Mike Signer

Mitt Romney's Chimerical Foreign Policy

Mike Signer | Posted 01.22.2012

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Mitt Romney has been anything but strong and full of conviction, particularly in the area where these vaunted attributes matter most: foreign policy.

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Stop the Madness: The New Politics of Stunts

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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In dealing with those who would yank our strings, we should reach for resiliency rather than hysteria. Politicians can ask whether terrorism should drive policy, rather than the other way around.

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Election Protection in Afghanistan

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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This Saturday, I'll be stepping off a plane in Dubai along with several dozen other Americans, on the way to Kabul for a mission to monitor elections for the Wolesi Jirga, Afghanistan's lower house of Parliament.

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It's a Change Election, Stupid

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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In their attempt to rebut the Republicans' specious attacks on policy, Democrats are overcompensating and becoming that which they should abhor: the establishment.

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The Next Financial Reform Floodgate

Mark V. Vlasic | Posted 05.25.2011

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The financial reform bill's whistleblower provisions require that any whistleblower providing "original information" leading to a penalty over $1 million shall receive between 10 and 30% of that collection.

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A Nation of Pilot Projects?

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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On cutting-edge infrastructure issues such as solar, will we continue to be a nation of pilot projects? Or will we take any quantum leaps and achieve actual national policy?

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Stop the Violence: Taking on Today's Demagogues

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama isn't exactly FDR, and Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin certainly aren't Huey Long and Father Coughlin, but the 1930s still hold powerful lessons for our leaders today.

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Saving States From Terrorists (or, Stand with Westphalia)

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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As we enter a shiny new decade, we should embrace a cozy and decidedly pre-modern tradition: the system of sovereign states that has served us well since the 17th century.

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The Philosophical President

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of Obama's greatest unheralded risks is his repeated attempt to use politics to help lead toward truth, rather than just a win.

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Vision of a State: Ultra-Federalism in Afghanistan

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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An ultra-federalist culture would constantly seek to discover and bridge gaps between local systems for administering justice and the official machinery of the state courts.

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VA Lt. Gov. Candidate Mike Signer: 25% of Af-Am Men Are Disenfranchised

Baratunde Thurston | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you told me there was man seeking office who raised the disenfranchisement of African-Americans as an issue worth addressing, I would have called you crazy or a liar, but that's just what Mike Signer did.

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