Tag / democrats
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Call to Arms or Arms to Recall?
There are over 11,000 annual gun murders in the United States, making gun violence an incontrovertibly critical issue. The issue has roughly divided the country into two camps. The first espouses that the only solution to gun violence is government firearm control; the second suggests the only answer to an armed criminal is an equally…
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Fiscal Fiasco
After defeating Mitt Romney, Barack Obama’s greatest challenge is the upcoming “fiscal cliff”—the simultaneous expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the scheduled implementation of sharp spending reductions entailed in the Budget Control Act of 2011, often referred to as “sequestration.” After the 2011 summer debt ceiling negotiations, Congress designed sequestration as a painful last…
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Jesus is not “your homeboy.”
“I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen. -Richard Mourdock, Indiana Senate Candidate (R) (Let me just make a side note…
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And that’s how you give a speech
BY RAJA KRISHNA The headlines just days before Clinton spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention read something like this: “Clinton’s DNC speech will be vetted just minutes before he goes on stage,” implying that Clinton was a potential ticking time bomb. Then he actually delivered his speech. Watch it in all its glory below.…
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The “Four Years Ago” Folly
“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” The question hit home with voters in 1980, and now Paul Ryan offers Reagan’s canard in response to DNC fervor. Josh Marshall thinks it’s a bad strategy: George W. Bush is still very unpopular and gets a high degree of blame for the economy,…
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Barry O likes this.
The battle for Florida has turned ugly. More than policies, more than ideologies, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are trading blows at the lowest level of politics: personal attacks. After last week’s debates, Gingrich made it known that he was unhappy over the decision to disallow audience members from…
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Mitt Romney and the Media
Over winter break, I spent some time with my grandparents, both of whom are lifelong Democrats. They bleed blue and have never voted for a Republican candidate. Despite this, they are less than pleased with President Obama’s performance. Furthermore, they question why their perceptions of the economy and the Obama administrations’ failures are not fully…
