Tag: us politics
member name: Cheri Cabot
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August 15, 2008 04:04 AM EDT --
With the 2001 anthrax killings back in the news, a John McCain interview on David Letterman on October 18, 2001, just a little over a month after the 9/11 attacks, has come under media scrutiny.
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August 20, 2008 04:57 AM EDT --
Following the Saddleback Church Civil Forum on Saturday night, I was bombarded with e-mails from people asking my opinion. Boy do I have opinions about it – no surprise there – and decided it was easiest . . . more
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March 20, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
“Bushies” as those loyal to President Bush are called, have been a driving force behind his success for many years. Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, and Harriet E. Miers have been with him for . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 06, 2007 02:49 PM EST --
Winters in Vermont have become warmer and shorter, threatening the livelihood of ‘sugar makers’ as maple syrup producers are called. Several weeks of cold, . . . more
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June 05, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
I find the odyssey of Andrew Speaker, the 31- year -old attorney with a multi- drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), disturbing on many levels.
Andrew Speaker is an Atlanta personal injury . . . more
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April 27, 2008 07:24 PM EDT --
Torture is wrong and can no longer be tolerated. The Bush administration would have us believe that torture is justified to fight terrorism and protect our country. But torture is a sign of weakness . . . more
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August 07, 2008 01:39 AM EDT --
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Ron Suskind’s new book “The Way of the World,” claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence . . . more
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February 12, 2007 11:53 PM EST --
The perjury and obstruction of justice trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, is a case of White House spin turned . . . more
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February 20, 2007 12:48 PM EST --
Quietly, some might say with stealth, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez of the United States Justice Department has fired (according to the Wall Street Journal) 11 U.S. attorneys . . . more
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February 27, 2007 09:05 AM EST --
Once again separation of church and state, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, has found its way into the Supreme Court.
This Wednesday, Feb 28, the U.S. . . . more
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March 13, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
NOTE: I first published this article on Gather on Nov. 13, 2006. I am re-posting it for two reasons. One, it is tax time again, and two, I am in Iowa for the birth of my granddaughter. . . . more
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March 27, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and the Justice Department seem to have fallen down the dark rabbit hole and can’t get out.
On Friday, which is the day of the week the . . . more
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April 03, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Three weeks ago my daughter had a baby. She will be taking three months of maternity leave, just as she did with her first baby. There was never any doubt or question that she would be allowed to . . . more
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April 25, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
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January 31, 2007 10:48 PM EST --
A day after the President’s less than lackluster State of the Union Address, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer of CNN, Vice President Dick Cheney responded to comments . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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