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Edwards Adds ‘Drop Out of Race’ to To-Do List

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Forget the issues of global warming, Iraq, health care and, most importantly, jobs and poverty. Democrat John Edwards will add “Drop Out of the Race” to the to-do list that appears on his campaign web site’s home page.
The former North Carolina senator and John Kerry running mate will, according to news reports this morning, [...]

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Blogger Lists Threats to Humanity, A to Z

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

A man needs only peruse the headlines of his local newspaper or online news site to encounter a seemingly-endless list of threats to his very existence. That in mind, I decided to provide a one-day snapshot of the current threats, all taken from today’s headlines, in A-to-Z* order:
A = Al-Qaeda (See Padilla sentenced to [...]

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Majority of Presidential Candidates Ignore Military

January 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

An article published Saturday in Stars & Stripes offered members of the overseas military community a glimpse into the minds of five presidential candidates on issues related to national defense and military spending. Unfortunately, seven other candidates remain a mystery to readers of overseas daily. Why? Because, apparently, those candidates chose to [...]

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New Hampshire GOP Presidential Forum Notes

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Tonight’s New Hampshire Republican Presidential Forum on the Fox News Channel began this way:
“One of the five men sitting at this table tonight will be the Republican presidential nominee.”
Those words, used by Fox News moderator Chris Wallace to open the forum at Saint Anselm College, must have riled supporters of Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter [...]

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Search for ‘Change’ Produces Strange Results

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Democrat presidential candidates have used the word “change” a lot during the past week. In fact, Barack Obama used the word to win the Iowa Democrats Caucus and John Edwards appeared to embrace it during the ABC News New Hampshire Debates tonight — but they did so without offering many specifics. Curious to [...]

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