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Election Night Results Live!

November 6, 2012
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Here we are, folks: Election Night.  Results have started coming in as I type this, so I’ll keep it brief.  As of 7 pm Central Time, Obama leads 64 Electoral Votes to 40, with states like Massachusetts, Vermont, Maryland, South Carolina, and Kentucky beginning to report their totals.  Not very many surprises so far, but…

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It’s Election Day in America

November 6, 2012
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Good morning ladies and gents, I come out of hiding from exams, papers, and more to blog the 2012 election!  This is going to be a busy day, to be sure, so let’s get cracking.  By now, I’m sure y’all know that Governor Mitt Romney is challenging President Obama for the Presidency. You might have…

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If you could ask President Obama one question…

September 2, 2012
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What would it be?  Thousands of users of the popular website Reddit got the chance to do just that last week when Mr. Obama visited the site’s prominent “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) section.  The President answered only around a dozen questions out of the more than 24,000 comments posted as of this writing over the…

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Is the Affordable Care Act Doomed?

March 27, 2012
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So it comes down to this: this is the week that the Supreme Court is hearing the oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care reform law. The Justices are specifically focusing on the question of that pesky individual mandate, which as the name might indicate will eventually require that each…

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Not Safe for Entrepreneurs: Is the Federal Government Scaring Away Startups?

February 18, 2012
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I know I said on Fridays I would post, but I was literally singing one song too much to calm down and write.  (What song, you ask?  Well…let’s just say if I linked it here you guys would be too busy singing along for the rest of the day to read the rest of this post!…

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We Had a Primary?

February 10, 2012
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Well, it’s been a while, to be sure.  Now that I’m settled in to the new semester of college, I can finally get back to writing these posts that y’all love reading.  As the late, great, Billy Mays would say, “but wait, there’s MORE!”.  That’s right folks, I’m actually going to attempt to stick to…

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The Iowa Caucuses: The Long Road of 2012 Begins

January 4, 2012
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Happy new year, ladies and gentlemen.  It’s finally 2012, and among other things we have an election to look forward to.  Several of them, in fact, as the Republican Party decides on who to nominate as their candidate to face off against President Obama this fall.  In fact, that process began yesterday, as I’m sure…

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This Post Has Been Censored

December 15, 2011
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Quick, what do the People’s Republic of China, Soviet Russia (along with the rest of the Warsaw Pact states), Iran, and Britain in Orwell’s 1984 all have in common?  They all censor ideas that they don’t want their citizens to hear about.  Soon, if the US Congress gets its way, the United States could join…

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Is This How Liberty Dies?

December 14, 2011
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Forget about Occupy Wall Street for a moment.  Forget Protect IP and SOPA for a moment as well.  There is, lurking in the halls of Congress at this very moment an all-too-serious threat to our rights as Americans.  Watch the first minute or so of the above video, and pay special attention to Senator Rand…

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Mad As Hell and Doing Something About It

October 10, 2011
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Mad As Hell and Doing Something About It

Perhaps you’ve already heard about the growing movement known as Occupy Wall Street.  This broad social movement has protested against a variety of social problems in the heart of New York City’s Financial District since mid-September, and it has since spread to a variety of other cities in the US and around the world.  I’m…

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