Tag: politics
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May 26, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
Butterfly ballots, hanging chad, dimpled ballots, disenfranchised voters. You may not believe how much you don't remember about the 2000 presidential election until you watch HBO's . . .
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November 07, 2009 01:57 PM EST --
America is a democracy – perhaps a little less democratic these days – but a democracy nonetheless. Many people complain about the government without seeing the irony that, in democracies, . . .
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October 21, 2009 12:55 PM EDT --
I am an Independent. And I am voting for Creigh Deeds to be the next Governor of Virginia.
I have been watching intently both Mr. Deeds, the Democratic candidate, and Mr. McDonnell, the Republican . . .
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March 14, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Over the last few years, we Americans have become used to a strange new kind of language used to describe ourselves and our nation. One term in this new language is the word homeland. I want you to think . . .
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November 25, 2009 08:09 PM EST --
This is almost too shocking to be believed: a family in Chicago who was still grieving the loss of their daughter-in-law and child because of complications caused because they had no health care were . . .
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September 14, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
You are wrong, if you don't know we live in a Democracy, with three branches of government that require all politcians to come to a compromise to get the work of the people done. And if . . .
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October 10, 2007 03:56 PM EDT --
Did you see what the G.O.P. has to offer, but didn't Fred look tired and confused, scary. To me he didn't seem able to get his lines straight, not just that smooth delivery . . .
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December 05, 2007 11:03 PM EST --
In an interview with GQ, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee insinuates that granting same sex marriages or civil unions between same sex couples would be the end of civilization.
What . . .
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July 30, 2007 11:33 PM EDT --
This appeared on the Political Cortex site. I urge you to read it. Be sure to check the photo of the Veteran Astronaut.
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September 01, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
There has been a complaint filed with the Federal Elections Commission against Fred Thompson. The complaint alleges that Thompson has violated the spirit and letter of the law in his “Testing . . .
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May 18, 2007 03:41 PM EDT --
The congress has voted through a bill to giving the military a 3.5% pay increase. Bush refuses to sign anything over 3%, saying a raise in military pay is unnecessary!
Privates in the army make about . . .
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October 18, 2009 07:34 PM EDT --
I'm an atheist, but unlike some of my fellow A's I don't hate the Bible or feel particularly threatened or discriminated against because we're a minority, but I can understand how some do. However, . . .
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October 30, 2009 05:09 PM EDT --
Someone may be taking potshots at Lou Dobbs . It’s not that I can’t understand the impulse, every time he comes on the tube I want to make like an Iraqi journalist and go all Hush Puppy . . .
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March 13, 2009 03:33 PM EDT --
I received this chart, from The Washington Monthly , in an email this morning. I thought I would pass it along in case you have not seen it.
The media has been obsessing about President Obama's . . .
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November 05, 2008 10:42 PM EST --
Whew, the presidential election is over. I voted for Obama.
Despite sharing in the feeling of excitement with many Americans over this year’s election, it’s also made me think more deeply about . . .
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May 05, 2009 06:46 PM EDT --
Who says the state of Montana don't have guts? Sure it only applys to guns made in the state but it is the things said within the . . .
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May 20, 2009 12:55 PM EDT --
Mental Health Problems
The current combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have involved U.S. military personnel in major ground combat and hazardous . . .
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July 28, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS
UNITED WE STAND. WE MOVE FORWARD!!!!!!!
New Jersey state now has mandatory vaccination laws for all children. The Obama administration . . .
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December 01, 2009 03:07 AM EST --
It looks as though everyone in the world will get the news before we do. Obama is not going to do the right thing and is going to put more troops in Afghanistan. I think he is definitely automatically . . .
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November 29, 2009 05:45 PM EST --
When the IAEA announced sanctions against Iran they must have stirred a smoldering pot and put wood on the fire. I think this is a defiance gesture against further foreign meddling . . .
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