by Erik Kain on January 19, 2012
During its blackout Wednesday Wikipedia asked users to imagine a world without free knowledge and then call their representatives in congress. Millions of Americans took that to heart. Along with the 4.5 million people who signed the anti-censorship petition, millions more looked up information about their congressional representatives. No wonder politicians are starting to feel [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 16, 2011
I want political leaders who will lead us toward peace and prosperity, not toward war. As I noted last night, the sparring between and Ron Paul over the question of a nuclear Iran stood out in last night’s Iowa Republican debate. I think Paul is right, and the threat of war with Iran is something [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 15, 2011
Not that the endorsement of a famous political blogger from the UK will make much difference in Iowa, but the long-time Tory-in-America blogger Andrew Sullivan has come out forcefully for Ron Paul. Sullivan is a gay, Catholic conservative who has been writing about politics for decades and who led the charge into new media. He [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 13, 2011
Jon Huntsman’s path to the nomination is built on the front-runners in the race tearing each other to pieces. Will it work? Daniel Larison calls the recent one-on-one foreign policy debate between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich a self-congratulatory failure barely worthy of the term ‘debate:’ To the extent that Huntsman has helped lend valuable credibility [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 4, 2011
Former House Speaker and current Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich is going to the / Newsmax debate in Iowa, taking a different approach than his rivals Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman who turned the reality TV star and one-time GOP candidate down. “I would want to go just for the entertainment value,”Gingrich told reporters. “I can’t [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 3, 2011
Newsmax and are teaming up for a GOP debate in Iowa and Ron Paul is the second candidate to turn the Donald down. “The selection of a reality television personality to host a presidential debate that voters nationwide will be watching is beneath the office of the Presidency and flies in the face of that [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 29, 2011
Republican candidate Hermain Cain told reporters Tuesday he was reassessing his campaign. Could the race come down to Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney? Herman Cain’s days as front runner in this oh-so-hectic of primary seasons are over, and it appears his candidacy may be in its last throes as well. I think it’s funny or [...]
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