The Political Inquirer

After a long season of ‘deadlocked’ primaries, the media is finally conceding that Obama has effectively won the nomination. Though no one will outright say it, today’s headlines tell the story.
MSNBC: “Team Obama Preps for Battle”
MSNBC: “Analysis: Where Clinton’s Campaign Went Wrong”
CNN: “Obama catches Clinton is [...]

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This news isn’t being thrown around in the main stream so I think it is necessary to put it out to folks.
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war “very close”, a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday.
Separately, in comments certain [...]

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The New York Times is finally getting something dead on accurate: to save a species, serve it for dinner. It only makes sense when you think about it. Why is overfishing a problem? Because no one owns the fish–it is simply a “first come first serve” problem of the “commons”. Everyone wants as much as [...]

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(Slight spoilers)
The Iron Man movie’s underlying story is political–mainly about the Afghanistan operations and character Tony Stark’s company’s involvement in selling arms to both sides of the conflict. Americans and terrorists are both shooting each other with Stark Enterprise weapons.
Iron Man becomes a movie about some sort of moral sense to Tony Stark that his [...]

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A reader (Norm) posed the question to us at the Political Inquirer, “What if Obama gets elected? What will the impact of the country be?” It will be hard to say for certain, none of us on the staff are prophets (though some might claim to be).
I think the first thing that we will see [...]

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Journalism is biased, and always has been. The concept of the “fourth estate” as representative of the common people dates back to the French Revolution, and is the first acknowledgement that news reporting has a distinct viewpoint. Over the course of time, corporations began to invest in newspapers (as advertisers), which induced publishers [...]

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Ron Paul’s book, The Revolution: A Manifesto is officially out today. Pick up a copy if you’re interested in seeing the reasoning behind his (and my) belief in peace, prosperity, capitalism, and small government.

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People have got to get over their crush on Obama.
Obama is still in this; and the Wright fiasco gives him a chance to remove this cloud and address it again. He has the most votes, the most states, the most money, the most new voters and the most delegates and the most Senators on his [...]

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Rupert Murdoch offered $580 million for the newspaper Newsday. Now Mortimer Zuckerman offers the same amount. If Murdoch gets it, we can be certain that Newsday won’t be going out of circulation anytime soon, but to tell you the truth I hope he loses the bid simply because of his grapple on the media. We [...]

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Eric Thompson recently spoke to a group of college students at Virginia Tech concerning the importance of allowing students to lawfully carry concealed handguns while on campus.  Thompson, owner of the store who sold Seung-Hui Cho a handgun later used to kill 32 people at the campus, supports the idea that students should be able [...]

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John Nichols at The Nation tried to show the differences between Hagee/McCain and Wright/Obama. His comparison makes a lot of sense…if you’re an Obama supporter. If you like Hagee, you’ll obviously object to it.
Indeed, it is far more reasonable to demand that McCain talk about where he agrees and disagrees with Rev. Hagee on questions [...]

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It looks like Andrew Sullivan is a bit disappointed knowing that Clinton has a strategy to win this nomination. Her Pennsylvania win gave her the momentum and “mindset” boost, but not enough of a win to politically push Obama out of the race. Her chance now lies with MIchigan and Florida, where she might secure enough [...]

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