Kyle Bell

The final U.S. troops have left Iraq as of Sunday, December 18, marking the end of the nearly nine year old conflict. More than 4,500 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq in addition to the more than 30,000 wounded. Over 100,000 Iraqis died by some estimates. In all, 1.5 million Americans served on the ground [...]

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Have you heard ads on TV blaming the country’s deficits on President Obama? You likely have if you’ve watched cable news in the past couple weeks. They are being blanketed nationwide in a $20 million effort by a conservative group known as Crossroads GPS. Working behind the scenes is Karl Rove, the former political mastermind [...]

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There are some pretty wacky proposals out there from the Republican Party, including attempts to redefine rape, ban Sharia law (which if they didn’t know, was never law in the first place), and now out of New Hampshire, a law to prevent college students from voting in elections. Yes, we are essentially re-debating the 26th [...]

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The annual Read an E-Book Week is upon us. As I did last year, all of my titles will be offered at a 50 percent discount. You can get some quality reads for as cheap as $1.50! An Election to Remember – $7.99 $4.00 The James Bond Movie Guide – $7.99 $4.00 International Political Economy: [...]

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Last week Republicans took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2006. The reasons are more complicated than some would lead you to believe, but put simply, it was a mix of high unemployment, a huge money advantage for Republicans by corporate benefactors, dissatisfaction with Washington gridlock, and demographics in midterms [...]

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Today was a historic day for gay and straight Americans alike. Judge Vaughn Walker, a federal judge for the Northern District of California, ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. His actions invalidate the initiative passed narrowly by voters in 2008 that banned gay marriage in the state of California. While Judge Walker issued a stay [...]

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All of my books are 50% off throughout the month of July: The James Bond Movie Guide An Election to Remember: Obama, Clinton and the Never Ending Primary International Political Economy: Free Trade or Fair Trade? The Slavery Debate in 19th Century America Detroit: A City on the Brink Game Freaks 365′s Nintendo DS Review [...]

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President Bush was in Grand Rapids, Michigan yesterday giving a closed-to-the-media speech in which he admitted that he ordered the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Considering the fact that we already knew that this occurred would seemingly make this less newsworthy, but the fact that President Bush admitted to ordering it is a significant development. [...]

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The website for my book on the 2008 election, An Election to Remember, is now live. It will be updated with reviews, sample chapters, press material and a Q&A section. I decided to purchase two domains in case people forgot “an” in the title: anelectiontoremember.com and electiontoremember.com. Both of them will work and provide you [...]

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Now that health care reform has passed both chambers of Congress and is going to be signed into law today by President Obama, the election year political messaging begins. A lot of attention has been given to the 17 House Democrats seeking re-election in districts John McCain won in 2008 after having voted for health [...]

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