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proposal vocabulary
by Mark Hunter Mulvey | Moderate | Comments (1)
The whole proposal to rename the bailout a “rescue” is actually preposterous, and a cheap, depressing effort to use language as a tool to rebrand government intervention as a noble cause. It’s just putting lipstick on a pig. There, I said it.
up, mccain
by Ari Holtz | Moderate | Comments (2)
Why has McCain abandoned his tactics of 2000 for those of Karl Rove and Lee Atwater? The easy answer is that McCain is not honor, honesty and straight-talk incarnate but just a typical politician. There’s a more complex answer, though, and I submit that it holds more weight.
out on bail
by Mark Hunter Mulvey | Moderate | Comments (8)
The Bush Administration is spending phantom dollars in order to get short-term gains. It is the mortgage crisis on a gargantuan scale. It is the largest act of hypocritical scolding ever witnessed by the American people.
you are what you vote
by Ari Holtz | Moderate | Comments (3)
We allow the parties to co-opt us and make us vote against our nation’s interests. If you are a professor in Boston, you better be a Democrat. A salesman in Summerville, South Carolina? You’d better not betray the sticker on your truck and the voice on your favorite radio station.
throw the bums out!
by Sandra Neish | Moderate | Comments (4)
Like many Americans, I am dissatisfied with our elected leaders. They are more concerned with their next election than with actually doing the business of the people. I propose a solution this November: vote against the incumbents.
conventions show dems trail GOP in field operations
by Jeremy P. Jacobs | Moderate | Comments (6)
After seeing the culmination of both parties’ best efforts to introduce their candidates to their delegations and the nation, my mind kept returning to one thought: if this election comes down to field operations, the Republicans will beat the Democrats.
small town values
by Ryan Schuette | Moderate | Comments (2)
With her credentials as an anti-abortionist, family woman and Republican who bucked corrupt members of her party in Alaskan politics, Gov. Sarah Palin has revitalized social conservatives for a running mate who made the most vocal of them cringe.
unconventional behavior
by Paige Cram | Moderate | Comments (9)
In the wake of the Republican National Convention, lots of people have been talking about the candidates, the speeches and the excitement. But outside the convention halls and beyond the narrow scope of the mainstream camera lenses, more troubling events of an equally historic nature were taking place.
Archives:
September 2008
on convention: the blue
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
August 2008
VP game-changing brilliance
by Cameron Contois
palin panic
by Ari Holtz
“read my lips…” the sequel
by Sandra Neish
but i don’t want to choose!
by Ari Holtz
O vs. O
by Ian Schuldt
the tbilisi matador
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
tell me why to vote for you, john
by Ari Holtz
republicans as conservatives, a fairy tale
by Sandra Neish
there is no typewriter
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
July 2008
the cult of obama
by Ari Holtz
the paradox of “real but fragile”
by Stefan Koski
framing the obamas
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
mccain de sade
by Ari Holtz
ms. rice, please let lying iranians sleep
by Cherry Vichette
how to pick a VP
by Ari Holtz
oil and water: a proposed solution to dependence
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
fistgate. cookiegate. irrelevantgate.
by Steven Doss
June 2008
who is john mccain?
by Ari Holtz
can christians be democrats?
by Ryan Porter
orange you glad?
by Sandra Neish
mccain iowa visit flooded with controversy
by Jason Bradley
michelle’s dilemma
by Ari Holtz
$16 a gallon, anyone?
by Alan Moore
thinking out loud: the first in a series of very public ruminations
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
remembering tim russert
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
safety fourth
by Ian Schuldt
if a train leaves the station…it saves me $63?
by Sandra Neish
terrorists are people, too?
by Ryan Porter
forget progressive politics, how about progress in politics?
by Matthew Smock
talkin’ ’bout my generation
by Ari Holtz
goodbye, graceless wonder
by Ari Holtz
May 2008
jiminy cricket showed up late
by Sandra Neish
hands off my nuts!
by Paige Cram
panderer-in-chief
by Ryan Schuette
the new separate but equal
by Sandra Neish
john mccain on the new GI bill: dead wrong
by Tom Carey
the summer of anxiety
by Ari Holtz
oh, there will be blood
by Ryan Porter
the empress has no clothes
by Tom Carey
irrelevance in lieu of grace
by Ari Holtz
pimp my rights
by Ryan Porter
it’s all over
by Max Clark
more foolish delusions
by Joshua Lustig
the yankee klux klan
by Ian Schuldt
arianna huffington is not news
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
free tibet! (with purchase of any autonomous region of greater or lesser value)
by Max Clark
step aside, putin!
