Kathryn is a freelance writer covering politics, civics, and agriculture.
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Republicans and Democrats have been accused of being two arms of the same corrupt political body -- the two-party system. Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are demonized by each other, by their opponents, and even by factions within their own parties. All the while, they are seen as moderates on
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My interview with Jill Stein changed my mind drastically about how I look at voting. "Our values should be the driver of democracy," she said.The first year I could vote for president was 2000. George Bush was running against Al Gore, and Green Ralph Nader was a
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ACLU Congress will convene in a rare Sunday session to consider extending portions of the Patriot Act, before they expire on June 1. According to The Hill, Congress has until 8 pm on Sunday to re-authorize the Act or current activities under the program will be disrupted. Pressure has been
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Who will get the black vote, the Spanish-speaking vote, the youth vote? Should religious citizens vote according to religious leaders? Is there a 'War on Women'?Inspiring votes based on statistical analysis may seem safe and secure for politicians, but it also destabilizes the country. Identity politics requires
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Jill Stein, the Green Party's presidential candidate from 2012 and exploratory candidate for 2016, says the Greens "are the only game in town." She affirms that Greens are fire-walled from corporate money, hold core American values, and can unite a fractured electorate around a struggle for
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While her peers were bucking the system, free riding on national civil rights and anti-war movements, Hillary Clinton worked, honing her skills and refining her ideals of how to serve the United States of America. Hillary Rodham Clinton has always served, and probably always will. She is a national treasure,
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Farmers can yield, at most, $1,000 per acre from corn. Moonrise Extracts, an industrial hemp operation in Colorado, expects to reap tens of thousands per acre, from what started as a few dozen feral hemp plants. Moonrise Extracts was lucky to obtain local hemp seeds to start their plants.
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Despite popular belief, the state of Israel did not form out of an emergency effort after WWII. The Zionist Congress came out of Russia in the late 1800s as a small number of Jewish people banded together to return to Zion -- the biblical land of Israel. From its inception,
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KENTUCKY -- Kentucky Hemp is coming back. Fiber, seed, fuel, oil, and artisan products are simmering in the recently revived hemp industry. Hemp seed can be used whole as a food, or crushed for oil, protein powder, and protein meal. It is considered a super-food, high in omega-3's,
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“History has shown that it is not good for a Democracy when the executive branch has sweeping surveillance powers.” –Andrew Crocker, EFF Since 2002, over 40 cases have been brought against U.S. administrations concerning mass surveillance. Many have been brought by civil liberties groups like the American Civil Liberties
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Whistle-blowers like Bill Binny, Thomas Drake, and Edward Snowden, along with wrongly accused U.S. citizens, have been fighting for their rights. Not from terrorists, but from the U.S. government. While they fight, many Americans have become complacent with their diminished rights and lack of privacy. The Patriot Act
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Racism is everywhere, but it is hard to answer why, or to identify solutions. Approaching the subject of racism is hard for a couple of reasons: there are no common definitions to reference what racism is, why it is, or where it comes from; and talking about racism makes people