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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, Why Both Parties Are Wrong About...

The first step in improving healthcare and lowering costs is a gigantic effort on wellness education. We have a food supply awash in poisonous chemicals, pesticides, and laden with excitotoxins. While...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, Unpacking a Doable Citizens United...

Move to Amend is the partisan liberal position. If you are against killing whales, and your friends are as well, why can’t you pool your resources, with limited liability, and buy advertising to...

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Thanks, Charlotte. One idea is to have media networks provide free air-time, equally to the candidates, in-lieu of taxes.

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Yup, foundations are covered under the nonprofit umbrella.

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, Unpacking a Doable Citizens United...

Unless, of course, WE make it happen.

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, No Labels Unveils Reform Package to...

No Budget No Pay is not what it looks like. It is a means of making sure only the rich, and even richer folks find their way to power. Here’s a piece I wrote about it earlier this year.

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I believe the difference is this: E.g. If Marriott wants to advertise for a looser immigration policy, and the Teamsters want to advertise for a stricter immigration policy—that would be legal under...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, Wasteful Government Spending, on the...

Just a point of order, the “waste” really isn’t our tax dollars. When you pay your tax, the dollars are just keystrokes on a balance sheet at the Fed. Poof. They’re gone. The entire $17T deficit could be

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, No Labels Unveils Reform Package to...

Thanks, Wyatt, hope you’ll spread the meme.

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, Experts Pessimistic About FEC Despite...

Congress is incapable of regulating itself and elections. There should be a diverse citizens panel, that would vet the commissioners and “hire” them. There are processes that would assure the citizen’s...

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Jonathan Denn wrote a new post, Should Election Day Be A National Holiday?,...

Previously I had written about making Columbus Day Weekend’s Monday our national election day. It was to be called Rediscover America Day in the non-election years to coincide with Columbus Day. In...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, Should Election Day Be A National...

I believe exit polling should be outlawed as well as reporting of any totals until the last poll has closed. Behavioral psychologists have identified that humans are hardwired to vote for the winner,...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, Should Election Day Be A National...

Hi DeeGee, I am personally in favor of weekend voting. But I think the political reality is that the red duopolists will never vote for it, which effectively means it has no chance of passing unless...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, The Best Source for What Voters Want:...

Evan, next time you’re on the Cape let me know. I’ll be happy to cover the event for IVN. Maybe your platform is the GREATER Platform for Massachusetts? And independents can lobby their elected...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, The Original Solution: Parties Are...

I, agree, almost wholeheartedly. In fact, I have long planned to write about this in my column “the GREATER Platform” with the title No Political Party Shall Be Privileged. It will be part of my...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, A Vast Supermajority Support Term...

Hi Gary, by that logic should we end term limits for POTUS?

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Jonathan Denn wrote a new post, A Vast Supermajority Support Term Limits , on...

Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Congress can’t pass many bills but they fit this one. Some career politicians have long figured out that...

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, A Vast Supermajority Support Term...

The bottom line is–what is the doable deal? Campaign Finance Reform and Ending Gerrymandering are the liberal goals. The only feasible way to bring enough conservatives to the table is to fulcrum Term...

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Do you have a link to your preferred proportional system?

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Jonathan Denn commented on the post, The #1 Reform: No Political Party Shall...

AV is not a rank order system. There is still debate about which rank order system is best or if they are better than AV. There is little debate about banning single mark ballots. There is a cognitive...

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