Attorney and IVC Media president Chad Peace focuses on election reform. He helped pass CA’s top-two primary and San Diego’s Measure K. His work analyzes how system design and structural reforms can give independent voters a more meaningful voice.
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Yesterday, I wrote an article titled "America: Land of the Czar?" which presented my worries that America is indirectly handing over its representative government authority to unelected officials with superior power. Now, just today, the news from Washington D.C. is that the Senate has blocked the auto
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Americans have traditionally respected private property and individual rights, rejecting elitism and excessive power. We reject unchecked power, generally associated with partisan elitist states and political institutions that take rights and property from the general population and distribute them to preferred party members and supporters in order to reinforce their
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On December 2nd, rationalized as a quick fix to the budget deficit, Mayor Richard Daley said that the City of Chicago had agreed to Lease all 36,000 Chicago metered parking spaces for 75 years for a lump sum of $1.16 Billion dollars. The owner of this Lease: J.
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I remember when I was a kid, my mother got me a checkbook and a home "savings account" and told me that I had to learn to manage my money. I earned a large sum of $20 per week for doing dishes, taking out the trash, cleaning my
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There are many economists,politicians, and journalists that think they have a miraculous way to makebailouts work. Thus far, our government and Federal Reserve Bank have limitedthe bailout debate to who should get what money and how much. Yet,all this argument over how to best manipulate our economy is
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California's gay chickens were shocked with mix emotionslast Tuesday in California. Early in thenight, gay chickens all over the state were ecstatic as the results came inover Proposition2, which would require that California's farmers allow chickens the rightto a comfortable living space. Colonel Sanders sat in
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Last Tuesday, California'svoters passed a constitutional amendment stripping the ability of gay personsto enter into a marriage contract. The final ballots have been tallied, but theheated debate over gay marriage is far from over. There is an important underlying issuerelated to this proposition, and it concerns the right
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There is an interesting article from Bloomberg today on the Fed's refusal to identify the recipients of nearly $2 trillion dollars worth of emergency loans. This is why we need to measure the "need for a bailout" with the potential for corruption and waste that such
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To be forthright, I was not an Obama, nor a McCain supporter. I'm what you call that voter who doesn't matter; an independent that votes for the candidate that most closely aligns with his political views, regardless of their odds of winning. The moment Obama was
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Conventional political sentiment tells us that we are either for a particular proposition, or against it. We are told to support Proposition 8 if we believe in traditional marriage, or against if we believe in equality. What about those who believe that a government authority empowered by a simple majority,