Archive for the ‘Democracy’ Category
Friday, July 4th, 2008
There is not a more appropriate day than July 4th to highlight some of the critical passages of the Declaration of Independence and remember what our founding was originally based on. While not a legally binding document (hence, the Revolutionary War), the Declaration was a powerful statement, an announcement ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. For purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain. America, America God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.
In 1893, a young teacher by the name of Katharine Lee Bates, scribbled these ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Democrats have organized their primary process in such a way that instead of winners taking all of the delegates in a particular state, or even rewarding the individual that won the most votes or the most states, a slew of party insiders and elected officials will act as tiebreakers if ...
Posted in 2008, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, DNC, Democracy, Democrats, Ethics, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Ohio, Texas, superdelegates | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
With the Democrats virtually evenly divided between Senators Clinton and Obama, an interesting divide has become exposed in the seemlingly united Republican Party. It is no secret that the Christian conservative base and its numerous compliant media mouthpieces can not stand the thought of John McCain as the presidential ...
Posted in 2008, Abortion, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Congress, Democracy, Democrats, Focus on the Family, Hillary Clinton, James Dobson, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Religion, Republicans, Washington Hotlist, mainstream media | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Last night's Florida primary taught us several things:
1.) Rudy's ridiculous strategy of completely ignoring Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina predictably backfired. Now the Mayor will endorse Senator McCain in an attempt to freeze out the hard-to-like Romney. Today's photo-op at the Reagan Library may propel Giuliani ...
Posted in 2008, Democracy, Florida, Iowa, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudolph Giuliani | No Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
"I am confident that the status quo is unacceptable, Mr. President, and we want to help you. The question is whether or not hard issues can be resolved and the vision emerges, so that the choice is clear amongst the Palestinians. The choice being, `Do you want this state? ...
Posted in Democracy, Foreign Policy, George Bush, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Palestinians | No Comments »
