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The Implications of the “No-Fly Zone”
Operation “Odyssey Dawn”, the U.S.’ pseudonym for the military intervention in Libya, has now been under way for three days. Cruise missiles have struck strategic targets throughout Libya, a U.S. fighter plane has crashed, but Gadhafi remains as defiant as ever. It’s beginning to look as if the UN’s authorization and backing for the establishment of a “no-fly zone” in Libya is going to be far...

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Lie: The Policy Must Go!

By Chris Zivalich

Published: February 16, 2010

Among other news stories about Indiana Senators, wars on the middle class and Apple’s controversially titled iPad, President Obama has begun working directly with the U.S. military to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – a campaign promise that has since been swept under the White House’s rug until recently.

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OP - Corrupted NY Gubernatorial Candidate Runs on Extremist Platform

By Patrick Duprey

Published: October 3, 2010

Carl Paladino has unabashedly run as an outsider in his campaign for New York’s governorship.

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OP - Thank You, Tea Party

By Patrick Duprey

Published: September 20, 2010

Almost instantly after pressing the power button on my Insignia television remote, I hear that this is the year in which the tea party makes its anti-incumbent fervor known. It is the year in which the tea party votes out those slimy tax-and-spend liberals and replaces them with quintessential conservatives in November’s midterm elections.

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YouCut (my opinion out)

By Chris Zivalich

Published: May 14, 2010

House Minority Whip Leader Eric Cantor recently released a video on YouTube introducing the latest Republican-crafted form of economic distortion: YouCut.

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Legal Racism & Arizona

By Chris Zivalich

Published: April 26, 2010

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer noted that her state's new and highly controversial immigration law would not hurt economic development in the state and that businesses have, in fact, desired such legislation, according to CNN.

As if that’s what everyone is angry about?

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Banking on Success

By Chris Zivalich

Published: March 31, 2010

Today, President Obama will sign into a law an overhaul of student loans that will cut the role of banks in the entire student loan process, saving taxpayers over $68 billion in the next ten years, according to Retuers News.

Yay! Yes, that’s right: something positive.

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You're Approving What?

By Chris Zivalich

Published: March 29, 2010

Between a severe subway bombing in Moscow and Ricky Martin coming out of the closet, how does anyone keep track of what’s going on in the world?

Oh, yeah. We don’t.

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It's HEALTHy to CARE about the TRUTH

By Chris Zivalich

Published: March 22, 2010

Today, health care reform passed in the House of the Representatives at the expense of low-income women’s reproductive rights and a new debate on what constitutes Constitutionality.

Woot?

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Permanent BFF-hood

By Chris Zivalich

Published: March 9, 2010

Vice President and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden visited Israel this week, promising them “absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’s security.”

Thus, Biden espoused the same iPod-on-replay rhetoric politicians have been unquestioningly utilizing for the past forty years.

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USAers, get yer guns!

By Chris Zivalich

Published: March 3, 2010

Trigger-happy Americans and their beloved guns – the same weapons that are used to kill nearly 30,000 citizens each year – are probably jumping for joy now that The Supreme Court is seriously considering the extension of second amendment “rights” to state and local levels.

Translation: more guns! More lawsuits! Go team USA!

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