If you were a conservative back in the days of the New Deal, lobbing verbal grenades like Á¢€Å“A traitor to his classÁ¢€ at Franklin Roosevelt was as common as clearing…
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Ted Asregadoo
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“I’m not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a billion ants just to aim a gun at me, let alone fire…
Ted Asregadoo
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IÁ¢€â„¢m sure if you took a Á¢€Å“No duhÁ¢€ poll on taxes in the U.S., you would find an overwhelming majority of us donÁ¢€â„¢t like paying them. Sure, you can find…
Ted Asregadoo
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I was reading Stanley Fish’s opinion piece in the New York Times about the University of Colorado’s plan to create a Chair of Conservative Thought at their Boulder campus. The…
Ted Asregadoo
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I’ve been reading The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 by Sean Wilentz, and it covers historical ground that most historians don’t want to touch for a good 30 years….
Ted Asregadoo
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I don’t know if bad news has reached critical mass this past week, but it seems that the last few days of newspaper reading has engendered a great deal of…
Ted Asregadoo
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In the realm of public speaking, it’s tough for anyone (even accomplished speakers) not to make mistakes. In my current line of work (radio) I have to voice commercials, promotional…
Ted Asregadoo
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Ronald Reagan asked that question when he was running against Jimmy Carter in 1980. It’s a question that goes to the heart of what many of us believe is the…
Ted Asregadoo
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We’re at a point in the presidential election when reporters, news directors, anchors, and all the other media powers who help frame election issues are getting weary. Weary of the…
Ted Asregadoo
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History-altering events produce consequences that are sometimes unintended. In our post-9/11 age, the political landscape has quickly altered, from the relative peace and prosperity of the Clinton years to perpetual…
Ted Asregadoo
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Elections are about priorities. What kind of world do we want to live in? What kinds of things are important for our government to spend money, time, and energy on…
Ted Asregadoo
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In an election year, candidates often want to talk about “the issues,” but more often than not, campaigns will ditch the boring talk for talking smack about each other. It’s…
Ted Asregadoo
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A friend of mine from grad school came to town for an academic conference in San Francisco this week. It was the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association, and…
Ted Asregadoo
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As presidential campaigns become longer, the media’s appetite grows for comments by anyone who has a connection — no matter how close or remote — to candidates who are in…
Ted Asregadoo
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If you’ve been reading the papers for political stories that aren’t about the presidential campaign, you might have noticed a story that had a headline with a variation of the…
Ted Asregadoo
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It seems every four years Ralph Nader surfaces as a presidential candidate to remind progressives, and even some libertarians, why our system of government is rigged, why we’re getting screwed,…
Ted Asregadoo
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I would venture to guess that most of the Popdose audience wasn’t even born when the radicalism of the 1960s bubbled up — yet the shadow of the 1960s is…
Ted Asregadoo
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Years ago, I used to teach political science to students whose level of interest ran the range from apathetic to enthusiastic Á¢€” with a good chunk in the middle just…
Ted Asregadoo
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For all intents and purposes, Bill and Hillary Clinton should be my candidates. On the political spectrum I consider myself center-left, and the Clintons have been center-left politicians since, well,…
Ted Asregadoo
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Upon leaving office in 2000, Bill Clinton was keen on having a national conversation on race in America. He eventually did in 2004, but because he was a former president…
Ted Asregadoo
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Presidential campaigns, like marketing campaigns, have to have a sellable theme. Something that sounds snappy and connects with voters/consumers so they will act (i.e., vote for a candidate or buy…
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A news item broke late Friday that was quite novel for political retribution stories. Lawyers representing Jose Padilla Á¢€” the guy who was locked up in a Navy brig for…
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