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Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:30:00 -0500Say what you will about Hillary Clinton, but at least she wasn't the candidate turning the 2016 election into a policy-light, personality-driven circus...right? Not so fast. Conventional wisdom may hold that Clinton ran the more serious and substantive campaign, but a new analysis out of Wesleyan University suggests otherwise, at least when it comes to campaign advertising. "Clinton's message was devoid of policy discussions in a way not seen in the previous four presidential contests," according to the Wesleyan Media Project, which analyzed election ads that ran between June 8, 2016, and election day. For the analysis, Wesleyan researchers coded Clinton and Trump ads—including those from their respective campaigns and ads from political action committies and allies—as being driven by policy, personality, or both. They found that more than half of Clinton's ads focused on Clinton's positive personal qualities or Trump's negative personal qualities rather than on policy matters, compared to a little over 10 percent of Trump's ads. Campaign advertising for Trump, meanwhile, was both more likely to focus on policy issues alone and to focus on a mix of policy and candidates' personal qualities, as you can see in the chart below.* The Wesleyan researchers also compared Clinton and Trump ads to those run in previous presidential election cycles, dating back to 2000. Clinton's personality-driven ads far outpaced those of either her Democratic or Republican predecessors in these past races. The candidate who comes nearest is Barack Obama in 2008, when around 15 percent of his ads lacked a policy message entirely (compared to around 10 percent of rival John McCain's ads). Throughout the period, Democratic campaigns were more likely to use personality-driven ads than were Republicans with the exception of the 2012 election, when Mitt Romney ran more personality-driven ads than did Obama. In general, the biggest proportion of campaign ads focused on policy messages. Check out more of the Wesleyan Media Project's analysis in the latest issue of The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics (open access through mid-April 2017). Interestingly, the 2016 election cycle saw less negative advertising than the last one, according to the paper. "For all of the vitriol in the 2016 presidential election (in rallies, the debates, on cable news programs), the tone of political advertising was actually less negative than it was in 2012," it states. "The 2016 election did, however, earn the distinction of the second most negative in the last decade and a half." Also notable: Nearly half of all Clinton campaign spots were negative, whereas more than half of Trump ads were "contrast spots, which discussed Clinton negatively but also provided information about Trump." Clinton's anti-Trump ads also emphasized her opponent's negative personal qualities rather than questionable policy positions, while "about 70 percent of ads from Trump and his allies that attacked Clinton contained at least some discussion of policy, and when there were contrasts drawn between the two candidates, those contrasts were almost all policy-based." * This post previously mistated the degree of difference and has been updated.[...]
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:15:00 -0500Bitterly fought elections are actually not uncommon in American history. Consider the election of 1800 when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied among Electors. In words that some might think could be applicable to a certain contemporary orange-haired presidential candidate, Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist, explained why he preferred Democratic Republican Jefferson: Mr. Jefferson, though too revolutionary in his notions, is yet a lover of liberty and will be desirous of something like orderly Government – Mr. Burr loves nothing but himself – thinks of nothing but his own aggrandizement – and will be content with nothing short of permanent power [struck: and] in his own hands – No compact, that he should make with any [struck: other] passion in his [struck: own] breast except [struck: his] Ambition, could be relied upon by himself – How then should we be able to rely upon any agreement with him? Mr. Jefferson, I suspect will not dare much Mr. Burr will [inserted in margin: dare every thing in the sanguine hope of effecting every thing –] ... In a choice of Evils let them take the least – Jefferson is in every view less dangerous than Burr. And perhaps even more apropos, there was the election of 1884, which the U.S. History website notes: The campaign was extremely bitter and focused on the candidates` shortcomings. [Democrat Grover] Cleveland, years earlier in Buffalo, had fathered an illegitimate child. He had taken full financial responsibility for his offspring and publicly acknowledged that he had made a mistake. Republican opponents, however, kept the matter in the public mind by chanting, "Ma, Ma, where`s my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha, ha, ha." [Republican James] Blaine, on the other hand, was a good family man, but had apparently engaged in questionable investment schemes while on the public payroll. Much of the campaign furor revolved around the difference between private and public misdeeds. Democratic partisans used the refrain, "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the state of Maine! Similar sorts of taunts echo through Election 2016. In response to the distempers of that 19th century presidential contest, Walt Whitman penned "Election Day, November, 1884." Focus particularly on the last four lines. ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884. If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, 'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser- loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes— nor Mississippi's stream: —This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day, (The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,) The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland —Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California, The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and con- flict, The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict, Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all, Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross: —Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows: These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships, Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.[...]
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:20:00 -0400If current polling numbers hold, the Libertarian Party could surpass an important vote share threshold come November. If Gary Johnson and Bill Weld receive at least five percent of the popular vote, they'll be officially classified as a "minor party" by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). If that happens, the Libertarian Party's candidate in 2020 would qualify for public matching funds based on how much of the vote they receive. At RealClear politics, Bill Scher takes note of the possibilities: If Johnson snags 5 percent of the national popular vote, the Federal Election Commission will classify the Libertarians as an official "minor party," granting the 2020 nominee a lump sum of cash for the fall campaign, courtesy of the American taxpayer. (And don't you think for a second that the vehemently anti-big-government Libertarians won't cash that big government check in a heartbeat.) The exact amount of federal funds depends on the size of his vote, but Green Party officials – who have been chasing 5 percent for years – estimate that meeting the threshold would yield about $10 million. That may seem like chump change compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars major party presidential nominees routinely raise. But Johnson has gotten this far after raising only $8 million through August. The prospect of knowing the Libertarian Party's nominee is guaranteed $10 million will allow him or her to hit the campaign trail running, improving the odds of getting into the debates, winning an even larger share of vote and fortifying the party's place in the American political landscape. Isn't it a little bit odd for Scher to assert what the Libertarian Party would do in a snarky parenthetical aside rather than simply contacting them to ask? Scher's hardly an objective observer of the election from his home at liberaloasis.com. That's certainly no sin (read about my own lack of objectivity here), but it took me no time at all to contact the Libertarian Party and talk to party chair Nicholas Sarwark. The reality is, according to Sarwark, members of the Libertarian Party are not in agreement over whether to take the money, and it will have to be something hammered out if Johnson actually reaches the threshold. (Keep in mind this FEC fund Scher describes is made entirely from voluntary donations from taxpayers. The FEC notes in its guidelines "Money for public funding of presidential elections can come only from the Presidential Fund. If the Presidential Fund runs short of funds, no other general Treasury funds may be used.") "We would be delighted to have that conversation," Sarwark told Reason. "Right now we're just entirely focused on the election and having Johnson do as well as possible." In the event Johnson reaches the FEC vote threshold, Sarwark believes the most likely outcome will be that delegates to the Libertarian Party's 2018 national convention would need to hammer out a possible bylaw about whether a potential candidate should be permitted to accept the money. As a legal matter, Sarwark notes, it's the candidate who decides whether to take the money, not the party. So the bylaw would serve the purpose of attempting to bind a future candidate to the party's attitude toward whether to accept the grant. Another potential concern is that accepting the grant actually imposes a limit on fundraising by the candidate as part of matching these funds. While it might, at the moment, appear to be a boon for whoever comes after Johnson (it certainly was for Pat Buchanan following after Ross Perot with the Reform Party), if this Republican Party crack-up continues and more people see the Libertarian Party as an alternative, it actually might not be in the party's interest to tie themselves down this way. There's a reason the Democrats and the Republicans don't avail themselves of this money anymore. Neither party has accepted any grants for the general election as yet, and the only primary candidate to accept matching funds was Martin O'Malley. Voluntary participation in[...]
