Tag Archives: Washington DC

Crash Course: Craig Benzine: ‘The Bicameral Congress: Crash Course Government & Politics’

Source:Crash Course– with a look at the United States Congress. Source:The New Democrat “In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the United States Congress, and why it’s bicameral, and what bicameral means. Craig tells you what the Senate and House … Continue reading

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Constitution Daily: As Expected, Affirmative Action Arguments Featured Anthony Kennedy & Antonin Scalia

Source:The New Democrat The end of quota set-aside racially and ethnically based affirmative action, is finally coming to an end in America. And may be headed out the door this year with the Texas case at the U.S. Supreme Court. … Continue reading

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Conservable Economist: Timothy Taylor- President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Opportunity Cost of War

Source:The New Democrat General and then later President Dwight Eisenhower, represents at least one major lesson that Neoconservatives never learned. Which is the limits of American military power and the limits to what America can do by ourselves militarily. President … Continue reading

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New America Foundation: Double Take- Speaking on Freedom of Speech

Source: The Daily Review At risk of sounding like a nationalist, but people right and left have debated whether America is exceptional or not the last ten years or so and debating what is called American Exceptionalism. Is America an … Continue reading

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The Week in Review: 2015 Holiday Season

Source:The Daily Review My 2015 holiday season other than not seeing the sun at all until really my last day in Port Ludlow, Washington which is about an hour or so outside of Seattle in Kitsap County just off of … Continue reading

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Constitution Daily: Happy Days Are Here Again: The 21st Amendment Repeals Prohibition

Source:The New Democrat If you think the so-called War on Drugs in America goes back to 1971 which is way too long for a failed bogus war to go back to, you would think that at some point the boy … Continue reading

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Constitution Daily: Debating Affirmative Action

Source:The New Democrat  As a Liberal, I’m against racial preferences regardless of who they’re tended to favor over any other race and in favor of equal rights and protection, civil rights and civil liberties and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, … Continue reading

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The Nation: John Nichols: President Obama Is Right- This Unauthorized War Needs to Be Debated by Congress

Source:The New Democrat I believe the only impressive point that President Obama made in his ISIS speech on Sunday night, was saying that Congress should be debating this war and passing an authorization for it. If the House and Senate … Continue reading

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The Onion: House Speaker Paul Ryan Discovers Half-Finished Escape Tunnel Leading Out of Speaker’s Office

Source:The Daily Review After spending a few months trying to lead the Tea Party and rest of the House Republican Conference, which might be harder than trying to lead a pack of wild horses for the very first time, new … Continue reading

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Eldridge Edison: U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders: On The Earned Income Tax Credit (1993)

Source:The New Democrat Anyone who actually interested in helping to move people out of poverty in America would be in favor of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Unless you’re an Ayn Randian who says that government has no role in … Continue reading

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