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\Canada! Canada! Canada!\
The year is 1810 and Henry Clay of Kentucky is elected to the House of Representatives. He has just finished serving two terms in the Senate. He is also immediately elected Speaker of the ...
"Canada! Canada! Canada!"
The year is 1810 and Henry Clay of Kentucky is elected to the House of Representatives. He has just finished serving two terms in the Senate. He is also immediately elected Speaker of the ...
Soaring Diesel Prices Highlight Likely Commodity Bubble
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Presidential Election 2012 Update: Glitter-Bombed
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What happened to the Tea Party?
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Polls show Ron Paul emerging as key player in 2012 race
A new poll finds that a third-party bid by presidential hopeful Ron Paul would help re-elect president Obama, but not before taking away 9% of the President's independent support and 17% of independen...
Support Grows for Electoral College System Reform
Beginning with the Iowa caucuses on January 3, 2012, more than half of the states in the nation will hold their presidential primary and caucus elections over the course of the next three months. In t...
Senate to pass defense bill allowing indefinite detainment of U.S citizens
The U.S. Senate defeated an amendment on Tuesday that would have stripped the pending defense spending bill of language that critics charge would allow the U.S. military to make arrests of American ci...
Republican Tea Party may have produced Democratic Re-occupation
There is an age old lesson in American politics that both political party loyalist just can't seem to get in their heads. Americans are fundamentally fair minded, skeptical of philosophers, and wish d...
'Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars': interview with Sylvia Longmire
Sylvia Longmire's new book Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars has just been released and is available in bookstores today. She is a retired Air Force captain and Special Agent with exte...