Kyle Bell

The Arizona Supreme Court has stood up for fair elections today with a ruling that overturns the actions of Governor Jan Brewer and Republicans in the state senate. Arizona Republicans were upset that the map did not give them enough of an advantage. The map would have had four Republican-leaning districts and only two Democratic-leaning [...]

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Democrats and Republicans often get into arguments about the size and role of government. Liberals believe in a strong role to protect the most vulnerable in society while conservatives favor the private sector, stressing personal responsibility. Both sides should at least agree that fixing America’s broken economy is the country’s top priority and that an [...]

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American voters soundly defeated a series of extremist measures that looked to take away collective bargaining rights for public employees (including police officers, firemen and teachers) in Ohio, same-day voter registration in Maine, and legally defining personhood as beginning at conception in Mississippi. The Ohio and Maine laws were passed after Republicans took control of [...]

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President Obama is holding up remarkably well against his potential Republican challengers, despite low approval ratings. The economy is in a state of disarray with wild swings in the stock market and evidence that we may be heading into a second recession. Politically, it could not happen at a worse time for the president as [...]

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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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A political scientist would tell you that the first lesson to learn for a politician is to know their constituents. It seems basic, but it is a fundamental part of constructing a winning electoral strategy. If you don’t get this right, you have no chance of holding on to power, let alone passing meaningful reforms [...]

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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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In the ultimate sign of a temper tantrum, Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) has threatened the jobs of 1,500 state workers if his plan to crush labor unions is not approved by tomorrow. Democratic lawmakers in the state walked out two weeks ago as tens of thousands of protesters have decried the plan that would strip [...]

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Big news from Detroit today. General Motors has announced that sales for February 2011 are up big from the same period last year: “The consumer is back to the showrooms,” said Brian Johnson, an analyst with Barclays Capital. Certainly that was the case for General Motors Co., which on Tuesday said its February U.S. sales [...]

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