44: The Obama Presidency

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Open Question...

South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) continues to make a slow recovery from emergency brain surgery and is unlikely to vote in the Senate for several months -- if not more. The 17th Amendment of the Constitution, which covers the election of senators, allows for a senator to be removed from office... Sign in to see full entry.

I read your comments

Yes, I do read people comments to my posts, I like the dicussion to creates. First off, WWII is totally different. There was a solid, clear, and legitimate purpose for us to be in WWII. The miltary, including the president, had a laid out plan, that took into consideration, any and all possible... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 8, 2007

How many deaths does it take?

How many more American troops and Iraqi civilians must die before America's churches speak a prophetic word to President Bush that violence only begets more violence and more violence is not an acceptable path forward? How long before American Christians practice the Christianity of the one called... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 5, 2007

Presidential Rankings - Round 3

DEMOCRATS 1. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Opinions about Clinton are decidedly mixed. On the one hand, she is winning plaudits for reaching outside of her close-knit circle of advisers as she puts a staff in place for a national campaign. On the other, she has drawn criticism from some insiders for her... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

John Edwards

The response to Senator Edwards' announcement last week was incredible. As well it should be, what John Edwards brings to this country are ideas that will keep America great. An Edwards administration will put in place policies that will start building one America, where everyone has the opportunity... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Not a fair House yet

The new Democratic House majority has an ambitious plan for its first 100 hours in power, from increasing the minimum wage to strengthening ethics rules to having the federal government negotiate prescription drug prices. Unfortunately, its plans don't include getting those provisions passed in the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

The Somalia Crisis

In the past week a dangerous round of warfare has erupted in Somalia, a failed state in the Horn of Africa that the United States tried in vain to rebuild in the early 1990s. Troops from neighboring Ethiopia who were defending a U.N.-backed transitional government were attacked by forces of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Barak Obama does have an agenda

Senator Obama's early opposition to the war in Iraq is the best known of his views, but voters taking his measure as a potential president will discover that he is a leader in securing stray weapons from the former Soviet Union, a key backer of American aid to the Congo, and that he would tend to... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 22, 2006

The Racist Congressman

Bigotry comes in various guises -- some coded, some closeted, some colossally stupid. The bigotry displayed recently by Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., a Republican who represents a patch of south-central Virginia, falls squarely in the third category. Mr. Goode, evidently in a state of xenophobic... Sign in to see full entry.

10 House seats that could change hands in '08

* California's 11th District (Currently D): After getting just 39 percent in 2004, Rep.-elect Jerry McNerney (D) took 53 percent two years later to knock off Rep. Richard Pombo (R). McNerney benefited from the general anti-Republican mood in the country as well as the years-long assault on Pombo... Sign in to see full entry.

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