While everyone has been focused on the presidential race, especially after Romney declared Ryan to be his VP pick, there have been a lot of things happening. The Tennessee race got interesting because the Democrats have officially renounced the candidate who won the primary there. Tonight, Tommy Thompson won the Republican Senate primary race in ( Read more... )

Earlier today, Senator Harry Reid said that he was told that Romney paid no taxes for the past decade or so. He says he was told this by a former Bain Capital investor who worked closely with Romney. He also said that Romney's personal fortune is much more than what he is putting forth (around 250 million dollars). This report happened late enough ( Read more... )

This is the first in probably a long series on the various aspects of the American Republic, how they got that way, what is right with them, what is wrong with them and even occasionally how they might be fixed. This will get its own tag and will cover a wide range of issues, and right now, we're gonna hit the US senate. It seemed as good as place ( Read more... )

While most of the media are focused on the Supreme Court rulings about the Affordable Care Act tomorrow, there is another fight in another branch of government that is almost as contentious. In the wake of the Fast and Furious Hearings, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chair of the committee, determined that Attorney General Eric holder may ( Read more... )

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For a presidency and a half, American foreign policy was dominated by one fact and occasionally one goal: taking out bin Laden by some means. For a lot of people this meant arresting him or otherwise taking him into custody. For others this mean we had to kill him. For others, this mean somehow neutralizing him but not killing him or arresting him ( Read more... )

Yet another in the reactions to the death of bin Laden series, but this time not from the Americas. What's most fascinating right now is the reaction from the Middle East. You can always tell good news from bad news by who is cheering about it all. Most notably, there have been no reports of mourners rending garments in the streets of Amman (Jordan ( Read more... )

Almost two months ago, a fruit cart vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire and in so doing lit a spark of freedom across North Africa and the Middle East. Citizens of Tunisia actually managed to depose a long time dictator in Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. After this was successful, several other countries in the region followed. Egypt, long under the ( Read more... )

Jasmine, as both the name of the flower and the woman's name, comes from Arabic (and the original Persian) mean "gift of God". In this case, it has been the name the media have come up with for the revolution in Tunisia. Since January 14th when President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled the country after some violent protests. He is still trying to ( Read more... )

As promised, here we are analyzing the responses to the State of the Union. Indeed, this was a year for breaking traditions from Democrats and Republicans sitting together mingled in the chamber to having now two responses to the State of the Union address. traditionally, the party out of power in the White House picks a person to deliver a ( Read more... )