Rachel Alexander

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  Apr 8, 2013

  Sanford and Other Toxic Republicans Need to Step Aside for Electable Republicans

  Mark Sanford, the disgraced former governor of South Carolina, has just won the Republican nomination for an open congressional seat there. He resigned as governor four years ago, after disappearing from office for six days. It turned out he was in Argentina with his mistress, a reporter named Maria Belen Chapur.

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  Apr 1, 2013

  Toll Roads and Double Taxation: The Left and Libertarians Converge

  Toll roads are appealing to many on the right, because the fees don't look like taxes; motorists are charged for the voluntary action of driving on a specific road. Toll roads appear to be run by private entities, not the government.

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  Mar 25, 2013

  Jailed for Nonpayment of Child Support; But its Not His Child

  The feminists have ratcheted up the laws against men to such an outrageous level that paternity fraud is not just ignored, but routinely rubber stamped by the courts. Whether one agrees with the concept of child support or not, virtually everyone can agree that jailing men for child support over children who are not theirs is morally wrong.

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  Mar 18, 2013

  Common Core Curriculum: A Look Behind the Curtain of Hidden Language

  Conservatives are in an uproar over Common Core, an educational curriculum being forced upon the states by the Obama administration, which is scheduled to be mostly implemented this year in the 46 states that have adopted it.

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  Mar 12, 2013

  Republicans Clueless About Minorities

  If the GOP is trying to attract more white male voters, it is doing a great job. Republicans are losing elections in part because they are losing key demographic groups. Some of those groups, like Hispanics, are growing, making them impossible to ignore. 37 percent of the country is nonwhite. Hispanics comprise 16 percent of the population, accounting for half the population growth within the past decade. 51 percent of children born in California are Hispanic, and 46 percent of the population in