By: Marco Miranda | 2010-04-04 | Politics Returning home after some weeks abroad can be a telling experience. The press and television seem to have forgotten crimes, invasions, college shootouts and recent recalls of one hundred million cans of a hundred different food brands in favor of the presidential debates. I had to ask. read more
By: Anthony A. Kila | 2011-03-24 | Politics The most deafening sound came from the silence produced by the absence of our incumbent President and PDP presidential candidate, Dr. Jonathan. The unoccupied empty podium with its available but unused microphone reserved for our president turned his absence into an unbearable presence. read more
By: Dennis Copson | 2010-04-04 | Politics The second Presidential debate was held Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - exactly four weeks before Election Day - at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Belmont is a small Christian liberal arts institution (5000 students) near downtown Music City, USA. This meeting was a 90 minute affair; the format was the 'town hall meeting' type of discussion with questions from the audience and several internet users of selected, mostly undecided, voters directly to the candidates with a one minute limit on a discussion period. (That was largely violated.) read more
By: Dan Bimrose | 2010-04-04 | Politics In retrospect it appears that both parties pulled off very successful conventions. Both events were newsworthy and offered historical moments. read more
By: Kevin Eikenberry | 2010-04-04 | Politics I watched the Vice Presidential Debate from two perspectives. As a voter I wanted to hear what both had to say. But I also wanted to see what I could glean from it from a leadership development and learning perspective. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2012-10-22 | News and society Ann Romney, the wife of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, was spotted arriving at the presidential debate on Tuesday, October 16, 2012. read more
By: Dataribo | 2011-03-21 | Politics If dissemination of electoral information is a necessary pre-requisite and an essential ingredient for making the right decisions then all legitimate means should be used by every party. The government and indeed all parties need to ensure that every person has the opportunity to hear their electoral message. Local media and accessible infracstrusture should be used to empower the populace. read more
By: Tapas Kumar | 2012-03-13 | Loans According to Senate insiders, the 2012 Farm Bill will be greatly influenced by the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. The debate over the Farm Bill has been protracted, with lawmakers tentatively addressing it as far back as 2010. read more
By: A. Woodrow | 2010-04-04 | Politics Campaigners in presidential elections speak out of one side of their mouth in the primary election; then, out of the other side of their mouth in the general election. In the primaries, the Democratic candidates reach out to the left wing of their party; and similarly, the Republican candidates take positions to curry favor with the right wing of their party. This is the strategy office-seekers must adopt to be nominated by their political party. read more
By: Denny Andrews Sr. | 2010-04-04 | Politics To those of you who are mesmerized by the stentorian tones of Barack (can't say his middle name because it's "insensitive") Obama I have a question. What has he EVER done that qualifies him to be president of the United States? Admittedly, he looks good, and sounds good. But then so does Katie Couric. read more
By: Candice Carlson | 2010-04-04 | Politics While the Presidential candidates are busy debating over important issues such as health care, the war in Iraq, and the economy and safety of America, it seems almost inane to ask them how they feel about the future of technology. However, this is not the case. We need to think about the future of technology as the future of America. read more
By: Lance Winslow | 2010-04-04 | Politics Presidential Political TV Debates is often too much about personal attacks and not enough about the actual issues. The November 2007 GOP uTube - CNN debate was entertaining, but it is the holiday season, and it is unfortunate that we have to have all the vicious attacks nearly a year before the elections. read more
By: Otto King | 2010-04-04 | Politics Like watching traditional Japanese Kabuki theater, the stylized actions at the Republican Presidential "debate" in Durham, NH on Sept. 5 revealed the expected. It also revealed a little more: the establishment's breathtaking fear of one of the candidates. read more
By: Dennis Copson | 2010-09-15 | Politics The most recent conflict on immigration reform is one concerning what are referred to as ‘anchor babies', those children born to parents here illegally who then are accorded citizenship based on an interpretation, however discombobulated, of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. read more