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Reviewing the November Fundraising Numbers.
It’s that time again. Short version: the RNC & NRSC beat out their Democratic counterparts - which is odd, considering that they’re the groups giving the Republican base the most aggravation; the NRCC pulled in less than the DCCC; the Democrats have a
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The Chocolate Wars
It’s been a tough month to avoid chocolate. Office candy bowls overflow. Leftover Hanukkah gelt beckons. And home bakers are deep into holiday kitchen marathons.
In the Cadbury corporate boardroom, British confectionary executives are fighting off a $16
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Peace and Honest Friendship With Iran
Read about one of America's poorest communities have been guided by doctors from the much maligned nation of Iran. The fact that government is involved in such projects is secondary to the important point—that we have much to learn in cultural and
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New Tony Blankley for 12/23/2009
Currently, in head-to-head polling of generic party voting intentions, the Republicans, who had been steadily down by double digits (and by as much as 18 percent) to the Democrats, in the past few months have surged to a 2-3 percent advantage
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What's it Worth?: Forget-me-not bracelet
casting meant that multiples of a design could be easily and inexpensively produced.
This silver charm bracelet may have contains the names of nine close friends.
Courtesy Michaan's Auctions
Q: Can you tell me anything about this bracelet? It is
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Morning Bell: Remembering the Providential Gift of America
Summer had begun with strong declarations of noble ideals, but by winter the cause of liberty seemed to be at low ebb. Having suffered defeat after defeat, many had all but given up hope. It looked like freedom would succumb yet again, as it had
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Law & order: foreign policy edition
These big criminal forfeitures support his $80 million budget, but they are also the product of Mr. Morgenthau's unique legacy among district attorneys: his national and global reach. Such resources have allowed him to prosecute complex international
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2009 year in review
In 2009, no story came close to changing more Seacoast lives, businesses and communities than the global economic meltdown. This was an international story that touched all of us on a personal level.
Unlike previous years' top stories, such as the
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PSAL boys basketball rankings
The quietest week in the basketball season came and went with few games. Therefore, The Post’s PSAL boys basketball rankings had no movement. The week upcoming, however, will be very different. Our entire top 10, outside of Wadleigh and Transit Tech,
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2009 Year in review
In 2009, no story came close to changing more Seacoast lives, businesses and communities than the global economic meltdown. This was an international story that touched all of us on a personal level.
Unlike previous years' top stories, such as the
Articles: 20 | Blogs: 4
Legislature can use fresh faces and ideas
Dispatch Senior Editor Joe Hallett wrote his second derisive column this year bemoaning the establishment of term limits some years ago for our Ohio legislators ("Term limits get in the way of lawmakers seeing big picture," Dec. 20).
Hallett
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Public Schools Embrace Debauchery & Apostasy Over Christmas Music
Most Americans would agree that freedom of conscience ranks among our most cherished liberties. As such, the state should protect this particular right by almost any means necessary and reasonable (especially for citizens).
In California, an
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Dougherty sworn in as Morristown mayor, addresses town's fiscal woes
MORRISTOWN--Mayor Tim Dougherty had yet to utter a word about the
campaign pledges that helped him oust Donald Cresitello from office before the applause began during the town council's reorganization meeting on Friday.
Dougherty, who was sworn in by
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Church and State! Are They Separate?
The State becomes the Church when Jefferson and Madison were in Office.
On Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and
James Madison (1809-1817) the state became the Church. Both Presidents attended Church
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For Shanghai Fair, a Famous Fund-Raiser Delivers
WASHINGTON -- In the hectic last week before she became secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton squeezed in a Bon Jovi benefit concert in New York, part of a frantic effort to pay off the debt from her presidential campaign. No sooner had she
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Time to eject corrupt lawmakers
At almost 80 years old, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the corruption of a federal government with too much power, when he wrote to William T. Barry in 1822, just a few years before his death: "If ever this vast country is brought under a single government,
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New Chuck Norris for 01/05/2010
At almost 80 years old, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the corruption of a federal government with too much power, when he wrote to William T. Barry in 1822, just a few years before his death: "If ever this vast country is brought under a single government,
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Barack Obama’s favorite four-letter word: “Bush”
“Blame Bush” has been Obama’s favorite strategy for trying to deflect blame for his mishandling of virtually every challenge he’s faced since ascending to his throne almost one year ago. But is this approach still resonating? I think not. Obama
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The Loss of the Right to a Trial by Jury: Child Support and Divorce Cases in America
“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution,” Thomas Jefferson
The purpose of this essay is to debunk both the statist notion that divorce and child
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YOUR OPINION
Editor: Fox News analyst Brit Hume on Jan. 3 counseled pro golfer Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity as a way to atone for his sexcapades. Mr. Hume was roundly criticized for urging the religious solution to Mr. Woods' errant swings off the
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Thomas Jefferson and John Locke Would've Hated Obama's Feeble "Buck Stops Here" Speech
Moreover, I am less interested in passing out blame than I am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer, for ultimately the buck stops with me. As president, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people, and
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UD winter graduates get a salute from Jill Biden
The wife of Vice President Joe Biden also emotionally recalled how her own accomplishments -- such as earning her doctorate in education three years ago -- were appreciated with pride by her mother-in-law, Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden, who died
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New Procedure Allows Diagnosis, Treatment of Small Intestine without Surgery (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicians at UMC have started using a new technology to view and treat diseases of the small intestine previously inaccessible without major surgery.
"Balloon enteroscopy allows us to examine the small intestine, which is
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GOP primary hopefuls spar in 11th District debate
MANTECA — Six staunchly conservative Republican candidates opened campaign season this week at the first candidate forum in the hotly contested 11th Congressional District primary election.
The crowded GOP primary field shared largely similar views on
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Gumption From The "(W)right": Will we yield to them?
When is enough finally enough? I am sick and tired of the march we are making towards socialism! Sooner or later, as American citizens, we have to be honest with ourselves, even if that means admitting things that make us feel vulnerable. I urge you to
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Cheveralls: We need succession planning
having to handle a superintendent or principal search."
HARVARD -- Earlier this week, Harvard School Committee Chairman Keith Cheveralls responded to news of the "Final 3" status of both Superintendent Thomas Jefferson and Harvard Elementary School
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Work finally begins on Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in D.C.
An artist's rendering of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON Construction is finally underway on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall after more than a dozen years of planning,
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McDonnell takes office
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Bob McDonnell took the oath as Virginia’s 71st governor Saturday, comparing today’s fiscal crisis to her founders’ struggles, then swept his wife, Maureen, into his arms and carried her into the Executive Mansion.
Under hazy skies
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Hitchens on Blaming Geology, not the Devil
On Nov. 1, 1755—the feast of All Saint's Day—a terrifying combination of earthquake and tsunami shattered the Portuguese capital city of Lisbon. Numerous major churches were destroyed and many devout worshippers along with them. This cataclysmic event
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In Memory of Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has
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New Chuck Norris for 01/19/2010
The man who, as a presidential candidate, once confessed that estimating when a baby gets human rights was "above" his "paygrade" has granted more pay to pro-abortion agencies and enacted more pro-abortion legislation to ensure that millions of more
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Furchtgott-Roth: Government Support Of Media Unwise
Be careful what you wish for. That is the message from Former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth to those backing public support--and he says implicit control--of media.
In a new paper being published by The Media Institute and the Thomas
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White House and the Speaker have Few Options Left on ObamaCare
I do my best to stomach reading DailyKos and FDL as often as I can to see what the debate is on the left. One idea getting traction, you can read about this option more at Politico, is that the House would pass the Senate bill as is, or at least
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RON HART: Helping Hands and chains we can believe in
INLET BEACH — Home run record holder Mark McGwire finally came clean on his steroid use in 1998, the year he broke the record.
People were shocked; Sammy Sosa’s face turned white as a sheet when he heard.
So, let’s sum up the past decade: We have had
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TJ's Giansante shoots down BVA
PLEASANT HILLS -- Thomas Jefferson's Jim Giansante's claim to fame is being one of the state's premier pass catchers and defensive backs in football.
Giansante ended the Leps' slim Class AAA Section 5 title hopes by hitting a school-record nine
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TOM SCARRITT: Board of Education sets bad example for students
Tom Scarritt is editor of The News. E-mail:tscarritt@bhamnews.com.
