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Posts published by “Jon-Erik Nelson”

Once more, with feeling

Just a few months ago in September, I wrote a piece for The Concordian Politics called “Charting a Course”. The gist of the piece was basically the…

In defense of a general

The swirling controversy surrounding the resignation of the director of the CIA, former four-star general David Petraeus, because of an extramarital affair is extremely perturbing.…

Ragnarok for Republicans

The 2012 campaign was supposed to be a nail-biter. Republicans were convinced they had an incumbent in the White House who was vulnerable, both because…

The vision thing

Election day is fast approaching. By this time next week Barack Obama will have been elected to a second term or Mitt Romney will have…

The road less travelled by

With the fourth and final debate of the 2012 election cycle concluded, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have entered the final sprint of the…

Round two

Much like the first debate, Wednesday night’s presidential debate, the second of the election season, drew an audience of more than 65 million viewers. Unlike…

Down to brass tacks

In conversations with Republicans and conservatives, one common response when they are asked about the economic woes facing this country has to do with the…

Silence is no solution

Wednesday night was the first of three Presidential debates. I was intending for this installment to focus on the performances of each of the candidates,…

Charting a course

Anybody who’s been following the 2012 campaign for any length of time has most likely been inundated by pundits from the left and the right…

Introductions

To kick off my first blog post in this new venue, I’d like to quickly tell you all a little bit about myself. I’m a…

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