Tag: vision
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 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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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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October 04, 2007 07:33 PM EDT --
One of the most common responses I’ve seen from Republicans any time a Democrat calls for government action is that it amounts to socialism. And there is no mystery as to why they do this. The word . . .
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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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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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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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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 20, 2007 09:14 PM EDT --
With every speech President Bush makes, every news conference where he reports good economic news or progress in Iraq, there are 3 or 4 reports, statements, or studies contradicting his claims. Vice President . . .
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August 23, 2007 03:51 PM EDT --
With President Bush’s approval ratings hovering around 30%, most agree that the Iraq war is the source of that disapproval. And many in the press espouse that it is his refusal to bring the war to . . .
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August 30, 2007 01:24 PM EDT --
Many throughout history have contemplated new and different ideas about governance and economic systems. Early Greeks experimented with democracy, but it failed to stand up to tyranny. Most societies that . . .
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September 17, 2007 06:05 PM EDT --
During my 7 and a half months here at Gather as a political correspondent I’ve come to realize that many Republicans tend to think they have some kind of inside track on what Democrats REALLY think. . . .
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