Tag: random musings
member name: Sean Kennedy
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June 16, 2006 12:43 AM EDT --
New Times writer Michiko Kakutani has synthesized the wealth of books written about President Bush to come up with a remarkable portrait of who the man is, and how he makes decisions.
According to Kakutani, . . .
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July 12, 2006 02:18 AM EDT --
Columnist Robert Novak has revealed that he's secretly cooperated with investigators in the CIA leak case, and also admitted that Bush aide Karl Rove was one of his sources after all.
In July 2003, . . .
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July 18, 2006 02:54 AM EDT --
On this week's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert told his guest, columnist Robert Novak, that many of the lawyers involved in the CIA leak investigation say that Novak's source in the outing of . . .
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September 25, 2006 08:43 PM EDT --
No matter how much things have changed through the ages, much remains quite the same. We still live in a time when Christian conservatives would like to legislate their religious beliefs on the rest of . . .
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September 07, 2006 06:25 PM EDT --
Last year, a full two years into the Iraq war, 36% of Americans surveyed said they still believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded in 2003.
Incredibly, despite all that . . .
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April 03, 2006 04:55 AM EDT --
Things haven't been good at General Motors in quite some time. And now, perhaps, they are about to get worse.
GM's troubles are many, and cumulatively, they are potentially leading to a once unimaginable . . .
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May 21, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
U.S. lawmakers have renewed an old debate over whether to make English the nation's official language. On Friday, the Senate passed two measures, one declaring English the nation's official language . . .
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April 19, 2006 01:41 AM EDT --
In what sounds like something straight out of a science fiction film, the Chinese government is attempting to artificially create rain in the hope that it will clear polluted air from Beijing, the result . . .
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March 25, 2006 10:07 PM EST --
Boxing's reputation suffered yet another black eye last weekend when a majority draw was declared in the WBC title fight between Hasim Rahman and James Toney in Atlantic City.
Most observers agreed . . .
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June 11, 2006 01:37 AM EDT --
Because President Bush has challenged more laws than all previous presidents combined, the board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously to investigate whether Bush has exceeded . . .
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August 05, 2006 04:04 PM EDT --
A recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics found that only 31 percent of college graduates could read a ''complex book and extrapolate from it." Furthermore, the study . . .
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May 23, 2006 08:26 PM EDT --
U.S. lawmakers have renewed an old debate over whether to make English the nation's official language. On Friday, the Senate passed two measures, one declaring English the nation's official language . . .
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June 11, 2006 01:51 AM EDT --
Because President Bush has challenged more laws than all previous presidents combined, the board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously to investigate whether Bush has exceeded . . .
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September 10, 2006 01:38 PM EDT --
I was talking to a friend recently, on the second anniversary of her father's death. She's still having a hard time coming to grips with his passing, and questions life and death.
To that effect . . .
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March 26, 2006 02:29 PM EST --
Dr. Wafa Sultan is a 47-year-old Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles. She is married and has three children. She is the last person one would expect to be at the center of an international . . .
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May 07, 2006 07:05 PM EDT --
IMMIGRATION IS NOT A RIGHT
The debate over illegal immigration is often a passionate one. People become fixed to their beliefs, usually out of emotion. What is sometimes lacking is objectivity, and an . . .
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May 18, 2006 10:50 PM EDT --
IMMIGRATION IS NOT A RIGHT
The debate over illegal immigration is often a passionate one. People become fixed to their beliefs, usually out of emotion. What is sometimes lacking is objectivity, and an . . .
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June 18, 2006 02:16 AM EDT --
As gas prices have increased, so have sales of hybrid vehicles. But many potential car buyers are waiting for the next generation of alternative fuel vehicles -- the hydrogen powered car. Yet auto manufacturers . . .
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May 05, 2006 10:16 PM EDT --
Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts has introduced a House bill that would make executive compensation figures for the top three officials at publicly traded companies a matter of public record - including . . .
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June 11, 2006 01:24 AM EDT --
Because President Bush has challenged more laws than all previous presidents combined, the board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously to investigate whether Bush has exceeded . . .
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