Tag: politics
member name: Ethan G.
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January 31, 2007 09:57 AM EST --
The first reaction to news of a grievous illness is often denial. We don’t want to face suffering, don’t want to go on a regime of healing, and certainly . . .
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December 08, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
A study by the Justice Policy Institute shows that, although blacks and whites possess and sell illegal drugs at about the same rate, blacks are ten times as likely to be sent to jail on drug charges ( . . .
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September 15, 2007 09:05 AM EDT --
Studies show that Medicare and Medicaid cost significantly less than other insurance plans (http://www.cbpp.org/5-11-07health.htm). However, eligibility is limited by age and income level.
Why not . . .
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January 29, 2009 11:48 AM EST --
Obama is fast finding out that you can't negotiate with fanatics, such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and House Republicans.
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April 09, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Protestors are massing in San Francisco ( Yahoo ) after the Olympic torch was disrupted and had to be extinguished five times, before finally being carried by bus, in Paris. ( NPR ) I think this . . .
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July 29, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
Scorching heat, swarming insects, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, drought, fever. These could be coming soon to a neighborhood near you
Scientists warn that extreme weather events are likely to . . .
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May 08, 2008 12:49 PM EDT --
An article from Time attributes Hillary Clinton's virtually certain defeat to an overemphasis on experience in a change year, a failure to use the rules of the primary system as effectively as possible, . . .
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September 10, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
When I was a teenager, in an Indiana town, we had a unique way of getting around: walking and bicycling. This was in the days when there were relatively few cars, when kids would never think of getting . . .
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April 30, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
I’ve long thought that the tendency to divide all political issues into “conservative” and “liberal,” and to then identify them with either the Republican or Democratic Party . . .
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August 13, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
The United States is full of technological nooks and crannies, bright new ideas and old ones that have never been fully utilized, oodles of potential innovation. An idea is useless, however, unless . . .
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June 09, 2008 09:41 PM EDT --
"Pro Choice" and "Pro Life" are two stupid euphemisms that neither mean what they say nor say what they mean. Who would disagree with a term like "Pro Choice," which . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
My wife and I have just moved to a tiny house, part of a pattern of shrinking we’ve been going through. When we lived in Indiana rent was cheap and we had an enormous apartment with space that . . .
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March 31, 2007 06:32 PM EDT --
The purpose of an editorial page is to debate the great issues of the day. And surely one of the greatest issues of the 21st century is, and will increasingly be, global climate change. In . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
A sizzling fajita, piled with grilled steak, chicken, and shrimp, sends a lustful burst of yearning through me, just before I gobble it down. True, I feel a bit sick if I think about the bloody . . .
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May 14, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
In 1999, when the Senate rejected by 95-0 the Kyoto Climate Treaty designed to reduce global warming gasses, treaty opponents made a good point. Kyoto excluded developing countries, such as China . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
The environment doesn’t recognize international boundaries. Vast dust storms from China blow over neighboring countries and reach as far as the United States. Israel and neighboring . . .
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February 02, 2008 11:33 AM EST --
African Americans were initially skeptical of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, thinking that he was not black enough. They are right, and this is why he would make a superb president for . . .
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