Tag: conservative
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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May 25, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
There was a time when, if someone told me he or she was a Republican, I didn't have an immediate, negative visceral reaction. That time was before the Bush-Cheney regime and a couple of wars ago. After . . .
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November 03, 2008 06:20 PM EST --
Regardless of who wins tomorrow, he has his work cut out for him.
To say that citizens of this country are dissatisfied is an understatement. This election campaign has been the most divisive I have . . .
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February 23, 2009 06:37 PM EST --
Mary L. Schapiro is the new head of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). She is not new to the agency, having worked there under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. If her first days on the job are . . .
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April 06, 2009 06:17 PM EDT --
Have you ever tried to talk to someone who seemed bright, but the only ideas she could entertain were the ones in her own head? Have you ever tried to talk to someone about politics and found that there . . .
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September 14, 2009 06:15 PM EDT --
A passing snippet from the radio: “We, as Christian parents, have to become counter-cultural.”
There is a difference between being counter-cultural and having oppositional-defiant disorder, . . .
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August 18, 2008 06:07 PM EDT --
On Saturday night, Rick Warren, pastor and bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life , sat down with Barak Obama and John McCain at his megachurch in California and asked them some tough questions. . . .
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August 25, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Not surprisingly, these words return something over 8 million hits in Google. Most folks would call this saying common sense. What is surprising . . .
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September 22, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
Once upon a time, two ambitious young men courted two beautiful and rich sisters.
When John met Mary, he instantly perceived that her wealth and power could make all his dreams come true, and he . . .
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November 24, 2008 05:46 PM EST --
Kudos this week go to Texas A&M professor John Fike. Fike parted company with the Texas A&M chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), citing his shame over the group's . . .
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April 15, 2009 11:04 PM EDT --
I just signed on to Gather and discovered that there are some people who think that they should get to live in this country and not pay taxes. This infuriates me for several reasons.
Paying your taxes . . .
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April 20, 2009 06:46 PM EDT --
Western civilization may not be doomed after all. This weekend, the President of the United States met with the leaders of other American nations and extended an olive branch to some who have . . .
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September 07, 2009 05:35 PM EDT --
The president of the United States, that duly-elected antichrist, has chosen to address the school children of this country on Wednesday. This is the last perversion of a school system that has systematically . . .
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October 13, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
According to the eleventh edition of Merriam Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, "sacrifice" means giving up of something for the sake of something else. By this definition, sacrifice . . .
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October 20, 2008 06:33 PM EDT --
In just two weeks, the United States will elect a new President. Depending on whom we elect, the country will make a dramatic change. The candidates have given some broad hints about the roads they want . . .
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October 27, 2008 06:12 PM EDT --
"Mommy, what's an anarchist?"
"That's somebody who wants to get rid of the government." For some reason, as a child I believed that anarchists achieved their aims by killing . . .
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December 22, 2008 06:51 PM EST --
As Barack Obama prepares to take office, some people think that the country is being loaded into a handbasket with launch set for January 20, 2009. Contrary to conservative opinion, the world will not . . .
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March 02, 2009 06:24 PM EST --
Right about now, the conservative noise machine is cranking up with the "Oh Ye Dirty Socialists" song. They look at plans to make health care available to the masses, and the apoplexies start. . . .
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March 16, 2009 06:13 PM EDT --
In talking to legislators several weeks ago, President Obama noted that the minority party needed to be constructive and not just “blow things up.” A week before, Republicans dragged their feet and pretended . . .
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March 30, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
When did ignorance become an American value?
During the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin's supporters blasted Katie Kouric for exposing her ignorance of foreign affairs. English-only . . .
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April 13, 2009 06:32 PM EDT --
You would think a law that makes it profitable for companies to reduce pollution would be a good thing. That is, unless you were a conservative. Groups like the Heritage Foundation are attacking America's . . .
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