Education informs and protects democracy. Our public education leaders should honor that responsibility not only in the classroom, but also in the example they set by the way
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Couple finds Thomas Jefferson letter at Old Town Alexandria's American Legion
What makes the Old Town discovery special, one historian says, is that the note sheds light on Jefferson's private life during his chaotic last year as the nation's third president.
"It's a nice, personal interlude in a life that is very difficult for
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VDARE.com: 01/25/10 - Saving Professor Bernanke
Well, we may have an exception here.
A 78-seat Democratic margin is apparently insufficient
to save a health care reform bill that is the highest
priority of a Democratic president elected just a year
go.
What argument is then left for Democratic
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So you think you can dance at the Jefferson Memorial? Judge says no, rules against woman
A federal judge has ruled against a woman who was arrested for dancing with a group of 17 others at the memorial dedicated to President Thomas Jefferson. The woman, Mary Oberwetter, and others were dancing to music on their headphones near midnight
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Republicans respond to Obama
“I'm standing in the historic House Chamber of Virginia's Capitol, a building designed by Virginia's second governor, Thomas Jefferson.
“I'm joined by fellow Virginians to share a Republican perspective on how to best address the challenges facing
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Our Addiction to Disaster Porn
Though neighboring the planet’s wealthiest nation, Haiti has long been one of the world’s poorest places. It sports 80 percent unemployment and a GDP smaller than the annual executive bonus fund at a single Wall Street bank. The destitution is
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We are addicted to disaster porn
The black T-shirt so tight, so come-hither. And oh, those safari button-downs joke-worthy on Eddie Bauer mannequins, but on news correspondents, so ... enticing.
America missed these sartorial seductions, pined for their sweet suggestive nothings. And
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Tuition a top topic at college fair
Colette Moss has a 3.963 grade-point average. The 16-year-old junior at Lakes High School in Lakewood said she wants to go to college to study psychology and criminology, because she wants to learn “why people do what they do.”
To get a better idea
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Federal Way students lead school levy campaign
"Our students are truly competing against students across the nation and the world," Germanis said. "They need to be computer-literate."
Germanis, 17, and another high school senior, Charlene Yamasaki, also 17, are spearheading the levy campaign, even
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California And Emissions
SEARCH BLOG: TRAFFIC
It's always a pleasure to visit California when Michigan is in the middle of winter. Mild [coolish] weather invites us to walk around and enjoy the scenery and get some exercise on the hills around San Francisco. There are plenty
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Court's decision threatens nation
The five to four judicial activist decision in “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission” (2010) defines money as speech and defines corporations as people. Some may see this as a free speech victory or as a means to electoral victory for
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President's wife can learn much from early first ladies
style. Equally important was how Martha made friends with Vice President John Adams' formidable wife, Abigail. She was particularly pleased by Martha's insistence that she join her in greeting the guests.
Like many of her predecessors, Michelle
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Mid-Atlantic Braces For Up To 28 Inches Of Snow
WASHINGTON (AP) ―
Stores ran low on milk, bread and snow shovels and federal workers were sent home early Friday as the second major snow storm in less than two months bore down on a winter-weary Mid-Atlantic.
Up to 28 inches of heavy, wet snow
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'Snowmageddon' blankets Mid-Atlantic in heavy snow
A Marine stands sentry as the snow falls while President Barack Obama works in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Shoppers jammed aisles and emptied stores of milk, bread and shovels Friday as a massive snowstorm blew
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Mid-Atlantic Digs Out of Epic Blizzard
(AP) The flakes had stopped falling, but residents in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. were faced Sunday with the prospect of digging out of more than two feet of snow in some areas.
Roads reopened but officials continued to warn residents
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Today In History February 17, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) ―
Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 2010. There are 317 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 17, 1897, the forerunner of the National PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, convened its first
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New Chuck Norris for 02/09/2010
1), which would equate to spending $7.3 million a minute. (The federal budget was only $1.9 trillion in 2001.) Tragically, the president expects Americans to live one financial way (fiscally prudently) and the federal government to live another
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Tom Purcell: Understanding Presidents Day is hardly a simple matter
recognized by many states. With two more federal holidays added — Columbus Day in 1971 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in 1986 — some states stopped observing Lincoln's birthday altogether."
