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Rising Energy Prices: Speculation or Inflation?

Why do you think the price of oil is going up?

National Security Doctrine of the Future

The wars are over or coming to an end, but there are still many threats out there. What does America need to do in order to preserve national security?

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- Buying the American Government
  As much as I want to make this a partisan issue of Republicans being the bad guys, I can’t. The true problem lies in the system and a corrupt structure that allows for the supremacy of money. Unsurprisingly, capital, specifically big business, has gained too much power and influence in government. Lately, I have become very cynical about American politics precisely because it is turning into an extension of the corporate ...
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- Counterinsurgency in the Middle East: Learning from the Past
  Foreword In light of President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's recent remarks regarding the new face of the American military, I felt that a look back into the successes and failures of the last decade could shed some truth on an increasingly complicated matter. Gone are the days of ambitious nation-building and an aggressive commitment to spread the American idea abroad. Gone is the sense of responsibility all Americans felt after 9/11, that our nation is ...
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- Education and National Security
  In the past decade, national security has always been intrinsically associated with defense expenditures and counter-terrorism. From 9/11 until now, our government’s resources have been heavily focused towards the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, counter-terror operations, and spreading our citizen’s tax dollars to aid other countries around the world. What good has this done? Ironically when President Bush came into office in January of 2001, one of the centerpieces of his ...
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- A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing a Vice President
  “I Have Always Depended on the Kindness of Strangers”- Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire Vice Presidents don’t win elections. Dan Quayle is proof of this. Vice Presidents don’t lose elections, either. Dick Cheney and Joe Biden are proof enough (I’m hoping the latter will prove me wrong this fall). So why is there such intrigue over the Vice Presidential selection process? I don’t have the slightest clue. Perhaps after ...
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- Immigration and the Economy Revisited
  Some time ago, I wrote a piece (Do Illegal Immigrants Hurt the Economy?) arguing that immigration is not a net drag on the economy--that immigrants do not, in the long term, "steal jobs and depress wages", as the myth often goes. Unfortunately, some readers took this to mean I was advocating illegal immigration. In fact, I was merely addressing the economics of the issue, with an eye toward changing the ...
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