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Shifting Political Winds Blow Ill for Democrats

January 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger
Since the Roe v. Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 1973, the political left, right and center of American politics has divided most distinctly around the issue of abortion.  In that decision, the Court held that a woman may abort an unwanted [...]

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Questions Pit ‘W’ Bashing Against Love of Obama

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Several times each day, I find in my inbox one of those “must-forward” e-mails from some well-intentioned person upset with someone or something.  Usually, I delete them quickly.  Today, however, I felt compelled to share excerpts (below) from one such message that uses rhetorical questions to slam the media bias apparent when one compares coverage [...]

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Major Media Outlets Ignore Report on Energy

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey) are at the center of heated debate now taking place on [...]

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United States Could Be Energy Independent If…

November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report.
As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops number [...]

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King, American President Talk of 57 States (Corrected)

May 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Though speaking almost one year apart, King Abdullah II of Saudi Arabia Jordan and President Barack Obama seem to have a penchant for the concept of 57 states.
In a TimesOnline article this morning about prospects of Middle East peace, Saudi Arabia Jordan’s king was quoted by writer Richard Beeston as saying, “This is not a [...]

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