Tag: politics
member name: J. Clifford C.
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March 14, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Over the last few years, we Americans have become used to a strange new kind of language used to describe ourselves and our nation. One term in this new language is the word homeland. I want you to think . . .
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March 21, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
I have set myself a challenge for writing about the 2008 presidential election season, and to tell the truth, I'm not sure that I will be able to meet it.
The challenge: Compile a list of 2,008 . . .
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June 11, 2007 12:34 PM EDT --
You probably haven't heard about it, but this month, June, is Torture Awareness Month. It's a month during which we're all encouraged to give some attention to the global problem of torture. . . .
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March 17, 2007 07:17 AM EDT --
After a few days of nervous fidgeting around the issue, Senator Barack Obama finally came out speaking clear and clean in response to the outrageous assertions of General Peter Pace. Obama declared, "I . . .
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March 17, 2007 06:55 AM EDT --
We Americans have a habit of saying that we have a love of freedom. We pride ourselves upon our liberty and democracy... at least at a theoretical level.
The trouble is that loving freedom and loving . . .
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December 20, 2007 01:37 PM EST --
This year, there have been a series of unsettling revelations about a possible connection between Ron Paul and extremist racist ideology. First, there was the news about the Ron Paul newsletter . . .
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April 18, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
The great question of the 2008 election, as it stands now near the eve of the Pennsylvania presidential primary , is how long the stalemate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should go on.
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October 29, 2008 02:19 PM EDT --
I admit, that title doesn't seem to make sense, but hear me out. Like many Americans, I am displeased with both alternatives in the presidential election (and in my local congressional race . . .
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April 07, 2007 06:28 AM EDT --
There has been a lot of mythology built up around Rudolph Giuliani. Is he a hero? Is he a wise leader? Is he, perhaps, just a guy who got into the limelight by accident? Is he anything more than another . . .
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August 08, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
Last Saturday night, in a mid-summer, late-evening vote that seemed designed to avoid the scrutiny of the American people, the House of Representatives voted to approve a piece of legislation already approved . . .
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August 09, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
Is Osama Bin Laden hiding in your refrigerator?
Declare a Code Orange Alert in your icebox! Homeland Security starts at home!
When Osama Bin Laden attacked the United States of America on the 11th of . . .
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January 15, 2009 12:39 PM EST --
Not everyone here will be able to attend the Inauguration on January 20th, 2009 in person. However, given that about one out of every 150 Americans is expected to come to Washington D.C. that day, . . .
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September 05, 2008 11:43 PM EDT --
It is now less than two months before Election Day, and the John McCain for President campaign has just announced that Sarah Palin is not ready to talk to reporters. She isn't ready to hold . . .
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February 27, 2007 05:29 PM EST --
In the wake of this morning's news about the suicide bomb attack at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan, a check of perspective is called for.
Two plain facts come out of this attack:
1. Most . . .
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November 09, 2007 08:57 PM EST --
The implications of the indictment on corruption charges of Bernard Kerik, Rudolph Giuliani's longtime political partner, are so clear that I think they can be adequately expressed even in the short . . .
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March 04, 2007 03:42 AM EST --
I created the Progressive Politics Group here at Gather because I see many very intelligent and articulate people here on the site, and wanted to give them a place to come and gather together for worthy . . .
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March 07, 2007 04:14 PM EST --
No, I'm not talking about an orgy. I'm talking about a political party focused on sex.
One exists in Canada. It's called The Sex Party of Canada. I learned about the Canadian Sex Party . . .
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March 14, 2007 05:10 PM EDT --
In tribute to a great limerick in support of Barack Obama by Jude Cowell, entitled A Sleek Cat, Obama:
Placing this rhyme in the groups
on Gather for activist troops
of Obama supporters
would . . .
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April 19, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
I'm a liberal, and proud to be one, so I'm inclined to think favorably of what Edward R. Murrow did to help confront Senator Joseph McCarthy's oppressive tactics in hunting down people he believed . . .
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February 25, 2007 03:41 PM EST --
When it comes to political activism, small steps should never be underestimated.
It's the big things that get attention on the TV news - big things like marches of hundreds of thousands of people . . .
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