Monthly Archives: July 2011

One of the Most Heartless Articles I’ve Ever Read

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

This article, by conservative commentator Michael Barone, argued that the rising cost of college is due to government subsidies. Specifically, college is so expensive because the government keeps on trying to give money to poor people to attend college: Continue reading →

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Why Don’t Republicans Use the Word “Middle-Class”?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

The 2008 presidential election was all about the middle-class. Americans worried about how the recession would affect the middle-class, whether or not the middle-class was in decline, and what could be done to revive the middle-class. The 2012 presidential election looks as if it will be waged on the same themes. Continue reading →

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Analyzing the 2010 Midterm Elections – the Pennsylvania Senate Election

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

This is a part of a series of posts analyzing the 2010 midterm elections. This post will analyze the Pennsylvania Senate election, in which Republican Pat Toomey won a narrow victory over Democrat Joe Sestak in a Democratic-leaning state. Pennsylvania’s … Continue reading →

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Inside the Nomination Process

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

Most nominations – around 90%, according to this lawyer – have almost no presidential involvement. Continue reading →

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Why Don’t Hmong-Americans Vote Republican?

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

Perhaps no group in America has suffered more from Communism than the Hmong community. Continue reading →

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