Oct
30
2008

... ncluding financing and facilitating a group of British Islamist extremists plotting to bomb London and to wage Islamic jihad against the West. ... OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will place his most reliable ministers in key economy-related portfolios when he unveils his new cabinet Thursday, a move t...
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Oct
29
2008

The unequivocal 2006 election results suggest we have entered a new period in American politics . When America’s votes were tallied this past November, Democrats had won Election Day majorities in both the Senate and the House for the ...
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The Almanac of American Politics 2008 Almanac of American Politics
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Oct
28
2008

After years of criminal neglect of the well-being of American ideals and basic human responsibilities, we now confront a world in more chaos that any of us could have imagined even 10 years ago. While both American political parties ...
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Election Call - Explaining American Politics and Election 2008
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Oct
27
2008

Will she return to Alaska, disappearing from the national political scene or will she stay in the forefront of American politics and make a serious bid for the presidential nomination in 2012? Palin’s enemies on the left are scared to ...
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Sarah Palin: The Beginning or the End?
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Oct
27
2008

The American helicopter raid into Syria this week which targeted an al-Qaida leader based there, may presage a similar attack into Iran in the near future. Just as missile strikes and a very similar commando raid into Pakistan's border ...
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Oct
27
2008

-A Wall Street Journal editorial by Lionel Shriver attacking authors who don’t use quotation marks, AND Scott Esposito’s response. -An interesting post, upon the completion of her manuscript, from Sussanah Breslin: “My advice to aspiring novelists: Don’t.” -This could turn out to be interesting: “They say people are always asking writers how they come up with their ideas. They also say people are always coming to writers with ideas, offering to split them fifty-fifty, on account of they figu
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Oct
26
2008

I had watched a couple of minutes of Huckabee's Fox News show before, but it was during a Joe the Plumber segment and, sorry Joe, I just think that particular individual's fifteen minutes are up. But tonight, I happened to be channel ...
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My Dad, Mike Huckabee, and the future of American politics
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Oct
26
2008

What's striking about this is that so many people thought that President Bush would be a transformational president who would reshape American politics . Instead, he's on the verge of becoming the Jimmy Carter to Obama's Reagan. ...
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Why George W. Bush is like Jimmy Carter
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Oct
26
2008

Only in American politics can the fairytale of Joe the Plumber pass as legitimate debate. The nation should be outraged and offended that the Republicans seem to believe we won’t notice that they are the party of tax cuts for the ...
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You Can Put Lipstick on a Plumber, But We’re Still F–ked
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Oct
26
2008

Do they have any clout at all in Washington, or are they just a joke? I think the Libertarians should focus on winning races at the local and state level and build up a track record and a solid constituency before going for broke on the ...
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Do Libertarians even have a chance in American politics?
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