Tag: government
member name: Bert B.
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July 09, 2008 12:03 AM EDT --
"And Bert, well I just guess that Bert is typical of the kind who complain about "Big Brother" while asking the same big brother to fix all of their problems."
The above comment . . .
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September 05, 2009 11:48 PM EDT --
The speaker was elderly and distinguished-looking, with a mane of carefully-coiffed white hair. He was speaking to an even older audience in an auditorium in a retirement community.
“Make . . .
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April 20, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
I usually don't do this...publish somebody else's work. Gather should be for writers, not bloggers.
I will make an exception in this case, because it is such an important article, and so . . .
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August 07, 2009 10:20 PM EDT --
The confirmation vote for Sanya Sotomayor was 68-31.
There are 60 Democrats in the Senate.
Therefore, 8 Republican heroes voted for confirmation of a liberal, Hispanic judge with 17 years . . .
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October 27, 2009 02:35 AM EDT --
E-cigarettes. Have you heard of them?
When I first saw the name, I thought: Wow! How does that work? Do I log onto their web site and have a smoke by sucking on my mouse?
It’s . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:49 AM EST --
Devout religious believers often deplore the “moral relativism” of liberal/progressive thought, claiming that absolute moral standards, as defined by their sacred scriptures, are necessary . . .
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January 05, 2008 12:17 AM EST --
This would have been my mother's 110 th year if she were still alive. She was born in 1898. She lived a long, and for the most part, healthy life, dying in 1990 at the age of 91. Even though she . . .
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December 18, 2008 02:52 PM EST --
Listening to the rhetoric from Republican Senators like Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Bob Corker (Tennessee) and Richard Shelby (Alabama), one would think that the domestic auto companies were . . .
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March 05, 2009 04:11 PM EST --
That's what former Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says about Obama. Referring to Obama's proposed budget, he said, "Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff. . . .
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March 12, 2009 12:32 AM EDT --
Republicans are suddenly up-in-arms, opposing Congressional earmarks. The latest budget includes 8,570 disclosed earmarks worth $7.7 billion. John McCain is nearly apoplectic, blasting . . .
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February 10, 2006 01:13 AM EST --
After listening to two friends here on Gather argue about the current mess our country is in, it hit me that as long as these arguments continue, nothing will change.
I would categorize their positions . . .
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February 17, 2009 12:20 AM EST --
The recent economic meltdown has brought some slimy little creatures out from under the rocks. Our political system, with its reliance on mass media, has spawned a new species of commentators . . .
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May 30, 2008 02:54 AM EDT --
I recently had a lengthy discussion with a friend about income tax rates. I stated that the first thing President Obama should do is abolish the "tax cuts for the rich" that Bush pushed . . .
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June 19, 2006 10:39 PM EDT --
The link below will take you to an article about a guy named Sam Brownback. I think his last name should be "Brownshirt." For those of you too young to remember, Hitler's thugs . . .
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June 01, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
This is the first of two articles addressing the subject of Capitalism, and how it has powered our nation from obscurity to the pinnacle of superpower status, but how it now threatens not only the future . . .
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June 17, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The Tragedy of the Commons (TOC) is not widely known or understood, except among people who have studied environmental science. The depletion of fishery stocks and whale populations are graphic . . .
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June 18, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
Today, June 18 th , President Bush said that the Democrats are to blame for high oil prices. When I read this, I laughed out loud…and then I got mad.
This is truly the era . . .
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June 23, 2008 01:26 AM EDT --
In a few months, I will attend my 54 th high school reunion. I graduated from high school in 1954, barely past the midpoint of the 20 th Century. The Second World War had concluded only . . .
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June 25, 2008 03:26 AM EDT --
President Bush recently tried to blame Democrats in Congress for the current runup in gasoline prices because they have blocked drilling off the coasts and in the ANWR. He failed to mention in . . .
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January 02, 2006 06:42 PM EST --
I have often advocated the use of government subsidies to promote and encourage conservation. I believe that one of the roles of government is to encourage citizens to take actions that are seen . . .
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