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Archive of posts filed under the politics category.

Trust, Government and Health Care

There’s currently something going on in Washington that Twitter has called “912dc” (New York Times story); it’s a protest against not any particular act by government, but against government itself. More Jeffersonian than anarchistic, though.
This protest bothers me a lot, and I thought that maybe if I wrote down my ideas as to why, it’d [...]

On Teaching and Value

A few minutes ago, I was reading an article from my hometown’s newspaper, the Fall River Herald News. It was an article indicating that half of the schools in Fall River have been classified as “needs improvement” by the state. I’m not here to talk to you about the article so much; it was hardly [...]

(end primaries)

Relying on the numbers of my friend Martin Pyne, the 2008 Democratic Primary is over and Barrack Obama is the winner. Woo!

Randall Munroe says it better than I can

Awesomeness.

Iowa

So, the news stations are calling the Iowa primary. And, I guess I’m happy. On the one hand, my preferred presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is being hailed as the winner of the Democratic primary. Which is awesome. I think his progressive policies are a breath of fresh air to the White House, and I think [...]