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 [...]
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How would you like to have a president who cares more for a political ideal than for the American people? Unfortunately, the way things are shaping up in the Republican presidential campaign, this might very well become a reality. During the Republican debate last Thursday the 11th, the moderator asked a question along the lines [...]
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Not too long ago, a number of Republican politicians crept out of a cave, on a mission to reduce the size of the American government. They named themselves after the American patriots who delivered freedom to this country. Today, few politicians and pundits can say their names without disdain. They are the Tea Party. They [...]
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Guess who the Republican party wants to pay for the increasing debt limit ?—College Students. John Boehner and Eric Cantor made it very clear last Monday July 11th that they believe college students should bear a huge burden for the necessary debt limit increase. [1] They proposed that student loan interest payments no longer be [...]
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This country was created by a Great Compromise. Our founding fathers worked together for the best interests of the American people and settled their differences through compromise. If problems arose, they were addressed by everyone. The key word is compromise. Compromise, compromise, compromise. Enter Wisconsin. You might support Labor Unions, or you might oppose them, [...]
Continue Reading →How would you feel if you were sitting next to someone with a gun in a restaurant? How about on a college campus? Well in Arizona, among other states, you just might have to sit next to that person. I’m hoping to go to college next fall, and the thought is a little unnerving to [...]
Continue Reading →A line by line rebuttal to Cayden’s rebuttal “Republicans Fight for Every Class” in defense of my previous article “Republicans: Fighting Against the Middle Class.” First off I do not harbor any hard feeling towards my fellow editor in chief and friend Thomas Cayden. This argument is based on political philosophy alone and for the [...]
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