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January 14th, 2008
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January 14th, 2008
Warning: There are a couple of almost naugthy words in this video. There also are a lot of laughs:
January 14th, 2008
Courtesy of Talking Points Memo, HERE is an annotated calendar of upcoming electoral events on the presidential campaign trail.
January 14th, 2008
It’s been almost 20 years since Ronald Reagan left the White House, and more than a few Republicans think his POLITICAL COALITION is gone.
January 14th, 2008
Bob Johnson, who grew up in Freeport and went on to become America’s first black billionaire as the founder of Black Entertainment Television, made a THINLY-VEILED REFERENCE Sunday to Barack Obama’s admitted use of drugs as a teenager.
Johnson’s remarks were made during an appearance as a surrogate campaigner for Hillary Clinton at a church in South Carolina.
This is the same Bob Johnson who has DEMAGOGUED the issue of the estate tax, arguing that it’s racist. In truth, the estate tax affects only a handful of African-Americans, all of whom are wealthy.
January 14th, 2008
THESE are from Kevin Drum at The Washington Monthly.
Have you any to add to the list? Or perhaps you can cite five liberal myths (although I can’t imagine).
January 14th, 2008
THIS is an interesting debate on the question of whether Hillary Clinton as president would be more important as a role model to girls than Barack Obama as president would be to blacks, especially boys.
January 14th, 2008
Look, I’m not saying that evolution is an important issue in the race for the presidency. (Well, actually, I don’t think I could vote for anybody who believes that humans and dinosaurs co-existed about 6,000 years ago).
But it’s interesting to see the VARIOUS POSITIONS on the matter among the Republican candidates.
