During 2008, salary for members of Congress has been $169,300. On January 1, 2009, it rises to $174,000. Every time the salary goes up, filing fees also go up, in the states in which the filing fee is a percentage … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2008
On December 23, the Alabama ballot access case called Shugart v Chapman was removed from the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, to the U.S. District Court in Montgomery, at the state’s request. The suit challenges the number of signatures needed … Continue reading
The markcrispinmiller.com blog has this interesting comparison of Nevada state security rules for gambling machines, versus the normal state oversight for electronic vote-counting machines. Most significant is that Nevada requires the users of gambling equipment to reveal the software to … Continue reading
Professor James T. Bennett has just published “Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties.” The publisher is the prestigious Springer Company, which is the world’s largest publisher of books on science, … Continue reading
http://restoretheconstitutionalrepublic.org has a comment by a Texan who says that he or she recently talked on the phone with Congressman Ron Paul about the meaning of “natural-born” in Article II, for presidential qualification. According to the comment, Paul said, “There … Continue reading
http://restoretheconstitutionalrepublic.org has a comment by a Texan who says that he or she recently talked on the phone with Congressman Ron Paul about the meaning of “natural-born” in Article II, for presidential qualification. According to the comment, Paul said, “There … Continue reading