The Scottish National Party is proposing that an independent Scotland arranges with the rest of the UK and the Bank of England to continue to be part of the sterling family.

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Nader is running this year as an independent, but he has been endorsed by the national Reform Party, with its state party affiliates deciding if he gets their ballot line.

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An independent electoral body has called the race for the conservative national action party candidate, Felipe Calderon.

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Many of those who voted for the Scottish National Party did so because they subscribe to its dream of an independent Scotland.

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He is also suing to get on the ballot in six states where he failed to qualify, including another swing state, Pennsylvania, where he was disqualified as an independent candidate, despite gathering enough petition signatures, because he accepted the national Reform Party endorsement.

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My second suggestion is to require banks to submit standardized credit information about their borrowers, as well as the associated default history, to an independent third party that could cleanse the data, ensure its anonymity and add it to a national database.

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