Category: politics
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BIZARRO SUPER TUESDAY
Today is Super Tuesday–which means something very specific for political junkies. This is the day when 10 states will conduct primaries for the presidential contest. Super Tuesday is always the day in which the most states have contests. This year, only Republicans are engaged in the process. Last year Super Tuesday was headlined primarily by…
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MAYBE SANTORUM SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COLLEGE WITH ME?
This afternoon a blog post came across the twitter feed from Ed Stetzer. Sometimes I want to pull all the hair out of his Vandyke in disagreement and sometimes I think he is right on the money. Regardless, he is always interesting. Today’s post was all about the correlation between college students and church drop-outs. …
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CATHOLICS AND MORE IN THE NEWS
Weekends are pretty hectic for me; so I do not get a chance to consume the news much. This weekend that was especially true–I was going pretty much non-stop from Thursday night until right now. Since lunchtime, I’ve had a chance to catch up on the news of the past week or so. I have…
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SUPER-PACS AND THE UNDER REPRESENTED
WARNING–SARCASM AHEAD We’ve been hearing quite a bit lately about political super PACS. These are the soft money arms of political campaigns that allow for massive amounts of unregulated and irresponsible fundraising for politicians. The ads for super PACS are the ones that do not have to say “I’m (NAME OF POLITICIAN HERE) and I…