http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Mon, 20 May 2013 12:33:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/30/when-will-us-republicans-realise-gay-marriage-is-their-natural-bedfellow/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/30/when-will-us-republicans-realise-gay-marriage-is-their-natural-bedfellow/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 13:00:17 +0000 Clara Cullen http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24766 Clara Cullen argues that giving government the constitutional power to define what, or more importantly what does not constitute a marriage infringes upon traditional small government values at the heart of US Republican ideology. If they continue to insist on staunchly adhering to socially conservative values, she argues, they will become increasingly out of touch electorally.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/30/when-will-us-republicans-realise-gay-marriage-is-their-natural-bedfellow/feed/ 137 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/01/lessons-from-history-obama-congress-and-libyan-intervention/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/01/lessons-from-history-obama-congress-and-libyan-intervention/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:05:54 +0000 Oliver Duggan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=12709 A normal politician may have found it daunting to be the first President in history to be given the stage that once played host to the embalmed body of Winston Churchill and decapitated corpse of Charles I. He may have felt the need to clear his head and schedule with a morning of absolute isolation, [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/01/lessons-from-history-obama-congress-and-libyan-intervention/feed/ 5 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/24/wisconsin-the-battleground-for-americas-political-future/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/24/wisconsin-the-battleground-for-americas-political-future/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:30:53 +0000 Tom Mendelsohn http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=9299 Wisconsin isn’t one of the glamour States in the US. You know it exists, somewhere in that expanse of endless terrain in the middle there, but you couldn’t pick it out on a map, much less name any of its towns. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/24/wisconsin-the-battleground-for-americas-political-future/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/09/07/why-a-young-republican-could-mark-the-fall-of-old-democrats/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/09/07/why-a-young-republican-could-mark-the-fall-of-old-democrats/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:51:00 +0000 Oliver Duggan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=4089 The Hill is alive with murmurings as the first day of session, after the long summer break, rapidly approaches. When Congressmen and Senators return to their duties today it will not be without the heavy knowledge that many of them will not have this experience again. The midterms, which have historically been a barometer of [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/09/07/why-a-young-republican-could-mark-the-fall-of-old-democrats/feed/ 2