Author Archive for Tyler Hunt
The Spirit of Reagan Lives On
According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, 36 percent of Americans would, if they could pick from a selection of past presidents, want Ronald Reagan to run the country today. Support for Reagan even topped the 29 percent for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who led the United States through the Great Depression and most of World War II.
Google Donates to Conservatives
Google has started donating lots of money to conservative causes after years of donating mostly to left-wing groups and candidates. This change in political behavior has prompted an interesting question: Why?
Wisconsin Stays Cheesy
We’ve heard a lot about Wisconsin in the news over the past months, as Republican Governor Scott Walker took away the collective bargaining rights of public worker unions. What most of us have not heard is perhaps more frightening to those in higher education: transparency laws are being abused to violate the academic privacy of public university professors.
Newt For President?
With just 581 days left until the 2012 Presidential election, the political world is buzzing with speculation about which GOP candidate will challenge President Obama. Among the not-yet-running candidates is former Republican speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who brought the GOP back to power in Congress for the first time in 40 years during the 1990s with his “Contract with America.”