"I thought the purpose of Presidents Day was getting
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"Grandmother Will Mark President's Day By Petitioning Obama To Commute Her 27-Year Prison Sentence For Non-Violent Crime"
Hamedah Hasan, a mother and grandmother serving her 17th year of a 27-year federal prison sentence for a non-violent crime, asked President Obama today to commute her remaining sentence. Hasan's petition was filed with the U.S. Department of Justice's
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Secession in the Air
No, it is not 1860 again.
But with all the talk of the 10th Amendment, nullification and interposition, states rights and secession — following Gov. Rick Perry’s misstatement that Texas, on entering the Union in 1845, reserved in its constitution a
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rumblings: too quickly dismissed
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government;... whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789. ME 7:253
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Hotels offer special sips with custom wine crushes
Ordering a glass of white or red while on vacation used to be a dicey exercise. Resorts' house wines have all too often ranked as inharmonious swill and were often uncorked by servers who couldn't tell a Cab from a Nebbiolo.
But hoteliers are
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Is it Presidents Day or President's Day or Presidents' Day?
America's literary strong suit has always been humor. It's when they reach for rectitude that Americans become comic. Take holidays. In February we try to honor our presidents, but we can't figure out which ones we pay tribute to or even how to spell
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Geneseo man's George Washington portrait up for auction
GENESEO, N.Y. (AP) — A portrait of George Washington painted by Washington's most famous portraitist is being put up for auction by its upstate New York owner.
The Washington portrait hung for years in Oliver Chanler's parents' home in Geneseo, 25
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Today in History
Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 2010. There are 317 days left in the year.
On Feb. 17, 1897, the forerunner of the National PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, convened its first meeting, in Washington.
In 1801, the U.S. House of
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Girls' basketball WPIAL preliminary round
Saturday -- Norwin (17-5) vs. Fox Chapel (17-3) at North Allegheny, 2 p.m.; Shaler (17-4) vs. Hempfield (14-6) at North Allegheny, 6 p.m.; Oakland Catholic (15-5) vs. Peters Township (11-11) at Chartiers Valley, 4 p.m.; Bethel Park (16-5) vs.
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Excerpts from Rep. Mike Pence's CPAC Speech
One year ago, many conservatives were sure of our principles but uncertain about our future. One year ago, it seemed that there were only a few people in this country who were unbowed by the glamour and appeal of the new American Left.
One year ago, we
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In Facebook age, fewer colleges printing yearbooks
RICHMOND, Va. For the first time since 1887, students at the University of Virginia won't have a hardcover memento of their college years. The school founded by Thomas Jefferson has become the latest college to decide there's no place for the
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1790s S.C. home might be a first in U.S.
Based on historical documents, artifacts found at the site, a Georgia Historical Society map and a letter written in 1796 by a visitor, archaeologists at Palmetto Bluff believe the octagonal home might be the first of its kind in the U.S. If they are
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Fortune's Stanley Bing: More apologies! Now!
Now that Tiger has apologized and been on the front page of every newspaper in the United States humiliating himself, I'd like to suggest a few more people who should apologize to us and be raked over the coals until we're tired of doing so.
I'd like
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Richmond-area developers at work on new urbanism in Staunton
The first four of 18 historic buildings have been restored for residential and office use on the Old Western State Hospital Campus. The Bindery building has was converted into condos.
The project involves restoring 400,000 square feet of historic
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Local tea party: Stack’s not a hero
Published February 24, 2010 08:52 pm - ALEXANDRIA — When Joseph Stack III flew his plane into a building in Texas that housed Internal Revenue Service employees last week, a small group of Americans rejoiced, but local tea partiers say they don’t
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George Will: Just saying no means system works
Today's health policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being "broken." Such talk occurs only when the left's agenda is stalled. Do you remember
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Remarks by the President at Presentation of the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of the Arts
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. (Applause.) I'm sorry I'm a little late. (Laughter.) I had this thing I had to do. (Laughter.) But I understand that people have been drinking and -- (laughter) -- and eating the big
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Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Geek
So claims Matt Blum over at Wired.com: "Banneker was born free in Maryland in November of 1731 — three months before George Washington’s birth. It’s not known precisely where he got his knowledge of mathematics and astronomy — some historians speculate
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A world away from Texas | Peter Preston
There are calls for Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to split from the US and Canada. Cascadia is not a bad idea
One (Olympic) flame dies – but maybe another flame flickers back into life. All hail Cascadia, the nationalist dream of a new, free
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Obama vs. the 10th Amendment
As I watched the C-SPAN health-care summit charade Thursday, what disturbed me most was not the typical partisan ranker, but why the federal government was even dealing with this issue at all.
