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Politics

Vacancy in Supreme Court Reveals Inability of Partisan Politics to Go Green

Vacancy in Supreme Court Reveals Inability of Partisan Politics to Go Green

March 3, 2016

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, Senate Republicans went into panic mode and a political power struggle took precedent over the healthy functioning of our democratic system....

Extremist Presidential Candidates Force Moderates to Widen Partisan Gap

Extremist Presidential Candidates Force Moderates to Widen Partisan Gap

February 26, 2016

The strong presence of outsiders has changed the political landscape of the 2016 election considerably. Strategies that most people would doom to failure have resulted in some amazing successes. Few would...

Marco Rubio Most Likely to Win GOP Debate in the Beehive State

Marco Rubio Most Likely to Win GOP Debate in the Beehive State

February 25, 2016

Battle of wits, or grown men throwing fits? On March 21, 2016 Republican presidential debates will be coming to Salt Lake City. This will mark the first time that a presidential debate of any kind has...

Politicizing Popular Issues Leads to Lack of Progress

Politicizing Popular Issues Leads to Lack of Progress

February 24, 2016

The word “politicize” has become fairly common in the media, especially since Obama took office. It’s often used to deride the president for taking social issues and making them a problem of government...

Supreme Court Appointee Should Not Be Opposed

Supreme Court Appointee Should Not Be Opposed

February 22, 2016

I share a sentiment tweeted by master of the horror genre, Stephen King. He wrote, “The stupidest, ugliest Presidential campaign in my entire life: HOUSE OF CARDS meets SHARKNADO.” While the reference...

Head to Head: To Bern or Not to Bern

Head to Head: To Bern or Not to Bern

February 16, 2016

Sanders' Free Higher Education Would Hinder the Economy by Emma Tanner Last week when I was walking to my car on campus I noticed a political sign in someone’s window that said something along the...

Run With the Wolf-Pac to Get Money Out of Politics

Run With the Wolf-Pac to Get Money Out of Politics

February 4, 2016

This has got to be the freakiest presidential election the United States has ever hosted. Americans fed up with “career politicians” have rushed to fill the corner of a man whose only qualifying virute...

Visa Restrictions Place Unnecessary Burden on Travelers, Deter Diplomacy

Visa Restrictions Place Unnecessary Burden on Travelers, Deter Diplomacy

January 28, 2016

An article I read recently in The New Yorker criticized the Ammon Bundy-led militia standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for being behind the times. Bundy and a host of other Westerners made a...

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley joins U.S. military service members and community business partners for the launch of Operation Palmetto Employment, a statewide military employment initiative aimed at making South Carolina the most military-friendly state in the nation, Feb. 26, 2014, at Sysco in Columbia, S.C. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Jorge Intriago/Released)

#DeportNikkiHaley Demonstrates Racism Rampant in the Republican Party

January 21, 2016

With its presidential frontrunner a hateful billionaire, its next-in-line a Tea Party politician who has shut down the government in the past and its efforts to oust John Boehner nearly gone horribly wrong,...