by Max Clark
these are days
by Sandra Kinne
ungodly reverends, a study in political pandering
by Sandra Neish
a date with destiny?
by Samuel Sukaton
big bad oil
by Ian Schuldt
April 2008
wright controversy is obama camp’s mistake
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
Presidentialmania XLIV
by Sean Mallory
high gas prices are good?
by Ari Holtz
when obama is nominated, hillary goes on to what?
by Tom Carey
settle down, democrats
by Ari Holtz
getting high on america
by Ryan Porter
the language of politics
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
wanted: a candidate who can close
by Tom Carey
a prophet without honor
by Edward Savoy
10 things to do with your zimbabwe dollars!
by Max Clark
clinton: the new bush
by Ryan Porter
congressional act
by Brian Thomas
heads of their class
by Sandra Kinne
of course he’s elite
by Ari Holtz
the food crisis and america’s lions
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
mccain’s uphill fight against irrelevance
by Cherry Vichette
30 minutes with a congressman
by Alan Moore
we’ve cured racism
by Jeremy Skinner
one order of olympics, hold the politics
by Steven Doss
fightin’ words round this part
by Max Clark
a back-room deal?
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
hillary’s soliloquy
by Edward Savoy
March 2008
Protest 2.0
by Ari Holtz
a man without a party
by Ari Holtz
the age of foolishness
by Ryan Porter
take a seat, cecil
by Alan Moore
imaginary snipers strike again!
by Ryan Porter
save your sermon for the washington monument
by Steven Doss
death to pacifist monks
by Stefan Koski
proxy wars
by Jabulani Leffall
say YES! to michigan (delegates)
by Cameron Contois
from the files of the president
by Edward Savoy
clinton with a side of disaffection
by Ari Holtz
caucus craziness
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
ferraro, hillary’s stooge
by Jeremy Skinner
florida’s magical world of voting
by Ian Schuldt
reaching across denial
by Sean Mallory
strung out election junkie
by Ari Holtz
of course i’m voting for him
by Lucas Puente
hope’s evangelist
by Ed Cooney
texas pride
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
“we”
by Mark Hunter Mulvey
February 2008
america, married
by Ryan Porter
john mccain’s foreign policy war
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
if you really love a country, let it go
by Ian Schuldt
“hope” explained
by Steve Cooney
superdelegates are attacking! but leave the kryptonite at home
by Robert DeFrance
movement against the machine
by Ari Holtz
american misogyny: alive and kicking
by Cameron Contois
cringe and purge
by Edward Savoy
superbad superdelegates
by Ari Holtz
tanzanian cheers and jeers microcosm of Bush Legacy
by Jared Field
guns don’t kill carrot top, and neither do people
by Ian Schuldt
the pragmatist and the visionary
by Ari Holtz
how many clintons does it take to screw in a light bulb?
by Ian Schuldt
an exciting time in south dakota (perhaps)
by Max Clark
the un-american food machine - part II
by Andrew Bosworth
like a good neighbor, ahmadinejad is there
by Jason Bradley
china: when it snows, it blizzards
by Max Clark
not so super tuesday
by Josh Sarpen
the un-american food machine - part I
by Andrew Bosworth
obama’s ambition and the learning curve
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
the three-trillion dollar man
by Jared Field
clinton II: return of the ugly
by Tom Carey
issues: front and center… to the left
by Steve Cooney
January 2008
barack obama: jujitsu master
by Ari Holtz
the (_______) kid
by Edward Savoy
on the big iraq candy mountain
by Max Clark
winning the oppression sweepstakes
by Jason Bradley
romney wreaks havoc
by Graham Bradley
u.s. elections are just bush-league
by Robert DeFrance
hillary will win, we’ll lose
by Ari Holtz
a democratic house divided
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
terminator 4: taking on the establishment
by Paige Cram
walker texas ranger for president
by Ryan Porter
be true to thyself, mitt
by Ari Holtz
two reasons i won’t vote for hillary
by Shauna Robinson
fbi: not a phone call away
by Jason Bradley
poll smoking
by Ari Holtz
obama camp shows inexperience
by Jeremy P. Jacobs
drinking up candidates
by Jason Bradley
the cult of celebrity
by Steven Doss
fake news - without the “news”
by Stefan Koski
not happy with iowa?
by Ari Holtz
the L-word
by Sandra Kinne
caucus like it’s hot
by Ryan Porter
education apology
by Steven Doss
soft power on nuclear iran
by Ryan Schuette
and god said touché
by Ryan Porter
the new sheriff in the old west
by Jason Bradley
memo to america: vote on politics
by Elly Kranz
if not bush, then who?
by Elly Kranz
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