Tag: us politics
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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April 19, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
I love fireworks. From the ground-level explosion that launches the rocket, it climbs quickly to its apogee, then blossoms into a spectacular explosion. The show is short-lived, fading quickly, . . .
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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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April 02, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
I was reading about the numerous bills being proposed in state legislatures around the country that defend a pharmacist's right to refuse service to people who are trying to fill prescriptions for . . .
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October 28, 2008 09:00 PM EDT --
THE BIG NEWS on the Internet yesterday was that federal authorities arrested two skinhead cretins who were plotting to kill over a hundred black people, including Barack Obama.
Now, these . . .
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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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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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November 05, 2008 02:09 PM EST --
I am happy that Obama won. I think it shows that Americans showed that they could see past the race issue. The result is not so much a rejection of McCain...although his campaign disillusioned . . .
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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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May 13, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
Kara Neumann of Weston Wisconsin died on Easter Sunday.
She died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a result of undiagnosed and untreated juvenile diabetes. This is a treatable disease, and Kara should . . .
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June 13, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
This article appeared on the AlterNet web site today. I think it is an important issue. Here, we have a vaccine that is "100 percent effective at protecting against the most prevalent . . .
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March 15, 2009 03:29 PM EDT --
Didn't he learn anything from Reagan and the Bushes? They proved that if you cut taxes to the rich and wages to the working people everybody is better off. Reagan also knew that those . . .
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February 01, 2006 01:32 AM EST --
Suppose you were the head of a family, and that you lived in a house at the base of a steep hill. You had lived here happily for many years, raising your children. Then you began to notice . . .
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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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April 15, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
The county attorney for Barren County in Kentucky sent a "survey" to all state legislators and legislative candidates asking them whether they "accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior." . . .
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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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April 25, 2009 03:59 PM EDT --
Kathleen Sebelius has a job I wouldn't take for any amount of money. She is the governor of the state of Kansas. She is also Obama's pick to head the department of Health and Human Services. . . .
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May 09, 2006 04:02 PM EDT --
I just caught this poem by Calvin Trillin in "The Nation" magazine, saying good-bye to departed presidential spokesman, Scott McClellan.
Good luck to you, McClellan, Scott.
Though charming . . .
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