Tag: politics
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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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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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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December 01, 2008 07:12 PM EST --
President-elect Obama is hard at work during the waning Bush days. Today, he announced his national security team. His appointments tell a great deal about his vision for American foreign policy in the . . .
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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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June 14, 2009 11:25 PM EDT --
Conservatives are scared, and they want to scare you. Their best arguments against giving all Americans access to health care do not really add up. The truth is a lot less scary than the smoke and . . .
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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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November 10, 2008 09:19 AM EST --
In celebration.
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January 12, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
The honeymoon may already be over in Washington. Last week, Senator Arlen Specter voiced doubts that Eric Holder will make a good Attorney General. Senator Diane Feinstein complained that Leon . . .
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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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April 27, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada, telling U.S. citizens that they ought to overthrow their national government. It isn't very likely that many people would act on such advice. Canada is, after . . .
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June 08, 2009 06:43 PM EDT --
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) released its opinion in the case of Brent Benjamin today. Benjamin is the Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court. In 2004, when the story began, . . .
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June 22, 2009 06:36 PM EDT --
In case you missed it last week, here are Six Silly Stories from the Right about Universal Health Care .
Continuing the discussion from last week, here are nine more fairy tales from the right about . . .
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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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November 12, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
Here in the United States of America we have free enterprise in every conceivable area, even when it is not appropriate. Medicine is one of those inappropriate areas.
Why is medicine an inappropriate . . .
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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 17, 2008 05:32 PM EST --
At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore last week, one of the discussions centered on the fact that in spite of their efforts to defeat him, a clear majority of Americans . . .
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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 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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