No One Really Wants States’ Rights Because No One Really Wants Local Accountability

It’s that simple. States’ Rights advocates all over the country talk about how states have no authority or power and how the federal government has subsumed powers that do not properly belong to it in the Constitution. But the most important piece of this discussion revolves around taxation, and it’s where even some of the […]

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Hillary Clinton … the Gambler’s Choice for Next President

Love her or hate her, Hillary Clinton is far and away the gambler’s choice for next president. According to the odds, Hillary Clinton is a clear favorite, not just beating out her nearest competitor, but nearly beating out the entire field of her competitors combined. Ouch: If you had to bet $100 on any single […]

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Finally: Hillary Clinton Admits She’s a Robot

I thought Al Gore would have cracked first, but Hillary Clinton recently stunned Buzzfeed’s Another Round with the straightforward admission that she is in fact a robot built in a Palo Alto garage. Just as we always suspected: HILLARY CLINTON: You guys are the first to realize that I’m really not even a human being. […]

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John Boehner to Resign Before Halloween … What Should We Expect Next?

Speaker of the House John Boehner has finally decided to resign after about four years as the Republican leader of the House of Representatives. His departure has elicited a mixed reaction. Many establishment (moderate) Republicans and Democrats have expressed sadness over the breach in the GOP, while more hardline conservatives have been unabashedly rejoicing. But one thing […]

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Hillary Clinton Says to Vote Pragmatically, Even if You’re Not Excited

Hillary Clinton recently sat for an interview with Lena Dunham from the HBO series Girls. During the interview, Clinton had some advice for less-than-enthusiastic voters: Whenever I’m talking to young women about politics, I always say, look, you don’t have to run for office, you don’t have to be actively involved, but you do have […]

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Nobel Prize Committee Regrets Giving 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Obama

Well, that didn’t take long. In an interview with the Associated Press, Geil Lundestad, the former director of the Nobel Institute that awarded Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, says that he regrets giving Obama the prize: Looking back over Mr. Obama’s presidency, Mr. Lundestad said, granting him the award did not fulfill the committee’s expectations. “[We] […]

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Is Obama Trying to Test the Tolerance Limits of Pope Francis?

Pope Francis is set to visit the White House, and Obama is apparently seeing just how far the Pope’s famous tolerance can go. Obama has invited quite a few people to meet Pope Francis at the White House, and few of them fall squarely into any category one could consider “orthodox”: In a stunning show […]

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Why Hillary Clinton is Just Like Her Husband in All the Wrong Ways

Hillary Clinton apparently has more in common with her husband than his last name. Before Hillary Clinton’s emails had been subpoenaed by the FBI, Clinton insisted, quite adamantly, that she had never sent or received classified information on her private server. That claim might have been true in a technical sense, but it smells like […]

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Country Dumb: Are Politicians Stupid or Sly?

“So, Did you wipe the server or what?” A reporter had the nerve to ask Hillary Clinton this question directly. Her response: “What? Like with a cloth or something?” I guess you can take this as sarcasm or stupidity, depending on which way you lean. Is Hillary Clinton playing dumb? If she were, she wouldn’t be […]

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The Trump Effect: How Donald Trump is Capitalizing on Modern Political Discourse

Political commentators are using the term the Trump Effect to explain why fringe Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential race are stumbling over each other to say inflammatory things. Apparently, Trump has been getting very good traction with Republican voters for his willingness to say just about whatever controversial thing comes to his mind, and other […]

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