A Call to Repeal the 17th Amendment: Direct Election of Senators
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Recently the Wall Street Journal ran an essay (on its op-ed page) written by Senator Ben Sasse (R - NE), who made the...
New Woodward Book Chronicles Pandemic Politics
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Bob Woodward, a reporter who has covered politics at the highest levels in the United States since the 1970s, has a new book...
The Atlantic: Trump’s Derisive Attitude Toward Military Service
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Last week The Atlantic ran a piece alleging that President Donald Trump, who among his other responsibilities is the commander in chief of...
Incumbent Loss in Florida Republican Primary
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In an upset result in the Republican primary for Florida's 15th Congressional District last week, one-term incumbent Rep. Ross Spano lost to challenger...
Health: Med/Pharm Industry Lobbying is a Growth Industry Itself
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Two professors at Brigham Young University have studied recent lobbying expenditures and have found that in the first quarter of 2020, thirty healthcare...
Democratic Ticket for POTUS/V-POTUS is Set
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Former Vice President Joseph Biden, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, named his running mate, now the presumptive...
Health: Remembering the Thalidomide Scandal
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About sixty years ago, on both sides of the year 1960, an apparent medical advance went terribly wrong. This was the thalidomide disaster,...
Kansas Republican Primary
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On Tuesday, August 4, Republican Party voters in Kansas selected Roger Marshall, a physician and a staunchly pro-Trump figure, to run for the...
Bringing the Covid Briefings Back
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President Donald Trump, in Tuesday, July 21, resumed the practice of going before the country directly to brief us all about the Covid-19...
Voting Rights, Felons, and Florida
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The US Supreme Court last week let stand (at least for now) a Court of Appeals ruling that in turn allows Florida to...
