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Jerry Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14376449516899224398noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-44695259294410415882017-06-21T11:41:00.002-07:002017-06-21T13:55:00.651-07:00Let us All Check Our Hate "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. is as relevant today as it was in the 1960's. In addition to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-27904622632858989832016-11-16T09:32:00.002-08:002017-11-30T09:11:28.486-08:00Yes the Election is Over, but Keep Watching: Trump's Selection of a Cabinet and White House Staff <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-60817574427872254482015-10-28T18:25:00.001-07:002016-03-22T09:29:45.095-07:00Iowa Caucus Voters Have a Terrible Track Record in Picking the Eventual Republican Nominee
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Ben Carson
Currently candidate Ben Carson is leading the polls in Iowa among Republicans, with Trump following behind. Does this mean Ben Carson may win the Iowa Republican Caucus? Perhaps. Does this mean Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-26585993756296931162015-04-17T10:05:00.002-07:002016-03-22T09:30:02.093-07:00The Reason for the Discontent between the White House and the Israeli Government
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The reason for the discontent between the White House and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel is not related to personality or any competition for power Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-87034310490785164662015-02-24T14:07:00.001-08:002016-04-14T09:41:46.929-07:00The Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. "Obamacare") and the Reverse Income Effect
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The Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 and initially referred to as "Obamacare" by opponents, sought to expand healthcare access by regulating the healthcare insurance industry Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-22898577689719653802015-02-03T15:59:00.001-08:002016-03-22T09:30:40.927-07:00The Problems With the Differing Perceptions on Race Relations and How These Misunderstandings Get Us Nowhere
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The Fact of Biases
Many whites, by no means all, do not understand the Ferguson protest, largely because they do not see the larger
context from which the protest has emerged. Comments opposed to the protest are too focused Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-4629255561796053822014-12-03T12:52:00.000-08:002016-03-22T09:31:01.967-07:00Martin and Brown: Cases Highlighting Vastly Different Perceptions and an Effort to Understand ThemIf you like this blog, this or any other article, please don't hesitate to subscribe and to share it with others via email, Facebook or other social media outlets!
Differing Perceptions On Display
One only needs to scroll through social media feeds, watch clips from various talking heads on cable news networks, or tune into radio news talk shows to see that there is a striking difference Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-38963158993716743342014-11-06T11:27:00.001-08:002016-03-22T09:31:32.823-07:00The Exaggeration of the Repudiation of President Barack Obama: Analysis of the 2014 Midterm Election ResultsIf you like this blog, this or any other article, please don't hesitate to subscribe and to share it with others via email, Facebook or other social media outlets!
The Results of the 2014 Midterm Elections
In a nutshell, Republicans did well. Well enough in fact in key Senate races that they took control of the Senate, gaining at least 6 seats to become the majority party in that chamber.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-1190142493129479502014-10-20T09:15:00.000-07:002016-03-22T09:31:53.806-07:00The History of State by State Moves to Ban and/or Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
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A History of State Bans and Legalization
History of Bans
So when did the states begin actively either banning or allowing same-sex marriage by defining marriage in a sense that excludes same-sex couples? Well, the effort to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-55128609462682875212014-10-14T08:51:00.003-07:002016-03-22T09:28:56.898-07:00The State by State March of Same-Sex Marriage Continues: Why Did the U.S. Supreme Court Deny Hearing Same-Sex Marriage?
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We are beginning the week with yet
another lower federal court ruling concerning same-sex marriage
recognition and licensing by a state. This time it was a federal court
in Alaska that overturned that state's legal Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-30248827065879941702014-10-01T10:17:00.001-07:002016-03-22T09:33:27.508-07:00Will the Supreme Court Take on the Issue of the States and Same-Sex Marriage? An Overview of the Route of the Same-Sex Marriage Issue to the Supreme Court
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Will the U.S. Supreme Court take on the issue of the states and same-sex marriage ?
This remains to be seen. Last week, the Supreme Court put same-sex marriage cases originating in five different states Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-21853680047705480782014-09-11T10:37:00.004-07:002016-09-07T08:44:58.649-07:00After the September 11th attacks: A Short Guide and Timeline of the Foreign Policy Actions Taken post 9/11
While most adult Americans remember vividly where they were on the day of the attacks, feeling those same emotions and fears 13 years later, many are a bit uncertain about the events that came afterward. This is especially so for those that have only recently entered adulthood. As a Political Science Professor, I find that a high percentage of my students are confused about which Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-72234355235684029622014-09-09T11:08:00.001-07:002016-03-22T09:39:05.794-07:00Stop Playing Their Game
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What game?
The game I am speaking of is the partisan and divisive game used by many politicians, candidates, and polarizing news radio or television pundits. It is the game of manipulation. The game of manipulationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-59051284904768781762014-08-21T10:38:00.006-07:002016-03-22T09:42:28.325-07:00Remember Daniel Pearl: Beheading of One of Our Journalist Brings Back the Memory of September 11th
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This week the nation learned that one of our journalists
had been beheaded by a brutal group known as ISIS (also ISIL), a name referencing
the goal of this group to establish an Islamic state over in the Middle East that includes Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-40776756477916748042014-08-15T20:25:00.000-07:002016-03-22T09:43:43.966-07:00Drug Testing All Welfare Applicants: One Part “Suspicion-less Search”, Two Parts Wasteful Government Spending, and Three Parts Stereotype Based Policy
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“I wonder how much this cost the taxpayers in Tennessee.
Didn't work too well in Florida either. Too bad the politicians didn't check
the data in other states before implementing this costly policy”. The previous statement is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934038355175764081noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669631575739781374.post-61301500072504058192014-08-13T11:25:00.002-07:002015-04-17T19:44:15.583-07:00Civil Discourse Finds a New Home...Here
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