Conservative politics is a term that has gained a menagerie of meanings, and many of them should be detached from the term for the sake of preserving the important meanings of the term. Conservative politics nowadays refers to a set of political views that includes supporting religion, supporting gun rights, and a number of other [...]

Politics have become increasingly more polarized in America over the years, as party lines have been drawn in the sand, and etched deeper and deeper. Nowadays, politics are detached from anything more than a most basic form of ideology to which people can subscribe. Politics have become more focused on irrationality and attachment to arbitrary [...]

In today’s world, for a politician to have even the slightest chance at getting into office, he or she must embark upon an arduous process of establishing a political campaign for the office. One of the primary issues plaguing America’s current system, however, is the problem of political campaign donations from private sources. These donations [...]

Political parties, while important tools for the overall benefit of America’s democratic system, have become overblown and exaggerated, and have lost the efficacy they once held. Nothing proves this so much as a historical look backwards at what America’s political parties have looked like. America has seen many political parties over the years, some of [...]

In the world of the Internet, print media is obviously losing steam with every passing day, as fewer and fewer people go to it for their news. Even television media are finding themselves being affected by the Internet, if only because it’s often easier to watch “television” on the Web than it is to watch [...]

The Republican Party is a diverse thing, allowing for both business leaders who hold fiscally conservative policies and for small-town farmers who have no interest in larger business to lay claim to membership. But perhaps no greater example of the Republican Party’s extended membership exists than the Tea Party activists, in all their enraged glory. [...]

Republican politics have changed ever since Sarah Palin came to town. To think that prior to her nomination as the Republican Vice President, no one knew her name except those in her own state, is startling, to say the least. Now, she is as prominent a player in Republican politics as anyone, and her name [...]

Republicans in America are hoping to seize control of the House and Senate in the mid-term elections this year, and they are going to have a difficult time of it, not least because of the latest issues to arise out of political impropriety. Michael Steele, the Republican Party’s chairman, recently was found to have visited [...]

The Republican view of the world is not as uniform and united as Republicans would have us believe. Indeed, Bruce Bartlett, who was a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan, and was a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush, proves the point quite eloquently, simply with his track record. This is a man who [...]