November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
To these media merchants of obfuscation and hollow meaningless language, the very idea that ideology and blind partisanship may be giving way to truth must be frightening indeed.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
There is a new rule at Saginaw City Council meetings. Men are required to take their hats off. Evidently, they are pretty serious about this new rule.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
Well, if this doesn’t start to wake people up and show how our cities are becoming our prison cells for the elite to control us, then I don’t know what will.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
The newspapers are suddenly full of hypothetical plans to sextuple the federal gasoline tax, with well-timed insinuations that this might be a postelection Republican ploy. On Oct. 8, the New York Times ran a story called, “Raise the Gas Tax? Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Republican,” citing a half-dozen Republican economists and a token Democrat.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
The new Congress faces an urgent need to reposition the big entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare, on a sounder financial footing. With each passing year, these programs’ massive fiscal imbalances grow larger, making it harder to solve the problem, but all the more necessary to do so.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
Student’s who are passing math with at least B’s or C’s are failing the standardized tests given at the end of the year. Given what we’ve talked about on the show regarding the No Child Left Behind Act and how the system itself is faulty, is it any wonder that these kids are failing the tests? Or really, it’s the system failing the kids and in more ways than one.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
The first Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
As much respect as I have for the military and what they do, I certainly hope these men are in the extreme miniority when they are in uniform representing us around the world. Iraq, even though under Saddam before we invaded, had running water and infrastructure. We should be asking ourselves, “What have we done?”
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
The U.S. Supreme Court’s notorious 2005 decision in Kelo v. New London allowed state and local governments to condemn private land and transfer it to developers to construct shopping centers or other private development.
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November 22nd, 2006 . by Chris
Motorists who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people’s identities. And so it begins..
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