Kyle Bell

As many of you have undoubtedly heard, the California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Proposition 8. This divisive and unconstitutional act by the voters of California should not go without notice. Voters in the state (along with in many other states) have decided that they are going to put our rights as citizens [...]

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The Republican Party is engaging in voter suppression in the swing states of Michigan and Ohio, as reported by two prominent newspapers. The first incident occurred in Ohio and was reported last week by the Cincinnati Inquirer: About one-third of the absentee ballot applications received at the Hamilton County Board of Elections have been ruled [...]

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Today may go down in the history books as the start of the next Great Depression. The Dow Jones dropped over 500 points on Monday, September 15, 2008, marking the biggest drop since the 9/11 attacks. Over the weekend it was revealed that the investment bank Lehman Brothers would file for bankruptcy. Most people (including [...]

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A sad, sad display of how little experience Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for VP, has as a governor of Alaska for a year and a half. A heartbeat away from the presidency and this is the best the Republicans can offer? var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDA4LzA5LzAyL21jY2Fpbi1jYW1wLW9uLXBhbGlucy1mb3JlaWduLXBvbGljeS1leHBlcmllbmNlLzx3cHRiPk1jQ2FpbiBDYW1wIG9uIFBhbGluJiM4MjE3O3MgRm9yZWlnbiBQb2xpY3kgRXhwZXJpZW5jZTx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly9reWxlYmVsbC5jb208d3B0Yj5LeWxlIEJlbGw%3D”;

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President Barack Obama (oops, Freudian slip!) was officially nominated today as the first African-American nominee to a major party. Hillary Clinton led on the convention floor to declare that Obama was the nominee of the party to defeat John McCain and the Republicans in November. It’s something that could only happen in the Democratic Party: [...]

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Hillary Clinton delivered perhaps her best speech of her political career tonight. I’m an Obama supporter and while I was disgusted by the tactics that the Clintons used against him in the primaries, Hillary gave a rousing speech tonight and deserves much credit for the effort she put forth. As the first woman to have [...]

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Always the party poopers, a good deal of Republicans from across the country have converged on Denver for the Democratic National Convention. One of them, a supposed former Hillary Clinton supporter, invoked on Hardball with Chris Matthews that Barack Obama was a Muslim who went to a madrassa. Even though CNN and other news organizations [...]

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The first day of the Democratic National Convention took place today with a number of different speakers taking the podium. The two most prominent speakers were Senator Ted Kennedy, the lion of the Senate, and Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama. With the knowledge that Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with brain cancer, it is likely [...]

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The ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana, today congratulated Joe Biden on being selected as Barack Obama’s running mate. Biden is the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, a committee that Lugar chaired when Republicans controlled the Congress. Lugar had previously worked with Barack Obama on the [...]

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The upcoming Republican National Convention will take place on Monday, September 1, 2008 and run through the 4th. The Daily Show is greeting convention goers with the sign shown below: var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDA4LzA4LzIyL2dvcC1jb252ZW50aW9uLWdvZXJzLWdyZWV0ZWQtYnktZGFpbHktc2hvdy1iaWxsYm9hcmQvPHdwdGI%2BR09QIENvbnZlbnRpb24gR29lcnMgR3JlZXRlZCBieSBEYWlseSBTaG93IEJpbGxib2FyZDx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly9reWxlYmVsbC5jb208d3B0Yj5LeWxlIEJlbGw%3D”;

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