Tag: left of the right
member name: Devin Barber
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March 13, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
The 1960’s saw the birth of the Federal Minimum Wage and from then on the fight has been on. The Republicans see it as socialism run amok. Democrats see it as an unfortunately necessary step to try . . .
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December 11, 2008 05:54 PM EST --
The last two weeks on the road doing stand up have been great except for the hecklers. And I realized that hecklers and political conspiracy theorists have a lot in common. All comedians have a bag of . . .
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February 26, 2007 04:31 PM EST --
The first and foremost reason Republican’s hate the poor is that the poor are a constant reminder that someone had to lose for them to win. And the saddest part is that it isn’t true. No one . . .
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February 28, 2007 07:22 PM EST --
I suppose I’m getting a reputation for writing some pretty controversial articles. And I’ve managed to raise the ire of some very passionate critics. So much so that they have resorted to impugning . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:44 AM EST --
Recently in the news we’ve seen some tragic events involving a bus rolling off an overpass killing 6 members of a college baseball team in Atlanta, a tornado that directly hit a high school in Alabama . . .
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June 14, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
It's a word that gets overused a lot these days I think. But 'hero' was the best word I could think of when it comes to describing how I felt about Tim Russert. I looked the word up in Merriam-Webster's . . .
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June 10, 2009 04:17 PM EDT --
A video released by the Travis County Constable's Office in Texas shows one of their deputies tasing a 72 year old woman during a traffic stop on May 11, 2009. Deputy Chris Bieze had stopped Kathryn . . .
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March 29, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
Former Justice Department Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson testified before the Senate committee investigating the firing of eight U.S. federal prosecutors by the Justice Department today. In his testimony . . .
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April 04, 2007 02:42 PM EDT --
It was almost surreal as I watched President Ahmadinejad announce that he was freeing the British sailors and marines captured 2 weeks ago by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The announcement took Prime . . .
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April 17, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
On Monday Morning a Virginia Tech. Senior committed the worst act of gun violence in the history of our nation. Including himself, thirty three are dead and many wounded remain in area hospitals. The incident . . .
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February 01, 2007 12:43 AM EST --
When I was selected to be one of the political correspondents for Gather, I became quickly obsessed with what I would write about first. The war in Iraq seemed to be the obvious subject. But being a cause . . .
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May 06, 2009 02:32 PM EDT --
ARTICLE UPDATE; NEWS FLASH
This just in from the AP 8:00 PM 5/7/09
CHICAGO - Drew Peterson, a former Illinois police sergeant suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife, on Thursday was indicted . . .
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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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October 19, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
It’s hard to imagine anyone hasn’t heard about the boy that “WASN’T” in a helium balloon when it supposedly launched without it’s tether. After a frantic 911 call . . .
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March 19, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
The latest polls indicate approval for the war in Iraq is at an all time low. Despite this, President Bush insisted in his speech, commemorating the fourth anniversary of the war, that congress send him . . .
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February 06, 2007 12:53 PM EST --
I’m not an economist or even a politician, but it seems to me that some very basic factors regarding our economy are being ignored.
The republicans say that low taxes free . . .
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February 19, 2009 08:30 PM EST --
It was like a scene from the old movie Network. You know, where the TV news guys says "I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore." Well, I think anyone who saw Santelli's . . .
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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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