Maxine Waters Urges 'Socializing' Oil Industry in Slip Up
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California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters is under fire today for a slip up in which she addressed the nation's top oil executives, threatening to 'socialize' the companies and their assets. FOX News published the video of Maxine Waters' gaffe. Her response came after an executive said that oil would certainly rise to $5 without intervention from Congress or a substantial decrease in demand. She h... more
Views: 4769Would an Obama/Edwards Ticket Win?
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John Edwards' game-changing endorsement yesterday of Democratic candidate Barack Obama brings even more fuel to Obama's already unstoppable momentum. But will it lead to an Obama/Edwards ticket? And would the duo be a winning combination? Most political discussion on a joint ticket between the too was somewhat reversed, coming in 2006 and 2007, and questioning the possibility of an Edwards/Obama run. ... more
Views: 1747Libertarian Party Getting New Presidential Hopeful in Bob Barr
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Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia yesterday gave his official announcement that he will run for the Presidency on the Libertarian ticket. The 59-year-old Barr served as a Republican Congressman from 1995 to 2003. Barr is following in the footsteps of former 2008 Republican Presidential hopeful Ron Paul, who ran on the Republican ticket while espousing views that were clearly Libertarian or... more
Views: 1822Bob Barr Gets Ron Paul List and Announces Presidential Run
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Today former Republican Congressman Bob Barr officially announced his run for the 2008 presidency on the Libertarian ticket. According to TechPresident.com, it appears Barr has access to Libertarian Ron Paul's mailing list of millions. Paul has been running on the Republican ticket but it largely ignored by mainstream media and admitted the unlikeliness of success on March 6th. Ron Paul's campaign has fam... more
Views: 1838Bush Administration Appointee Lurita Doan Bites the Dust
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After having been head of the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA) since late May of 2006 as that agency's first female leader, Lurita Doan has resigned. The GSA employs 12,000 people and is given an annual federal budget of $20 billion to keep up the thousands of buildings and properties that the U.S. federal government owns. Last month, the House Oversight Committee under the leadership of ... more
Views: 1822Barack Obama Nation, Only This, and Nothing More
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There is a man running for the office of what is by default the world's highest singular authority: the office of President of the United States. And many have swooned and shouted rapturously at his rallies and as he gives speeches, calling him "handsome" and "eloquent" and "a force for change" and "representative of the people" and many other wondrous adjectives and adjectival phrases. And this beat has gone o... more
Views: 1990Mixed Feelings About American Tax Rebate Stimulus
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The U.S. income tax rebate, intended to stimulate the snail's pace economy that has emerged as consumer confidence has been beaten down to its lowest level since 1982, begins getting into the hands of people in 120-130 million American households today. The federal government's hope is that people will spend the money on things that they either need a lot of or else have a lot of desire for. Retailers, somewhat... more
Views: 1603Conspiracy Theories Wrap Around Israel-Palestine Negotiations
Region: District of ColumbiaIn spite of his aid having told the media late last Spring that "what everyone wants...is a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel," nearly one year later Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the press that "Frankly, so far nothing has been achieved...We demanded the Americans implement the first phase...that talks about the cessation of settlement expansion. This is the biggest blight... more
Views: 2884Let the New Environmentalism Be Unfurled
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Victor Davis Hanson writes in his just-published essay "A New Environmentalism" that it is "time to re-evaluate domestic oil production in environmental -- and moral --terms. The question is no longer simply whether we want to drill in the Alaskan wilderness or off the Florida or California coasts. Rather, the dilemma is whether by doing so, we can mitigate the world's ecological risks beyond our shores, deny dictators... more
Views: 1572Federal Education Department Needs an Education
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So; today I read the news and it says: The Bush administration, seeking to avert a crisis for students seeking college money this fall, threw its weight behind a congressional plan for the Education Department to buy billions of dollars in student loans from private lenders. Does the litany never end? Does society just not comprehend that doing the same thing over and over and over again but expecting ... more
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