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More of the same in Puerto Rico. From La Opinión: “Fifty-one percent of Puerto Ricans favor maintaining the current political status that connects the Caribbean island with the United States, according to a poll published today [October 10] in El Nuevo Día less than a month from the November 6th plebiscite that will ask the population Read More
On Saturday Governor Romney announced his running mate on the 2012 Republican ticket, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan. He made his announcement — and Ryan accepted — aboard the USS Wisconsin, a battleship named after a battleground state in a dogfight presidential election. Admittedly, great imagery. Conservatives have uniformly fallen in behind Romney’s pick, calling it Read More
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.” Thomas Paine published these words in February 1776, urging the Americans to throw off their colonial costumes and don the robes of self-government. Already the cry had Read More