Tag: state politics
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June 08, 2007 10:12 AM EDT --
Before my first cup of coffee I found myself shaking my head in disbelief.
What CAN we say when lawmakers assault each other on the Senate floor??
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September 15, 2009 09:43 PM EDT --
We're living in a world where the behavior of right-wing lynch mobs clearly is far less about ideology, and far more about partisanship and racial hate. The tea party protesters were nowhere to be found . . .
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July 30, 2006 07:59 PM EDT --
Hara Estroff Manaro:
Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history. "Kids need to feel badly sometimes," says child psychologist David Elkind, . . .
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January 21, 2006 09:40 AM EST --
Bill O'Reilly has now taken to defaming people I know. Chris Graff, Jeffrey Amestoy, and Amy Davenport are all decent, intelligent people who know far more about the cases they take up than Mr. O'Reilly . . .
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January 05, 2006 08:06 PM EST --
One of the joys of the Internet is that it is easy to pick a subject…in this case, quotes regarding religion by prominent historical figures…and mine a seemingly inexhaustible lode of information. . . .
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October 18, 2006 03:54 PM EDT --
I read an interesting piece by Brooke Allen in the LA Times yesterday. Allen recently completed a book called, "Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers." This is a subject . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:21 AM EDT --
The similarities between the protests on college campus' during the Vietnam era and now are startling.
A college student in Florida was tasered during a visit by John Kerry. Whether or not this . . .
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June 13, 2006 12:28 AM EDT --
Sigh...
Doctors will this week declare war on America's soft drinks industry by calling for a 'fat tax' to combat the nation's obesity epidemic.
Delegates at the powerful American Medical . . .
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February 28, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
America's Quest for Global Dominance
By Noam Chomsky
-- Chomsky indicates that America is just as much a terrorist state as any other government or rogue organization
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January 23, 2006 06:17 PM EST --
How are You Doing
By Joseph E. Thompson
As an arch cynic who hates the very idea of droolingly positive columns about politicians, it grieves me to have to write this one. It is also painful to tell . . .
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April 24, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
This lady has it all. She has leadership, character, and tenacity. She has experience with internaltional affairs. Those who don't like her and claim they want a woman have . . .
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October 19, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
During the course of a conversation sparked by an article by Sigalit, who asked why so many True Believers insist on trying to impose their religious views on others, I was accused of trying to impose . . .
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November 30, 2005 03:21 PM EST --
If anyone knows where i can find info pertaning to politics let me know please.
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July 22, 2006 02:30 AM EDT --
And not potato chips either but computer chips. To control their thoughts and stuff.
WASHINGTON - Madison Ave. ad execs are so bent on taking control of America's children, they'd put computer . . .
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February 03, 2006 03:31 PM EST --
The Hottest Selling Bumper Sticker in New York state?
"RUN HILLARY RUN"
Democrats put it on the rear bumper.
Republicans put it on the front bumper.
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December 21, 2005 01:13 AM EST --
I realize I am beating a dead horse here, but this is a piece I wrote about a year ago, and I still like it, and had to share it with y'all here on Gather.
I was thinking about the national ruckus . . .
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September 21, 2005 02:05 PM EDT --
This weekend, gay marriage opponents in Massachusetts are partnering with churches to gather the necessary signatures to put a question on the ballot in November 2008 banning gay marriage.
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January 15, 2006 12:22 PM EST --
"From Liberty Street"
January 14, 2006
The TV pundit Bill O'Reilly has announced that he intends to take over my home state of Vermont. I guess I should be shaking in my slippers.
Not . . .
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January 19, 2006 07:58 AM EST --
ROE VS WADE AND ME
It was 1969, my last year of grad school. We'd been married a few months. He was ten years older than me. I hadn't yet figured out the role I was supposed to play with his . . .
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January 24, 2006 09:20 AM EST --
The minimum wage is an artificial price floor. And while it differs from State to State, the federal government has said that no one will be allowed to work for less than $5.15/hour. . . .
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