Tag: politics
member name: Gary Gentry
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December 08, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Laura Schlesinger, Ann Coulter have all insulted me and my family.
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April 15, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
John McCain is a hero for his defiant resistance of his captors as a prisoner of war, and for enduring the torture that Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and their despicable crowd of lawyers think . . .
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November 07, 2008 05:30 PM EST --
I just heard Barack Obama's first press conference as president elect. How wonderful to hear someone who can carry on an intelligent conversation in language that indicates he knows what he's . . .
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January 08, 2009 03:57 PM EST --
I am not against agriculture or farmers. What I am against, however, are the schizophrenic, wasteful and counter-productive ways in which the US Department of Agriculture tries to help farmers and the . . .
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December 28, 2007 09:26 AM EST --
The American temperance movement labored for decades to equate chardonnay with demon rum. In the Midwest they joined forces with fundamentalist Christians and finally began to influence local . . .
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May 10, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
Three articles I read today fill me with pessimism for the future of America. The first two gave the arguments for and against President Obama's proposal to conduct a thorough, independent review . . .
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May 11, 2009 06:19 PM EDT --
The idea of a national identity card fills many people with dread. All Libertarians and many conservatives become agitated at the mere mention of such a document. Specters of past dictatorships, and even . . .
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January 27, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
I listened to a presidential candidate today. He went into the now obligatory sob story about an individual who had approached him at a rally. The man was working two jobs to pay for . . .
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September 06, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Republicans have been enormously successful in convincing Americans of the biggest economic myth of modern times - that cutting taxes actually increases government revenue. It's counter-intuitive; . . .
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December 21, 2005 05:46 PM EST --
This was posted 2 years ago, before groups existed on Gather
Several times in the recent past I have heard the term "fascist" applied pejoratively . . .
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August 28, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
"The government bailout of failing businesses will cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars."
"General Motors is a failed company. Bailing it out is a waste of taxpayer dollars, since it will ultimately . . .
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January 10, 2008 01:57 PM EST --
The lack of outrage in the Muslim world over the hijacking of their religion is striking. The silence is deafening when Shiites murder . . .
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September 25, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
I first published this in Dec of 2005 - the "old" days before Gather had over 20,000 members & almost as many groups. Consequently, it wasn't published to any groups. More significantly, . . .
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June 20, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
The Arizona Republic ran a side bar article about recently released FY 2003 state Department . . .
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September 05, 2007 08:28 PM EDT --
None of the Americans who have risen to positions of wealth and power did so purely on their own merit, as most of them (and the Republican Party) like to believe. The rugged individual who alone . . .
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September 26, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
Our news in Phoenix has been dominated by the guilty verdict against Warren Jeffs, the leader of the fundamentalist LDS sect that believes men should have multiple wives in order to get to heaven. . . .
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May 03, 2008 01:36 AM EDT --
John McCain's solution our economic woes is tax cuts, a plan not atypical of Republicans of any stripe. But will tax cuts build a single bridge, fill a single pothole, pay a single teacher or create . . .
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May 27, 2008 07:31 PM EDT --
John McCain says:
My friends, my fellow Americans, the Democrats want to raise your taxes, and if you elect them they will do exactly that. Both Democratic candidates for president have . . .
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December 18, 2007 03:11 PM EST --
There are many excellent reasons why Iran should not have access to nuclear weapons. It is a nation run by brutal, bloody-minded . . .
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May 29, 2008 04:13 PM EDT --
The May 19 Newsweek contains an opinion piece by George Will that is worth reading. I agree with very little of whatever he writes, but in this case he proposes some essential questions for . . .
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