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:45:00 -0400
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met for the first presidential debate last night at Hofstra University in New York. The major party candidates hoped to make their case to the record number of American voters expected to watch. Meanwhile, third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, despite pulling a combined double digits in national polls, were locked out.
The lack of an alternative viewpoint to the Republican-Democrat status quo led to some familiar discussions. On security, Trump emphasized his support for bringing back and expanding New York City's defunct stop-and-frisk policy while Clinton focused on the need for more restrictions on gun ownership. Trump's failure to acknowledge that stop-and-frisk was both unconstitutional and ineffective in reducing crime was only matched by Clinton's failure to mention that gun violence is at historic lows despite soaring gun sales.
For libertarians in particular, the most egregious parts of the debate may not have been the disagreements, but the times when the candidates were aligned. They nodded in agreement when it came to opposing free trade accords, increasing spending and debt, and denying gun rights to people placed on government lists without due process.
Also, NBC's Lester Holt made a brief appearance as moderator.
Reason TV boiled down 90 minutes of agony to give you the three minutes that count. Watch the video above to see the candidates discuss these issues and more, along with some of the more egregious consultant-crafted zingers they delivered.
Produced by Zach Weissmueller and Justin Monticello. Music by Polyrhythmics.
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:05:00 -0400
(image) Elections by their nature bring out shameless self-promotion from politicians. From Hillary Clinton's constant touting of her own "historic" significance as a candidate to Donald Trump's egomaniacal ravings, many Americans could be forgiven for desiring more self-effacing office seekers.
So Norway may offer a ray of hope for humanity. In the small town of Kolbotn, just outside of Oslo, political neophyte and international black metal sensation Fenriz (founding member of the band Darkthrone) has been elected to the town council as an alternate representative—despite having run a campaign urging people not to vote for him.
In an interview with the music website CLRVYNT, Fenriz (birth name Gylve Nagell) explained that he reluctantly accepted an offer from Norway's Liberal Party to stand in the local election, despite having absolutely no interest in winning office. "Basically, they called and asked if I wanted to be on the list" of backup representatives, he told CLRVYNT. "I said yeah, thinking I would be like 18th on the list and I wouldn't really have to do anything."
Perhaps concerned that apathy and total lack of experience wouldn't be sufficient to thwart his chances, Fenriz then ran an outreach campaign consisting entirely of posters with him and his cat accompanied by a plea that people not support him.
Unfortunately for this founding father of Norwegian black metal, the plan backfired spectacularly. The residents of Kolbotn were apparently so taken with his self-denying attitude that they promptly voted him into office, much to Fenriz's chagrin. "I'm not too pleased about it. It's boring," he said. "There's not a lot of money in that, either, I can tell you!"
One potential fear is that his party affiliation could alienate his core musical constituency of rabid Darkthrone fans. Norway's underground metal scene has had a sordid history of virulent anti-Christianity, with some fans going so far as to actually burn down churches. Fenriz's Liberal Party, in contrast, advocates the more moderate position of peacefully abolishing the Church of Norway as the country's official religion.
Still, Fenriz's apathetic attitude toward government arguably makes him a natural fit for the Liberals, who want a smaller, less burdensome state. The party's website calls for a number of libertarianish policies from reducing regulation to abolishing Norway's inheritance tax.
Whatever comes of Fenriz's time in office, the level of popular support for someone who's this unenthusiastic about the prospects of wielding is cause enough for celebration.
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:17:00 -0400
At a press conference at 1:30 this afternoon in Salt Lake City, sitting state Sen. Mark Madsen, a Republican in Utah, will be announcing that he's switching his Party affiliation to Libertarian and endorsing Gary Johnson for president.
In an emailed press release announcing the planned press conference, Madsen is described as "a sitting two term state senator [Madsen actually in his third term, first elected in 2004] and former city council member from Eagle Mountain. His legislative record bears out his dedication to individual liberty. He has observed that the interests of bureaucratic agencies and the people rarely align. He believes in choice in health care and education. He is a champion of free trade and free market solutions."
At the press conference, the release says, Madsen will "discuss his experience at the GOP convention, his goals and priorities now, and his support for Libertarian nominees for president and Vice President, Governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld."
More on this story as it develops.
Matt Welch reported earlier today on the defection of two sitting Republican state representatives from Montana, not to the Libertarian Party per se, but to endorsement of that Party's candidates, Gary Johnson and William Weld. They are "Daniel Zolnikov (R-Billings), a 29-year-old two-term state representative known for his civil libertarian work on surveillance and free speech" and "fellow State Rep. Nicholas Schwaderer (R-Mineral County)."
Welch with a complete list of known sitting legislators, Libertarian and Republican, publicly for Johnson/Weld. Madsen will now be the third sitting state legislator who switched Party affiliation in office to Libertarian, after Nevada's John Moore and Nebraska's Laura Ebke.
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:10:00 -0400For better or worse a thought leader of sorts for middle and even some highbrow American smartypants, the New Yorker (more or less the ur-source of why everyone you know hates the Koch Brothers) tells their readers this week that they should have some serious respect and regard for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson this year. Some highlights and summations from a piece by political journalist Ryan Lizza. He starts by laying out a best-case reason for hope for a strong showing with the same sort of linking Libertarian partisans have been doing this year: the unpopularity of Clinton and Trump has created an opportunity for Johnson to at least match Perot's impressive showing... For anti-Trump conservatives still searching for an alternative, Johnson may be the only option. On the left, anti-Clinton Democrats, including some determined supporters of Bernie Sanders, would prefer a candidate who is more socially liberal and noninterventionist than Clinton. Johnson's own explanation as to what's so bad about Clinton and Trump: "Hillary has to go out and she has to appeal to this 'everything's free, government can accomplish anything, what can you give us' constituency. She's doling it out as fast as she can. Trump is appealing to this anti-abortion, anti-immigration, 'bomb the hell out of them, lock them up, throw away the key' constituency." Reporter Lizza finds Johnson "charming and more transparent than most politicians—sometimes to a fault" with "a knack for putting a happy face on the rougher edges of libertarianism." He quotes Johnson crediting a lifelong vision of himself as a libertarian to a book (whose name he can't recall) he read when he was 18 "about what it means to be a libertarian." (The book specifically called What it Means to be a Libertarian, by Charles Murray, didn't come out until Johnson was already governor of New Mexico in 1996, so it can't be that.) He gets Johnson (part of the charming transparency Lizza eludes to) to say (perhaps jokingly) that he could illegally hook up Lizza with a marijuana product the company Johnson was CEO of between his Libertarian presidential runs, Cannabis Sativa, wants to sell. Lizza shows a Libertarian ticket happy to hype each other, with vice presidential candidate William Weld, former governor of Massachusetts through much of the 1990s, saying of Johnson that: "I thought he was just so cool that he would do these giant slaloms after doing an Iron Man triathlon and ski five hundred feet in the air and then land in a pail of water," Weld told me. "I mean, he is a serious daredevil." Lizza follows with a decent discussion of how and why third parties have been significant in the past, including Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, Strom Thurmond in 1948, and Ross Perot in 1992, a discussion that alas casts doubts on the idea that the L.P. will shake the world too much this year: what is the distinct issue that the Libertarians can expect to bring out giant percentages of the vote in 2016, analogous to Perot and the deficit, Thurmond and segregation, and Roosevelt and the progressive reform agenda? As Lizza sums up Johnson's agenda: Johnson wants to raise the retirement age for Social Security and to limit Social Security benefits for the wealthy. He wants to get rid of the I.R.S. and replace most of the tax code with a single consumption tax. He wants to abolish the death penalty, expand vouchers for private school, and drastically pull back the American military from its commitments around the world. "The unintended consequence of when you put boots on the ground, when you drop bombs, when you fly drones and kill thousands of innocent people—this is resulting in a world less safe, not more safe," he told the crowd. Sensible, and one could find issue polls that show support for those elements of his message, from social security to military commitments. But they don't seem to be the issues driving t[...]
