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3 Historical Moments Leaders Went Against Their Party for the Greater Good
The 113th Congress was rated one of the least productive congresses in history, and the 114th is not shaping up to do much better. Things have gotten so bad that we consider it an achievement when our ...
20 Nov, 2015
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Team Bush Has Spent $20 Million on TV Ads So Far
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and supporters have now spent roughly $20 million toward assaulting the airwaves thus far in the 2016 presidential race -- more than twice as much as any other candida ...
19 Nov, 2015
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OPINION: Paris, Politics, and the Human Mind
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them. - Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus, 1676 It is OK to hate some human actions, but n ...
17 Nov, 2015
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Just How Burdensome are Government Regulations?
During the fourth Republican debate in Milwaukee, several candidates assailed the burdensome nature of government regulations, arguing that the imposition of rules on industries and businesses re ...
13 Nov, 2015
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As In Sports, Home Field Advantage Goes A Long Way in Presidential Politics
As is usually the case in the months leading up to presidential primaries, national focus has centered around polling in early primary states to determine which candidates are soaring and which are ta ...
04 Nov, 2015
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A Month Late With Its Rules, Debate Commission Still Denies Voters The Choices They Deserve
Update: On October 29, the Commission on Presidential Debates released its criteria for the 2016 fall debates. It maintains its 15% polling threshold for candidate inclusion. What polling agencies the ...
31 Oct, 2015
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Pew Study Shows Voters Should Not Underestimate The Importance of Primary Elections
The House Freedom Caucus. Chances are if there is a story about gridlock in the U.S. House over budgetary issues or the intra-party conflict within the GOP over who will replace outgoing U.S. House Sp ...
23 Oct, 2015
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Paul Ryan Has The Votes to be Speaker, But It Didn't Come Easy
The House Freedom Caucus ensured that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would have the support to secure the position of Speaker of the House next week following a vote on Wednesday night.However, while Ryan di ...
22 Oct, 2015
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Just How Bad is America's Infrastructure and How Much Will It Cost to Fix It?
Earlier this year, now-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proposed a bill to spend $1 trillion over a five-year period in order to "rebuild America’s crumbling network of roads, bridges and transit ...
19 Oct, 2015
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OPINION: Everything You Need to Know About the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Much effort has been put into making the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal into the largest trade agreement in the history of the United States. It is that expansiveness and the president’s im ...
19 Oct, 2015
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