white flag came under fire has been caught on camera. The victims are reported to be Kurds in the town of Cizre, where they were allegedly shot at by Turkish troops.

The series of short video clips published on social media shows a procession of people going along a street, pushing a cart with what appears to be two covered bodies. The walls of the buildings are dotted with holes, possibly from bullets. A tank is shown in the distance.
Cizre’de cenazeler sebze-meyve tablasında taşınıyor pic.twitter.com/nV6COhbnxH
— bilal gezer (@bilalgezer13) January …read more

(RT) — Despite being “too big to fail”, America’s “most important bank” Goldman Sachs may have done so this week, at least for a few minutes, when it possibly tipped off a new economic recession.

A slide in the “Markets do not ‘Take it Easy’ to start the year” report posted online showed the US in a recession according to Goldman’s Current Activity Indicator.
“Although EM assets remain in the cross-hairs – and the outlook there remains tenuous in spots – growth concerns have impacted the market’s view of US and European growth as well, pushing our market-based measure of US growth …read more

Arizona Secretary of State Michelle Reagan, a Republican, says she wants the legislature to pass a bill ending taxpayer support for administering presidential primaries. Legislative leaders say they agree with her, and will soon introduce such a bill. Inevitably, this would mean there would be caucuses instead of presidential primaries in Arizona, because the parties could not afford to administer presidential primaries on their own. …read more

The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee is sponsoring SB 1195. It abolishes write-ins in party primaries. It also says that if someone wants to vote in a party primary but that person is registered in another party, that voter must switch three and one-half months before the primary. Current law makes the deadline two and one-half months before the primary. The bill would have no effect on independent voters, who are free to join a party at the polls on primary day.
The bill’s sponsors want the bill to take effect for the May 2016 primary. …read more