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Interpreting the Tucson Shooting: It's Time Both Parties Denounce Hyperbolic, Aggressive Rhetoric

01.08.2011

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tucson, AZ, others were killed. Regardless of the motives, can we use this to finally end the aggressive, hyperbolic, dangerous rhetoric from politicians and pundits.

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Pointless TV Survey Offers Only More Polarization in Current Political Climate

11.13.2010

Experian Simmons survey shows which TV shows are most popular according to the political affiliation of their audiences. But why keep focusing on our differences?

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The Republican Party Still Has No Interest in Actual Governance

10.26.2010

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell tells us what we already knew: the GOP has no interest in actual governance even with the prospect of winning the Senate in next week’s general election.

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Politicians Avoiding the Press: If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get out of the Election

10.23.2010

Nevada Tea Party candidate for the Senate, Sharron Angle, avoids the press unless she knows that they will report the news the way she wants it reported. Shouldn’t both political parties find this appalling?

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If California GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman Needs a Bully to Quiet the Dissent, How Does She Expect to Govern the State?

09.25.2010

GOP candidate for the governor of California can’t even address one heckler — actually, just a dissenter — at her event without the help of New Jersey Gov. Christie. How does she expect to run the state with a Democratic-controlled congress?

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Deconstructing Rick Santorum's Argument that Obama is Detatched from American Experience

06.29.2010

Former PA Senator Rick Santorum: “Obama is detached from the American experience. He just doesn’t identify with the average American because of his own background. Indonesia and Hawaii. His view is from the viewpoint of academics and the halls of the Ivy league schools that he went to and it’s not a love of this [...]

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The South, Cont'd.

11.04.2009

It turns out that those numbers on the South’s approval/disapproval of President Obama didn’t tell the whole story.  Wouldn’t be the first time that numbers were misleading. Not that the South isn’t skewed heavily against Obama in relation to the rest of the country, though, only that they seem to be pretty unhappy with all [...]

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We Need GOP Reform

09.09.2009

The good ole two-party system. Republicans and Democrats.  Liberals and conservatives. Black and white. What about the gray area in which most of us live? The goal is for each side to bring their perspectives to the table and together some compromises are reached that create more moderate policies.  Of course, this depends on what [...]

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Red States Love Their Online Porn

02.28.2009

This little study really feeds into the notion that those who wish to instill their values onto others tend to be rather hypocritical. Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don’t explicitly restrict gay marriage… Classic.  This is the problem with being holier than [...]

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