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:11:00 -0400Part of the theory behind why nominating two former Republican governors for the Libertarian Party presidential ticket was such a no-brainer idea for 2016 was that the Republican Party, theoretic home of a lot of American desire to see a small, affordable, Constitutional government, was about to nominate a maniac who many GOP faithful could not in good conscience support. The Boston Globe, from the land of L.P. vice presidential pick and former two-term Massachusetts Republican Gov. William Weld, does some reporting today trying to find some truth to that, and finds one former Weld chief of staff and a former state GOP chairwoman willing to go on the record as very glad to have an alternative to voting Donald Trump they can get behind. Then it deflates the presumption by mentioning that Weld's "political protege" and current Gov. Charlie Baker has not said he'd vote Johnson/Weld, and in fact says he'll be joining the likely near-majority not voting at all in November for president. And while the campaign has not yet provided specifics publicly, they told the Globe that Weld's promised fundraising prowess was, according to the Globe, going well. Then there was this sad quote, which might well represent many more voters than the quoted: "I think half the country has problems with either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, so a third-party alternative has appeal to them and to me," said Rob Gray, a Republican consultant who once worked for Weld. But he won't be voting for Weld. He doesn't want to waste his vote and fears that Johnson could serve as a spoiler who helps get Clinton elected. "I love the guy," he said of Weld. "But ultimately you have to make your choice between the two candidates who have a chance to win." Actually, collective choices about who to vote for defines who has a chance to win, and the winner would have won whether you vote for them or not. But those truths are hard to sell to American voters. In another bit of the surprisingly continual major media attention the L.P. ticket continues to earn, The Washington Post this morning gave a semi-comprehensive look at Johnson's issue stances for its readers, after noting two unusual things about Johnson as a Libertarian: his surprisingly high polling so far, and his willingness to shift away from a libertarian hardcore in some of his stances. Author Max Ehrenfreund highlights Johnson's belief in regulation over tort law as a solution to some environmental harms (though the article later points out Johnson is not currently supporting any specific federal action targeting global warming), and his willingness to use executive authority for some goals. That latter point is not necessarily a libertarian sin if the goal is to restrict government size and scope, though a respect for the constitutional structure of distinct executive and legislative powers is often called upon by the libertarian and libertarian-leaning, generally as a means of making sure one or the other does not overstep its bounds in a non-libertarian direction. The rest of the article does a decent job summing him up on the budget, taxation, abortion, criminal justice, and immigration, though foreign policy is ignored entirely here by the Post.[...]
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:15:00 -0400Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson's media campaign continues, as he fights to get himself so well known and discussed in political media that the polls can no longer justify ignoring him. (And getting into the polls, and getting at least 15 percent in five of them as chosen by the Commission on Presidential Debates, will be key to getting into the debates, what Johnson often calls the "Super Bowl of politics.") Two big interviews this week in political-junkie journals The Hill and Politico highlight different parts of Johnson; the first more the radical policies, the second more the history of the man. In The Hill, Johnson discussed big elements of the federal government he intends to chop, from the National Security Agency to the Internal Revenue Service: "The NSA is a complete executive order as it is under [President Harry] Truman," Johnson said. "We could turn those satellites on what is supposed to be the enemy. The fact that they're pointed on us right now, doesn't that cause everyone a bit of concern? It should. Look, there's due process for spying, but due process is not blanket collection of all of our data.".... Johnson also said he would eliminate the IRS and lower taxes. "If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax; we would abolish the IRS; and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax," Johnson said. "If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason," he added. Johnson also suggested he would eliminate numerous other federal agencies — including the Department of Commerce, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Department of Education — if presented with legislation to do so. In a long interview with Politico, he got into great detail about his parents and his siblings (after the usual great, great, perhaps too great, emphasis on Johnson as the presidential candidate who is honest and direct about his appreciation for marijuana). He praised his mother for, according to Johnson, being responsible for balancing the books for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. His father was in the 101st Airborne Division in World War II: He paratrooped into Normandy before D-Day....--you know, the Band of Brothers?...That was my father....Saving Private Ryan. That was the 101st. I mean, my father got bayoneted in the back at the Battle of the Bulge....He went through all of it. He was Band of Brothers. That was the story of the 101st, all the way through the war. His brother Scott is "the best cardiothoracic surgeon in the world, and I know that for a fact because he tells me that all the time....the head of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a big, big medical center." His sister is a retired schoolteacher. Johnson suggests in this interview (after much discussion of Trump's offensive foolishness on immigration) he might not have signed NAFTA, being for more pure free trade than the crony capitalism often embedded in international trade deals. He agreed with getting Osama Bin Laden, and suggests that should have been the core goal post 9/11 as opposed to starting more than one multi-year war. Johnson also said one of the things that makes some libertarians doubt whether he instinctively goes for the no-government-action, leave-it-alone answer to policy questions, suggesting (after aptly pointing out that government intervention in the student loan market likely bears a great deal of responsibility for how expensive college is): I would really take a hard look at how students might, I don't know, receive some sort of benefit or reduced interest rate. I mean, if we can--if the Federal Reserve can bail out all the big banks, it seems to me that we might arrange lower interest rates for these loa[...]
Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:05:00 -0400The notion of a new independent presidential candidate is in the news again with the trial balloon floated of running conservative commentator David French for president. I wrote back in January about the difficulties that Michael Bloomberg, rumored at the time to be thinking about it, would face in launching such an independent presidential bid. Again relying on information gathered in a paper-only copy (it is online as well) of the indispensable Ballot Access News, edited by Richard Winger (who I would say had forgotten more than you'll ever know about third parties and ballot access except I have no evidence he's forgotten much), a list of states whose ballot access paperwork deadlines are earlier than two months from now. (Aug. 1 or later). Following each state name in parentheses is the number of signatures required to get on the ballot. Collecting them, in accordance to generally varying state requirements, can be complicated and expensive, but it is a problem that money and organization can solve. Deadine already past: Texas Deadlines in June: Illinois (25,000), Indiana (26,700), New Mexico (15,388), North Carolina (89,366) Deadlines in July: Delaware (6,500), Florida (119,316), Georgia (49,336), Michigan (30,000), Missouri (10,000), Nevada (5,431), Oklahoma (40,047), South Carolina (10,000), Washington (1,000) Of the August 1 or later deadline states, only seven of them (Arizona, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania) require over 10,000 signatures. I have not yet done all the math about electoral college votes involving the states least likely to make the cut by legal signature deadlines, and there could be and likely are local complications that make things not as clear-cut as the above might indicate, but those are the official facts as complied by Winger. I have heard rumor-y rumblings that Kristol and his team, if indeed there is a team, blithely assume that they can also sue their way through any existing timing barriers with ballot access laws even if they run afoul of them. This isn't a crazy dream, I am told by Winger in an email interview today. Some of his historical observations: • "Five states have had June petition deadlines held to be too early: Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, South Dakota, Kansas. The lower courts were following Anderson v Celebrezze, which outlawed early petition deadlines for independent presidential candidates." • "Robert La Follette didn't decide until July 4, 1924, to run as a progressive independent, and he got on in 47 of the 48 states, and the one he missed, Louisiana, was not a deadline problem." • "Strom Thurmond in 1948 didn't decide to run until mid-July, and he got on in all the southern states, the only ones he cared about." • "In the early years of government-printed ballots in the US, the typical state deadline was October." • "The Libertarian Party wins about half its constitutional ballot access lawsuits....Minor parties and independent candidates have won 55 lawsuits against early deadlines, including in California a few years ago. The old January deadline for a new party to get on the ballot is now July." What defines whether a ballot access challenge wins or loses? Winger writes that: The biggest and most important variable is which judge we get. Some judges are instinctively sympathetic to underdogs and believe in the ideals of the founders. Other judges are not. It is sad but very, very true. We can have a weak case and get a good judge and we win. We can have an overwhelmingly strong case and get a bad judge and we lose. Recently, a US District Court Judge in Arkansas refused to enjoin a new law that says a non-presidential independent must submit his or her petition in November of the year before the el[...]
