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Conflict and Compromise Within the Constitution

            The United States Constitution has been a product of numerous counts of conflict and compromise since its very creation. With the crucial need to revise the Articles of Confederation because of their intrinsic weaknesses, the Constitutional Convention was the first event which spurred such examples of argument and negotiation into running. A multitude of […]

The Wrong Agenda

The race for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination has heated up between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Much of their time has been spent bantering back and forth about each other’s experience on dealing with various issues, chiefly foreign policy. Recently, however, things have gotten slightly messier. Once again, the Democratic Party has proven […]

Republicans Grovel Before the NAACP

Today, President Bush addressed the NAACP for the first time in his presidency, narrowly avoiding becoming the first president since Warren G. Harding not to speak to the organization. At the same time the Senate was preparing to pass the extenstion for 25 years of the 1965 voting act. Among other things, this […]