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• Thinking About Unions: Why They Matter
  by Matt Cavedon - October 1, 2011
  

  In response to a budgetary crisis in Wisco...
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• Technology, Teaching, Cyberbullying and Culture
  by J.C. Shakespeare - October 1, 2011
  

   I think this whole issue of cyberbullying is bringing an opportunity to our culture in a very broad way and we need to wake up and pay attention to that.  Continued . . . ...
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• Syrian Spring?
  by LJ Keith - October 1, 2011
  

   The struggle for freedom in the Arab world is playing out in Syria. That the rising tide of protest has taken hold in Syria is a harbinger of even greater changes in the region and indicates that the struggle for...
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• Are You For Liberty and Equality?
  by Chris McGann - October 1, 2011
  

   Americans, and most other Westerners for that matter, tend to value the twin concepts of liberty and equality. Both ideas are essential to a functioning liberal democracy ...
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• Marijuana Mainstream
  by Rob Fox - October 1, 2011
  

    It will generate a lot of tax revenue. It will be more accessible to children. It will significantly decrease our country’s epic spending on the war on drugs. There are a lot of valid points to make i...
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• Libya and Foreign Interventions
  by Robert Colonel - October 1, 2011
  

    Before 2011, the idea of intervening in a country seemed to have a high access bar: countries ought not intervene unless there was a presumed threat to a state, or a ‘major’ human rights atrocit...
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• The New Boss
  by The Flank - October 1, 2011
  

  Independents and undecideds now comprise a...
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• Antiquity, Prosperity, and Power: The Art of the White House
  by Matt Cavedon - July 19, 2011
  

  I suspect that you can tell a lot about a people by the art found in their greatest palace. When I was at Versailles last summer, for example, I saw halls and halls filled with paintings, depicting two things most of all: history and religion. There is an entire gallery (constructed in the 19th century, after the golden days of the ...
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• Slouching Towards Oblivion
  by LJ Keith - July 15, 2011
  

   As we enter the terminal phase of President Obama’s ongoing soap opera of negotiations dealing with the debt ceiling on the national debt, the budget deficit, and the Republican Congress, one can only get the impression that we are slouching toward oblivion, bogged down by a leaderless morass of ineptitude and political miscalculation that stands in the face of sanity, order, and th...
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• Arms Race at the Airport
  by Matt Cavedon - July 11, 2011
  

  “Since the U.S. increased its use of body scanners last fall, terrorist groups have repeatedly indicated an interest in pursuing new ways to conceal explosives, said a U.S. security official… The best way to detect explosives inside a body would be through a full body X-ray, which is not used for airport screening because the dosage of r...
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