Tag: politics
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April 06, 2006 08:05 AM EDT --
In the New York Times of April 5 is an article on Tuesday's bill on health care that Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is proposing, making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to require health . . . more
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May 10, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
I often write about the effects of war on our warfighters and the people who love them. But the subject "often leaves me feeling depleted of hope," a reader wrote. "How do you stay hopeful?" . . . more
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April 12, 2006 05:20 PM EDT --
Every time Private Luigi Pratt called home from Iraq, he could tell something was wrong. His wife Beth had sunk into a clinical depression, on the verge of suicide. From 6,000 miles away, Luigi, a trained . . . more
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June 20, 2006 10:46 AM EDT --
Although polls have shown that 65% of the country now dislikes and distrusts Bush and Congressional Republicans, and 73% believe we are on the wrong path, support for Democrats remains soft, because they . . . more
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June 23, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
Tom Ridge announced his resignation on November 30, 2004. He promises to stay in office until a replacement has been trained to change the color on the terror alert system and tell us when . . . more
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March 10, 2006 07:44 PM EST --
In 2000, George W. Bush promised to "restore honor and dignity to the White House."
That pledge, as is the case with virtually all Bush promises, lies in tatters.
Several weeks ago, Claude . . . more
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May 16, 2006 02:16 PM EDT --
We see this kind of news story now and again. Sometimes we try to imagine the people behind the numbers, the human realities underneath the surface abstractions. But overall, the . . . more
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May 13, 2006 05:44 PM EDT --
The Associated Press reports Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about Larry Darby, a Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general, who denies the Holocaust occurred and will and wants . . . more
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August 31, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
The latest Survey USA survey of state polls (released Aug. 23) revealed that Ohio Republican Gov. Robert Taft is by far the least liked governor in the US, with a negative approval margin of a whopping . . . more
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April 11, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
originally posted at The Agonist
Yesterday the San Antonio Express-News' Ombudsman, Bob Richter, asked, "You want more titillating stories -- or less?"
And today, on CNN, Kira Phillips' . . . more
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March 03, 2006 10:02 PM EST --
Well, it's not often that I scream at the TV, but I found myself willing to make an exception for Howard Dean's performance on MSNBC yesterday. He was on talking about the latest ginned-up outrage . . . more
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December 26, 2006 02:14 PM EST --
Competition has been fierce this year for the fifteenth annual P.U.-litzer Prizes.
Many can plausibly lay claim to stinky media performances, but only . . . more
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April 06, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
Court filings indicate that I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's former aide, testified that Bush had authorized the leak of pre-war intelligence. While it is unclear whether that included the identity of CIA . . . more
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March 01, 2006 04:19 PM EST --
Based on the latest polls, Bush now only has support from one-third of the country:
This from the Salt Lake City Tribune (Bush job approval at all-time low):
"Bush's . . . more
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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April 18, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator. This is from 1989, when a friend joined hundreds of thousands, who helped to tear it down.
The piece of the wall is thick concrete, and you can imagine . . . more
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April 06, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Leading diplomats and scientists fought through the night at an international global warming conference in Brussels. At issue, the extent to which the two sides can agree how far this problem has progressed. . . . more
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September 07, 2006 01:06 PM EDT --
In an article on how gas prices are everyone's fault but oil companies, Rob Port attempted to support his thesis with what he termed "verifiable facts."
Problem is, this support was neither . . . more
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May 06, 2006 09:13 AM EDT --
There has been a lot of pixels spilt over Rep. Pat Kennedy's recent run-in with the law for driving under the influence (yes, being on drugs--perscription or otherwise--is being "under the influence"). . . . more
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April 29, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
Yesterday, President Bush effusively praised his visitor, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, as they met in the oval office.
This despite the fact that the annual State Department human rights report . . . more
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