United States
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:James Carville

THANKS, OBAMA(CARE) In the alternate universe that exists inside a Tea Partier’s cerebellum, America is a raging dumpster fire—and the thing that put the match to the garbage was, of ...
( Category: Comparative Politics August 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-18 | Author:Robert S. Erikson & Christopher Wlezien

5.4 Conclusions This chapter has documented the relationship between the vote division throughout the election year and the Election Day vote. At the beginning of the year, vote intentions tell ...
( Category: Elections August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Polsby, Nelson W.,Wildavsky, Aaron,Schier, Steven E.,Hopkins, David A. & Aaron Wildavsky & Steven E. Schier & David A. Hopkins

CAMPAIGN PROFESSIONALS Presidential candidates have never lacked for willing accomplices in their quest for office. In the first partisan election battle in American history, the election of 1800, the crucial ...
( Category: Elections August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Pamela K. Lamb

Senate • The U.S. vice president, although not a Senate member, is the presiding officer of the Senate, according to the Constitution. The vice president may not debate and only ...
( Category: Civics & Citizenship August 19,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas DiLorenzo [DiLorenzo, Thomas]

SOCIALISM’S ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARES The environmental perils of government ownership are even more pronounced under socialism. The collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s and early 1990s provided a ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fergus M. Bordewich

CHAPTER 16 A Southern Position I feel ashamed of the body to which I belong. —Benjamin Goodhue, June 1790 By June, the Pennsylvanians were losing their once-smug self-confidence, having realized ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-17 | Author:Dinesh D'Souza [D'Souza, Dinesh]

COLONIZING THE PRIVATE SECTOR This continues a trend under Obama in which major industries have, one by one, been colonized by the federal government. The process began in 2009 with ...
( Category: National August 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-12 | Author:Mark Hannah

BLOCKING SCHOOL CHOICE AND VOUCHERS THE CHARGE America’s educational system is losing its competitive edge. Among industrialized countries, American students scored below average in math and are falling behind in ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Doug Henwood

PHILANTHROPIC WORK Clinton fans counter all this smelly stuff by arguing that the Foundation does good work, pointing with special pride to its initiatives on AIDS in Africa. It’s indisputable ...
( Category: Elections July 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Justin Krebs

Kathleen Thompson GRAPEVINE, TEXAS I have friends who live in Texas, but they are from other states. . . . I’ll hear them critiquing national progressives on a number of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Jeffrey T Richelson [Richelson, Jeffrey T]

DEFECTORS AND ÉMIGRÉS Defectors and émigrés also sometimes serve as valuable intelligence sources. During the Cold War, the United States established a coordinated Defector Program managed by the CIA-led Interagency ...
( Category: National July 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Michelle Fields

2. Joe Biden In April 2014, violence erupted in Kiev between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian nationalists. At the center of the conflict was natural gas, with Ukraine accusing Russia of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph William Singer

Property and the Golden Rule We do not live alone; we have neighbors. This is an obvious fact, but it is one that we sometimes forget when we think about ...
( Category: National June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Cost [Cost, Jay]

To put the story told in this chapter into context, it is worth revisiting a point already made. As noted previously, most of the gains from farm subsidies are to ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion June 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Cashill, Jack [Cashill, Jack]

ALL IN THE FAMILY On December 30, 1970, the deal was signed for what by any objective standards loomed as the fight of the century. Twenty years earlier, sportswriters had ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 10,2016 )