Tag: politics
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December 14, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
A small group of Senators is holding health care reform legislation hostage. Each has a thumb on the scale for some special-interest group or cause. A couple are fighting against abortion, Joe Lieberman . . .
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December 21, 2009 07:01 PM EST --
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For the want of the horse, the rider was lost. For the want of the rider, the battle was lost. For the want . . .
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November 30, 2009 07:13 PM EST --
The Swiss are a tolerant people, so tolerant, in fact, that they have three official languages. They managed to stay out of both world wars. Over the centuries, Switzerland has been a haven for the . . .
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December 07, 2009 07:21 PM EST --
It is really very interesting. When a Republican president decides to bomb a country back into the stone ages, no one quibbles about the costs. On the other hand, when a Democratic president does the . . .
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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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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 16, 2009 06:57 PM EST --
It seems like churches have been in the news a great deal lately.
Last week newspapers were busily filling the public in on where the Fort Hood shooter went to mosque, and who else might have gone . . .
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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 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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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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August 17, 2009 06:06 PM EDT --
Some say that religion is the human answer to the cognitive dissonance that arises from realizing that humans die. Because religion lets people believe life goes on after death, it gives life meaning. . . .
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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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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 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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