Thu, 26 May 2016 14:18:00 -0400The conventional wisdom among staunch Democrats and much of the elite liberal commentariat is that the once-lovable insurgent campaign run by Vermont's most famous democratic socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is well past its sell-by date, and that it's time for him to embrace "party unity" and convince his supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton. The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson says he "shares much of Sanders’ political philosophy" but that by keeping his word to his supporters that he will stay in the race until the nomination is clinched by someone (which means until the Democratic National Convention in July, because superdelegates don't cast their votes until then), Sanders is playing a "dangerous game." Like Robinson, Slate's Jamelle Bouie describes Sanders' bucking of the establishment as a "scorched earth" endeavor. Also in the Post, Dana Milbank compares Sanders to that all-time Democratic boogeyman who had the audacity to challenge the two-party system: Ralph Nader. The anxiety of mainstream Democrats will surely be exacerbated by Sanders' full-court press in California, where he continues to draw huge crowds, and where a primary victory for Sanders still wouldn't put him in reach of the nomination but would provide all the argument he needs to continue his efforts to radically transform the Democratic Party. A recent article in the New York Times suggests that Sanders' "newly resolute attitude" is "the cumulative result of months of anger at the national Democratic Party over a debate schedule that his campaign said favored Mrs. Clinton; a fund-raising arrangement between the party and the Clinton campaign; the appointment of fierce Clinton partisans as leaders of important convention committees," among other things. Sanders' deliberately outside-the-party-mainstream campaign intends to wring every last drop of legitimacy it can squeeze out of the primary process. Which is why in Kentucky the secretary of state agreed to his campaign's request for a recanvass of all the voting machines and absentee ballots in the state. In the best case scenario for Sanders, all this effort will net him is a single additional pledged delegate. It's no secret that Sanders, his staff, and many of his supporters feel no sense of loyalty to a party he is only nominally (maybe?) a part of. Unsurprisingly, this makes party loyalists both angry and uncomfortable, because they need Sanders' legion of voters to stay within the party's tent and turn out on Election Day in November. But what really makes Democrats nervous is that Sanders has revealed something they don't want to admit: Hillary Clinton is bad at political campaigning. This is the fourth political campaign Clinton has run, but only the second time she's faced a challenger backed by a significant constituency. In 2000, she ran for Senate against Rep. Rick Lazio, who had to scramble his bid together rather late in the process after then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani aborted his prospective run due to prostate cancer. Former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer was the sacrificial lamb thrown to the wolves by the state Republican Party in 2006, when he lost to Clinton by 36 percentage points. And we all know how Clinton's "inevitable" run for the presidential nomination went in 2008. But at least in 2008 defeated Clinton supporters could comfort themselves in the knowledge that they lost to Barack Obama — a young, handsome, gifted orator with the chance to make history as the first African-American president. This time around, the fact that their candidate has had to vigorously compete with a gruff and unkempt protest politician — one with no record of success getting legislation passed, a history of praising communist dictators, and a disquieting lack[...]
Thu, 19 May 2016 17:35:00 -0400William Weld, a former Reagan administration Justice Department official (bonus points for having resigned in protest in 1988 over Edwin Meese's behavior) and two-term governor of Massachusetts (he resigned from that in 1997 before his second term ended, seeking to be named Clinton's ambassador to Mexico, which did not happen thanks to opposition from Jesse Helms) is seeking the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nomination in alliance with another two-term GOP governor from the west, New Mexico's Gary Johnson. This Weld news is making some from the libertarian world outside the L.P.'s orbit happy. Cato Institute executive vice president David Boaz said in an email regarding the news that "across a range of issues, economic, social, civil liberties, I'd say Weld was the most libertarian governor in memory, except for Johnson...I think this is a huge coup for Johnson and the LP." Posts here at Reason by me and Jesse Walker take a more critical look at Weld's libertarian bonafides. There's a good chance the thinking behind the Weld pick had nothing to do with Libertarians or libertarianism. (Do note that the assembled 1,000 or so delegates expected at the L.P.'s national convention over Memorial Day weekend have to pick, by bare majority, both their presidential choice and then separately their vice president, so Johnson-Weld is not a done deal.) Likely it has more to do with crafting an unassailable "serious" ticket that both national media and voters (and donors!) can't reject for being organically incapable of governing, even if the specific names of Johnson and Weld don't mean too much. (My own cynical suspicion is that merely being a third party, not to mention being libertarian, might be sufficient for vast swaths of media and voters to discount the L.P. despite the pedigree of its nominees.) Even prior to the Weld news breaking, a new Fox News poll from a survey conducted from May 14-17 shows Johnson getting 10 percent, with Trump getting 42 and Clinton 39. A column today by Philip Bump in the Washington Post presents a close to best-case scenario for what a Johnson-Weld ticket might win for the L.P. Bump's thoughts appear under the headline "Did The Libertarian Party Just Stumble Upon a Viable Stop-Trump Ticket?" Bump has a complicated and to my mind not terribly likely scenario to lay out, but the fact that such a story is appearing pre-nomination in the Washington Post at all is more significant than the specifics of Bump's analysis. But to sum up that analysis: But the [Johnson-Weld] ticket also accomplishes another goal of the third-party effort: It could shift the vote in some states that otherwise might be easy wins for Hillary Clinton....... If Johnson and Weld capture their home states (an "if" that should be in 89-point type, as we'll explain in a second), and if Trump manages to capture, say, Florida and Pennsylvania or Ohio, suddenly we end with no one having a majority -- and we're off to the House. The last time a non-major-party candidate won a state was in 1968, when George Wallace captured most of the Deep South.... So could a Johnson-Weld ticket snag some states? Well... Bump then goes on to, unintentionally, lay out exactly how unimpressive a public political figure William Weld in 2016 should reasonably be expected to be: Weld served as the governor of Massachusetts for six years, resigning in 1997 when Bill Clinton nominated him to be ambassador to Mexico. (The Senate rejected his nomination.) He moved to New York, his home state, where he ran for governor in 2006, losing the nomination to John Faso (who himself lost the race in a landslide). On the bright side for the Libertarians, though, says Bump: What Weld brings to the equation, then, is something of a base in the [...]
