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Californians will vote on five ballot measures in the June 8 primary election, four of which have already created a significant amount of controversy. Proposition 14 would create an open primary system for state elections, …
Ann Coulter is widely known for her strong opinions and controversial sense of humor. Coulter’s rhetoric often provokes strong reactions, particularly from the Left and the politically correct. Fortunately, the United States Constitution guarantees her …
On Sunday, April 25, Kevin Gibson, Attorney General of the Associated Students of the University of California filed charges against President elect Noah Stern of Student Action party for campaign violations. During the two weeks …
On February 24th, the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, was welcomed to the UC Berkeley campus by the Blum Center for Developing Economies. The massively popular Clinton, whose speech sold out …
The public, and students especially, seem to love making open-ended commitments, particularly when it comes to education. After all, education has some very real benefits, particularly access to high skilled and therefore high-wage jobs. It …
The upcoming election for Barbara Boxer’s US Senate seat has caused a great amount of infighting within the Republican Party, the latest of which is blatantly clear with Carly Fiorina’s “Demon Sheep” advertisement. Fiorina’s campaign …
Perhaps the only brutally honest event taking place in politics the world over is the UK Prime Minister’s Question Time. Known to cause much anxiety for the prime minister, Question Time is a regularly scheduled …
Amid the clamor of Sen. Brown’s stunning upset in Massachusetts against Martha Coakley, the Supreme Court issued their judgment of the landmark case Citizens United v. FEC. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, better …
Republican Scott Brown’s recent victory for the Massachusetts senatorial seat left vacant after Ted Kennedy’s death has excited many conservatives for good reason. After years of being shunned by the American majority, it seems like …
George Lakoff has a way with words. The UC Berkeley linguistics professor has spent a great deal of his career commenting on the ways that conservatives have used rhetoric to frame the political landscape to …
