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		<title>Back in July</title>
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<br /><br />We took June off to finish up with school, add to our writing staff, and come up with new ideas for the future of Academic Perspective. Look for new articles to resume the first week of July. Related posts:New Features We did an upgrade on our site to bring everyone some new features over the [...]1


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		<title>The Real Tea Party Movement</title>
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<br /><br />The New York Times broke a big story last month when it published its findings from a survey of Tea Party supporters. The &#8220;attitudes of those in the movement have been known largely anecdotally,&#8221; wrote Zerninke and Thee-Brenan, the authors of the exposé. The media depiction of the Tea Party hasn&#8217;t been particularly favorable, partially [...]1


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		<title>Healthcare is No Free Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<br /><br />&#8220;Our health care system is in need of major reform, but we need to go more in the direction of free enterprise and free market principles,&#8221; said Congressman Jimmy Duncan (R-TN). Tea party supporters, vocal opponents of what they call &#8220;ObamaCare&#8221;, echo the same sentiment: health care should be a free market. Democrats have taken [...]1


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		<title>Why We Need Green Jobs</title>
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		<title>The Year in Review 2009, Part 3: Culture and the Media</title>
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<br /><br />With the first month of 2010 coming to a close, we're back to present the final chapter of the Year in Review 2009. Pop culture and the media. 2009 was a year of media frenzies. The White House engaged in a battle against Fox news, which it described as more like "talk-radio" than a news organization. [...]1


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<br /><br />2009 was not exactly the most memorable year. If anything, it&#8217;s notable for being one of the gloomiest years of late. Bank accounts are drying up, foreclosures are through the roof, and unemployment is the highest its been in nearly three decades. In all parts of the world, there aren&#8217;t many who can look back [...]1


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		<title>The Bailout and Stimulus of the American Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Drucker</dc:creator>
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<br /><br />Since it became clear that the U.S. was in the midst of an economic recession in 2008, the federal government has invested trillions to promote economic stability and, eventually, growth. These investments can be classified into two primary categories: bank bailouts and broader economic stimulus. [...]1


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		<title>Honest Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Drucker</dc:creator>
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<br /><br />After pledging his honesty to the American people by being forthright about tax hikes in the 1984 presidential race, Walter Mondale went on to receive the lowest number of electoral votes in the history of the Democratic Party. A rare attempt at honest politics failed miserably. But despite the evidence which demonstrates that honest politicians never prevail, voters continue to expect truthfulness and are aghast when two years down the road few of the politician's original promises have been fulfilled. [...]1


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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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