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Iowa Supreme Court Flushes State Constitution

April 3rd, 2009 · 8 Comments

Only one day after Des Moines radio talk show host Jan Mickelson used one constitution-related topic (i.e., religious symbolism on outhouse doors) to capture the interest of Iowans tuning in to his “Mickelson in the Morning” radio program, the Iowa Supreme Court issued a ruling that’s bound to leave many citizens of the Corn State [...]

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President Urged to Promote English

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

ProEnglish, an Arlington, Va.-based national organization that advocates for official English, released a letter to President Bush today, urging him to order U.S. Department of Transportation to stop allowing Mexican truck drivers involved in the NAFTA demonstration project to demonstrate their “proficiency in English” by answering questions in Spanish.
ProEnglish and the Washington D.C.-based Eagle Forum [...]

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Mike Huckabee Wins Value Voter Straw Poll

September 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Mike Huckabee captured 63 percent of the votes in the Value Voter 2008 Republican Presidential Debate Straw Poll tonight, finishing ahead of all the other candidates at the event in Fort Lauderdale tonight.
A former Baptist pastor who left the pulpit to serve first as Arkansas’ lieutenant governor and then for more than 10 years as [...]

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