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// These are the top 10 reasons why President Obama may win a second term in 2012, part one. 1. Incumbency As the incumbent, Barack Obama has a significant advantage that has documented over many election cycles. He enjoys built-in luxuries such as massive media and press coverage of anything he does or says, including [...]
// The Tea Party is supposedly the most exciting political movement to sweep the US in a while. Born out of frustration and anger at big-spending liberals in the federal government, the Tea Party has made its mark on American politics in a big way with the nominations of such characters as Sharron Angle in [...]
// In the following recent conversation between Bill O’Reilly and Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, the former raised the assertion that liberalism is incapable or ineffective at governing. Newsom correctly pointed out that governance is, at least currently, a lost art in the US, irrespective of ideology or political persuasion. The causes of this state [...]
// Sarah Palin has officially become the mirror image of Barack Obama. That is, a charismatic, physically attractive, all-American member of an underrepresented group who speaks directly to the soul of the ideological movement and mostly lacks real substance or accomplishment. Note that “all-American” takes a different meaning for liberals versus conservatives. For liberals, Obama [...]
// An interesting little debate has developed in the last few days and weeks surrounding the issue of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Only this time, it’s not conservatives vs. liberals–the rightists are turning on each other. I’ll leave it to you to read about the whole sordid affair, but suffice it to say that conservatism [...]
