Tag: politics
group name: importantthings
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September 15, 2006 01:17 AM EDT --
Democracy Needs a Voting Public
by Judy W
An AP article in today's paper lamented the fact that in California the voting public is not reflective of the general population of the state. I expect that . . . more
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May 27, 2007 09:26 AM EDT --
With all the current buzz about illegal immigrants in America, outsiders, like me, cannot help but ponder over what constitutes an American.
That America is a nation founded by immigrants has . . . more
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November 05, 2006 05:53 AM EST --
Probably the most important and divisive issue in the 2006 United States Congressional election is the problem of Iraq. The Democrats are portraying it as a political and military misadventure of gigantic . . . more
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July 24, 2007 04:39 AM EDT --
Judging by what’s on the news channels these days, there seem to be two hot-button, foreign policy issues agitating US politicians and the general public. The first is pulling American troops out . . . more
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May 16, 2008 02:39 AM EDT --
Today's Times of India (TOI) (May 16) carries a telling graphic. It lists the nine major terrorist bombings that have taken place in the country since 2005 (the latest one occurring in . . . more
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April 05, 2007 07:21 AM EDT --
The hot button issue in the USA right now is the Democratic Party’s proposal to start withdrawing US troops from Iraq this summer and complete the withdrawal by April 2008. It’s another matter . . . more
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June 18, 2007 03:15 AM EDT --
Even those who are not particularly fond of the USA have a grudging admiration of its justice system. Folks with an ingrained sense of right and wrong – and who experience American jurisprudence . . . more
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April 07, 2008 01:20 AM EDT --
Men like to fight. It's in their genes. This perhaps explains why wars have been a fact of life since the dawn of civilization. Throughout most of history, the womenfolk have had no option . . . more
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June 09, 2008 02:09 AM EDT --
It is quite probable that many Americans are laboring under the optimistic assumption that, if Barack Obama becomes President, the US will make a speedy exit from Iraq; and the troops will come . . . more
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June 26, 2007 04:41 AM EDT --
Something ominous is going on in Iran right now – and it has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. The ruling clerics – and their pet poodle, Ahmadinejad – are striking back. One fact that . . . more
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September 11, 2007 04:08 AM EDT --
So, according to the progress report – and all those fancy charts - delivered by US general Petreus, the surge is working. Impressive percentages are being trotted out about the fall in number of . . . more
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October 18, 2006 09:03 AM EDT --
Segolene Royal is a remarkable Frenchwoman: smart, attractive, young for a politician (she's 53); she is the favourite to lead her country's Socialist Party bid for the Presidency of France. It's . . . more
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November 05, 2006 01:11 AM EST --
We pride this country on the freedom given to everybody no matter if you are black or white, irish or german, a woman or a man, but no, not those homosexuals you can be anything except that . . . more
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November 06, 2006 03:18 AM EST --
I'm sure many of us have felt disgusted at some of the negative – sometimes downright vicious – political ads that have surfaced during the 2006 US Congressional campaign. We probably think . . . more
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January 09, 2007 06:45 AM EST --
I don't know how many of you caught the speech by "President-for-Life" Hugo Chavez on CNN last night. Shorn of all rhetoric, it was a public declaration of his intent to nationalize as many . . . more
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September 24, 2006 08:57 PM EDT --
People who oppose capital punishment tend to argue the point case by case. We opponents demand the death penalty shouldn't be applied because some convict has been 'reformed' and spews out . . . more
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November 07, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
-What Is Frivolous?
I recently had a friend of mine take me home. She didn?t know that I was on SSI/SSDI
(I guess) so she asked me why I didn?t get that. I told her that I did, but . . . more
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January 17, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, will the politics in the US look more like the politics in Venezuela?
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April 04, 2008 10:55 PM EDT --
Obama hasn't won, yet.
If he wins the Democrats' Leadership, that's when he'll become a target.
Why?
Because he's AGAINST the war.
He's therefore a threat to . . . more
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March 16, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
In a recently conducted CNN poll, nearly 60% of US citizens wanted to see American troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year. Their reasoning and angst is understandable. The more money and . . . more
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