Tag: national
member name: Devin Barber
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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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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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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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March 08, 2007 01:00 AM EST --
Somebody please tell me I’m wrong (and apparently there‘s plenty of you out there who‘d like to), because what I found in my investigation comparing the inflow and outflow of money concerning . . .
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July 17, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
A new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the United States was released on Tuesday. The report indicated that the terrorist network al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities . . .
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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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April 09, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
I swore I was finished writing about how bad a president I think Hillary Clinton would make. But the recent onslaught of mis-statements, made up stories and out and out lies could not be ignored. Between . . .
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June 12, 2008 02:07 PM EDT --
When Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut lost the Democratic nomination in 2006 and still won on the Independent ticket, my suspicion that a lot of the guys support came from the Right was confirmed. . . .
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June 25, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
What happened to the political party that can boast they were on the side of ending slavery? Can boast that Abraham Lincoln is counted among their alumni. Well, it might be interesting for you to know . . .
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January 20, 2008 10:16 AM EST --
Michigan has and soon Florida will be holding their respective Democratic presidential primaries, but they won't be sending any delegates to the Democratic National Convention. The reason is that, . . .
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February 04, 2008 01:07 PM EST --
It's Clinton's Hope leading on the inside. Moving up on the outside, it's Obama's Vision . Looks like it's going to be a photo finish folks.
With most pundits agreeing that . . .
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February 07, 2008 06:58 PM EST --
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced he was suspending his candidacy Thursday and the news caused the right side of the Right to rock back like an old wooden galleon being hit by a fifty . . .
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February 09, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
In my own precinct Barack Obama won 7 out of 10 delegates. Then after being elected to be a delegate at the county convention I rushed home to watch the results and to my chagrin there weren't any . . .
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