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Electoral College: Meet Trump

I have been interested in history and politics since middle school, even choosing to study politics and international relations in college. As Americans, we learned a bit about the Constitution and some of its parts. Some seem to only know the 2nd Amendment and throw the word ‘unconstitutional’ around as though they actually knew what it meant. However, there is one part that has always baffled us, especially since the presidential election of 2000: the electoral college.  Read more…

Land of the Free

“Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation”—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.” — John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

America has always been considered the “land of the free.” It’s been whispered and shouted from basement to rooftop Read more…