Tag: politics
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July 25, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
I felt that todays discussion of birth rates was disingenious as those discussing did not seem to grasp the true reality of this - the Western World is imploding (though I did hear this term spoken once . . . more
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May 10, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
In the summer of 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon to crush Hezbollah –and failed badly. Within weeks, they formed a commission to find out who failed and why. They’ve just issued their . . . more
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June 21, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
Texas Congressman and maverick GOP presidential contender Ron Paul is the debate stage wild card in the Republican push for the presidency. In debate after debate, after McCain and Giuliani and Romney . . . more
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May 22, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
Hillary Clinton does not quit. She toughed out the rough end of her husband's presidency, and dived in herself to become a popular and respected US Senator from New York.
Now, she's built a campaign . . . more
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April 13, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
Imagine a swath of land stretching from Boston to Portland, Maine with homes on both sides of the road in ruins.
In Louisiana people don't have to imagine. That's the destruction they still see . . . more
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January 07, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
On the road to New Hampshire and Election '08, a sharp economic populism is in the air in a way it hasn't been since long before Ronald Reagan. The idea that the rich are getting richer unfairly . . . more
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May 06, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
I'm a Democrat; have been for a long time. But sometimes, my Party makes me see red!
In May 6th's OnPoint , Reid repeats the assertion that the Democratic-controlled Senate cannot get us . . . more
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April 12, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
On Point is looking today at the campaign of John McCain and how it's unfolding with McCain's decreasing popularity due to his staunch support of the war in Iraq. The guests on the show were Allen . . . more
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April 23, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy last week, On Point is taking a closer look today at how schools should balance privacy, public safety, and the rights of students and parents.
Here . . . more
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June 06, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
There was lightning in the skies of New Hampshire last night, and a crackle in the hall where ten Republican contenders for the White House lined up to debate for the nation on CNN.
Unanimity was not . . . more
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May 29, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
In the heart of Baghdad's Green Zone, US and Iranian diplomats posed for the cameras yesterday. It was the biggest break in nearly three decades in the deep freeze between Washington and Tehran. But . . . more
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April 19, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
A new ABC News Washington Post poll shows 51 percent of Americans thought that Don Imus should have lost his job over his racially insensitive remarks.
But there is a racial divide within that divide. . . . more
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April 24, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
President Bush has promised to tighten economic sanctions and impose new ones on Sudan if that nation's president does not move quickly to stop the bloodshed in Darfur. Bush says Sudan must allow deployment . . . more
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May 16, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
Paul Wolfowitz was the intellectual star of the neo-conservative crew that drove the country to war with Iraq. Today, he's the World Bank president who used his position to land his girlfriend a sweetheart . . . more
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June 07, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
In the new fireworks between the US and Russia, the rhetoric is straight out of the Cold War. The US wants to put a missile defense system on Russia's doorstep. Moscow is howling.
Vladimir Putin is . . . more
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April 24, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
German filmmaker Malte Ludin's father, convicted war criminal Hans Ludin, was executed when Malte was only five-years-old, but decades later his legacy looms large in the family.
When Malte's . . . more
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June 14, 2007 11:00 AM EDT --
The bombing and shooting and dying isn't over. And political leaders are still talking about the necessity of success. But in high-level strategic circles, there is plenty of talk that America has . . . more
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July 21, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
Read the newspapers, and it looks like most issues facing the U.S. today have major scientific dimensions. Iran is enriching uranium. China is blamed for increasing carbon dioxide emissions. . . . more
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March 01, 2008 03:13 PM EST --
Have you decided who you are going to vote for yet???? It is gratifying to see so many people turning out after so many years of voter-apathy fueled and media-blitzed campaigning. Has anyone noticed that . . . more
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April 29, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, went low profile after clips of his fiery sermons hit the news media in March.
But if some Obama supporters hoped Rev. Wright might go away, they . . . more
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