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Automatic Voter Registration and Voter ID
Here Come the SuperPACS --- Again!
Is Civil Asset Forfeiture a Community Asset?
The Unintended Consequences of Market Interventions
Governor Vetoes Budget That Has No New Taxes
Black Republicans Running for Office
Democrats Weigh in on Police Gun Violence
Law Enforcement Can't Do It All: Dallas Police Chief
Need some good news? Try the Second Annual Policy and Progress Forum
The Consequences of Too Much Democracy
WVGOP Platform Convention
Why Don't Progressives Support Brexit?
The West Virginia Budget Includes Tax Increases
There are No Quick Fixes to System Problems
Politics and Billionaires
Popflation and WV Spending
Tax filing extended in observance of Emancipation Day holiday
Tax Emancipation Day
Political Correctness - From Merle Haggard to Gary Player
The Decline of Political Power
Organic Consumers Association Talks States' Rights
2016 Legislative Session Wrap Up
Robert Reich, the Anti-Entrepreneur
A Prayer for Antonin Scalia
The Need For Transparency at the GOP
You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
Executive Orders and Move On
Feinstein and the Second Amendment Rights of Veterans
As the Year Ends, Where in the World is Agrabah?
Local Merchant Does the Right Thing
Sweden: Bernie's Paradise
The Fake Repeal of Common Core in WV
Media Bias In State and Out
True the Vote on Voter ID in Alabama - Racial Diversity in Vermont
Bernie Sanders and the Democrat Debates'
Census Population vs Voter Population
The Battle Over GMO Labeling'
Nullification Goes Mainstream
The NFL and the Rice Family
Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood
Two Notes: EPBA/BIC Meeting and Excess Levy Special Election
Professor Advocates Death Penalty for "Global Warming Deniers"
Two groups aim to right W.Va.'s woeful business climate
EPBA and BIC Hold an Event in Jefferson County
Taxing the Rain'
Academic Freedom vs "Justice"
Little ROI Making Your Home Energy Efficient
Common Core Math in WV'
Questioning Obamacare'
Questioning the Patriot Act
Questioning the TPP
Vote on the Patriot Act Extension Called Into Question
The Partisan Debate on Partisanship
Common Core Testing: Smarter What?
2015 Legislative Wrap
Liberal Bias and Discrimination
Governor Tomblin Vetoes Raw Milk Bill
First GOP Controlled Legislative Session in 80 Years
The Impact of Impact Fees'
Two Follow Ups: JCESA and Common Core
About the Ambulance Fee...
Swasey: Common Core is Education Without Representation
The Convention of States
2015 Legislative Highlights (and Lowlights)
Audit the Fed
Robert Reich's "Myth" of the Free Market
Nothing Changes New Year's Day
The Songs of the Season
Boone County WV Elects a Republican Delegate For the First Time Ever
Assault With a Deadly Crayon
And the State Ranked "Most Socialist" Is...
Thanksgiving and the Public Good
Anders Removal From the JCREC
WV Election is a Sea Change from Blue to Red
Bloomberg: There Isn't Enough Intellectual Diversity at Harvard
Money in Politics - the Progressive SuperPACs
Progressivism's Population Redux
Ezekiel Emanuel: No Healthcare For You! If You''re 75 Or Older...
Jefferson County Chamber vs the WV Chamber
The Ambulance Fee Revisited
Gaming Revenue Declines'
Obama is the 'greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation'
EPBA Candidate Forum
Michael Moore's Love Affair With Capitalism
Elizabeth Warren Visits Shepherdstown
Mailgate Revisited
Clarksburg's Demolition Derby
Democrats Cross Over to Vote in Republican Primary
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Income Inequality and Red vs Blue
The West Virginia Mailgate'
Minimum Wage, Prevailing and the West Virginia Economy
League of Women Voters and Impact Fees
Income Inequality and "Progressive" Taxation
Implications of the West Virginia Minimum Wage Legislation
True the Vote
Governmental Epic Fails
Sales Tax and the Border Effect'
The Anti-Morrisey Bill
The First Amendment vs Academic Justice
Delegate Kump Against Forced Hook Up'
Common Core and SLDS Data Mining
Both Major Parties Lose Membership
West Virginia Dems Change the Rules -- Again
Mission Creep and Unilateral Presidential Action
Bipartisanship
Rule Bending Dems
Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock
'Popflation' and Uncle Sam
Eight is Enough has Had Enough of the EPA
Dissent as Mental Illness
The Democrats Exclude We the People
The Debt Ceiling Also Rises
Deficit Spending, Debt Ceiling
Obamacare - Government Shutdown
Colorado Recall - Secession
Henry Hazlitt Econ in One Lesson
Minimum Wage, Prevailing Wage and Free Markets
WV Employment Stats on this Labor Day
Deficits Do Matter
Eight is Enough vs The EPA
Individual Privacy vs Government Secrecy
Solzhenitsyn vs Snowden
Growth of State Government
High School Student Arrested for NRA Shirt
Happy July 4th - Let's Celebrate the Constitution
Liberal vs Conservative: A Rose By Any Other Name...
Education Reform Common Core and the SLDS
Chesapeake Bay WIP and the Bond Issue
IRS Political Bias and Obamacare
Envision 2035 and Economic Growth
Tax Reform and the Toyota Plant Anniversary
What is Agenda 21?
CISPA, The Blood Bill and our Right to Privacy
2013 Legislative Highlights and Lowlights
County Commission Vote on Gun Control Resolution
The Kessler Double Standard
In Support of Raw Milk
In Support of Local Agriculture
The Local Convention for the Constitution
Calling Out Those Who Call Out the Wrong People
What Happens When You're Busy Making Other Plans
There's a New Sheriff In Town...Eventually
The Bill of Rights
Opposition to Common Core
$431 Billion in Four Years - The Department of Education
Medicaid Expansion
The High Cost of the Rising Incarceration Rate
Home Rule Equals Higher Taxes
Mrs. Marple vs Home Schooling
West Virginia Education Audit
BET and the NAACP
Introduction and Election Analysis
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