Tag: gather essentials us politics
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May 15, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
It was bound to happen sooner or later. People stopped shopping. Well, they didn’t stop all together, but enough to make a sharp drop in retail sales for the month of April. A 2.4% fall in sales . . .
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April 14, 2008 03:27 AM EDT --
After reading in both the Washington Post and the New York Times about the misuse of federally issued credit cards, I decided to check out the report from the Government Accountability Office for . . .
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June 05, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
I find the odyssey of Andrew Speaker, the 31- year -old attorney with a multi- drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), disturbing on many levels.
Andrew Speaker is an Atlanta personal injury . . .
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April 25, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
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May 22, 2007 10:21 PM EDT --
I have always been intrigued by blind loyalty, both those who follow someone blindly, and those who command such loyalty.
Blind loyalty is a common thread throughout the Bush administration. What . . .
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April 27, 2008 07:24 PM EDT --
Torture is wrong and can no longer be tolerated. The Bush administration would have us believe that torture is justified to fight terrorism and protect our country. But torture is a sign of weakness . . .
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June 11, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
It was an intimate, cute gesture between a husband and wife to show each other support, but Fox News tried to turn it into something sinister.
The whole world saw Michelle Obama give . . .
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August 20, 2008 04:57 AM EDT --
Following the Saddleback Church Civil Forum on Saturday night, I was bombarded with e-mails from people asking my opinion. Boy do I have opinions about it – no surprise there – and decided it was easiest . . .
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August 28, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
The biggest news at the DNC last night was no news. In other words, much to the dismay of the GOP and the media, there was no discord.
The Clinton Camp and the Obama Camp continued the love fest as . . .
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May 08, 2007 02:02 PM EDT --
Julie MacDonald, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks for the Interior Department, abruptly resigned April 30 on the verge of a congressional committee hearing. Saying that . . .
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May 01, 2007 05:44 PM EDT --
Right on the heels of the financial aid scandal at the university level, comes more disturbing news. John Higgins, the Education Department’s inspector general, has asked the Justice . . .
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May 29, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
Sunday was just about as perfect as a day can get here in Southern California. Warm and sunny with clear blue skies and a faint scent of jasmine in the air. Blooming jacaranda trees . . .
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August 23, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
Ripples caused by foreclosures on Main Street have suddenly sent shock waves through Wall Street and beyond.
In 2005, with interest rates at record lows, subprime lenders were practically giddy . . .
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September 07, 2007 02:19 AM EDT --
Hypocrisy: 1) a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one des not; the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion 2) an act or instance of hypocrisy
Dave Barbee, head of the Richmond . . .
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November 01, 2007 12:32 AM EDT --
Bulletins have been coming in fast and furious this week from various points in Iowa.
Larry in Ames has been very prolific in providing information. He told me, “Cheri, in my total un-scientific . . .
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January 04, 2008 01:54 AM EST --
My son-in-law called me from Northeast Iowa as soon as he got home from his caucus this evening. It was the first time he and his folks had participated in a caucus. In the past they has always supported . . .
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January 22, 2008 10:00 PM EST --
Neither Wall Street, nor stock markets around the world, were impressed with Bush's proffered economic stimulus. While Wall Street was closed Monday, markets from Brazil to Tokyo nose-dived . . .
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February 14, 2008 02:02 AM EST --
It all started innocently enough with my . . .
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June 26, 2008 08:02 PM EDT --
This has been a banner week for political gaffs. First on the list would be Charlie Black, senior advisor to Senator John McCain. On Monday, Fortune magazine ran an article in which Mr. Black was . . .
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September 09, 2008 03:04 AM EDT --
If the GOP wanted to solidify their standing as the Old White Men’s Party, they succeeded handily last week at their convention. It could have been called “Night at the Museum” with all the old fossils . . .
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