New York guardianship abuse case gets national attention after Terri Schiavo’s brother petitions State Supreme Court on victim’s behalf

Rescue Gary

In an unprecedented move, Attorney Christopher Johnson has filed with the New York State Supreme Court, asking the judicial body to allow Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo, to serve as guardian for Gary Harvey. Mr. Harvey, a Chemung County resident, was involved in a 2006 home accident which left him with a profound brain [...]

Maine’s new Independent Senator, Angus King, takes the lead on restoring common sense & bringing solutions to Congress

Angus King, Maine's new Independent Senator

In a sign of what may be the first glimmer of hope in solving the nation’s fiscal problems, Maine’s newly-elected Independent Senator Angus King has promised to set partisanship aside and embrace a new independent direction of governing. King, a former two-term independent governor and host of public television programs in Maine, said in a Sunday [...]

Paradigm shift: Texas thinker challenges mankind to “raise our consciousness to the next level”

EYE ON THE UNIVERSE: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a beautiful galaxy that, with its reddish and yellow central area, looks rather like an explosion from a Hollywood movie. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

(Editor’s note: The following commentary was submitted by David Howard, a big Texas thinker and Big 3 News follower) Has man evolved at all? Man has developed technology in every way, from the combustion engine to computers; from electricity to air conditioning; from jet airplanes to cell phones, to you name it. From this point [...]

Texas Congressman & former presidential candidate Ron Paul says U.S. Constitution has “failed”

U.S. Congressman Ron Paul speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives. Image courtesy of C-Span.

In a farewell address before Congress and the nation, retiring Texas Congressman Ron Paul said the founding fathers’ concerns that a free society can only survive at the hands of a moral people were justified. “Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,” the 77 year-old Republican said in his [...]

SPIRIT OF AMERICA: Independents (38%) now make up largest U.S. voting bloc in 70 years

Two third-party candidates in the face of history

The American two-party political system is broken, evident by the fact that  fewer people call themselves Republican or Democrat and more embrace the status of Independent. In 1942, according to The Pew Research Center, those who described themselves as Independent stood at 18%. Seventy years later, in 2012, Independents have seen a surge in self-identification [...]

CALL TO ACTION: President Obama says wealthier Americans must pay more taxes to help nation avoid “fiscal cliff”

President Obama announces plan to avoid the "fiscal cliff"

In what he called a “central question” debated during the campaign, President Obama on Friday said that a majority of Americans support his approach to head off a looming fiscal crisis. The President’s detailed plan, which will include more than $4 trillion in budget cuts over the next 10 years, will also force wealthier Americans [...]

The New America: How Democrats are building the next generation of majority voters

President Barack Obama's 2012 Victory Speech. Screenshot courtesy of ABC News.

The Democratic Party has dominated the popular vote in five of the last seven national races since 1988. And, if this year’s Presidential election is any indication, the Democratic Party is poised to continue that trend in national races for perhaps a generation to come. According to historical election data, only two Republican presidential candidates [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Big 3 News projects Mitt Romney will beat Barack Obama in the 2012 Presidential race on Nov. 6

CNN's Electoral College Projection tool shows a customized map created by Big 3 News, projecting Mitt Romney the winner in 2012.

With two days left in the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign, Big 3 News is projecting that the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will win against President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden on Tues., Nov. 6. The projection was formalized using CNN’s Electoral College Projection Map. “Although Big 3 News endorsed Libertarian [...]

FINAL PUSH: Republicans roll out top guns at 30,000-strong Romney “mega-rally” in West Chester, Ohio

Ann Romney, Mitt Romney, Janna Ryna and Paul Ryan on stage in West Chester, Ohio on Nov. 2, 2012

Amid rhythmic chants of “four more days”, the Romney Ohio Campaign unleashed the Republican Party’s brand-name personalities in what a campaign spokesman called the largest rally ever this year. Dubbed the “Romney-Ryan Real Recovery Road Rally,” or R6 for short, the event was held at The Square at Union Centre in West Chester, Ohio and [...]

New fiscal report by Cato Institute grades nation’s governors on spending and taxes

Cato Institute report

A new fiscal report card published this week by the Cato Institute grades the nation’s 50 governors on taxes and spending in their state budgets. Governors whose policies promoted lower taxes and less spending received higher grades than did those whose policies promoted higher taxes and more state spending. “This report grades governors on their [...]

Biden crushes Ryan in VP debate, moderator asks excessive hypothetical questions

Vice-President Joe Biden and Republican VP challenge Paul Ryan face off at their only debate in Kentucky

(Editor’s note: Big 3 News has officially endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson for President. His Vice-Presidential running mate, Judge Jim Gray, was excluded from tonight’s VP debate). Vice-President Joe Biden pulled off a decisive edge tonight against Republican VP challenge Paul Ryan in their only face-off of the 2012 election cycle. The split forum, moderated [...]

How Mitt Romney won the first debate (and President Obama got a new dad)

2012 Presidential Debate 1

(Editor’s note: Big 3 News has officially endorsed the candidacy of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson on the Libertarian ticket. Johnson was excluded from this year’s Presidential Debates by the Commission on Presidential Debates) It’s been almost a week since President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney squared off in their first televised debate [...]

At 82, former Pres. candidate & Texas billionaire Ross Perot regrets not getting the job done, warns of a “weak” America

H. Ross Perot in a rare interview on C-Span.

It all started with an interview on the Larry King cable talk show back in Feb. 1992. Texas businessman H. Ross Perot, founder of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Perot Systems (both of which he later sold to GM and Dell, respectively), was speaking out about America’s financial problems. “Is there any scenario for which [...]