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Right now, millions of Americans are disenfranchised by our political process. They can pay taxes and contribute to social security, but they can’t vote. They can be sentenced to life in prison, but they can’t vote. Every day, their bodies, lives and futures are affected by politicians and policies they did not choose. Who am I talking about? Felons? Guess again. We need to lower the voting age. This is a prime moment to ask ourselves whether our voting system is yet fully equitable. Last month, Scotland made history when, for the first time in British politics, 16- and 17-year...

Do you think you can't get away from coverage of Ebola coming to the United States and spreading in Africa? Well, somehow these people were able to avoid it, at least somewhat. Hundreds of confused twitter users are asking "who is Ebola," asking as if the virus infecting and killing thousands of people in Africa is a person. Yes, I'm serious. Here are just a few of the impossibly dense people who think the Ebola virus is a person:

The Democratic National Convention is a great time to reflect on the Conundrum of The Century: Why are our liberal buddies so amazingly gullible? Why do they fall for the most obvious scam artists? Why, when Hillary crashes, do they slobber all over the next edition of God's Anointed on Earth? When Obama went body surfin' in Hawaii before the convention, we had a chance to hear The Aloha State's very own brand of liberal love. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin quoted one sun-tanned beauty saying:   "He's genuine. You can feel his aloha," ... said 41-year-old Sama Evaimalo, a Hanauma Bay tram...

Are some people simply too stupid, uninformed or mentally incompetent (second item) to vote? Though the very idea seems "un-American," Jonah Goldberg, suggests that "[m]aybe the people who don't know the first thing about how our system works aren't the folks who should be driving our politics, just as people who don't know how to drive shouldn't have a driver's license." Goldberg notes: A very high percentage of the U.S. electorate isn't very well qualified to vote, if by "qualified" you mean having a basic understanding of our government, its functions and its challenges. Almost half of the American public...