Tag: politics
member name: Steve Bachman
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February 13, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
The other night, I watched in disgust as Arizona Republican Senator John "Flip-Flop" McCain stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate and told Democrats Harry Reid and Dick Durbin that it was not . . .
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December 03, 2006 07:00 PM EST --
In the interest of cutting the crap, lets just get one thing out of the way.
There's been a sort of running feud lately between the Bush Administration's private publicists (also known as . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:19 PM EDT --
An Open Letter to the Government of the United States of America
I've been paying close attention to all of the things that have been occurring in this nation for the past several years -- things . . .
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July 21, 2007 10:33 PM EDT --
Since those we today call Founding Fathers first established what was the first known truly free and self-governed nation in recorded history, the United States of America has become a country severely . . .
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November 14, 2008 09:35 PM EST --
To take a clear and objective look at the tapestry of social phenomena comprising the human condition, it is immediately discernible that custom and habit are often more dominant social forces than are . . .
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January 04, 2007 08:41 PM EST --
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is now represented on Gather, with the creation of the new group Pastafarians. This group is open for all on Gather, and for any who . . .
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December 07, 2006 04:26 PM EST --
Having been consigned to the status of "moonbat" by the consensus of the Gather right-wing community, I am obliged to provide a little insight into the reasoning behind some of the views . . .
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May 06, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
Since coming to this community last November, I've had the pleasure of discovering some very gifted, and very insightful writers, as well as some very interesting (to say the least) personalities. . . .
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May 17, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
Despite the wealth of wisdom handed down to us by the Founding Fathers, We the People of the United States have allowed our government to become a runaway train of corruption and tyranny.
But God in His grace . . .
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August 23, 2007 09:47 PM EDT --
I would like to dedicate this article to all of the fighting men and women of the United States Armed Forces, who have served and are serving now. We may disagree over policy, or over our opinions about . . .
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December 29, 2007 11:21 PM EST --
It's the end of the year, and we'll soon be bombarded with all the "top ten ..." lists for the year 2007. I had been considering candidates for my own own "top ten" list -- . . .
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December 12, 2006 02:01 AM EST --
A couple of things have managed to really get under my skin today...okay - more than a couple, but I'm short on time and patience right now, so I'm just gonna bust a couple of myths and then call . . .
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May 03, 2007 04:51 PM EDT --
"Cut-n-run" -- What the Bush administration did in Afghanistan in order to prepare for the invasion of Iraq, ultimately resulting in the escape of Osama bin Laden and much of his al Qaeda network . . .
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May 17, 2007 09:49 PM EDT --
Those of us who are still capable of exercising clear, rational independent thought, and aren't blinded by hysterical ideology, have known for years now that the Fox "News" Channel is nothing . . .
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May 20, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
At the May 15 Republican presidential debate sponsored by Fox "News," Congressman Ron Paul did something that is now considered indefensible in today's Neocon-dominated GOP; he made sense. . . .
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July 10, 2007 09:26 PM EDT --
I just saw this video on YouTube for the first time last time last night. This man, Stan Jones, was running for the U.S. Senate for the state of Montana. He bravely stood before a group of astonished spectators . . .
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November 08, 2007 10:04 PM EST --
George Orwell , in his novels, often stressed the importance of language, and the way words and terminologies can be manipulated in order to change popular perceptions, or even to control thought. Over . . .
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December 31, 2007 06:26 PM EST --
On November 2, 2007, news anchorman David Frost of Al Jazeera's international English language network, interviewed the now-deceased former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.
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January 30, 2008 10:30 PM EST --
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson
To the average, everyday American, the idea that legal tender . . .
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April 20, 2008 09:52 PM EDT --
It's a pretty popular fallacy nowadays, that a 100% gold standard monetary system could never work in a modern economy. This fallacy has been embedded into the public mind through well over a century's . . .
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