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  • Let’s Talk About Foreign Policy

    The 47% gaffe wasn’t the most revealing thing Mitt Romney said at his fundraiser back in May. His admission that he sees Palestinians as “not wanting peace” is as bizarre as it is ill-informed. If he were talking about domestic politics, it would be equivalent to him saying that Americans weren’t interested in improving their…

  • Contrived Metaphor of the Week: Baby Elephant Mitt

    BY RAJA KRISHNA If there’s one thing I love, it’s a great metaphor. And boy did the admakers over at Orang Tua Group, the firm KayaKing Peanuts hired to make ad you see below, deliver. As far as print ads go, it’s pretty famous. It depicts one elephant performing the Heimlich Maneuver on a baby…

  • Looking down the Barrel

    Recent large-scale tragedies at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and the Empire State Building have reinvigorated our nation’s debate over gun control. As America enters election season, gun control will undoubtedly be a point of great contention for voters. President Obama certainly believes in the constitutional right…

  • Someone’s in Trouble

    A better VP choice than Palin – but only just In 2008, John McCain took a calculated risk. Knowing that his campaign was struggling to gain ground against Obama, McCain chose a largely unknown governor from Alaska to shake up the race. Unfortunately for McCain, his gamble backfired, and Palin became an easy target for…

  • Romney’s the Nominee; Now What?

    What we’ve known for the better part of three months is now official. Mitt Romney has secured the number of Republican delegates’ votes he needs to contest the 2012 presidential election. He announced that he was ‘humbled and honored’ to be the nominee; Soon after, President Obama called Romney to congratulate him, and looked forward…

  • Enough with Austerity

    In the UK, the country I’ve called home for the past few months, we’ve now officially entered an unexpected double-dip recession. Like Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron inherited a huge debt. However, the British pound is much more vulnerable than the dollar, and the Tories decided to institute swift austerity measures for fear of becoming…

  • 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…