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member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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July 06, 2009 07:18 PM EDT --
Sarah Palin might have been the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic Party in 2008. Someone in the Republican Party gave her the idea that she was a major player in U.S. politics, and she . . .
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May 07, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
I hate this war.
I thought at first it was a knee-jerk reaction because I was a teenager during the worst of the Viet Nam tragedy. It's not. I hate this war.
I hate it because from the very beginning, . . .
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May 05, 2008 05:56 PM EDT --
With consumer prices climbing and the end of the mortgage meltdown nowhere in sight, it becomes tempting to counsel those trapped in predatory home loans to walk away. After all, the creditors who made . . .
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July 27, 2009 06:52 PM EDT --
Twenty-seven hundred people went to the Wise County Fairground in Wise, Virginia this weekend. They did not go to a fair, but rather to seek health care that they otherwise would not have gotten. The . . .
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July 07, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
In his book, Winning Through Intimidation, Robert Ringer says that there is really only one type of person in the business world. They use different techniques, but their modus operandi is to make sure . . .
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May 05, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
Lots of articles on Gather this week have to do with politics. A lot of them seem to display a basic ignorance of American national government. Many commentarians seem to have gotten their ideas about . . .
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March 26, 2008 12:17 PM EDT --
Some will rob you with a six-gun; and some with a fountain pen.
It's been said of U.S. economic policy that a rising tide floats all yachts. Last week, J.P. Morgan Chase offered to buy Bear . . .
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May 20, 2007 06:50 PM EDT --
I have tried not to be Chicken Little about it, but it's starting to look like the sky might really be falling.
A few incidents from the last few weeks have led to less-than-enjoyable contact with . . .
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April 28, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
Employees of the Texas A&M University System were alarmed last week to discover a new regulation that allows them to be fired after an arrest, whether it results in a conviction or not. The rule requires . . .
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June 23, 2008 06:59 PM EDT --
Midwest flooding is nothing new. Mark Twain wrote about it in Life on the Mississippi; just over 80 years ago, the great flood of 1927 inundated 16.6 million acres of land and caused $40 million . . .
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June 30, 2008 06:25 PM EDT --
We can all sleep easier now that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held a raid at Action Rags USA, a Houston rag-sorting facility on Wednesday of last week. The raid rounded up 160 highly dangerous . . .
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July 14, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
Let's all give a hearty hoo-rah for the Federal Reserve, which is expected to approve rules that protect homebuyers and investors from dishonest lenders. Give Mr. Bernanke the big blue ribbon for being . . .
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July 20, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
On July 16 this year, the New York Times published a story in which senators bemoaned the absence of Edward M. Kennedy during their work on health care reform legislation. It quotes Senator . . .
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May 11, 2007 02:42 PM EDT --
Here is one of those questions I'll have to put in the "Glad I don't have to answer it" column, but I can't get it off my mind for other reasons.
Emilio Gonzalez is a terminally . . .
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April 21, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
This is a repost from April 2007, But I think it is still valid:
On Friday, in Houston, a 60-year-old engineer carried a gun into NASA, took two co-workers hostage, and ended up killing one along with . . .
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June 09, 2008 05:33 PM EDT --
There may be 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, but the damned thing is still there.
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August 20, 2007 09:12 AM EDT --
Israel says it will no longer accept refugees from the Sudan who sneak across the border into that country from Egypt. The refugees will be returned to Egypt. The Israelis claim that country has agreed . . .
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April 07, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
Every once in a while, it would be nice to see Congress think all the way through their proposed actions to their logical consequences. Instead, they act from not-always-pure motives, and the devil gets . . .
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October 28, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
I stumbled across a couple of articles on the way we dress our children at ABC News today that got my attention, particularly in the wake of my recent article on dress codes in schools.
In "Are . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
Authorities in San Angelo, Texas announced that young children taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch will be separated from their mothers after DNA testing next week. The children, whose parents are members . . .
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