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Seat for sale

Posted by: | November 12, 2012 | No Comment |

Last Tuesday, Americans voted to keep President Obama in office. Voters turned out in historic numbers to re-elect the incumbent and add democratic seats to the Senate. Though Republicans maintain the majority in the House, this election was clearly a democratic victory. 20 female Democrats, one openly gay, will serve in the 113th Congress. Our extremely diverse […]

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Tax the pacs

Posted by: | November 5, 2012 | No Comment |

Election day is looming and the political ads are virtually inescapable. Political advertising used to cover our yards and mailboxes but now they’re plastered across our television sets and smart phones. The rapid developments of new technologies have led political advertisements to infiltrate every imaginable media platform. These political advertisements aren’t cheap, which is why […]

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Four Americans are dead after a Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The attack was rumored to be a violent response to an anti-Muslim film put together by U.S. resident, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Recently, evidence has surfaced saying otherwise. International protests continue and the Organization of Islamic Corporation has asked the […]

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Is Google trying to own the internet? We can draw great parallels from today to the past. Before the bringing of written communication to the plains of Southern Africa, the Zulu tribe had already developed an organized system to get the news out to its people. The chief employed criers who reported each morning to […]

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The Stationers’ Company

Posted by: | September 16, 2009 | No Comment |

The Stationers’ Company is a Livery Company that resides in London.  It was originated back in 1403 with control over the publishing industries and  in charge of enforcing copyright regulations of all books in England, except those printed by Oxford and Cambridge universities. Book authors could not be part of the guild and therefore they […]

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