Fri, 13 May 2016 20:19:00 -0400I've been keeping my eye on the L.P. since an Ed Clark TV ad in 1980 scared me (straight!) when I was 12 years old, and am reasonably certain that the amount and nature of press attention to the Libertarian Party in these weeks leading up to its presidential nominating convention in Orlando over Memorial Day weekend is unprecedented, and unprecedentedly willing to consider the possibilities the Party offers an America suffering from Clinton and Trump. Who is to thank? Doubtless decades of efforts of libertarian journalists and polemicists, cough cough. But also, thank the most nightmarish pair of "real candidates" America has offered since the last time, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I am as willing as the next libertarian to entertain counter-intuitive takes proposing that Clinton and Trump on some deep level aren't really any more awful than any given candidate ever since the Articles of Confederation were overridden, but the vibe is different now, and Clinton and Trump surely represent to the people who hate them (which is most of us for one reason or another) an apotheosis of what is so awful about their respective parties that is making many people notice that the "system" is failing us, big time. So, here come the Libertarians and here comes the chatter about the Libertarians. A survey of some of the latest: • Ex-Reasoner David Weigel at the Washington Post finds incumbent would-be L.P. nominee Gary Johnson a little shocked at how aggravating and nasty the fight to reclaim his throne has been: “It’s the most negative race of my career, by far,” Johnson told Weigel. Here's what Weigel got out of Johnson's most prominent competitors, antivirus maven and international man of mystery John McAfee, and "freedom ninja" Austin Petersen: “I like Gary Johnson as a person,” said McAfee in a phone interview from his well-guarded Tennessee home. “I do not see how his lackluster personality can help the Libertarian Party any more than it already has.” “Governor Johnson gets most of his money from special interests and the marijuana industry,” said Petersen, as he drove to western Pennsylvania for a fundraiser. “I’m trying to create a grown-up movement.” McAfee added later that Libertarians are foolish to go for the apparent value of "experienced executive" that Johnson has going for him, believing Trump is living proof that a "successful politician" is not what the American people seem to want right now. Petersen credits himself for being the "architect" of the rise of Judge Andrew Napolitano, on whose Fox Business News show Freedom Watch Petersen was a producer. Johnson in Weigel's story still clearly believes his experience, both within the L.P. and without it, make him the only sane choice compared to the volatile and controversial McAfee and the relatively untried Petersen. Passing him up might, as Weigel sums up, cost the Party its greatest chance at real political relevance in this most significant of years for political outsiders. • Marc Ambinder at The Week worries on the Libertarians' behalf that they have already blown it, for a confusing and rambling set of reasons. He starts making uneducated assumptions about alleged billionaires ready to fund the L.P., predictions that, before they even have a candidate, voters are not convinced to "give the party a second look." He makes an ironically self-reflective point about how "The media has begun to write its cursory stories, which only serves to convince libertarians that the fix is in: As long as you've checked the "we did cover the libertarians, once!" box, you can go back to the click-bait and ratings vehicle that is Donald J. Trump." Ambinder then assumes, based on nothing other than Johnson's pers[...]
Tue, 10 May 2016 18:23:00 -0400California's secretary of state office recently released an official list of pledged delegates for the state Republican Party. Many were surprised to find on it the name of original PayPal investor and tech billionaire Peter Thiel, whose apparent outing as a Trump supporter has been raising eyebrows and hackles. Thiel, whose politics mostly seemed to be anti-politics in the past to the extent he's described them at length, fecklessly threw a couple of million at an underperforming Ron Paul-supporting SuperPAC called Endorse Liberty in 2012. But Thiel also helped launch the libertarian-tinged Seasteading Institute (which seeks to create new lands free of existing governments rules on the high seas, the ultimate anti-politics cause), and created controversy in an essay for the Cato Institute's web site in 2009 in which he seemed to lament the political effects of giving the franchise to women and in general suggested that a healthy free economy and democracy might not be the best bedfellows. Thiel has not yet commented publicly on supporting Trump, though he did diss him somewhat to Daily Caller back in 2014, saying that Trump was "sort of symptomatic of everything that is wrong with New York City.” He also gave $2 million to a Carly Fiorina SuperPAC this cycle, Wired reports. In other news from the Trump delegate list, it initially included the name of white supremacist William Johnson, which also created huge controversy. The Trump campaign is now claiming that he's not really a Trump delegate and that was a database error; they meant to remove his name back in February, likely as a result of the controversy that arose over a set of Iowa robocalls Johnson's American National SuperPAC paid for supporting Trump on explicit white nationalist grounds. Daily Beast reports Trump did return a direct $250 donation from Johnson after the controversy broke. Before Trump backpedaled, Mother Jones wrote a long, detailed, and entertaining profile on Johnson and his love of Trump. (Johnson, like Thiel, also had a Ron Paul past. He was a Ron Paul donor, and back in 2008 even hosted a fundraiser for Paul and ran a Los Angeles based Meetup online group in Paul's support, and ran for an L.A. Superior Court judgship. I recall at the time other SoCal Paulites professed to not being familiar with his white nationalist beliefs, which are detailed in the above Mother Jones profile.)[...]
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Libertarian Party (L.P.) presidential hopeful Gary Johnson (the former Republican governor of New Mexico, who brought the L.P. its highest-ever vote totals in 2012 with 1.27 million) wants Bernie Sanders fans to know, hey, if they don't have their guy to vote for in November, take a close look at him.
In a CNN website write-up of a Johnson interview with CNN"s Chris Cuomo today, the candidate said of Sanders:
"When it comes to economics, we come to a 'T' in the road," Johnson said. "But on the social side of Bernie, I get it."
Johnson said that according to the nonpartisan online political quiz 'iSideWith,' the candidate he most aligns with is Sanders.
Acknowledging his mutual appeal with Sanders to disaffected, socially liberal voters, Johnson called Sanders' social values "very libertarian."
Johnson called the Democrats' likely winner Hillary Clinton the "ultimate technocrat." He also slammed Donald Trump for "saying some things that I just think are ridiculous and would disqualify any other candidate" and leaned on his record as a border state Republican governor to say Trump's immigration fearmongering and wall-building dreams are "crazy."
Johnson stressed, as he does often, that being involved in the national presidential debates after all the parties have chosen their nominees is vital to the L.P. candidate doing well. And given the Commission on Presidential Debates rules—which Johnson is challenging now in an unresolved lawsuit—that requires getting over 15 percent in multiple polls.
The CNN news clip linked above containing the writeup of his Cuomo interview, strangely, contains video of a completely separate Johnson CNN interview, this one with Michael Smerconish, in which Johnson is a little slow on the uptake to sum up the Libertarian platform (but then does get out the ol' socially liberal, fiscally conservative, all about individual freedom and liberty with a recognition that most of our foreign interventions cause unwanted unintended consequences).
"I gotta get in the polls," he says to Smerconish, and he does. He ends with a near-desperate sounding plea on that point.
Smerconish interviewed a bigwig at Quinnipiac polling and completely failed to get him to answer whether his poll would ever consider including Johnson, in a quite evasive way. (Hat tip to Sebastien Fauste for sending me the link in the previous sentence to Smerconish's interview with Quinnipiac's Peter Brown.)


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How things change in just a few months. At the start of the year, when I began the Take 12 Trips challenge for the third time, I knew that this year would be different. This year marked the end of preschool days.
The last three months have been such a whirl, I feel like I have a hundred posts still to write (I just finished my last one from the California trip this week, on Monterey Aquarium), video to edit and I’m busier than ever planning new trips. How did I ever think school would slow us down?
One of the reasons I love the challenge, dreamed up by Clare at Need Another Holiday, isn’t because I need motivating to book another trip, it’s because the days and weeks seem to fly by and it’s easy to discover a month has inexplicably passed without arranging a getaway.
July was all about the seaside – I got to try out some of my favourite beach activities with kids as we booked a last-minute short break in Whitstable to satisfy my craving for the seaside. Then found ourselves back on the same stretch of coast almost immediately, with a trip to Herne Bay with friends.
All perfect for inspiring my love letter to the Great British seaside.
It wasn’t just coast though. We had a helping of castle – sleeping in the very grounds at Warwick Castle’s new glamping lodges, which was fabulous. Not only did we have almost two days to experience the castle (and having visited before, I don’t know how you can fit it all into one day) as well as special medieval entertainment in the evening once all the other guests had left.
