Thousands of people didn’t get to cast their ballots in the recent Arizona primaries. Hundreds of people were still in line at 11:30pm in Phoenix, more than four hours after polls closed. One reason it is so hard to vote in Arizona is because the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. As a result, there were 70 percent fewer polling …
Mike Sommers is the former Chief of Staff to former Speaker of the House John Boehner. Last year, and for more than two decades before that, Mike Sommers was the “go-to” guy for some of the most powerful people in Washington when it came to getting things done in the House of Representatives. He was …
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In the last British general election 1.1 million people voted for the Green Party, which produced for them one seat; 3.8 million people voted for UKIP, which produced one seat as well; 2.4 million people voted for the Liberal Democrats: 8 seats; 1.4 million people voted for the Scottish National Party: result 56 seats. Meanwhile, …
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President Obama once specified that the drone programme mustn’t create more enemies than it would on the (old-fashioned) battlefield. Is it meeting that test? Since the “drone wars” began in 2008, al-Qa’eda’s central command has been devastated, but the group’s offshoots have boomed. Yemen’s government was toppled by Houthi tribesmen angry that the US had …
Facebook has set aside more than $2bn (£1.4bn) to settle global tax disputes while refusing to give the British taxman a penny. Mark Zuckerberg’s company, which paid £4,327 in British corporation tax in 2014, is challenging an audit by the Inland Revenue into its operations between 2010 and 2014. The news drags the social networking …
