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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

State Of Disunion

While Bush's approval ratings fell again (39%), with a 56% disapproval rating, he gears up for another speech about how well he's doing and how well the country's doing under his stewardship and what he wants to do in the near future. Well, while he does vocal and tongue calisthenics to help hurdle... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

The National Anthem Project or Raising the Barr, Rosanne

There is a program aimed at getting patriotic music back into the curriculum of our schools, most notably the National Anthem itself. Backed by the Bush administration, the National Anthem Project was launched to bring awareness to the loss of music programs in many of the nation's schools because... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 23, 2006

It Is Only In The Aftermath

It is generally a maxim of life that it takes a disaster to get something preventive done. Not that it helps the victims of the current disaster. And so it is just the same with the mining disasters that have befallen West Virginia in the past three weeks. Pledging that new mining safety regulations... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 20, 2006

Fire Down Below Leaves Two Miners Missing

A conveyor belt catching fire in a Logan County, West Virginia, mine has resulted in the disappearance of two miners. Search crews from several states are scouring the long shafts in the Alma No. 1 Mine, looking for any clue as to the whereabouts of the two men. This tragic event occurs less than... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Territorial Pissing On The Constitution

One day after former Vice-President Al Gore called for a full independent federal investigation into the unconstitutional and illegal act of wiretapping American citizens without warrants and without their knowledge, Senator Hilary Clinton stated that the Bush administration would mark history as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 14, 2006

Defining Terrorism

In a clandestine attack yesterday, a CIA probe launched as many as ten missiles at a residence in northern Pakistan and killed 18 people, children among them. The attack was prompted by 'reliable intelligence' that al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command and the brains -- according to some experts... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 7, 2006

House Majority Leader Position No Longer Delay-ed

The position of House Majority Leader is now open for a new representative to fill the role. Tom DeLay of Texas finally stepped aside today to allow someone else to take his place, something he should have done several months ago when he was first indicted by a grand jury for fraud and conspiracy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006

False News Adds Insult To Tragedy

It was right after midnight last night (Eastern Standard Time) that news was leaked from the offices of the Sago Mines that the 12 missing men (one man had been found earlier) had been found and were still alive. Family and friends of the trapped men gathered for mutual support and prayers at the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Silence Isn't Always Golden

There is a stillness so pure in the West Virginia mountains that even the intrusion of the musical cadence of crickets and frogs cannot completely dispel it, only coexist with it. The same can be said of the hum of mining complexes. Growing up in rural West Virginia, I lived atop a mountain ridge... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 1, 2006

Can We Answer 2005's Unanswered Questions In 2006?

The ending of 2005 has left many unanswered questions dripping annoyingly into the unknown pool of 2006, already sending out ripples that would give a chaos theorist a migraine. The most cloying unanswered question of 2005 is the story of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teenager (as if you don't... Sign in to see full entry.

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