With another election coming, Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick takes the time to tell us how to be an informed voter.
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Déjà vu all over again
Tags: Clinton Administration, David Broder, Election Day, Keith Olbermann
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Statistical ‘Factiness’
Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick addresses some common fallacies about economics.
Tags: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, global trade, New York Senate, statistics, taxes
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Prohibition is not working
Marijuana prohibition is an obvious failure, writes Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick, let’s get rid of it.
Tags: marijuana, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, prohibition, The Office of National Drug Control Policy, United States Federal Government
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Tax myths uncovered
Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick proposes some mythbusters on taxes and the government’s role in using them for increased economic activity.
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Eight months of non-stop action
Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick makes his triumphant return eight months after shuffling off this undergraduate coil and ascending to graduate school.
Tags: Deepwater Horizon, Fort Hood, Ground Zero Mosque, new york city, Obama administration, politics
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Can religion say that?
Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick discusses the argument that recently came up between the Roman Catholic Church and a member of the Kennedy family.
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Hints of big government
Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick argues that some steps taken by the Obama administration might be taking this country down a path of more government than is necessary in a system that should not be so big.
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Walking the walk in Afghanistan
Ben Rudnick supports the call for more troops in Afghanistan, saying that, by coming in and changing the government, we have an obligation to leave the country in a better condition than the way we found it.
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Expanding the Size of the House – Part II
There simply was not enough space available in the printed edition to explore all the reasons why I think that increasing the size of the U.S. House of Representatives is such a good idea. One of those elements is the fact that it would go a long way to solving the problem of gerrymandering that we have in America, and especially in Massachusetts.
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Expanding the House of Representatives
As the years have gone by, some laws have become outdated. One of those laws, according to Collegian columnist Ben Rudnick, is the 1929 statute that puts a ceiling on the number of members in the House of Representatives. We need more representatives to better serve the people.
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