Recent Posts Tagged With 'politics'

• Disproving God

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 17:40 in politics, General

  Given systematic temporal and geographic variance exists in poverty, life-expectancy, etc. and given we have been able to pin down a majority of the ‘causes’ for such, ‘God’ inarguably plays only a peripheral part in the destiny of man, albei...

• On representation in a democracy

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 23:35 in politics

  Theory of Representation “Representation means the making present of something that is nevertheless not literally present.” (Pitkin, 1967) In a representative democracy, which, minimally construed, involves a mediating assembly for political dec...

• Fox News coverage of Obama

  Posted on Monday November 24th, 2008 at 19:18 in politics

• 2008 Election Analyses

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 00:01 in politics

  …More coming!...

• Reliving some of the high points of the 2008 presidential campaign

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 16:06 in politics, interviews

  November 10, 2007: One of the first scandals to break out during the campaign was about planted questions in Hillary’s townhall meetings. “They asked me if I would ask the senator a question. I said, ‘Sure, you know,’” ...

• Brief graphical analyses of news coverage of Sarah Palin

  Posted on Wednesday November 12th, 2008 at 23:06 in politics

• A brief history of presidential debates

  Posted on Friday November 7th, 2008 at 01:04 in politics

  Presidential debates occupy a unique place in the American political process. Debates trace their meritorious ancestry to Lincoln –Douglas debates of 1858, which were actually between Senators, and focused mostly on the issue of slavery. The Lincol...