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Are You Voting For Obamey or Rombama?
Credit: Randy MillerEditorial cartoon humor from Randy Miller at ULIV.org (Utah League of Independent Voters.)Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is indeed a definition of ...
11 Aug, 2012
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Head of State Spotlight: Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt
Name: Mohamed MorsiAge: 60Title: President of the Arab Republic of EgyptInauguration Date: June 30, 2012Term Length: Four years per term; up to two termsParty: Freedom and Justice PartyThis week, Moha ...
10 Aug, 2012
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Ted Cruz Scores Ron Paul a Win in Texas Senate Primary
Photo: Gage SkidmoreTexas lawyer and Tea Party candidate, Ted Cruz, scored an easy and unexpected victory in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff election against the party-anointed, establishment can ...
01 Aug, 2012
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Mitt Romney's Overseas Tour Calculated to Rally US Voters
Credit: images.wikimedia.orgMuch has been made of Mitt Romney's purported gaffes during his recent trip abroad. Press coverage of his trip to Israel, Poland, and the United Kingdom induces one to bel ...
01 Aug, 2012
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Two Ways to Protest Two-Party System
The Atlantic has a thought-provoking piece out today, "How to Protest the Major Parties Without Throwing Away Your Vote", where the author proposes two main options for making a mark outside the two-p ...
25 Jul, 2012
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Texas Tops CNBC List of Top States for Business
Texas has once again topped CNBC's list of best states for business, a list the Lone Star state has been topping since the network began ranking the states in 2007. Utah came in second, for most condu ...
12 Jul, 2012
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John Huntsman Skipping Republican National Convention
John Huntsman threw his two cents into the media cycle on Friday afternoon after announcing that he will not be attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay this summer.The former preside ...
08 Jul, 2012
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Diminishing Republican Support for Tax Reform Pledge
Republican Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia has revoked his signature from Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform pledge, and he isn’t the only one. Until recently the pledge had been signed by every ...
08 Jul, 2012
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Swing State Colorado: 'Tossup' in Upcoming November Election
President Obama flew out to Colorado at the end of last week “to get a firsthand view of the fires and their toll on residential communities”. The potential political motivations of such a visit are n ...
03 Jul, 2012
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Civic Illiteracy and the Two-Party System
In 2008, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute conducted a national survey testing the basic civic literacy of the American public. The poll of 2,508 individuals asked such simple questions as “What a ...
02 Jul, 2012
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