Partisan Free Politics

For those of you who didn't know, I spent most of the last couple weeks on a journey to Washington D.C.  Overall, it was a great trip, thanks to the hospitality of my good friends Andrew, Ruben and the Matts, as well as the many new friends I was lucky enough to meet.  It was the coming and going of it all though, that made me feel the need to relate my story.  First, as a devoted fan of ABC's LOST, I found it hard not fantasize while I waited for the call to board Zone 6, thinking about the potential new life awaiting me upon the crashing of the plane in a remote, paranormal paradise.  Unfortunately, as I ...

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I took some time before I put up this post since I wanted to see how this story would do. Well, Hillary Clinton finally stated that she was no longer wanted to give each newborn 5 grand.  Now she wants federal matching funds for savings. Under policy, Americans who open up a 401K and put up to 5,000 grand annually and the federal government will "[match] refundable tax credit—dollar for dollar—for the first $1,000 of savings done by every married couple making up to $60,000 a year". This of course will cost the same annually as the baby bonds would've been. Now it is aimed for married couples as of now. The sad thing is this will be paid for by implementing a higher death, I mean, estate tax. ...

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Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of attending a taping of Hardball with Chris Mathews. The guest was none other than Sam Waterston of Law and Order. He was talking about this new movement called Unity 08. I was excited, I wanted to help, to jump on board the Unity 08 express and shake the two-party system to the core. After months of offering my services I have attended a Jungian marketing session with Cloitiare Rapelle, started a DC based Unity 08 meet-up group, helped create the “New American Agenda”, attended an online ballot access discussion – but still, I have no damned clue what Unity 08 is doing. On its face, Unity 08 is the ...

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Flipping between today's Republican debate and other Main Stream Media, I heard something more disturbing than Tom Tancredo's isolationist trade policy. It seems that the state of Michigan has moved it's primary past the date of no return, violating the Democratic Party's "four state plan", which says that no state shall hold primary contest before: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. Why does that bother me? The DNC has already threatened to take Florida and Michigan's right to a voting delegation (In plain English it means that neither state will have a vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary of 2008). There are three camps in this interesting debate. The first is the overwhelmingly partisan argument offered by the DNC it basically ...

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A little something for you open government folks...Josh For Immediate Release September 24, 2007 Contact: Steve Ellis Vice President Taxpayers for Common Sense steve@taxpayer.net 202-546-8500 ext 126 NEW ONLINE TOOL BRINGS TRANSPARENCY TO EARMARKS On EarmarkWatch.org, Citizen Journalists Investigate Pork-barrel Spending WASHINGTON, DC – EarmarkWatch.org, a new project from the Sunlight Foundation and Taxpayers for Common Sense, lets citizens determine if earmarks – the measures inserted by members of Congress into the various appropriations bills that direct funds to a specific project or recipient – address pressing needs, favor political contributors or are simply pure pork. ...

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I recently came across a post at Freespace, a relatively new blog by my friend and former Positive Liberty blogger, Timothy Sandefur.  Sandefur asserts that his observation in The Myth of “Harmony” is not original, but is “one that needs to be made frequent and with fervor.”  Since I’ve found The Myth of “Harmony” to be founded on faulty ground, I felt its necessary to respond with equal fervor.    Sandefur begins by citing a Café Hayek posting from 2 years ago by George Mason University Economics Chair Donald Boudreaux.  Boudreaux had recently visited Sea World where he was inspired by a video at the manatee exhibit to “do [his] ...

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On this day 6 years ago, Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked 4 passenger airplanes and slammed them to the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the heroes of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves by preventing their plane from striking DC. On that day, terrorism was the biggest threat. It was literally chaos as people wondered if their loved ones were still alive and others fearful if their city was next. To some, reality didn't set in as they couldn't believe that within an hour on a clear Tuesday day, the world was suddenly changed. Nobody knew what else would happen in the coming days.  Episodes such as  the anthrax scare and the would-be shoebomber on flight close to Christmas 2001 made people wonder if ...

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The big topic in the campaign is health insurance. Various different presidential candidates have offered their stance on this issue. Some want market forces, others want full coverage. In some states, there are plans for universal health insurance in California and in Massachusetts, taxes is the stick to force companies to give their workers health insurance. Well, John Edwards recently told of his vision of health care and its a little frightening. Here is the story link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_2 Under his plan, he will require all Americans to have a yearly doctor visit. Now preventive care has its good qualities. But having it forced is a different issue. Now for a short media plug, it sounds all nice and dandy, but there is a reason why ...

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Last night, 8 GOP candidates squared off in yet another televised debate from the University of New Hampshire. I can't fault any of you for not watching, as usual it ended up looking more like 8 parallel press conferences than a true debate. But for about 3 minutes, however, a real debate managed to break out in what was without a doubt the most interesting moments of the program. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=u9sA5FQfE1E[/youtube] As I watched live, I couldn't believe my eyes: this is what real democracy is supposed to look like. Wouldn't it be grand if we could see every candidate up there engaged in a real honest discussion with each other? Maybe we could actually understand the differences between ...

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