Watching my tiny bloodthirsty daughter wave a wooden sword around and show off an unexpected talent for archery was huge fun.
August started with more UK trips, making the most of the summer weather (mostly). The challenge is designed to inspire you to explore your local area as well as travelling further afield, so that’s just what we did by heading to one of the London National Trust properties I’d not previously visited – Morden Hall Park for a performance of The Jungle Book, and some sunshine in the grounds.
Then heading north to my childhood home in Trentham, to meet the inhabitants of the Trentham Monkey Forest once more. With impressive skill we’d managed to pick another cold drizzly August weekend again but Minnie wasn’t deterred from trying the barefoot walk (and I reckon the gigantic dandelion sculptures look even more impressive against a cloudy sky).
And on to the spiritual home of the Take 12 Trips challenge – Liverpool, Clare’s own home town, to discover Albert Dock. From wondering if there’d be enough to keep us entertained for our flying 24 hour break there, I discovered we needed longer, even without venturing into Liverpool itself.
As our passports started to gather dust, it was time for an overseas trip with a short break to Portugal. Staying just outside Lisbon in an AirBNB windmill, we hit the coast at Cascais (meeting Maria from One Tiny Leap who knows the best beach bars and places to get ice cream), explored the fairytale palaces of Sintra and hit the beaches on the Atlantic coast.
I was working so much as I would have loved to spend longer and head in to Lisbon itself, one of my all-time favourite cities, we had to wave farewell and fly back home, bottles of white port and vinho verde in my suitcase. Now the work project is finished, I’m hoping to post more.
And suddenly it was September. The final weeks before school. The final days, in fact. I was determined we’d fit one last trip in, so off we went to Rye in East Sussex for a chilled out break, just me and Minnie doing some of our favourite things.
Then the preschool days were officially over. I think we ended them in style. To put paid to any wistfulness at the fact those days are firmly behind us, I promptly headed off on another trip to the Costa Barcelona with four other bloggers, starting our packed four days with a trip to a vineyard, ending with an attempt at cableskiing, and discovering a hugely family-friendly part of Spain in between. More (inevitably) to come there too.
With just three months left of the challenge, I already have a couple of plans for October including a half-term break and hopefully something rather exciting for November. Perhaps school isn’t going to change things that much after all…
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Two weeks ago when I went to the Super Sweet 30th Birthday I used my persuasive methods on Allie. With the charm of a springtime sauvignon, I talked her into pregaming at local wineries. Allie enjoys wine too, so it didn't take much convincing (just don't tell her personal trainer).
The first winery we went to was Oak Spring. We arrived at the snow covered driveway and into the tasting room. There's not much scenery here; the vineyard itself is a few miles away and isn't open to the public.
The tasting room was empty and the carpet was simply dreadful. We pulled up to the tasting bench, met our wine host/winemaker John, and started tasting.
There is no fee for the tastes and seemingly no limits on quantities. All of the wines are fermented in stainless steel; only the Cab Sauv gets oak chips. I believe only one of the grapes is grown at the vineyard (the vidal blanc reserve I believe), the rest are bought in Erie.
We tried the cab, chambourcin, merlot, gewurztraminer, white cin, riesling, steuben, bluesberry, and the cherry/chocolate (their bestseller!). And that was only 39% of their available wines.
To be honest I judged a book by its cover and was about to disregard this winery. No grapes, an unimpressive tasting room, and a website that is sorely outdated. Boy was I wrong. These award winning wines were incredibly flavorful and unique. Bluesberry? Watch out, Garden State. White Cin? A chambourcin blush that is incredibly refreshing. The chambourcin? Sour with hints of dill so unique that I brought a bottle home with me for only ten greenbacks. (Although John said he is clueless why people pick this bottle up over the Cab. I'll admit- the cab was awesome, but this was half the price.)
Allie and I left the 25-year old winery to head to the tasting room of Brookmere Winery. I'd passed this vineyard on my way to town, but they had a local tasting room that we opted for instead. Driving by the winery is simply stunning. There is a backdrop of gorgeous hills; it is so peaceful. I didn't get a picture but I will definitely go back for a summertime tasting.
The local room is very small but very welcoming. Similar to Oak Ridge, you can try as many as you'd like at no charge.
All of the wines are served cold, even the reds. We tried the Alexander Red, Cab Franc, Railroad, Chambourcin, and the Sangria. The wines were vastly different; the Alexander red was heavy, the Railroad tasted like cough syrup, and the sangria was heavenly. "I could drink this by the bucketful," I commented, and Allie agreed.
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Mental Health & Medication Management
Unlocking Potential, Fostering Growth:
Nurturing wellbeing at every milestone.
Maintaining a healthy mental outlook is a critical part of living a healthy, balanced life. At Recovering Hope our mental health professionals are specially trained to serve children, adolescents and adults dealing with challenges related to daily living. Our tailored individual and family therapy sessions aim to tackle the physical, social, and emotional symptoms associated with common life stressors such as trauma, marital conflicts, grief, job changes, anxiety, depression, and thoughts of self-harm.
In addition to our mental health services, Recovering Hope offers Medication Management to assist clients in finding the most suitable medications for their needs. We are committed to supporting you in realizing your potential and nurturing your growth at every significant milestone in your life.
Our clinical therapists at Recovering Hope strictly follow professional licensures and mental health codes of ethics, demonstrating a commitment to maintaining the highest standards in the field.
Evidence Based Treatment
Recovering Hope therapists are specially trained to provide evidence-based treatments, ensuring that each patient receives therapy tailored to their unique treatment goals and needs.
Who We Service
For aduluts 18 and older we understand the complexities of adulthood and the diverse challenges it brings. Our dedicated team is here to support adults facing mental health challenges. Whether it’s navigating life, improving relationships, or managing mental health, we strive to enhance the quality of life for every individual within our safe and inclusive environment.
Children and Adolescents
Nurturing young minds is our priority. Our clinic provides a caring space for children and adolescents (up to 17 years old) dealing with behavioral challenges and mental health issues. We guide them through these critical years, ensuring a brighter, emotionally balanced future.”
Offered Treatment Services
- Diagnostic assessments
- Individual therapy
- Animal assisted therapy (AAT)
- Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR)
- Family therapy
- Couples therapy
- Psychological testing
- Medication management via Telepsychiatry
- Telehealth sessions
Children & Adolscents
- DC: 0-5 assessments
- Play Therapy/Individual Therapy
- Assessments (Ages 12 years+)
- Psychiatric Telehealth
- Individual Therapy
We’re here to help. Call our admissions team at 1-844-314 HOPE
To schedule an appointment, make a referral, or speak with a member of the Recovering Hope Treatment Center admissions team, please contact us at:
- Often, counselors conduct a diagnostic assessment during the first therapy session to collect important information to inform development of treatment goals.
- A diagnostic assessment is comprised of a semi-formal interview that reviews your background information and presenting mental health concerns to determine any mental health diagnoses. The assessment length averages 1.5 hours.
- Recovering Hope employs therapists trained to provide individual therapy to children, adolescents and adults and diverse populations including LGBTQ+ and BIPOC.
- Individual therapy is the most common form of mental health therapy. On average clients meet with their therapist one to two times per week.
- Clients can explore a wide range of mental health problems with their counselor including relationship distress, emotional challenges, self-exploration, or sexual dissatisfaction.
- Clients collaborate with their therapist to identify treatment goals during the individual therapy process.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)
- Recovering Hope has specially trained EMDR staff to assist individuals who have experienced traumatic events.
