Tuesday

It’s Tuesday and I decided that I wanted to dive deeper into what it’s actually going to take to get my PhD. Luckily, I live 20min. away from one of the greatest institutions of higher education, Dartmouth College. From what I gather, they don’t have a PhD program in Political Science, but I’m sure...
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I’m on record as saying these things somewhere, probably in comments on Facebook, but I digress. This story from Politico about private companies running partisan political ads is the most effective reason that the recent supreme court ruling that let private companies spend as much money as they want on political campaigns. The real...
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If there is one thing I know it’s that Sarah Palin knows how to grab headlines. This video started blowing up this week and the response that Palin had is simply priceless. The three most important moments in this video: 1- The security guy who is following the camera guy around trying to obstruct that...
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Plain and simple, we’re all screwed and nothing we can do will change that fact. NOTHING. It’s so hot in Russia that tens of thousands of people could die. As a side note “the capital  broke another record today when the temperature reached 32.8 degrees Celsius (91 Fahrenheit).” I didn’t know the Ruskies were...
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This past Monday, President Obama said this to University of Texas graduates (taken from the AP line): “America has to have the highest share of graduates compared to other  nations. But Texas, I want you to know, we’ve been slipping,” Obama said  on a visit to the University of Texas. “In a single generation, we’ve fallen...
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Huffington Post Article - Antiwar Democrats have a rare opportunity to knock down a war funding bill, just days after Wikileaks released more than 90,000 documents confirming their worst fears about the direction of the conflict. The House is bringing the bill up under a suspension of the rules, which require a two-thirds vote. Only 144...
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I’m constantly reading stuff about who’s going to take on Barack this next Presidential go-round, mostly about Palin and the 2012 Presidential Elections, but I focus a ton of energy on the Presidency because I’m going to be there some day. Two articles from Politico made the front page this morning. One talking about...
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I wake up this morning and as I’m eating some left-over lasagna I read this story about how WikiLeaks is causing members of Congress to consider not voting for funding the war in Afghanistan and how the “unpopular war is losing it’s support.” Get real. We’ve been around this merry-go-round before. Remember back in the ‘07...
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