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Lobbyists Spend over $3 Billion a Year to Influence Legislation
In American folklore, it is President Grant who coined the term “lobbyists” to designate those influence peddlers who attempted to bribe him with whiskey and cigars during his jaunts to the Willard Ho...
Psychological Effects of Poverty Just As Bad As Physical
For the 46.5 million Americans living below the poverty line, 16 million of which are children, life has become a consistent struggle. This struggle does not simply begin and end with monetary concern...
VA Scandal One More Problem of Accountability for Obama Administration
The hits just keep coming for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki. For weeks, stories of the deplorable policies and procedures in place at VA Medical Centers across the country have continued to...
Condi at Rutgers: Higher Education and the Partisan Fantasy
I have only heard a U.S. president speak once in my life. It was in the summer of 1992. George Bush, père decided to start his re-election campaign by speaking at BYU, where I was a graduate student i...
Controversy Surrounds Wounded Warriors, Lavish Salaries, and White House
Editor's note: This article, originally published on April 22, was updated on April 25, 2014. The initial article had Ret. Staff Sgt. Dean Graham's name as Alex Graham. The article has been corrected....
Despite Gerrymandering Efforts, IL-8 Surprisingly Competitive in 2014
As the Republican Party seeks to retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014, an Illinois district that favors Democrats could eventually become more competitive.Illinois' 8th Congress...
The Biggest Geopolitical Ramifications of India's Elections
The world’s largest democracy has recently begun its 5-week election cycle. The sheer length and size of India's elections are astounding: six weeks and nine stages encompass an estimated 815 million ...
The Jumbo Jet of Damocles
A famous ancient Greek legend holds that Dionysius II, the tyrant of the Sicilian Greek city of Syracuse (at a time when Sicily was ruled by Greeks and Carthaginians, and a time when the word “tyrant”...
Muslim is the New 'American Indian' in 21st Century America
As we learn through the study of history, important issues are never stagnant, but ever-changing based on many catalysts of the day. Today, the perspective Americans have of the Middle East, the cultu...
Opinion: Party Primaries Result in Taxation without Representation
I am the Central Florida spokesperson for Florida Independent Voting (fivorg.com). I have been elected to public office as a partisan candidate (state legislature) and also as a nonpartisan candidate ...