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U.S. elections 2012 – the mornings after
November 30, 2012, 1 Comment

Down and Out With Ted Cruz and the GOP As Republicans regroup from electoral disaster, some — including a rising s ...

U.S. 2012 elections varia
November 12, 2012, Comments Off on U.S. 2012 elections varia

In Defense of the Electoral College Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president. 1) Certainty of ...

U.S. elections 2012: Obama versus Romney
November 6, 2012, 2 Comments

 The Campaign in Two Minutes – clever montage from CNN Boss Rove By Craig Unger Vanity Fair Letter From Washingto ...

U.S. 2012 election presidential debates
October 24, 2012, 1 Comment

The Purpose of Presidential Debates By George Friedman (Stratfor) Monday night’s presidential foreign policy debat ...

Quebec elections 2012
September 14, 2012, 1 Comment

Quebec Election Results 2012: How Did The Pollsters Do? ThreeHundredEight.com – excellent poll analysis, round-up ...

U.S. elections 2012 – the conventions
September 6, 2012, 1 Comment

President Obama’s new media headwinds For over a year now, the political press has been writing the ever-evolving ...

David Brooks: The Real Romney
August 28, 2012, Comments Off on David Brooks: The Real Romney

The Real Romney By DAVID BROOKS New York Times 27/28 August 2012 The purpose of the Republican convention is to introduc ...

U.S. elections 2012: Krugman vs. Ferguson
August 21, 2012, Comments Off on U.S. elections 2012: Krugman vs. Ferguson

A new chapter in the campaign rhetoric was opened this week by Niall Ferguson’s cover story in Newsweek, Obama’s ...

Terminating the European status quo
July 9, 2012, Comments Off on Terminating the European status quo

By Mark Leonard Published by Reuters, 5 July 2012 (Reuters Opinion) When Arnold Schwarzenegger declared “I’ll be bac ...

U.S. Economy 2011 Part II
January 7, 2012, 2 Comments

The Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year by Paul Craig Roberts (Foreign Policy Journal) Jobs offshoring, financial d ...

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