It isn't that I'm unsympathetic to the plight of the needy.
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Obama vs. the 10th Amendment
Not surprisingly, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released last Friday revealed that 56 percent of Americans think the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to their rights and freedoms.
Particularly
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Religious Broadcasters meeting in Nashville revives church-state debate
"Just look for the guy with the horns," Lynn said.
Their mission is to spread Christianity to every part of society. That includes public policy. But Lynn's mission is to keep religion as far away from the government as possible.
"I'm a big liberal guy,
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NJ Blogger: Rants Were Sanctioned by FBI
A right-wing New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges told a jury Thursday that his racist Internet rants were an FBI-sanctioned ruse to "flush out" dangerous neo-Nazi and white supremacist members of his audience. "I'm not a white
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Dutch anti-Islam politician creates stir in UK
LONDON — Dutch anti-Islam maverick Geert Wilders took his cinematic assault on the Quran to Britain's House of Lords on Friday, sparking heated debate inside the building and angry protests outside.
The invitation to Parliament, and Wilders' stunning
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Partisanship's bad now in Washington? Try again
WASHINGTON The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue - from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy - there's little or no effort to find common ground.
But fierce
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Partisanship's bad now in Washington? Think again
WASHINGTON — The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue — from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy — there's little or no effort to find common ground.
But fierce
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Today In History March 16, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) ―
Today is Tuesday, March 16, the 75th day of 2010. There are 290 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March 16, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was first published.
On this date:
In A.D.
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The Rise And Certain Fall Of The American Empire
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. -- "One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations collapse," warns anthropologist
Jared Diamond in "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed." Many "civilizations share a sharp curve of decline.
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People: CBS man busted in Letterman extortion plot pleads guilty
he would have faced up to 15 years in prison if convicted at a trial.
A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers.
Robert "Joe" Halderman, 52, entered
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Justices and politicians should boycott the State of the Union
Roberts was responding to a question concerning the kerfuffle about Barack Obama's January address, wherein Obama criticized -- and flagrantly mischaracterized -- a recent Supreme Court decision that loosened limits on political speech. The decision
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Justices and politicians should boycott the State of the Union
Roberts was responding to a question concerning the kerfuffle about Barack Obama's January address, wherein Obama criticized -- and flagrantly mischaracterized -- a recent Supreme Court decision that loosened limits on political speech. The decision
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Time to take the pep out of presidential pep rally
View full sizeGeorge WillBy GEORGE F. WILL
WASHINGTON -- The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president
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Our embarrassing political pep rally
WASHINGTON: The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president ''shall from time to time give to the Congress
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Stop State of the Union pep rallies
The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of
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Today in History
Today is Tuesday, March 16, the 75th day of 2010. There are 290 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 16, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was first published.
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Dems play nice with tea partiers
The Democrats' plan had been to avoid a direct confrontation, and it seemed to work.
Photo: AP
They came bearing Gadsden flags, quoting Thomas Jefferson and promising to take back the country. But when tea partiers stormed the Hill
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Texas school board tweaks its history books to the right
Historians have criticized proposed revisions to the Texas social-studies curriculum, saying many of the changes are historically inaccurate and would affect textbooks and classrooms far beyond the state's borders.
The changes, preliminarily approved
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Alyson Cambridge returns home for Washington National Opera's 'Porgy and Bess'
Now, the 30-year-old is back in the D.C. area, living at her parents' house in Arlington County. But it's only for a few weeks; and this time, her singing is center stage. On Saturday, Cambridge will take on the role of Clara, for the second time, in
