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November 22, 2009 03:56 PM EST --
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Harper October 2009 507 pages . . .
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November 22, 2009 09:43 AM EST --
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/33398/
So Glenn Beck has decided to go into community organizing, huh? I thought the thing that the Tea Party folk . . .
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November 21, 2009 09:19 PM EST --
From the AP:
Forecasters said the rainfall was unprecedented. The Environment Agency recorded 12.3 inches (314.4 millimeter) of rain in 24 hours in one spot — one of the wettest days ever recorded . . .
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November 21, 2009 08:17 PM EST --
That was close. They finished the vote a minute ago on C-span. Exactly 60 votes to proceed with debate after the Thanksgiving Break. One less, and the thing would have gone down the flusher.
So we talk . . .
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November 21, 2009 02:29 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (CNN)– Revisiting some of her campaign trail talking points, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin weighed in on the Senate health care vote, criticizing the Democrats and Majority Leader . . .
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November 21, 2009 10:52 AM EST --
He's the recently elected Attorney General of Virginia, the State that I inhabit. Cuccinelli apparently likes to call environmentalists "watermelons". Why watermelons? Because they are green on the outside, . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:20 PM EST --
"One thing that’s clear is that anyone who says t hat they own the tea party movement is going to get run over because no one owns the movement,” said Adam Brandon, . . .
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November 20, 2009 06:06 PM EST --
Chevy Traverse. According to the commercial on TV, it seats 8. It costs $30,000, or $35,000 if you get some options. It gets 24 mpg on the highway. Which of course means that you will probably get 18 . . .
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November 20, 2009 04:50 PM EST --
David Brooks is a moderate Republican pundit. It struck me odd today that he is publicly defending Tim Geithner against criticism. Geithner is heading up Obama's Treasury Dept.
To summarize Brooks' . . .
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November 20, 2009 02:31 PM EST --
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/20/california.tuition.protests/index.html
That has got to hurt. If you live in California, maybe you can explain this crisis more fully?It seems to be an extreme case . . .
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November 19, 2009 09:44 PM EST --
CEDAR CREEK, Texas (CNN) – Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell on Wednesday would not disavow Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson’s recent claim that Islam is not a religion, but “a . . .
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November 19, 2009 12:52 PM EST --
Yes, the timing was bad. But the response was an over -reaction. Nobody said you can't have a yearly mammogram any more. It's not Death Panel time. It may have been a dumb ruling by the federal committee, . . .
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November 18, 2009 01:34 PM EST --
CNN-
In an interview with CNN's Ed Henry in China, the president acknowledged Wednesday he would not be reading the highly-anticipated memoir by his potential 2012 opponent.
"I probably won't, but . . .
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November 17, 2009 09:55 PM EST --
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released on Tuesday...... indicates that a slight majority, 51 percent, of Republicans would prefer to see the GOP in their area nominate candidates who agree . . .
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November 17, 2009 05:32 PM EST --
Sarah Palin is complaining today that the current Newsweek cover is "sexist" for showing her in a running outfit. In the interest of full disclosure, Palin posed for this picture- it's not her head glued . . .
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November 17, 2009 01:43 PM EST --
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/17/fort.hood.suspect.imam/index.html
More data for the effort to comprehend the motivations of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter. Visiting strip clubs is, . . .
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November 16, 2009 11:13 PM EST --
Bob McDonnell, newly elected Governor of Virginia who has not yet taken office, now promises that he will "opt Virginia out" of the national health reform plan.
David Frum, Republican pundit, is worried . . .
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November 15, 2009 10:19 PM EST --
“I think Sarah Palin is great for the Republican Party,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in an interview that aired on CNN’s State of the Union.
Big Tent, one big happily . . .
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November 15, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
Are you a fan of Kenneth Brannagh, the famous British Shakespearean actor? You may also know him from the film version of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", where he played Professor Gilderoy . . .
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November 15, 2009 06:20 PM EST --
My wife and I got out of the house today. We spent a couple hours doing the canal walk in downtown Richmond Virginia, up and down the James River and around a couple of islands in the river. The James . . .
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