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Polls show Ron Paul emerging as key player in 2012 race
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 ...
19 Jan, 2012
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Support Grows for Electoral College System Reform
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 ...
26 Dec, 2011
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Senate to pass defense bill allowing indefinite detainment of U.S citizens
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 ...
30 Nov, 2011
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Republican Tea Party may have produced Democratic Re-occupation
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 ...
09 Nov, 2011
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'Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars': interview with Sylvia Longmire
'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 ...
27 Sep, 2011
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Barriers remain too high for Independents
Barriers remain too high for Independents
Is there anyone less popular today than a sitting politician?  Well, yes.  Someone else’s politician.  Today’s generalized numbers about Congress, the President, Democrats and Republica ...
19 Sep, 2011
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Principles over personality in the Tea Party
Principles over personality in the Tea Party
One of the most important contributions of the Tea Party movement to American conservatism is arguably its subordination of partisan politics to the actual mechanics of public policy. But to succeed a ...
22 Jul, 2011
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The Tea Party Could Resurge by Taking on The TSA
The Tea Party Could Resurge by Taking on The TSA
Compared to the feeling in 2009, when enraged citizens swarmed to demonstrations in cities all across the country and showed up en masse to shout down their Congressmen during some town hall meetings, ...
16 Jul, 2011
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Supreme Court: California must release inmates to relieve overcrowding
Supreme Court: California must release inmates to relieve overcrowding
Late last year, we reported on the appeal of Schwarzenegger v. Plata to the Supreme Court where oral arguments were heard. In the lawsuit, a special panel of three federal judges ruled that California ...
24 May, 2011
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A frank discussion of the Fourth Amendment and civil liberties
A frank discussion of the Fourth Amendment and civil liberties
From police actions, to court rulings, to the impending renewal of key provisions of the Patriot Act next week, the debate over the Fourth Amendment, its meaning, and its relevance could not be any mo ...
21 May, 2011
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