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Posted at 10:50am on Feb. 6, 2008 Is it time to change the entire debate?
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First, I have to make it clear that I am not a full-throated supporter of anyone in this race.
But is now clear that McCain/Huckabee is the likely ticket that we will be presented with at the convention (anyone else have a queasy feeling in their stomach about how the campaign will play out...hint...the "Old" guy and the "Religious" guy vs. the young, hip, and rational Democrat.)
What if the entire calculus was changed. What if Romney were able to convince either Thompson or Gingrich to agree to publicly state that they would be his running mate were he to win the nomination. Would the addition of a hard-line Conservative to his ticket at this point make him a candidate worthy of the party's nomination?
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Posted at 1:10am on Dec. 30, 2007 What if...
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A student tears pages out of the Bible, while vocally attacking his classmates...now....play along at home....what do you think would have been the reaction if he had stood and done the same with a Koran....anyone else think the reaction would be a little stronger?
I am not too worried about people like this, frankly his actions seem to caricature the current level of intellectual challenge presented by the Atheist believers...or is that unbelievers...because they do seem awfully certain in their beliefs.
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Posted at 9:48pm on Nov. 29, 2007 The debate system is broken...fix it or stop wasting our time.
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Last night's debate only highlights the fact that televised debates, as currently formatted, just don't do anything meaningful.
We NEED a format where actual debate is conducted. Where candidates on both sides of the divide are forced to either articulate well structured answers or see the weakness of their positions made public.
My suggestions....
1. Time limits on answers should be extended...a lot...and when necessary, removed entirely.
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Posted at 11:50pm on Apr. 20, 2007 The title says "Seung-Hui Cho. I Mourn Your Life and Loss"
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but I could not believe what I read.
Seung-Hui Cho. I Mourn Your Life and Loss(Kos Warning)
This has got to be the ultimate in "blame everyone but the murderer."
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Posted at 9:00pm on Apr. 20, 2007 Well, at least it is out there in the open
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No hidden agenda here
The Headline sort of speaks for itself
Plate: Let's lay down our right to bear arms
Certain quotes really jump out at me in this piece
In the nineties, the Los Angeles Times courageously endorsed an all-but-complete ban on privately owned guns, in an effort to greatly reduce their availability. By the time the series of editorials had concluded, the newspaper had received more angry letters and fiery faxes from the well-armed U.S. gun lobby than on any other issue during my privileged six-year tenure as the newspaper's editorial page editor.
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Posted at 5:04pm on Apr. 16, 2007 A little red meat
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While this no doubt does not represent all on the left..you just knew that someone had to post something like it. (profanity warning, and smirking chimp warning)
I would post more, but I think this just speaks for itself.
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Posted at 12:57am on Mar. 1, 2007 Is it just me
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or is this an incredibly weak argument for impeachment? (DKos alert)
especially with when they quote a line like
Last October, the North Koreans tested their first nuclear device, the fruition of decades of work to make a weapon out of plutonium.
So, their problem with the Bush administration is that they didn't have the right element, but had the right read on NK's pursuit of nuclear weapons?
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Posted at 6:28pm on Jan. 30, 2007 How dare they...
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So apparently Congressman Waxman has decided to investigate the White House's handling of the Global Warming issue. The lead paragraph is an interesting bit of writing...
The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming."
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Posted at 12:31am on Jan. 23, 2007 Somebody does not understand how to keep a business operating...
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Because this is how to kill one in a hurry. Make sure to insult American troops in a war zone, and then let the story make it into the national news.
Khetani on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down.
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Posted at 6:51pm on Jan. 22, 2007 I am not an economist, so maybe I am wrong
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but something does not seem quite right about Al Gore making a comment like this one...
But front and center was an important message he wanted to deliver-a message he delivers all over the world and to which he devotes much of his life. The crux of it: the stock market is "functionally insane," as he called it, and what is needed is a new approach to measuring value.
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Posted at 12:11pm on Jan. 21, 2007 SOTU
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Dear Mr. President,
This morning, the pundits are discussing the upcoming State of the Union speech. They are discussing what the focus of the speech will be, and how your political opponents will respond. I have one suggestion for the speech…don’t give it.
There is no constitutional requirement that a speech be given, only that that "The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution)
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Posted at 10:03pm on Jan. 18, 2007 Are they really taking this seriously?
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I just watched the Colbert/O'Reilly exchange(sorry about the commercial, but it is worth the wait), and found it funny, entertaining, and refreshing......because I knew it was comedy and not hard news.
But apparently, if the comments are to be trusted, some (do I really have to warn anyone that this is a dKos link?) on dKos are actually taking the discussion seriously.
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Posted at 7:54pm on Jan. 17, 2007 Nice to see that the Democrats in Congress are not pandering to the hard left
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This has been posted on DKos.
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey doesn't even try to hide the fact that she is now playing to the faithful with the title "This Bills for you: "The Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act of 2007"
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Posted at 2:33pm on Jan. 12, 2007 I would like to announce
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that I am officially not running for President in 2008.
Does it appear that everyone in DC, and a few outside, who possesses a pulse, seem to be announcing a run for the White House.
I think that this will make for an interesting primary season, but will leave both parties in a weakened position overall. If there is ever a time when a third party run to have a possibility of success, this might just be it.
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Posted at 1:48am on Dec. 25, 2006 I think someone forgot something
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warning....dDos Link
As a History teacher I was drawn to this story, with the title "The Great White Fleet, Surge and Impeachment....history repeats?".
His point, Congress, when TR was presiding, could not reign in the Executive...what he missed....TR was right, and Congress was in fact wrong.
It does happen sometimes...and what if GWB is right this time, and Congress is once again wrong?
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