Monthly Archives: February 2016

Fairy Tale Politics

This election began as, potentially, the most intriguing competition in history. Two independents who can hold their own against the big dogs of politics, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, a former First Lady, a Canadian, and the promise of combative, in-your-face rhetoric that would serve as a primary source of entertainment for the rest of us for […]

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Underqualified and Underwhelming

The Commander-in-Chief is the leader of the free world, militarily, economically, and socially. The office of the American head of state is, arguably, the most important position in the entire world. Qualifications should matter. If a person applies for a job in engineering without an engineering degree, that person doesn’t become an engineer, the same […]

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Pseudemocracy

In a democratic system, the most important factor of any election is, of course, the voters. If the voters are misrepresented, or not represented at all, then the election is unfair and, thus, undemocratic. There have been numerous failings throughout the years and the questionable Iowa caucus results are merely the latest in a long […]

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Cyber Insecurity

Since the Snowden information leak in 2013, national cyber security has been in the forefront of American minds. If a single anti-establishment agent like Snowden can access millions of compromising files then it is easy to extrapolate that elite Chinese networking and intelligence teams are capable of retrieving virtually anything they want from our vast […]

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