Tag: culture
group name: barackobama2008
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May 06, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
Indiana has not given its electoral votes to a Democratic Candidate since the 1960's. Is it likely to do so this year? Probably not. I remember from my youth my homestate sticking . . . more
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January 04, 2008 10:55 PM EST --
Well, it was a fun ride for the neo-conservatives while it lasted -- the Christian right was a cheap date for them, all it required was persecuting a few minorities and a little posturing and they got . . . more
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April 14, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
Wednesday, November 24: I think my first hint that something had changed was the Breaking News labels on television. I wasn't really watching TV, but it was on and the characteristic . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:12 PM EDT --
There are two primary paths to the middle-class in America: education and/or a successful small business. Both of these paths are currently being obstructed. There has been a concerted attack . . . more
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January 30, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
To most politically active Americans to be called un-American is a pretty nasty insult. Unfortunately, since there seems to be a growing number of Americans who do not understand what it means to . . . more
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June 25, 2007 05:55 PM EDT --
I was sitting in a church service listening to a speaker recount the fact that 50 or 70 years ago we wouldn't even have been considering such things as abortion as a contraceptive or gay marriage. . . . more
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February 01, 2008 02:02 PM EST --
In last night's debate did we see a hint that both Hillary and Barack would consider being their opponent's running mate? And have they both now realized they should not get into bashing . . . more
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April 16, 2008 12:51 PM EDT --
I certainly think he is. He is out of touch with me, and a majority of working people in the USA.
Right wing commentator Patrick J. Buchanan has a lot to say in opposition to any candidate . . . more
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May 03, 2008 03:20 PM EDT --
They will be promised service, but that is because they are stupid and lazy.
The promises will not be kept, and that will make the stupid angry, but the lazy will not do anything about it, . . . more
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February 19, 2007 02:30 PM EST --
We hear about "family values" a lot especially in the misnamed "Bible Belt" which is more appropriately named the "Bigot Belt." Family values translated through Republican . . . more
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April 19, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
When you hear someone being accused of having stereotyped a group, it is not normally a very nice accusation. It has this veiled feel to it like you have just been called a racist. Well, that . . . more
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May 06, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
Obama is right on the gas tax holiday. The holiday is not meant to solve anything and is merely a quick political ploy on the part of elected officials to take the heat off themselves for a mismanaged . . . more
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May 18, 2008 04:33 PM EDT --
Any of you tired of hearing far right people denounce this or that Democrat or program or policy or whatever as being socialististic? Like any government intervention to actually help people is tainted . . . more
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May 01, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
Not long ago I wrote an article about the Virginia Tech University shooting. I mentioned how there was a cycle to the news coverage when shootings of this nature occur. How the same debates . . . more
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December 15, 2007 12:21 PM EST --
As I have said previously, the problem with unrestrained capitalism, is unrestrained capitalists. Capitalism is very good at producing goods for the least amount of money. It is not very . . . more
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March 23, 2008 01:28 PM EDT --
The bipartisan economic stimulus proposal is something of a joke since it borrows money from China for consumers to buy Chinese goods. But, there may be an unexpected economic stimulus that neither . . . more
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April 16, 2008 12:53 AM EDT --
May First is the International day of labor. It is NOT very popular in the Land of the free and the home of the brave, after all, labor is not much respected here. But, Labor exists here, and . . . more
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April 23, 2007 10:48 PM EDT --
There is morality, and then there is morality. Morality has been a term which has become so politicized that it has become very fuzzy. I believe that morality can exist outside of religious . . . more
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March 25, 2008 05:27 PM EDT --
It probably doesn't pay to be overly honest in politics, a fact that Barack Obama may be chewing on right now after refusing to publicly throw his minister in front of the truck and discussing both . . . more
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March 27, 2008 01:09 PM EDT --
Who's really paying for the mortgage meltdown?
A) The Mortgage brokers.
B) The people losing their homes.
C) The Banks.
D) The People keeping their homes.
E) All the above.
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