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Monday, December 31, 2007

The best baseball had to offer

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Today, December 31, 2007, marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the death of Roberto Clemente. Let's look at why we must remember him, a...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

President is doing the right thing by vetoing bill.

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It is exceedingly rare that I agree with George W. Bush, and even more so that I agree with him or say he is right about anything pertaining...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

There are worse things than regulation. One of them is not enough regulation.

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We saw more fallout from the mortgage crisis this week, as we find that home prices dropped 6.7% since this time last year. Many large metr...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007

The price of no insurance, or of Scrooge-like insurance companies:DEATH

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A report has come out using data gathered by the American Cancer Society showing that lack of insurance is directly correlated with an incre...
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Friday, December 21, 2007

Why is the Republican establishment so afraid of Mike Huckabee?

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This week, new GOP co-frontrunner (hard to say who is in front over there) Mike Huckabee has been taking a lot of flak from Republicans. Of ...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Building containing Dick Cheney's office is on fire

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The Eisenhower Executive Building, which houses the Vice President's office is on fire. Hopefully no one is injured, but here are some e...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Kisses and Hugs

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THE KISSER endorses THE HUGGER And the media is saying they are shocked! Shocked, I tell ya! Boy, are they asleep at the switch, or maybe th...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Hillary's national co-chair takes a cheap shot at Obama. And misses the target.

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In the wake of a tightening race that shows Barack Obama pulling into a tie with Hillary Clinton in his home state of New Hampshire, top Cl...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Armed guard shoots gunman to put a quick end to massacre

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There is one area in which I do diverge from some of you on the left (though surprisingly many agree with me). That has to do with guns and ...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Fumbling, Bumbling, Stumbling

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In my last post I pointed out how the Bush administration took what had been a successful program of sex education that had reduced the inci...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Like clockwork, another prediction comes true.

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Last year, the teen birth-rate, which had been falling steadily during the 1990's and then leveled off to a slow decline the past few ye...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

A critical component to any health care reform plan: Mental Health Coverage.

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I am, like everybody else, glad that the hostage situation involving a mentally ill man at Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire headquarters ...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Some thoughts on Mitt Romney, Mormons and abortion.

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I've been watching the recent news involving Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the whole 'Mormon question' with ...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The BEST CASE scenario in Iraq: A Pyrrhic victory.

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In 281 B.C., king Pyrrhus of Epirus (an island off the coast of Greece) landed in Tarentum with an army of about 30,000 men and 20 elephants...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

How much official outrage should we show?

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There have been in the news recently two horrifying news stories involving rape that show how differently the rights of women are viewed in ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Hate crimes up nationally, lowest in a surprising place.

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The FBI released statistics showing that hate crimes rose nationally by 7% over the previous year . Nationally, 7722 hate crimes were report...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Bush doctrine: we support democracy-- except where we don't.

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Today the Supreme Court of Pakistan threw out five of the six complaints that had been lodged against the election last month of General Per...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

FOX News owners sued by publisher who said they ordered her to lie.

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We already know that Rudy Giuliani wants to keep as much distance as he can from Bernard Kerik. We already know that in 2000 he was briefed ...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Turns out that there may be something real about the 'Da Vinci Code.'

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In the book and the movie "The Da Vinci Code," a secret code is hidden within paintings created by the Renaissance master which h...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

The first brick in the wall.

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Last night Democrats took control of the Virginia State Senate for the first time in twelve years. The victory is significant because it is ...
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