Tag: politics
member name: Stephen Murray
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September 06, 2006 01:13 PM EDT --
Next Monday is the 5th anniversary of the commercial jets being flown into the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. The president who said he wanted Osama bin-Laden "dead or live," has . . . more
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May 15, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
When Bill Clinton was in the White House, I found much of what he did dubious, though his successor has made all 42 of his predecessors look better in comparison.
Whatever crime or folly (and the latter . . . more
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November 03, 2006 02:24 AM EST --
Where We Went Wrong
By Dick Armey, Washington Post op-ed
Somewhere along the road to a "permanent majority," the Republican Revolution of 1994 went off track. ... Where did the revolution go . . . more
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August 28, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
It is not exactly earthshaking news that many fervent opponents of gay rights have strong homoerotic feelings or that they act on them while maintaining a public facade of marriage (often with a dense . . . more
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October 24, 2006 04:34 PM EDT --
In typical disingenuous blaming others for one's own sins, Mike O, who probaly only read the title of my previous posting, accused me of hateful misrepresentation of what Bush's mouth and mouthpiece . . . more
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May 21, 2007 05:32 PM EDT --
Like his former boss at the so-called Department of "Defense," Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz had expressions of full support from George W. Bush until he resigned. Bush has a longer relationship . . . more
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June 08, 2008 07:40 PM EDT --
We hear much of "experience" in regard to John McCain. Having once (when I was a ten-year-old) sported a campaign button that alternated (depending on the angle) between proclaiming "Experience . . . more
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February 24, 2008 01:57 PM EST --
Ralph Nader's long career of consumer safety advocacy is going to feature in his obituary behind his role in allowing George W. Bush to occupy the White House. Certainly, Al Gore should have run a . . . more
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January 03, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
After an all-Republican government that inherited a budget surplus has turned the United States into a debtor of the PRC (etc.) has lost its majority in the House of Representatives, . . . more
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October 25, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
It's hard to contemplate anything having to do with the fate of empires without imaging reflections from the chas of Iraq, though even George W. Bush's harshest critics imagine that his military . . . more
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November 08, 2006 06:19 PM EST --
Gay Marriage Ban Rejected in Arizona
By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
In a triple setback for conservatives, South Dakotans rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona . . . more
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June 08, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
I sympathize with the frustration some have expressed that the death of the demagogue Jerry Falwell has received more media coverage than the deaths of American military personnel in Iraq combined. I am . . . more
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June 06, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
Poor John McCain! McCain, one of the co-chairs of the 2004 re-election campaign of George W. Bush is reported by AP to be weary of being closely linked to the president -- that would be the worse president . . . more
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November 04, 2006 01:36 AM EST --
Just when I needed hard numbers on the growth of federal spending under US governments with one party controlling both Congress and the White House in contrast to split control, The Economist supplied . . . more
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November 20, 2006 09:01 PM EST --
What I have found most infuriating of the Bush junta's misrule is its open contempt for facts and for "reality-based" policy-making. The remaking of the Middle East into a friendly neighborhood . . . more
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October 31, 2006 02:26 PM EST --
Preface: Credentials: My conservative credentials include having a mother who was county Republican chair, having made campaign speeches for Barry Goldwater in 1964, having had one of Leo Strauss's . . . more
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November 08, 2006 09:15 PM EST --
In most instances who won and who lost particular elections for offices on the ballot yesterday is clear. In my opnion, many of the big losers of the midterm elections were not on the ballot. nor were . . . more
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September 05, 2006 01:03 PM EDT --
Once upon a time, there was a president who kept a sign "The buck stops here." The current tenant and occasional visitor to the Oval Office has gone through life having other people clean up . . . more
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April 10, 2008 01:29 PM EDT --
Although AC was frustratingly slow to publish my nearly live observations yesterday of the crowd along the route on which the Olympic torch did not pass on its peculiar route from Mount Olympus to Beijing, . . . more
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May 13, 2008 08:10 PM EDT --
I received this from downsizer, an uncopyrighted account that shows how f___ed up congressional appropriations are (this one is really two Republican boondoggles, but without doubt there are earmarks of . . . more
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