March 29, 2024

Part One:
What does Ella Think?
Ella McGrail is a 15 year old Blogger at Portsmouth Herald, she writes under Civic Teen…her posts are here:
http://blogs.seacoastonline.com/civic-teen/author/mcgraile/
Today her thoughts on:
The electoral college..what is it? should it stay or go?
“…it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2012/11/defending_the_electoral_college.html

Part Two:
Rethink the Week
Professor and Presidential Scholar Dean Spiliotes Civic Scholar at SNHU
Professor of Political Science Wayne Lesperance NEC
Editor NHBR Jeff Feingold

topics:
short but wonderful – American Pharaoh owned by an Egyptian Orthodox Jew who moved to the US when he was 18 (http://tabletmag.com/scroll/190770/owner-of-kentucky-derby-winner-american-pharaoh-is-an-orthodox-jew) and the night we celebrate Broadway…the Tony Awards (Tony Awards 2015: Watch All The Performances HERE!
PerezHilton.com‎ )
NH joins the list of antagonists…Tea Party activist and Bundy Ranch agitator Jerry DeLemus planning a draw Muhammad art contest
> http://miscellanyblue.com/post/120799922627
The Turkish elections
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/07/turkish-election-erdogan-kurds

Hillary is coming! Hillary is coming to Roosevelt Island!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/hillary-clinton-rally-roosevelt-island/
don’t tell Dean and Wayne…Germany letting international students go to college for free
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678
Here comes the tax collector ISIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11657918/Why-business-is-booming-under-Islamic-State-one-year-on.html
Republicans go hog wild in Iowa
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/06/2016-race
Rubio channeling JFK
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/marco-rubio-is-now-channeling-jfk-explicitly-20150606
Walker and gay marriage NOT
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/walker-favors-constitutional-amendment-banning-gay-marriage-article-1.2249731
The Iowa Caucus RIP

Can’t buy a house…the future of real estate sucks
http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-housing-crisis-looms-as-fewer-renters-can-afford-to-own-1433698639
Why being an independent contractor sucks!!!
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article22947264.html