Archives in Category: Politics

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Solution

I recently read an article by Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, which makes complete sense to me. It offers a logical solution for ending the same-sex marriage debate between conservatives and liberals. At

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Port Purchase

I’m confused.

For the past five years President Bush has said, time and again, that our national security is of the utmost importance. He has pledged troops to battle on that account; he has limited some of our freedoms too.

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Cartoon Politics

Last night’s news broadcasts reported that Vice President Richard Cheney finally assumed personal responsibility for his negligence last week regarding the hunting incident where his friend was injured. I could certainly find more grist for my blog with this turn

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Cheney

Vice President Cheney has been silent so far about his accidentally spraying his friend, attorney Harry Whittington, with buckshot during an afternoon while the two buddies were hunting.

If I were Whittington, I’m not sure I would still call Cheney

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Bush’s Bad Day

Last night’s network news seemed fraught with problems for President Bush. He went on television to describe, in much more detail than is usual for him, about how our security teams in the United States foiled an attack on the

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Medicare

Enrollment in the new Medicare prescription drug coverage plan began over two weeks ago, and I’m dragging my feet in studying it on Earl’s behalf. The President – I hesitate to say “Our President” – claims “this is the greatest

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Congressman Murtha

I had not heard of Pennsylvania’s Representative John Murtha until he openly criticized the Bush Administration’s current handling of the war in Iraq this week. Murtha, who was first elected to Congress in 1974, is the ranking Democrat on the

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President Bush

President Bush is somewhere in Asia getting ready to meet with the head of China. My lack of precise details shows how uninterested I really am. At the same time, I’ve heard smatterings of Bush’s remarks about the behavior of

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Harriet No More

Yesterday the media announced that Harriet Miers had written a letter to President Bush requesting that he withdraw her name from nomination as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Reluctantly, he did so.

Now President Bush is not someone

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Harriet

I’m confused about Harriet. As in Harriet Miers.

She is President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court to replace outgoing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. By many accounts, she is a fine lawyer; by equally many accounts there is little record

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