As the recent election fades away, it seems many political pundits are focusing on the various voting blocs that played a role in ensuring President Obama’s victory in the battleground states, blocs such as the Gray Panthers and the Lunchbox Democrats.
With all this talk about voting blocs, it’s interesting to take a look at the Jesuit Dallas student voting...
By now it's official: President Barack Obama has won re-election. Carrying nearly all the battleground states and currently leading in Florida where it is too close to call, Obama defeated Republican candidate Mitt Romney by a substantially large electoral college margin. However, for all the jubilation of Democrats across the country yesterday, the president faces a series of daunting...
Tom Morello, the guitar player for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, made an appearance at Zuccotti Park Thursday morning, October 13, 2011, to play for Occupy Wall Street protesters.
"First they ignored you," Morello told the crowd. "Then you got pepper-sprayed and New York found out about it. Then 700 of you got arrested, and the rest of the...
Michele Bachmann, the Republican representative from Minnesota’s 6th legislative district, is running for President of the United States.
She is the only female candidate in the Republican primary, and last month became the first woman to win the Ames Iowa Straw Poll. She announced her candidacy on June 27 with high expectations. Because of her vocal presence as a Tea...
Primary campaign debates have always held an important, though dysfunctional, role in the election process. They almost always provide fodder for the swathes of political analysts, myself included, that emerge from the woodwork during primary season, as party brain trusts argue the relative merits of candidates and their positions.
From a functional standpoint, they solve almost nothing. First off, as...
Of all the characters in the Westerns of the twentieth century, none is reviled more than the snake oil salesman. While the outlaw pilfers the coffers of the rich or otherwise cash-heavy, the seamy snake oil salesman steals from the penniless, the trusting, the naïve, the desperate. The snake oil salesman capitalizes on catastrophe and calamity, offering a bewilderingly...
