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In 2016, I managed a campaign for an Independent candidate for city council against a four-term sitting Republican councilman. The city council was almost entirely Democrat except for that one …

Facebook is undeniably one of the most popular social media networks in the United States. With more than 200 million users in the United States, it reaches nearly three-quarters of …

I was in my early teens, and for me politics was no different than a football game in that you have two teams, you play to win, then everyone goes …

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities, accusing them of conspiring to meddle in the US electoral process. The indictment focuses on the Internet …

This week brought another tragic mass shooting, this time in Florida, where a 19-year-old former student opened fire at a high school and killed 17 students. Not surprisingly, the smoke …

Given the continuing partisan dysfunction in Washington, DC, it was inevitable that government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would need another bailout. That eventuality was Big Government’s Valentine’s …

Members of the US Senate are showing the same confusion and ambivalence about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin that is characteristic of so much of the rest of the American population: …

Iconic American firearms manufacturer Remington is planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It’s a move that wasn’t unanticipated but that could still reverberate throughout the firearms and outdoors industry. …

With the passage and signature into law of the new budget deal, any hopes that Congress might eventually tackle out of control government spending and slow the increase of the …

Taxpayers and astute observers of the increasingly perilous financial position the federal government is heading in might be pleased to learn that pending legislation in Congress would begin to modestly …