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Criticizing His Party on Voter ID, Rand Paul Continues Voter Outreach
On Friday, Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul became one of the highest-profiled elected Republicans to speak out against voter identification laws."Everybody's gone completely crazy on this voter ID thi ...
12 May, 2014
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IRS Scam Swindles Taxpayers Out of $1 Million during Tax Season
Alleged targeting by the Internal Revenue Service may still rile some conservative groups, but the real scandal could lie with a sophisticated phone scam that has bilked taxpayers out of a combined $1 ...
15 Apr, 2014
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Coburn: Greater Efforts Needed to Improve Treatment for Veterans
Multiple reports over the last month have painted a stark picture of the situation that veterans face when seeking care through the Veterans Administration's (VA) health care system -- a benefit they ...
02 Apr, 2014
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Dirty Politics: The Great American Pastime
It was another article about the antics and dirty politics along partisan lines:As soon as it was known that the elections had given the present House to the Republican party, the leaders of that part ...
28 Mar, 2014
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Bipartisan Policy Center Follows Path of JFK for Greater Unity
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer."John F. Kennedy spoke these words in 1958 regarding the political challenges faced in America. Kennedy called for ...
27 Mar, 2014
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Iowa Could Send Its First Woman to Congress; Slim Prospects in Mississippi
Last week, I wrote about gender parity by state in the U.S. Congress. One of the more astounding facts from that research was that the United States ranks 77th in the world by percentage of legislativ ...
20 Mar, 2014
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Olympia Snowe: The Path to Ending Political Divisiveness in DC
Spoiler alert: That's one of the concluding remarks in former Senator Olympia Snowe's recent book, Fighting for Common Ground. Tired of government stalemate, congressional inaction, and the declining ...
19 Mar, 2014
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Britt Hysen: Millennials Will Change the Face of Politics in America
Millennials have been a major driving force in politics, especially in recent presidential elections. Since 2008, about half of voters under 30 went to the polls, making up nearly one-fifth of the tot ...
18 Mar, 2014
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Despite Voter Losses, California Democrats Remain Optimistic in 2014
Political observers know that California has been a reliable national stronghold for the Democratic Party for over a decade. The party boasts two U.S. senators, over 70 percent of the state's congress ...
10 Mar, 2014
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Is the Birthright to Freedom Completely Protected in the U.S.?
In an article, titled "Do The American People Have Freedom?," IVN contributor Michael Hoang introduced the notion that freedom is about belonging to a "mother nation" and being harmonious with the oth ...
28 Feb, 2014
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