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April 16, 2008 07:51 AM EDT --
I was at the gym yesterday morning, walking on the treadmill, and since I didn't have my headphones with me I was watching the Bush administration's press department - sorry, Fox News - with the . . .
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January 18, 2007 12:06 AM EST --
The new House of Representatives is off to a running start with its 100 Hours campaign. Of six targeted bills, five have already passed, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's clock shows that only . . .
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March 20, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
According to the Associated Press, biology teacher Kris Helphinstine of Sisters High School in Sisters, Oregon was fired Monday after only eight days on the job. Helphinstine provided supplemental . . .
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January 04, 2007 01:29 PM EST --
It's refreshing to see that 79% of respondents (so far) in today's Gather poll think that Keith Ellison (D-MN) should be allowed to carry the Koran to his swearing-in ceremony for the House of . . .
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January 18, 2007 06:45 PM EST --
According to today's (Thursday's) Gather poll, 40% of 160 respondents would rather the U.S. had spent $1.2 trillion on health care instead of the Iraq war.
The time has come to talk about universal . . .
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February 13, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
The other night, I watched in disgust as Arizona Republican Senator John "Flip-Flop" McCain stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate and told Democrats Harry Reid and Dick Durbin that it was not . . .
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May 15, 2007 07:18 PM EDT --
Jerry Falwell was a long-time arch nemesis for many people - even Christians. His rigid form of "old-time gospel" religion, and his many offensive, bigoted comments frequently turned people . . .
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December 12, 2006 02:01 AM EST --
A couple of things have managed to really get under my skin today...okay - more than a couple, but I'm short on time and patience right now, so I'm just gonna bust a couple of myths and then call . . .
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December 30, 2006 08:39 PM EST --
Last night, the Iraqi government -- which is unable to provide the most basic services to even the residents of Iraq's largest city -- executed their former president, Saddam Hussein. The Bush Administration . . .
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January 04, 2007 08:41 PM EST --
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is now represented on Gather, with the creation of the new group Pastafarians. This group is open for all on Gather, and for any who . . .
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January 10, 2007 10:14 AM EST --
While President Bush has repeatedly insisted that he is a "strict adherer to the command structure" in tonight's address he will attempt to justify to the nation and to his military . . .
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December 24, 2007 03:10 PM EST --
Last Saturday I was a guest again on the Bernard Schaer Show on KFUN 1230 AM in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The subject was the economy.
Despite my lack of energy as a result of a temporary but very . . .
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May 23, 2008 01:03 AM EDT --
If this nation was a corporation, heads would roll and there would be a top to bottom reorganization.
Well, we the voters are probably as comparable as you can get to corporate stockholders, so I say . . .
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September 30, 2008 07:05 AM EDT --
The stock market will likely open strong today, and well it should. Yesterday, the market lost one trillion dollars in value, and bloodbaths like that have been historical buying opportunities. . . .
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October 10, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
Earlier this year there was “travelflub.” It involved a set of new travel requirements aimed at controlling illegal immigration. However, it was so poorly planned that it had to be scrapped . . .
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May 13, 2008 02:35 AM EDT --
What can one think of a state that has recently tolerated pictures of lynchings on the walls of its rural bars?
It seems there's a good reason why Obama doesn't expect to win in West Virginia . . .
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May 17, 2008 01:41 AM EDT --
It's gotten so prevalent that even the outsourcing is being outsourced.
A firm in India is performing offshore outsourcing services for at least one American pharmaceutical company.
Offshore . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board declined to raise interest rates and, surprisingly, this may have been a factor in the Dow's 358 point drop today. It's surprising because generally . . .
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July 23, 2008 07:33 PM EDT --
On his current trip, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama seems to be doing a good job of persuading the world and - perhaps more importantly America - that he is, indeed, presidential material. . . .
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