- EMDR is a type of therapy designed to alleviate distress associated with traumatic memories through the use of eye movement and reprocessing (talking) through the traumatic events.
- EMDR therapy typically takes place one time per week and is recommended for use concurrently with individual therapy.
- Family therapy includes the client and another family member or caregiver whose participation is important to accomplish the client’s treatment goals.
- Family members may include, but are not limited to parents, children, spouses, committed partners, former spouses, an individual related by blood or adoption, or individuals who are presently residing together as a family unit.
- Also referred to as marriage counseling, couples therapy helps couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships.
- Recovering Hope provides medication management services to individuals ages 12 and older. These services can be provided through an online platform or at RHTC.
- Online platforms may be used to accommodate the mental health services available to you.
- Telehealth sessions provide convenience of location, time and accessibility to ensure continuity of care.
- Internet accessibility or connectivity and lack of a quiet and private space or location to conduct the session must be considered prior to choosing the telehealth option.
- To accommodate telehealth limitations (e.g. internet accessibility/connectivity, confidentiality), the therapist will, at the start of each telehealth therapy session, remind their client of limits to confidentiality and internet accessibility. The counselor also will confirm the client’s specific location so they can contact emergency services near the client’s location if an immediate crisis or life-threatening situation occurs during the telehealth session
Mental Health Staff Expertise
At Recovering Hope, we have a team of extensively trained mental health professionals dedicated to addressing the diverse needs of children, adolescents, and adults under our care. Here you can find details about the expertise and professional certifications held by our dedicated staff.
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC)
Holds a master’s degree in psychology and has completed licensing requirements to become an independent licensed provider, which includes 4,000 supervised post-graduate hours and successful completion of the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Exam (NCMHCE).
- Licensing Board: Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy (BBHT)
- Code of Ethics: American Counseling Association
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
Holds a master’s degree and has specialized training with at least two years or 3,000 clinical hours of supervised practice by a marriage and family therapist. Upon completion of supervised hours, a therapist must also pass a state licensing exam or the Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Board’s national MFT exam.
- Licensing Board: Minnesota Board of Marriage and Family Therapy
- Code of Ethics: Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW)
Holds a master’s license and has completed 4,000 hours of clinical supervised practice by a board approved supervisor. In addition, they have successfully passed the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) clinical examination.
- Licensing Board: Minnesota Board of Social Work
- Code of Ethics: National Association of Social Workers
Licensed Psychologist (LP)
Holds a doctoral degree in psychology from a regionally accredited institution and has successfully completed the National Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) and the Minnesota Professional Responsibility Exam (PRE). Also must have completed one full year of postdoctoral supervised psychology employment.
- Licensing Board: Minnesota Board of Psychology
- Code of Ethics: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Certified advanced practice nurses who administer to the mental health needs of individuals. Holds a master’s degree in nursing specializing in psychiatric healthcare, a current Registered Nurse (RN) license and certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Nursing professionals who wish to further specialize may choose from programs in child, adolescent, gerontological, substance use or forensic psychiatry. Some NPs go on to earn a doctoral degree within their specialty, though this is not a requirement.
- Licensing Board: Minnesota Board of Nursing
- Code of Ethics: Nurse Practice Act
Meet The Team!
Mental Health Team:
Our mental health support is provided by licensed professional mental health counselors and licensed associate marriage and family therapists. They are trained to help you address your mental health concerns and work towards recovery.


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Why Does My Dog Eat Grass?
This post is written by our holistic veterinarian at "I and love and you", Dr. Angie Krause, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Good news! It’s completely normal for dogs to eat grass. Most dogs simply enjoy it’s fresh taste. Sometimes eating grass can be a sign of physical or emotional distress. In this article, I am going to teach you how to know the difference between normal grass eating and signs of distress and how to upgrade your dog’s grass eating experience.
What is normal?
First, let’s define what normal grass eating looks like. If your dog eats grass and maybe a few weeds occasionally (or daily) and doesn’t vomit or appear distressed, this is nothing to worry about. If this describes your dog, you can skip to the last section about upgrading your dog’s grass eating experience.
Is my dog’s stomach upset?
Eating grass followed by vomiting or drooling is not normal. Either the grass is making your pup vomit, or their stomach was feeling upset before they ate the grass. It’s important to figure out if the grass ingestion is the cause of the vomiting. To do this, try growing your own barley or wheat grass (see instructions below) and allow your dog to eat that instead. Barley and wheat grass is less likely to irritate your pet’s stomach compared with other varieties of grass. If your dog continues to vomit on the barley or wheat grass here are my recommendations:
- Test for parasites. Your veterinarian can easily check a poop sample for intestinal parasites. These little wormies can be irritating and cause nausea and vomiting. They are simple to treat and might help your dog feel so much better.
- Add fiber to your dog’s diet. You can use green beans, shredded carrots, squash or pumpkin. Start slowly! Too much pumpkin or squash can cause explosive orange diarrhea.
- Diagnostics. Talk to your vet about diagnostic tests to explore intestinal disease. For my patients, I start with an ultrasound of the intestines and blood panel from Texas A&M University that tests for intestinal and pancreatic disease. These are both non-invasive tests that can be done on the same day. To get the best results, make sure your don’t feed your dog (water is okay) for 12 hours before your appointment.

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Pt and Pt-Au nanoparticles supported on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) were synthesized by reverse microemulsion method with metal loading of 20 wt% and 10: 10 wt%, respectively. The nanomaterials were characterized by Raman, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis and transmission electronic microscope. The obtained materials were evaluated as electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR), obtaining the highest catalytic activity with Pt-Au/rGO compared to Pt/rGO; besides, the stability of the catalyst is determined until 50,000 cycles. Pt-Au/rGO was used to prepare membrane electrode assembly (MEA), in order to study the performance of this nanomaterial in the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). The maximum power density is 20 mW cm−2 and 70 mW cm−2 for Pt/rGO and Pt-Au/rGO, respectively, those values increased up to 365 mW cm−2, when Pt-Au nanoparticles supported on multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNT) was used as spacer.
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- me after running for one minute: i'm still alive, but i'm barely breathing
My little brother got into outer space and stuff so my step-mom bought him a place mat with all the planets on it. When I first saw it, I was upset, because it was newer and so Pluto wasn’t labeled. I was about to say something when I noticed something…
Pluto is there.
The artist remembered Pluto.
The artist drew Pluto crying.
what if there was a really flamboyant assassin and after they killed someone they just snapped their fingers, turned away and said ‘you’ve just been SASSassinated’

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The 'honesty app', Sarahah has gone viral soon after being launched. App's feature to send and receive anonymous messages is what caught the users' eye. People all around the world have been using the app with much zeal though that is all to vanish in the thin air soon.
It was found that the app has been uploading users' phone contacts and other private information to the company's servers. Zachary Julian, a senior security analyst who works for an IT security consulting firm discovered it by using a monitoring software, BURP Suite.
"As soon as you log into the application, it transmits all of your email and phone contacts stored on the Android operating system," Julian quoted.
Most of the mobile applications ask permission to access contacts but in Sarahah there's no feature where these contacts are required as the user can't search for a friend or acquaintance using the contact information. Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq,
Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, Sarahah's founder informed that the contacts were uploaded for "for a planned 'find your friends' feature" which is yet to be released. Though, he further tweeted assuring the users that the data request will be removed from the application in the next update.
One of the most attracting features that users found in Sarahah was the anonymity factor which was breached by the entire ordeal.


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Where can I get a Auto Loan To Buy Car From Private Seller?
