Competitive free markets and property rights stimulate the technological innovations and behavioral changes required to protect our environment and ecosystems. Private landowners and conservation groups have a vested interest in maintaining natural resources. Governments are unaccountable for damage done to our environment and have a terrible track ( Read more... )

Although the Green Party website hasn't been updated for the new platform yet, https://anais-pf.livejournal.com/ provided me with a link to the approved updates, and I reviewed them for material updates to their climage change policies. The only one I spotted was the Green Party adding their ( Read more... )

The Green Party held its convention over the weekend, and updated its platform, but these updates are still not available on their website. I guess they have fewer peeps to perform such mundane tasks than the two major parties. The Libertarian Party hasn't posted updates either, and their convention was three months ago ( Read more... )

For the first time in its history, the Republican Party has decided not to adopt a platform in 2020. The Republican Party had previously adopted a platform during every Presidential campaign since 1856, but this year, nope. No platform!

Instead, we got this resolution from the Republican National Convention:

"RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has ( Read more... )

"America is an idea-one that has endured and evolved through war and depression, prevailed over fascism and communism, and radiated hope to far distant corners of the earth."

This is the first sentence from the Preamble of the 2020 Democratic Party platform.

"America is an idea"?

No, America is a hemisphere, the so-called Western Hemisphere.  America ( Read more... )

I'm so pleased the Green Party 2020 Platform does not call for abolishing the police.

I don't think I could vote for a candidate or support an organization that does call for abolishing the police.  I'll go as far Left as I can go, so long as we aren't calling to abolish the police.  I was thinking I'd have to vote for Biden if the Greens called for ( Read more... )