Kyle Bell

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 Guide
Game [...]

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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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It was not a common phrase in our lexicon until recently. Only after a black man was nominated and eventually elected president did the term “socialism” resurface to describe the Democratic Party’s leader. Bill Clinton avoided the accusation, as well as Al Gore and John Kerry. “Liberal” or “far left radical” was sufficient for them. [...]

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In 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that banning gay marriage in the Golden State was unconstitutional. The basis of this ruling was simple: the act of banning marriage for gays amounted to creating a status of second class citizens. Gay activists applauded the ruling, while conservatives derided it as an assault on traditional values. [...]

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It is Read an E-Book Week from March 7 to 13. To celebrate this year’s promotion of e-reading, I will be offering all of my e-books for 50% off of their original price. Enter the code RAE50 at checkout to redeem your discount. On top of that, people that tweet about this article (linking to [...]

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As an author, you want to reach as large of an audience as possible. That’s why I’ve been working to get my e-books sold on more than just Amazon.com and Smashwords. After a relatively long wait, all four of my works are now available for purchase on Barnes & Noble’s website. They have also been [...]

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The Obama administration has been building up its contention that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus, saved the economy from economic depression. The numbers lay this out clearly. During the last months of the Bush administration, the economy was shedding 800,000 jobs a month. After the stimulus passed and began [...]

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