Indianapolis, IN – Due to the bill’s effort to remove the straight-party device atop the Indiana voter’s ballot, the Libertarian Party of Marion County supports Indiana House Bill (HB) 1008 and asks that you do the same. After examining voter turnout in Indiana’s 2014 midterm election, the United States Election Project claims that Hoosiers had […]
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All Politics is Local, but It Doesn’t Need to be Personal
(Originally Published by Howey Politics Indiana) As a young Executive Director for the Libertarian Party of Indiana, I didn’t have an overwhelming amount of experience in grassroots politics. I had left a job as the producer of the Abdul in the Morning show on WXNT in 2008. My communication skills were the basis of my hiring […]
A Million Little Pieces… Of Government
(Originally Published by Howey Politics Indiana) Over the last week, terrible and awesome events have grabbed our headlines. The first was a horrifying accident by Indycar Champ Dario Franchitti. In a hasty, split-second decision, Franchitti made a pass in the Houston Grand Prix, and the move launched his car in to the catch fence, and sprayed […]
We Fail To See History Repeating in Our Own Time
By chrisspangle on September 14, 2013 in Blog, foreign policy, History, Imperialism, Intervention, Syria
(Originally Published by Howey Politics Indiana) On October 11, 1912, George and Ollie Risley weren’t concerned with the Italo-Turkish war. On that Friday, they were concerned with the difficult task of childbirth on a small family farm in Knox County, Indiana. Lucky for your columnist, all went well, and they welcomed my great-grandfather Miles in […]
“Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.”
In 1981, China counted for 43% of the world’s poor. In 2010, China accounted for 13% of the world’s poor. What changed within China? Capitalism. “Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.” – Fareed Zakaria