Tag: politics
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May 31, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
Some people have junk drawers. I have a junk room. In fact, somewhere in the midst of my junk room is my office. Yes, I work amidst stacks of stuff....some of it will be sold on eBay, some of it will . . .
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August 24, 2008 08:20 PM EDT --
I've just watched "Apocalypto" for the zillionth time. Each time I watch it, I find a scene near the beginning very deep and troublesome. In this scene, the tribe sits . . .
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May 10, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
Three articles I read today fill me with pessimism for the future of America. The first two gave the arguments for and against President Obama's proposal to conduct a thorough, independent review . . .
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November 07, 2008 05:30 PM EST --
I just heard Barack Obama's first press conference as president elect. How wonderful to hear someone who can carry on an intelligent conversation in language that indicates he knows what he's . . .
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January 08, 2009 03:57 PM EST --
I am not against agriculture or farmers. What I am against, however, are the schizophrenic, wasteful and counter-productive ways in which the US Department of Agriculture tries to help farmers and the . . .
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November 03, 2009 04:07 PM EST --
"We all know, we have no time to lose."
These are the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel today in an address to a joint session of the US Congress.
And she didn't stop there. . . .
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March 15, 2008 05:21 PM EDT --
I was using Stumble upon, to slide around the net a while ago, and I came upon a UTube video that, in the end, had me experiencing that "This seems sooooo familiar" feeling. It's hard to . . .
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September 19, 2008 02:52 PM EDT --
On or about October 5th, Biden will excuse himself from the ticket, citing
health problems, and he will be replaced by Hillary. This is timed to occur
after the VP debate on 10/2.
There . . .
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May 11, 2009 06:19 PM EDT --
The idea of a national identity card fills many people with dread. All Libertarians and many conservatives become agitated at the mere mention of such a document. Specters of past dictatorships, and even . . .
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February 26, 2009 11:35 AM EST --
by Michael Hughes
President Barack Obama experienced his bay-of-pigs moment, actually a series of them, after putting forth three federal cabinet appointees that all had major tax problems, resulting . . .
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June 04, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
Unless you complete destroy your hard drive, all your information will remain somehow on your computers hard drive.
Everything now a days is given a memory and that information has a way of landing . . .
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October 26, 2009 05:56 PM EDT --
Fox news is having a field day with the fact that the President of the United States does not want to talk to them. It seems that Mr. Obama got sick of the bias against him and decided to exclude them . . .
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March 05, 2009 04:16 PM EST --
I was commenting on a thread by AC W just now and in particular on a comment that "only 11% of Republicans identified Limbaugh as . . .
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October 20, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
Everyone has their views on what makes a good president...what makes a bad president, and what makes a horrible president. So at the risk of being attacked by both Democrats and Republicans, . . .
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May 03, 2008 01:36 AM EDT --
John McCain's solution our economic woes is tax cuts, a plan not atypical of Republicans of any stripe. But will tax cuts build a single bridge, fill a single pothole, pay a single teacher or create . . .
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May 27, 2008 07:31 PM EDT --
John McCain says:
My friends, my fellow Americans, the Democrats want to raise your taxes, and if you elect them they will do exactly that. Both Democratic candidates for president have . . .
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October 20, 2009 11:47 PM EDT --
I have noticed that sometimes when someone tries to present information about certain topics there always seems to be someone jumping out to say “you are trying to scare people.”
Are people . . .
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November 05, 2009 11:33 AM EST --
T.Walter Herbert has written a slim book that gives well-researched and supported explanations of how the United States could have become embroiled in the morass of Iraq and discarded its own values in . . .
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August 05, 2008 07:53 AM EDT --
Lately there has been a lot of discussion about race - or more specifically, racism - in the Presidential election. Except most of it is a ruse by the Republicans as part of their predetermined . . .
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November 04, 2009 01:17 PM EST --
As Senator Lautenberg prepares to introduce chemical control reform legislation in the US, possibly as early as this month, some in the auto industry are worried that they will be severely impacted. . . .
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