Tag: politics

  • British Politics

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    Brendan Barry
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    The election has come and gone yet very little is resolved; the UK now has a hung parliament. Labour, the Tories, and the Lib Dems are now left to negotiate on the details of forming a coalition government, wherein two parties formally agree to cooperate in governing the country, or a minority government, wherein the…

  • Fire Nancy Pelosi?

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    Brendan Barry
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    Sunday night, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that you may not have heard about. The bill goes towards addressing universal healthcare coverage for US citizens. As I said, you may not have heard of it… The bill was passed largely along partisan lines with about 30 conservative Democrats joining the conservative Republicans…