We create, at best, a caricature of the opposition, a view that can be wildly inaccurate. The trend has led to politicians responding to this new polarization of opinion. Our current Congress has become one of the most dysfunctional in recent history and has created legislators that are far less inclined to compromise with opposition legislators. Others are choosing to leave the Republican Party of their own accord.

Sunday, May 5, 2013. Reasons Why High School Students Should Stay in School. In an economy that is just barely starting to get back on its feet now more than ever people need to as much education as they can to survive. A high school diploma is the bare minimum to get any type of job.

Sunday, May 5, 2013. I have never initiated an environmental campaign. I do not grow my own food or only shop locally. Yet, because I major in Environmental Studies, many people take me as an environmentalist. While that may or may not be true, I definitely am not the hippie environmentalist stereotype people like to assume I must be. Be built and that there are pros.

NRA More Powerful Than the Public? So, yes, on the issue of guns, the NRA may have more influence than the public. Indoctrination in College Classrooms? In the wake of the secretly taped video of a professor bashing Republicans in a classroom that surfaced on every conservative media outlet, many have alleged that liberal professors indoctrinate college students with their liberal spills. If the fact-checkers were to assess this claim, they would simply label it pants on fire! The speculation about Hilla.

Thursday, April 3, 2014. The film 2013 film Stalingrad. Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk is a Russian film about the famed battle in the titular Soviet Union city . The action-packed war movie is the highest grossing Russian film ever produced and was filmed in IMAX 3D . The film follows a group of Russian soldiers in World War II who defend a strategic building in the city . The film may have been better served if it lived and died all in the same .

How Politicians Communicate with the American People. Monday, April 22, 2013. Is Tsarnaev an Enemy Combatant? Republican Senator Lindsey Graham strongly criticized the Obama Administration for coming to a decision prematurely in treating Tsarnaev as a civilian despite the potential vital intelligence information he may possess. It is clear the e.

Local political news, banter, and commentary with a slant towards Los Angeles and the rest of the Southland. Sunday, May 5, 2013. A lot has happened since then. Meanwhile, Sanford is fighting for his political life in a current dead heat with his opponent, Colbert-Busch.

Foreign Policy and the Middle East. Recently, I had the opportunity to watch Death in Gaza, a powerful documentary that reveals the harrowing effects of the Arab-Israeli conflict on children in the occupied territories. This entry was posted in Public Square.