Tag: us politics
member name: Ethan G.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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February 14, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
Declaring the need for energy independence, President Bush has proposed a budget with funding for an array of programs [Advanced Energy Initiative] some of which have great promise. Yet from an environmental . . .
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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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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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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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June 02, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The U.S. Senate is debating a major environmental bill: The Climate Security Act. Unfortunately this bill is fatally flawed because it uses the convoluted, easily manipulated cap-and-trade process . . .
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September 15, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
Energy independence and green energy are often referred to as though they are the same thing. However this is far from the truth. True, if we have 100 percent green energy we have energy independence, . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ). Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . .
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July 03, 2008 06:37 PM EDT --
Should he be elected president, Barack Obama will not be the first African American president on January 20, the day he would be sworn in, according to a major study.
"By the time he has been . . .
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