Tag: attention gather
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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 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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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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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 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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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 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 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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March 31, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
As many of you know, I've been absent from these hallowed spaces for several months, since Christmas brought my mother-in-law to our town. Frustration is a favorite motivator for me, and I have used . . .
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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 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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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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December 29, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Imagine waking up tomorrow and learning that the United Nations has decreed that everyone living west of the Mississippi River had to move to the east of it. No one except American Indians could . . .
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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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February 23, 2009 06:37 PM EST --
Mary L. Schapiro is the new head of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). She is not new to the agency, having worked there under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. If her first days on the job are . . .
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March 23, 2009 06:23 PM EDT --
The world watched Pope Benedict XVI visit Africa this week. The news was predictable if not exciting. He spoke on the human condition, the plight of women and girls, and public health. That's right: . . .
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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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