Tag: us poltics
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June 12, 2007 09:49 AM EDT --
I know a couple who were planning a trip to Israel this summer. They have never traveled outside the US, so they had to apply for passports. They got all their documents together, filled . . .
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August 21, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
Twenty-four states have minimum wage levels the same as the current Federal rate of $5.15, but six of those states have proposals on the November ballot to increase their minimum wage to between $6.15 . . .
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July 10, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has refused to also a Wiccan religious symbol, the five-pointed star with a circle, on a memorial to Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart of Fernly, Nevada. Sgt. Stewart . . .
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July 30, 2006 12:05 PM EDT --
CNN reported this morning that at least 54 Lebanese women and children were killed by Israeli air strikes in the village of Qana, near Tyre. The bombs stuck a four-story building where the . . .
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September 20, 2006 11:56 AM EDT --
An official Canadian commission has found that a Canadian computer specialist of Syrian birth, Maher Arar, had no ties to any terrorist groups or individuals. Arar claims . . .
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April 15, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
You’re a Methodist; I’m a Methodist, or Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, or any of the other Christian denominations. We share the same theology, beliefs and values, and yet in too . . .
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March 08, 2007 09:01 AM EST --
Anyone following the political news in the last few years knows what a stir Ann Coulter has caused with her outspoken, bombastic and controversial comments and accusations verbally and in print. . . .
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May 27, 2007 07:43 PM EDT --
President Bush has repeatedly stated the difference between Vietnam and the war on terror we are fighting in Iraq is that North Vietnam didn’t want to follow us home to continue the battle, . . .
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October 12, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
A recent outbreak in whooping cough cases in the US has brought the controversy over childhood vaccinations to our attentions once again. In 1976 1,020 cases of whooping cough were reported in the . . .
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June 17, 2007 10:13 AM EDT --
The US Census Bureau has released new data on US incomes for 2005. In that year the median income for full-time working men was $41.386 and the same number for women was $31,858, about 75% . . .
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July 08, 2006 11:03 AM EDT --
Researchers at Brock University in Ontario have confirmed earlier reports that there is a statistical correlation between men having older biological brothers and homosexuality. In a study of 944 . . .
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August 26, 2006 09:05 AM EDT --
The California Senate approved a bill to permit the distribution of condoms in California jails if signed by Governor Schwarzenegger. Opponents of the bill claim that the distribution of . . .
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November 02, 2006 08:51 AM EST --
An Ethiopian immigrant living in Lawrenceville, Georgia has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the genital mutilation of his daughter in 2001 when she was two years old. The man . . .
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April 30, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
I own a gun. It is a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle . . .
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July 12, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
President Bush has announced that the Federal deficit for 2006 has been reduced to only $296 billion. Previous estimates had forecasted the deficit to be $423 billion. This means that the national . . .
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September 24, 2006 01:45 PM EDT --
Ben Stein, the conservative commentator and former game show host, appeared on the CBS Sunday Morning show today and posed the worst possible scenario for the US. What would we do, he asked, . . .
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October 11, 2006 08:24 AM EDT --
The British medical journal Lancet claims that, based on a random survey of 1,800 Iraqi households. 655,000 people have died from the direct and indirect effects of the war in Iraq. This . . .
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May 27, 2007 11:18 AM EDT --
CNN had a report this week about a illegal immigrant family; husband, wife and two kids, living in NYC. The father and husband bikes to work each day to his job as a clerk in a wine store. . . .
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August 14, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
The abortion debate, to a great extent, is centered on this question. If the fetus isn't human, what is there a problem with abortion? People who oppose abortion believe that it is murder, but . . .
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August 22, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
Saudi Arabian school textbooks still continue to each hate and intolerance toward Jews and non-Muslims years after Saudi officials agreed to revise the textbooks. A recent review . . .
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