Tag: society
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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October 19, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
Larry Langford is in trouble with the law. The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has been accused of accepting bribes to steer business to friends when he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. . . .
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November 02, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Author James Ray has decided that he will not be giving anymore motivational talks or leading any more Spiritual Warrior Seminars until the investigations of the sweat-lodge deaths are complete. . . .
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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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September 28, 2009 07:30 PM EDT --
A number of large, hardbound books can be found at most County Clerks’ offices bearing the title, Drunkards, Lunatics, and Spendthrifts . Notwithstanding the fact that most people could fit into . . .
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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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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 10, 2008 07:12 PM EST --
A judge today ordered psychological testing for an eight-year-old Arizona boy accused of killing his father and another man execution-style on Wednesday. Prosecutors in the case want the child charged . . .
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February 09, 2009 06:27 PM EST --
Once upon a time, Americans used to receive their IRS W-2 forms in January. The typical taxpayer then sat down with a form 1040 and a pencil and got to work. An hour or so later, voilà, his . . .
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March 09, 2009 06:24 PM EDT --
Seth Myers made a joke on Saturday Night Live this week about banks spending half of the $700 billion stimulus bill to build the world's biggest toilet, which they would then use to flush . . .
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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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May 04, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
Xiu Ping Jiang is a mentally ill Chinese woman. She has spent the last year in an immigration jail in Florida. Because detainees in deportation cases have no right to attorneys, Xiu has no help when . . .
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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 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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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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August 11, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
For the second time in two months, the Iraqi government has publicly asked the United States to create a timeline for us to withdraw our forces, and for the second time, American negotiators have balked . . .
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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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January 19, 2009 06:30 PM EST --
Some people thought it was a good idea to prevent gay and lesbian couples from marrying in California. In fact, they thought it was such a good idea that they gave money to help pass Proposition 8. Now . . .
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