Libertarian Presidential Candidate and former U.S. Representative Bob Barr spoke today in town hall format at George Mason University. An intimate crowd listened intently in Student Union Building I’s Patriot Lounge to hear Barr highlight the positives of a third party choice and the high level of dissatisfaction that many Americans hold for the current […]

Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Yesterday Palin linked the 9/11 terrorist attacks to… Iraq. Even George W. Bush seems to have a better grasp on the whole situation. As Anne E. Kornblut writes for the Washington Post: “[A] view once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected even by the president himself.” Hmm. It’s also not good to […]

Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Lars Laing-Peterson
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College Republicans Sign-Up Students On Campus

Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Barack Hussein Obama does have lots and lots of experience. He does! We promise! I mean, he was a senator and a lawyer and was a community organizer after college. Well, okay, maybe he only served 143 days as a US Senator before he started the presidential process, but still! That’s beside the point! He’s […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Tierney Kain
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The new Film Club at Mason has scheduled a series of films on campaign issues for the fall. The first film will be Who Killed the Electric Car?, dealing with transportation and energy. The film will be played on Wednesday Sept. 10, in the Harris Theater, at 7:30 p.m. The film will be followed by […]

Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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Tom Brady is out for the season. (And ESPN Page 2’s Bill Simmons deals admirably with the emailed fallout.) This is no time to mourn a fallen American hero, though, not when four other Americans are sharpening their claws (or getting their campaign staff to do it) for the final two months of this rather […]

Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Lars Laing-Peterson
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George Mason University has just released a press release listing all the professors who are available to comment on the Presidential Election. The list is sorted by the professors area of expertise and lists names, contact information, and their areas of experience. TIP SHEET: GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AVAILABLE TO COMMENT ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ISSUES […]

Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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Tonight, students are invited to watch Arizona Senator John McCain accept the presidential nomination of his party. Mason Votes is co-sponsoring a Republican National Convention watch party which begins at 8:30 p.m. and McCain’s acceptance speech is expected at 10 p.m. Mason Votes will feature video responses to the speech, live blogging from our Democratic […]

Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Content Editor Christian Yingling hosts a roundtable of Republican and Democrat student commentators to give their reaction to Obama’s acceptance speech.

Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Senator John McCain’s vice presidential pick answers Obama’s challenge that change must go to Washington, not come from it. Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old Governor of Alaska, made her national political debut today with her acceptance speech at Dayton, OH. In the gubernatorial race of 2006 Palin defeated former democratic Tony Knowles on a clean government […]

Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Noah Martin
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