Tag: politics
member name: Gary Gentry
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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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July 15, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
There has been much debate, cynical posturing and blather about campaign finance reform. Many Conservatives are incensed over . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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December 29, 2007 04:22 PM EST --
During the past seven years, there has been some modest economic recovery in the USA. During that time the Fed kept interest rates at the lowest level the nation has seen in half a century. . . .
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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 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 09, 2006 11:42 AM EDT --
The US Senate is considering another huge stinking giveaway to giant corporate interests, this time BigAG.
Senate Bill S-3681 reads in part:
(a) Definition of Manure- In this section, . . .
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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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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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