Tag: history
member name: Devin Barber
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February 23, 2009 02:43 PM EST --
One of the components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to assist the States with the ever increasing burden of paying unemployment benefits to the ever increasing ranks of the . . .
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October 22, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
The economy has dominated the news and sparked some intense political debate of late. An issue that has come to the forefront of that debate is regarding how or if Wall Street should be regulated. . . .
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November 02, 2009 02:11 PM EST --
An obscure special congressional election in the 23 rd district of New York State made national news this last week. A traditionally conservative district Republican Dierdre Scozzafava was expected . . .
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September 18, 2009 12:52 PM EDT --
Merriam/Webster
Main Entry: stupid
Pronunciation: \stü-pəd\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus, from stup ē re to be numb, be astonished. . . .
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March 17, 2009 03:58 PM EDT --
Recently House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank received a letter from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. In that letter Mr. Cuomo had the distasteful duty of informing Congressman . . .
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June 18, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
Apparently the Republicans in Washington have decided to abandon the "just say no" approach and this past week trotted out what they call their proposal to fix the health care crisis. Albeit you'd . . .
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August 10, 2009 01:32 PM EDT --
Lately we’ve been seeing a very disturbing development in American politics. Opponents of the effort to reform health care have adopted the tactic of disrupting and destroying any chance of meaningful . . .
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August 11, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
This morning I witnessed a spectacle that made me feel embarrassed to be an American. Sen. Arlen Specter (D) Pa. was hosting a town hall meeting to discuss health care reform. And instead of a civil . . .
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September 29, 2009 01:21 PM EDT --
Anyone who hasn’t spent the last couple of years on Mars knows how bad a situation our economy is in. And there has been no shortage of discussions about how we got here. Most of the talk is . . .
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October 13, 2009 01:17 PM EDT --
The America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) trade group issued a report over the weekend claiming that the Baucus Bill will cause health care costs to rise faster than if no legislation is passed . . .
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October 28, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
The American people have ponied up an ocean of cash to bail out some of biggest corporations and financial institutions that exist in our country. And what have they done with it? Exactly what you’d . . .
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November 08, 2007 02:22 PM EST --
Jon Entine is an internationally respected, Emmy-winning documentary producer and writer on public policy issues related to religion, science and society, sustainability and corporate ethics. He is an . . .
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November 19, 2007 06:38 PM EST --
It would be extremely difficult to find any reasonable political commentator that would disagree that the divide between the Republican and Democratic Parties has never been wider than it is today. And . . .
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April 01, 2008 12:33 PM EDT --
To be fair I'm sure George W. Bush believes in his mind that his presidency was a successful one and has said that history will one day affirm that he is right. And I'm sure there are more than . . .
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May 28, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new book "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," Is causing quite a stir in Washington. . . .
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August 20, 2008 03:45 PM EDT --
I doubt many Americans are unaware of the New Testament story where Jesus tells a rich man that it would be easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:37 PM EDT --
This is the face of those who keep their hands in "OUR" pockets.
Over the past several hundred years of human development, 2 industries have established themselves . . .
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September 15, 2009 01:21 PM EDT --
It’s a word we hear quite often these days. Fear of terrorism. Fear of losing a job. Fear of losing one’s health insurance. Fear, fear, fear. But just how real is this fear of ours? Are . . .
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September 23, 2009 05:57 PM EDT --
President Obama’s speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations was moving and very hopeful. It was very clear, although Obama never mentioned his name, that he wanted to delineate his . . .
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November 12, 2007 01:35 PM EST --
In the 1980’s under Ronald Reagan, the first Republican majority in congress in a very long time passed huge tax cuts and told us that there would be a trickle down effect that would boost the . . .
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