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I'm a 20 year old college junior from Connecticut, studying political science and have been writing for a good number of years. I generally write about politics, specifically American politics. I also enjoy writing about energy issues, and countering the completely

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Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Is raising the minimum wage a good idea?: 1 of 22
Raising the minimum wage can have a powerful effect in eliminating the idea of a "working poor" if it is paired with other sensible measures. To those naysayers who claim that a higher minimum wage hurts the economy I would say look to history, that shows that any increase in the minimum wage has been absorbed by the economy ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Will there ever be a chance for world peace?: 5 of 109
At once the idea of world peace is both the ultimate goal of many and an idea scorned by more people than most would acknowledge.Throughout the vast majority of human history there has been, without fail, a war occurring somewhere. Man is not a cooperative animal, at least not in a universal sense. People can and do cooperate... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Should religion be banned from all public places?: 2 of 37
The Separation of Church and state is an important concept in American Democracy, yet that does not mean that religion has no place in public life. Constitutional law has repeatedly shown that the 1st Amendment allows for religion to have a presence in the public sphere. Even if, by some reading of the Amendment, you could co... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Soldiers & Veterans Should protesters be permitted to picket military recruiting offices in the US?: 3 of 46
The freedom of assembly and of protest are both unequivocally protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. There can be no question that people can protest military recruiters the same as they can protest slaughter houses, new construction, wars or anything else. Normally, there would be no question for consideration... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Deciding who's responsible for terrorism: 3 of 38
Terrorism is one of the most commonly misunderstood methods of political activism. That sounds odd to hear I'm sure. Activism? Really? But it is, if you take the term not quite literally. In the end, the point of terrorism is to bring about change, generally political in nature. Terrorism is simply a method used to accomplish... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Military Aircraft Should the US Pentagon pay a private contractor $900,000 to shred outdated F-14 fighter jets?: 1 of 11
Currently, the retired F-14s are sitting in a sort of "airplane graveyard" in Arizona with hundreds of other retired aircraft. This is a US Air Force facility and guarded with the same standards of security as every major US Base. Among the other airframes are old B-52 airframes that have been decommissioned as well as numero... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Archives US elections 2008: Why Republicans are more concerned about going against Obama than Clinton: 3 of 30
A key Republican strategist once remarked "I'd rather run a campaign against Hillary Clinton than the Devil himself." Many Republicans feel precisely the same way. The reason is simple; against Hillary Clinton, John McCain cannot lose.Clinton has the rare talent of alienating members not only opposed to her politics, but actu... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Drug Laws & Prevention The continued epidemic of drug use means we've lost the war on drugs: 2 of 18
Saying that we've "lost the war on drugs" is to completely misunderstand the nature of drug use as a problem to be combated. To clarify, you cannot wage a war on drugs, drugs are a commodity, like corn, you can't truly wage a war on a commodity, you can simply try to keep it from being used. When looking at how to do this, si... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies Who should pay the high cost of new drugs: Patients or governments?: 3 of 22
The answer to this question depends largely on how you perceive medical treatment, including the cost of medication. To those who see health care as another market, another commodity to be sold at whatever the market can bare, than it makes perfect sense to let the consumer pay the price of R&D for new drugs. However, many pe... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Environment (Other) Is it fair to ask underdeveloped countries to "go green" when many advanced industrial countries owe their success to destructive environmental practices?: 8 of 58
The reason that advanced nations are successful due to destructive environmental practices is that these countries invented the entire process of industrialization. When creating new technologies, these technologies will be inefficient, costly, and dirty. Coal fired powerplants from the 1900s are hardly the model of electrica... More..