This year’s Presidential election presents a wide spectrum of religious faith amongst the candidates.
This year more than ever, it begs the question: What role, if any, should religion play in the policies of the Federal government?The American people seem to lean towards the side of preferring religious candidates.
After all, there’s no point in [...]
In the United States, the two-party system has been so all-encompassing of American politics as to nearly obliterate all traces of an option.
Recent criticism has been directed at how the two parties are actually the same one, with words like “Republocrat” and “Demican” used as derogatory names for the two main parties.
However, a [...]
One of the snags in a political system is that it isn’t always well-equipped to keep up with changes in technology.
When the Internet came along, lawmakers were aghast at how to regulate it, or if it is to be regulated at all.
Computers gave rise to software - a medium like books and music [...]
Every four years, it seems, the race for the Presidency spawns a kind of party atmosphere for a while where basically, everybody and his sister says that they’re running for President.
But besides the more popular third parties, such as Green and Libertarian, there’s the great, vast array of the Independents.
There is no “Independent [...]
It’s hard to believe how much excitement is built up for each candidate, only to see the losers shuffle off again into obscurity.
Here, we’ll jolt your memory with a list of also-rans from elections past, and try to ferret out what became of them.
We won’t bother with the very obvious ones are - [...]
Time heals all wounds.
That’s an old proverb.
But how much time? It probably depends on the wound.
For now, no one can say that the United States is over the 9/11 attack.
The attack, the Afghanistan war, and the Iraq war, have left a scar that will grow up and grow older with us, year [...]
Bone up on your political jargon with this handy list of political phrases and expressions.
While there are many of these, this list may be especially relevant to Presidential Election 2008, so keep an eye out for spotting these concepts as the race unfolds in all its drama!Absurdistan - A satiric term for any country [...]
The 2008 election is on target to be the most harrowing election in recent memory.
This will be the first Presidential election since 1928 that has no incumbents in the primary, with the 1952 election counting as a certain exception since Truman’s name was indeed on the ballot, but he did not campaign.
Harry had [...]
United States Presidential candidates for 2008 have a growing factor to address: the increased usage of the Internet.
Fully half the people on Earth are going online now, and the United States is one of the most wired countries in the world.
First there are the blogs.
Big-ticket bloggers like Wonkette, DailyKos, and Little Green Footballs [...]
