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Collusion: It’s Not Unprecedented in American Politics 0
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- May 22, 2019
The Trump-Russia collusion fiasco supposedly ended several weeks ago. For some reason, however, the whole collusion story continues to play like “The Song That Never Ends.” Now congressional Democrats and Attorney General Barr are picking up the refrain where Mueller left off. Add in President Trump’s occasional quips about the incident and collusion seems like something
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What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal 0
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- May 9, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is from New York, where garbage disposals are not very common in apartments because they were only legalized in the 1990s, as incredible as that seems. But now she lives in D.C., and she has discovered that there is one in her apartment. It permits the user to push down food scraps rather
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The Soviet and Nazi Inception: A Married Ideology 0
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- May 8, 2019
It has become fashionable to wear Che Guevara or red hammer-and-sickle t-shirts as a mode of social protest against the oppression of Western society. Those who fight the injustice of Western democracy often are readily accepted and celebrated throughout American academia as they don these symbols of resistance. Would these same heroes of justice and
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What President Trump Has in Common With President Polk 0
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- May 1, 2019
The game of presidential parallels can be endlessly fascinating. Sometimes it can also be instructive and thought-provoking, even when considering the unparalleled presidency of one Donald J. Trump. That would be the same President Donald Trump who sees himself as the second coming of President Andrew Jackson. Of course, that would be Andy Jackson minus
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Should the Boston Marathon Bomber Get to Vote?0
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- April 24, 2019
During a CNN town hall on Monday, a student asked Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris whether they would allow felons in prison to vote: You have said that you believe that people with felony records should be allowed to vote while in prison. Does this mean that you would support enfranchising people like
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The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Campaign Against the Electoral College 0
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- April 11, 2019
A full-blown war is raging against the Electoral College. But as activist groups become more desperate to overturn our way of electing presidents before voters go the polls in November 2020, their arguments become more absurd and hyperbolic. CNN recently ran a preposterous segment suggesting that James Madison called the Electoral College “evil,” a shameful
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