Tag: news
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March 22, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
With the bill for additional funds for the war in Iraq before the Congress, there is much debate over the various strategies to put some kind of time limit on US troops in Iraq vs. the strategy to . . .
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May 04, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
Pentagon officials reported recently that the Pentagon plans to shut down a controversial domestic-intelligence database. James Clapper, the Defense Department's senior intelligence official, . . .
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May 31, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
GREAT SAVINGS PLAN
(Actual letter from an Iowa resident and sent to his senator)
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The Honorable Tom Harkin</dd><dd> . . .
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August 14, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said last week that he would push for a constitutional revision that would allow him to remain in office beyond his scheduled departure, in 2012. After the change's . . .
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May 03, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
It hit me right in the gut last night. I was discussing our recent read, Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (author of The English Patient), with my library book club and all of us agreed . . .
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June 27, 2007 03:53 PM EDT --
Those of you who know me through my writings on Gather are aware that I am a fallen-away Catholic. Rather, a fallen-away believer period. Based on my up-bringing (Catholic) and career history . . .
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January 28, 2008 04:06 PM EST --
Big controversy at Connecticut's Choate Rosemary Hall has ensued as to whether or not to allow Karl Rove to speak at this year's graduation ceremony. Rove's speaking engagement was secured . . .
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February 06, 2008 04:42 PM EST --
Do you know who Angelo Mozilo is? He's the CEO of Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender and the primary source of the subprime mortgages whose defaults are roiling . . .
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April 26, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
This is a letter to all the men and women in the media who are responsible for making the decisions about what gets communicated to the American public under the guise of “news”. This . . .
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November 28, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
A robber in the Hartford, CT area fled with a Subway clerk's money early last Sunday morning, but not before offering the clerk a bit of solace. Saying, "Sorry, babe, it's rough out . . .
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August 01, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
and it was FREAKIN' INCREDIBLE! What a great feeling to relive the concert days of yore, packed into a stadium of over 30,000 singing, dancing, screaming fans.
And the band! Well, . . .
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July 13, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
Exactly how clueless does Bush think the American people are? He continues to talk about U.S. citizens as if we were as ignorant and naive as he is. The latest is that we are all suffering . . .
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August 28, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
One by one, the loyal group of Texans that accompanied George W. Bush to Washington are mounting their ponies and moseyin' off into the sunset. Paul C. Light, a New York University political . . .
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December 12, 2007 03:29 PM EST --
According to a report in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of scientists which includes Henry C. Harpending, an anthropologist at the University . . .
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November 15, 2007 02:41 PM EST --
I recently received an email outlining a campaign to educate Fox advertisers on just what kind of station Fox really is based on their output. We all are aware of how slanted their "news reporting" . . .
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May 25, 2007 11:20 AM EDT --
In the recent discussions about immigration issues I have seen on Gather and in the larger media, I have seen/heard very little about the problems unique to highly skilled immigrants, most with higher . . .
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June 20, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
I recently watched a Frontline show outlining the first few weeks following the fall of Saddam in Iraq. It was one of the most frustrating shows I have ever seen. The main focus was on Paul . . .
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July 16, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
Yesterday evening I attended a forum for the constituents of U.S. Representative John B. Larson (D-CT), my federal Congressman. The forum was specifically held to address H.R. 2956, Responsible . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
Some of my earliest recollections have been of baseball - listening to it on the radio in the car, watching it on television, sitting in the bleachers at the town fields rooting for our town or my brothers' . . .
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November 08, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Yesterday, the House passed by a 235-184 vote the first Federal ban on job discrimination based on sexual orientation, something gay rights groups have been lobbying for for years. The "Employment . . .
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