Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is making things easier for a lot of people in Washington. She has gotten a lot of publicity recently thanks to her fight with the CIA. She was an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration and its policies, including the interrogation techniques used on suspected terrorists at Guantanamo. It […]
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I read a couple of things recently that were supposed to be funny. One set of remarks involved President Obama and the First Lady, the other pertained to Rush Limbaugh. I found both sets to be pretty offensive. I read an article about an orangutan that almost escaped from the zoo. Below the article where
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The United States has had many National Days of Prayer over the years. James Buchanan called for one in 1861 when southern states started pulling out of the Union. Since the 1950s these Days of Prayer have been celebrated pretty regularly. During the George W. Bush administration, the White House had a ceremony to mark
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The second biggest story of the week—after the swine flu—might be the defection of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter from the Republican Party to the Democrats. Let’s look at the ins and outs of this story. One significant plot line is that Specter gives the Democrats 59 seats in the Senate. If Al Franken wins his
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John McCain was recently on Jay Leno’s show and, rather than learn from the President’s recent example, McCain said something inappropriate, too. Instead of targeting a whole group of people; however, Senator McCain directed his attempt at humor towards one person: his recent running mate Sarah Palin. McCain was reeling off a list of strong
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