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Court of Appeals Freezes Arizona Anti-Abortion Law
(Joshua Roberts/Reuters)On March 27th of this year, the Arizona House of Representatives passed HB2036, a bill aimed at outlawing selective abortions past 20 weeks of conception. Women's rights activ ...
07 Aug, 2012
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Improve Regulation with Localism and Competition
Often the issue of “regulation” is implicitly framed as “people who want no regulations” versus “people who want copious amounts of regulations,” but there is a very large middle-ground where most peo ...
05 Aug, 2012
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Washington DC's Favorite Olympic Sport...
Synchronized kicking...There's a lot of talk about bipartisan solutions, but perhaps not enough about bipartisan problems. Republicans and Democrats together have brought us this fiscal crisis Washing ...
04 Aug, 2012
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Competition in the Age of Frenemies
Credit: lib.utexas.eduIdeology is being replaced by realpolitik in the world political arena, with competition and cooperation between frenemies perhaps becoming the norm. The war on terror bega ...
03 Aug, 2012
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Rep. LaTourette Retires Citing Partisan 'Toll'
Rep. Steve LaTourette Credit: Gus Chan, Plain Dealer fileYet another sitting lawmaker is stepping down from their post citing a toxic partisan atmosphere in Washington, D.C., and his announcement was ...
31 Jul, 2012
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Rep. LaTourette Retires Citing Partisan 'Toll'
Rep. Steve LaTourette Credit: Gus Chan, Plain Dealer fileYet another sitting lawmaker is stepping down from their post citing a toxic partisan atmosphere in Washington, D.C., and his announcement was ...
31 Jul, 2012
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Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Refers to Russia as 'the Soviet Union'
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney made waves earlier this year by referring to Russia as the United States' "number one geopolitical foe". The Romney campaign appears once again stuck in a Col ...
25 Jul, 2012
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Marijuana Prohibition Loses Ground to Modern Federalism
As a constitutional republic, the US system of government is designed on the principles of federalism. In our federalist system the federal government is one of enumerated powers and those powers not ...
24 Jul, 2012
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Shootings Highlight Mental Health Policy, Not Just Guns
As a Coloradan, I am heartbroken over the massacre that took place at Century 16 in Aurora. It is senseless, as are so many things. When a violent action takes the lives of innocents, we ask ourselves ...
22 Jul, 2012
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Air Force Errors Escalate Vermont Fight over F-35 Base
Credit: Bill OetjenThe Pentagon has admitted it was wrong about basic facts relating to basing the F-35 stealth fighter-bomber in Vermont, so of course the announcement was made late last week in a s ...
20 Jul, 2012
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