Archive for 'Political News'
Make Love Not War in San Francisco
PRESS Release:
Thursday, April 17,2003
Make Love Not War in San Francisco
from the Butterfly Gardeners Association
On a bright Spring day on a San Francisco nude beach, the latest Baring Witness peace action took place, with over 100 men and women lying naked in the sand to form the words Make Love Not War.
The participants gathered on Baker [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under Political News.
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Is the draft about to be reinstated?
The US is running out of soldiers. Last April the military extended the tours of duty for active-duty soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan from 12 months to 15 months while calling many other troops back after 9 or 10 months stateside. The soldiers had been furloughed with the promise of a year stay at home. [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under Political News.
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Eisenhower’s Farewell Address: A Textual Analysis
by Michael Hall
What is it when you think of the Fifties? I think of an era of high ideals mirrored in every facet of American life. I think of an era full of nice cars, nice music, and just a nice and prosperous outlook on life. But things did change. The beginning of the new [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2007 under Political News.
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A Blond Bombshell
no, I’m not talking about Anna Nicole, hopefully that ‘news story’ is finally over. I’m talking about former CIA operative Valerie Plame whose identity and occupation were revealed by, well by somebody. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby was convicted last week of lying and obstructing a federal investigation but no one has been held responsible for the [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2007 under Political News.
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Political Opinions Banned in Classroom?
by Michael Hall
One state is in the process of moving one step closer to that Orwellian Society that we all fear, but we know will eventually come to fruition.
Lawmakers in Arizona are proposing legislation that would prohibit “any instructor in a public school or college from advocating or opposing a political candidate or one side [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2007 under Political News.
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New Orleans revisited
Guest Article by Dan Kellum
Just got back from New Orleans! That place has a long time until recovery. Looks like I will be running back and forth for the next few months helping out rebuilding the town. Hope you all will be fine.
As I drive through the town I am amazed at how little seems [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2007 under Political News.
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What a long strange trip it’s gonna be
The ethnic makeup of the candidates in this year’s election is beginning to look like James Watt’s ideal staff - a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. Someone should convince Joe Lieberman to run as there has already been a cripple as President - Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even though no one wanted to [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2007 under Political News.
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Romney Enters Race
Submitted by Michael Hall
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has officially entered the presidential race seeking the 2008 Republican nomination. The announcement was made at 9am this morning at the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn, in his native state of Michigan.
During his speech at the historically famous site, Romney said: “Innovation and transformation have been at [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2007 under Political News.
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Obama declares he’s running for President
Illinois Senator Barack Obama has now officially declared his candidacy for the United States Presidential Election.
Obama announced his candidacy on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, following in the footsteps of the nation’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.
He told a cheering crowd of onlookers: “It was here, in Springfield, where North, South, [...]
Posted: February 10th, 2007 under Political News.
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Presidential Elections
An election is a decision making process where people choose people to hold official offices. This is the usual mechanism by which modern democracy fills offices in the legislature, and sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and in regional and local government. This is also typically the case in a wide range of other private [...]
Posted: February 9th, 2007 under Political News.
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