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So much. i am joking. i am joking. i am kidding. >> come on now. >> she makes a good point. a lot of these kids are going crazy. >> one of the things lost in the college protestors is how much fun they are having. its just an activity. you can go mingle with one another. at the least they are in society interacting via e-mail and twitter at least they are looking each other in the eye. the problem is the idea behind the protest. woodrow wilson they want to take his paintings down white wash his ...

Too narrow what it means to be an american but to protect and expand it. the 26th amendment ratified in 1971 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, expanding the franchise to 11 million people at the time. the 24th amendment, 1964, allowed all eligible people to vote whether or not they had the means to pay those poll taxes. the 23rd amendment, 1961, the first time people living in the nations capital had the right to vote in presidential elections, so that was new for them. 1920, the 19th amendm...

No matter how much fun you will have, when you wake up, youll still be in cleveland. that was the dallas morning news just moments after the convention announcement was made by the republican party. texas democrats also put out a statement blaming the texas republican party for the city of dallas losing out in that particular competition. this is what the texas democrats said, the choice of cleveland over dallas to host the convention, shows just how toxic texas republicans are. by choosing dall...

Mexican during your convention. no matter how much fun you will have, when you wake up, youll still be in cleveland. that was the dallas morning news just moments after the convention announcement was made by the republican party. texas democrats also put out a statement blaming the texas republican party for the city of dallas losing out in that particular competition. this is what the texas democrats said, the choice of cleveland over dallas to host the convention, shows just how toxic texas r...

As we leave you tonight, i want to do more than merely out the failures of the government, which is now low hanging fruit that needs to be picking. over the next few months, im going to share some specific ways to fix problems. heres one. we need to deinvolve power away from the centralized government and push it back to the states and local government where you live. our founders were fearful of allowing power to move to the federal level. so much so that they added a specific amendment to the ...

As we leave you tonight, i want to do more than merely out the failures of the government, which is now low hanging fruit that needs to be picking. over the next few months, im going to share some specific ways to fix problems. heres one. we need to deinvolve power away from the centralized government and push it back to the states and local government where you live. our founders were fearful of allowing power to move to the federal level. so much so that they added a specific amendment to the ...

As we leave you tonight, i want to do more than merely out the failures of the government, which is now low hanging fruit that needs to be picking. over the next few months, im going to share some specific ways to fix problems. heres one. we need to deinvolve power away from the centralized government and push it back to the states and local government where you live. our founders were fearful of allowing power to move to the federal level. so much so that they added a specific amendment to the ...

Business interests craft their legislation. all in has obtained records of those meetings and further gatherings that provide a window into how the organization operates and why its been so effect i effective. some of what we reviewed has been put on line by alec. posting much of its model legislation last year. last year, for example, alec considered a model bill that would allow state legislators to replace candidates on the ballot. next to the candidates nominated by the party, in order to ch...

Some of what we reviewed has been put on line by alec. posting much of its model legislation last year. last year, for example, alec considered a model bill that would allow state legislators to replace candidates on the ballot. next to the candidates nominated by the party, in order to chip away at the direct election of centers enshrined in the 17th amendment. another piece of model legislation, the civil rights act eliminates affirmative action. while the climate accountability act uses state...

The abuse which had been poured upon him and on his race within the last two days might well have shaken the nerves of any one." as you can imagine, 1870, much of that abuse was blatantly racist. they wrote of a descendant of a orangutan in congress. the first african-american to serve a full senate term was also from mississippi. his name was blanche bruce. and both of these men were elected before the passage of the 17th amendment in 1913, when senators were chosen by state legislatures, rathe...