The Democrat nominee for Nebraska senator, Cindy Burbank, dropped out of the race shortly after winning the May primary, leaving Sen. Pete Ricketts to face off with an “independent”: Dan Osborn. Burbank had announced that this was her plan [...]

Americans used to agree on this point: it’s not good for a person to be registered to vote four or five times at once. These days, even mentioning shortcomings in American elections is polarizing. Improving election administration doesn’t have [...]

Spending more than one can afford is business as usual for state officeholders. --- California's state government, which has run up $11,511 in debt per resident, is asking voters to approve more billions of dollars in bonds, to be paid back [...]

The national Republican Party has settled on a campaign against the Democrats, painting the opposition party as a bunch of economic socialists. “Across the nation, socialist policies are increasingly dominating Democratic politics,” Rep. Brian Steil (R-WI) complained last summer [...]

The court found the administration lacked standing to bring the suit. But there are also major substantive problems with Trump's position. --- Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska). (US Senate)   Today, in United States v. Alaska, federal district Judge Sharon Gleason ruled against [...]

Centralized databases and national ID systems make tempting targets. --- Like most of the rest of the world, the United States has been stumbling its way towards a "papers, please" society in which we must show identification to go about our [...]