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Chris Palmer While I was at Huzzah last month, I found this cool old Ral Partha Dwarf "Steam Cannon" War Machine in the flea market. It was missing it’s crew, but that was fine with me, because when I saw it I immediately thought about it’s possibilities as a 10mm Dwarven “Ogre” type vehicle for my Dwarven Army for “Bear Yourselves Valiantly” mass combat fantasy rules. And the price was certainly right. 🙂
The kit itself was easy to assemble. I then raided my 10mm figures box for some spare Warmaster Dwarf Cannon crewmen to man the machine. I test fit the Dwarf crew around the deck, and when satisfied, I glued the machine to a 3" x 3" metal base (BYV units have 3" frontage, and I needed the 3" depth to fit the model), and the crew I glued to a tongue depressor for ease of handling while panting. I then sprayed the vehicle and crew with flat black primer.
The painting itself was straightforward, and when complete I glued the crew onto the vehicle and then flocked the base.
I’m really pleased with how this model came out. For the most part, the parts of the vehicle are scale variable, so the 10mm crew doesn’t look too out of place on the deck.


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Chair layout, practical or otherwise, is a wide group product that no home could do without. Rightly after that, chair styles have just gotten preferred with time. Looking for the opportunity sought after, developers from worldwide continuously layout and also create chairs in numerous styles, kinds and also forms making use of a series of products.
Chair, as evident, share an integral part in every area. It includes to the design, heat and also convenience of your house. From living area to room, and also from office to garden patio area, chairs are a must-have for each room. Choosing an excellent chair design could be a strenuous job; it requires you to take into consideration every element consisting of product, coating, functional designs and spending plan. It is likewise important to take into consideration how the chair would fair with other things of interior décor. Chairs develop an important part of any decoration greatly since a chair connects condition and also lifestyle together with feeling and comfort.
Whether you desire a chair for the dining-room or for your garden, whether it is for the office cabin or merely a lounger for the living space, a chair should look fashionable as well as feel comfy. To ensure this, developers around the globe have actually been producing different chair designs from a series of materials including wood, iron, steel, plastic, ceramic, glass, marble and also various other innovative products you could assume of. If you’re a green style connoisseur, you could also get chair designed in recycled material.
A chair changes an average room right into something magnificent, but sometimes choosing which chair would look wonderful in a certain setting can become complicated. To assist you make a deserving selection, we have here prepared a guide of different chair styles, designs and also forms you can select from.
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Much better referred to as chaise lounge, an easy chair is long upholstered couch created in form of a chair. It features long curvy design, ideal for you to extend your legs pleasantly. With its reclining back, it makes for an ideal companion to relax in your home or in the outdoors. In French, a seat is any kind of lengthy reclining chair, and also in English seat essentially converts as ‘long chair.’ So if you desire to put your feet up as well as loosen up, the seat is the appropriate buy. Certain you could do that on any kind of chair, yet an easy chair makes it a lot more comforting and relaxing. Required motivation for your area, look into the most recent collection of chaise lounges and choose your favored design.
Shaking chair is a traditional definition of comfort and also simplicity. Basically, it is a chair with 2 bent bands (called rockers) in the base of its legs that allow a person to shake to and fro by shifting their weight or pressing gently with their feet. Earlier, these chair design were made of timber and were utilized by the senior to review and loosen up, but gradually they have ended up being popular among people of all ages. Today, rocking chairs been available in different forms, colors, and designs and also are made from even more products than simply wood. Interestingly, shaking chair is synonymous with parenting, like mild shaking movement can calm an infant, the back as well as forth rocking activity of the rocking chair could put an occupant to sleep faster compared to sitting fixed on an average chair. Lookup our collection as well as locate rocking chairs that feel and look excellent.
Patios, decks, backyards as well as gardens are popular for a great factor– these exterior rooms create an impressive place for enjoyment as well as family members time. A collective term for outdoor patio and garden chairs, an exterior chair is specifically developed to bring convenience as well as feature to these outdoor rooms. Exterior chair style is typically made from weather-resistant products such as aluminum, steel and concrete to ensure that it does not corrosion. Other popular materials consist of wood, wicker, etc., but they request for more upkeep and a preferred minimal. Examine out HomeCrux’s varied selection of yard chairs, outdoor patio chairs, folding chair, swings, as well as even more to offer a new significance to your outside room.
Chairs made from repurposed materials such as disposed of wood, waste plastic, as well as utilized industrial pipelines etc. are called recycled chairs. Such chair style can assist embellish an eco-friendly house in an equally exciting and also stylish method like the chairs made from finest of fresh products. With the fast increase popular for eco-friendly style and also lasting living, developers worldwide are revealing an inclination towards the fad, changing restored points right into recycled furnishings. Right here you will find attractive as well as useful recycled chairs made out of old bathtubs, shopping bags, airplane components, and so on. The top quality of each chair is impeccable and it aids create an eco-friendly home.
We require a location within your home where the whole household could collect for a dish or a quick snack. Given that this is where the household requires to be seated pleasantly, an excellent size dining table with ideal quantity and size of sitting ends up being required. Eating chairs are thus mainly crafted to be made use of together with an eating table for comfort throughout mealtime. From the style point ofview, the eating chairs are developed from a variety of materials as well as in several styles. Regardless of the sort of dining chair layout you’re seeking, we have remarkably attractive and also comfy chairs in our collection to assist you enliven your dining-room.
LIVING AREA CHAIRS
A living-room is where you unwind, and indulge in methods of amusement. Whether watching your favored TELEVISION show or enjoying a board video game, you should be at your simplicity. The living space chair design guarantees to supply you the highest possible convenience level, while additionally improving your residence insides. It mirrors your design and also it matches the rest of your design. To add sitting to your living-room and also to make the space cozier and also inviting, check out a comprehensive variety of design and styles right from roomy elbow chairs to comfy recliners as well as choose pieces to couple with your existing furniture.

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The 1046 gearbox is a high performance front wheel drive touring car gearbox that has been designed specifically for the British Touring Car Championship and is suitable for the World Touring Car Championship.
The 1046 makes use of Rally derived gear ratios with minimised size and weight to reduce inertia. The gearchange system incorporates the latest polynomial barrel track design and low inertia gearchange rack to improve gearchange response and driver feel. The gears have been re-ordered to allow the overlap of barrel track profiles.
The low positioning of the gear cluster enables easy removal from the car under the chassis rail, and lowers the centre of gravity. The gear cluster is fully exposed when removed from the gearbox allowing quick inspection, and easy access for ratio changes.
- 450Nm (332lbf ft) maximum input torque capacity*
- 6 speeds with sequential gearchange selection
- Suits installations with gearbox on L.H. side
- Aluminum L169 castings, with ‘O’-Ring face sealing
- Lubrication is via single stage eccentric lobe pump, configured for use with an external cooler
- Differential is an Xtrac cassette type plate unit with a choice of ramp angles, plate and preload settings. (Quick change diff cassette is easy to remove)
- Bell crank actuated low inertia gearchange rack reduces wear and improves gearchange
- Xtrac ’Pin pawl’ ratchet and pawl gearchange assembly with low inertia polynomial barrel
- Left hand output flange is integral with the differential, to suit GI 82 size tripode joint
- Clutch release slave cylinder (AP CP3859-1250)
- Gearbox weight is approximately 35kg (77lb)*
The Gearbox Offers The Following Benefits
- Light, positive sequential gearchange
- Easily removable cluster for ratio changes
- Easily removable differential with externally adjustable differential pre load
- Cost effective, reliable, lightweight solution
- Cross shaft assembly
- uper polished gear ratios (Xtrem Process)
- Internally re-circulating oil pump system
- In car gear lever
- Gearchange potentiometer, mounting and display