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member name: Cheri Cabot
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April 25, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
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May 08, 2007 02:02 PM EDT --
Julie MacDonald, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks for the Interior Department, abruptly resigned April 30 on the verge of a congressional committee hearing. Saying that . . .
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May 15, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
It was bound to happen sooner or later. People stopped shopping. Well, they didn’t stop all together, but enough to make a sharp drop in retail sales for the month of April. A 2.4% fall in sales . . .
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May 22, 2007 10:21 PM EDT --
I have always been intrigued by blind loyalty, both those who follow someone blindly, and those who command such loyalty.
Blind loyalty is a common thread throughout the Bush administration. What . . .
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May 29, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
Sunday was just about as perfect as a day can get here in Southern California. Warm and sunny with clear blue skies and a faint scent of jasmine in the air. Blooming jacaranda trees . . .
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August 23, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
Ripples caused by foreclosures on Main Street have suddenly sent shock waves through Wall Street and beyond.
In 2005, with interest rates at record lows, subprime lenders were practically giddy . . .
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September 07, 2007 02:19 AM EDT --
Hypocrisy: 1) a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one des not; the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion 2) an act or instance of hypocrisy
Dave Barbee, head of the Richmond . . .
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November 01, 2007 12:32 AM EDT --
Bulletins have been coming in fast and furious this week from various points in Iowa.
Larry in Ames has been very prolific in providing information. He told me, “Cheri, in my total un-scientific . . .
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January 04, 2008 01:54 AM EST --
My son-in-law called me from Northeast Iowa as soon as he got home from his caucus this evening. It was the first time he and his folks had participated in a caucus. In the past they has always supported . . .
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January 22, 2008 10:00 PM EST --
Neither Wall Street, nor stock markets around the world, were impressed with Bush's proffered economic stimulus. While Wall Street was closed Monday, markets from Brazil to Tokyo nose-dived . . .
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February 14, 2008 02:02 AM EST --
It all started innocently enough with my . . .
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April 14, 2008 03:27 AM EDT --
After reading in both the Washington Post and the New York Times about the misuse of federally issued credit cards, I decided to check out the report from the Government Accountability Office for . . .
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May 01, 2007 05:44 PM EDT --
Right on the heels of the financial aid scandal at the university level, comes more disturbing news. John Higgins, the Education Department’s inspector general, has asked the Justice . . .
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June 12, 2007 08:21 PM EDT --
Suddenly, from seemly out of nowhere, Bush announces plans to put missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic, right at Russia’s doorstep, under the guise of a NATO defense shield. A defense . . .
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June 20, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
If you take a look at all the Republicans running for president, which includes “announced candidates”, “possible candidates”, and my personal favorite, . . .
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June 26, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
In one fell swoop yesterday the Supreme Court managed to strike a significant blow to the Constitution, limiting free speech and loosening the separation of church and state. In other decisions . . .
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July 03, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
The Supreme Court, lead by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, has been dubbed the “mean” court. I could think of a better word. With more adjectives.
The Justices cleared . . .
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July 10, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday that Fred D. Thompson, who plans to join the presidential race sometime this month has been campaigning as an anti-abortion Republican, but lobbied for an . . .
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August 02, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
Tuesday the House passed a sweeping ethics reform bill aimed at earmarks and the influence of lobbyists, long overdue with corruption running amuck the last six years.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi . . .
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August 09, 2007 01:31 AM EDT --
Romney Equates Campaigning to Military Service
While campaigning in Bettendorf, Iowa today GOP Candidate Mitt Romney was asked why none of his five sons serve in the military and what they were doing . . .
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