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GOP.com Got a Facelift
(Image Source: HopefulNebula) Millions of Americans get passionate emails from the Republican Party urging for (mostly monetary) support. Recent antics from the GOP email campaign include selling "I...
View ArticleBurn the American Flag! Or Not...
Patriotism is a complex notion. Last month a high school senior in Lebanon, NH, Bhvana Kaushik, noticed the absence of an American flag at half-staff at the school on September 11. She questioned the...
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Bulgaria's October 5 Elections: A Flashback at the Economic Records
Bulgarians will go to the polls on October 5th to elect new members of parliament and thus a new government. Before casting their votes, voters should reflect on the economic records of Bulgaria's...
View ArticleFood Stamp Enrollment Underscores Illinois Jobs Crisis
In Illinois, people are more likely to end up on food stamps than they are to find a job. Nearly five years since the end of the Great Recession, Illinois is lagging behind the rest of the Midwest in...
View ArticleGreg Abbott and Latino Voters in Texas
It has been a long time since Democrats won a statewide office in Texas. Texas Democrats haven't won a statewide election in Texas since 1994 and face an uphill battle in 2014's gubernatorial race,...
View ArticleFirst World, Third World: A Travel Essay
You travel a bit, and you wonder what happened. (I) Streets, laid out in the 19th century, are jammed with traffic that was never anticipated. Not just more cars; Americans traveled on foot or by horse...
View ArticleBring the Vote to the People
Experiments in democracy do not always turn out well. We have only to remember the crushing defeat of the revolutionaries in Egypt and the current chaos in Libya to prove this. Except for Tunisia, the...
View ArticleMy Takeaways From the Administration's Infrastructure Investment Summit
In late July, the U.S. Congress took steps to save the Highway Trust Fund from going insolvent by "patching" it and continuing the debate on how to fund it through May of 2015, when our policymakers...
View ArticleWhy We Allow Big Pharma to Rip Us Off
According to a new federal database put online last week, pharmaceutical companies and device makers paid doctors some $380 million in speaking and consulting fees over a five-month period in 2013....
View ArticleFocusing on Closing the Gender Gap in School Shootings
We need to find out how to prevent every school shooting, but focusing on the overwhelming male incidence of these tragic events may be helpful. There are many advanced, developed countries in the...
View ArticleGOP Idiocy: Imprison the Nephews for What the Uncles Did?
Last year the House Foreign Affairs Committee "marked up" an Iran Sanctions bill, taking amendments from committee members before sending the bill to the "Floor" for a House vote. I offered five...
View ArticleA GOP Senate - Obama's Only Path To Greatness
The only path to presidential greatness still open to Barack Obama may be a Republican victory in the 2014 midterm elections, and the resulting GOP majority in the Senate. This would create a...
View ArticleRepublicans, Try Progression -- Not Suppression
It is no secret that Democrats don't do a great job running the country. It is also no secret that Republicans don't do a great job running the country. At any given point, the only thing almost all...
View ArticleFinally: A Solution to Your Outrage About the State of Women's Rights
Here's a test, in three YouTube-friendly steps. Watch these videos and consider how you feel about the state of women's rights in our country: 1) In the aftermath of the release of horrifying footage...
View Article#TurnOutForWhat? Our Values, For a Start
I don't turn out to vote for candidates or a particular political party. Yes, I press a button next to the name of a candidate. And yes, that candidate is typically from an organized party. But for as...
View ArticleMr. President, Here Are Two Outstanding Choices for Attorney General
The kindest word one can apply to Attorney General Eric Holder's record is "undistinguished." Now that his time in office is drawing to a close, it's clear that his failure to pursue criminal bankers...
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Obama Poll Watch -- September, 2014
A Slow War President Obama announced a new American war this month, but it didn't resonate in his polling much, if at all. Overall, his poll numbers dropped, but the net result was rather flat. But the...
View ArticleThe Good News and Bad News About 5.9 Percent Unemployment
The jobs report on Friday showed the economy created 248,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell below 6.0 percent for the first time since the early days of the recession. This is good...
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage and the Dangers of Dawdling
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided not to decide any of the pending cases involving the constitutionality of laws denying same-sex couples the freedom to marry. In all of these cases, federal courts...
View ArticleRecession Ends and Millions of Women Are Still Trapped in Poverty
Poverty is a women's issue. Nearly six in 10 poor adults are women, and more than half of all poor children live in families headed by women. Poverty rates are especially high for single mothers, women...
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