Tag: politics
member name: Christine Zibas
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October 10, 2008 01:48 AM EDT --
During the past few weeks, the country has been focused on the economic meltdown happening on Wall Street. Meanwhile, back at Homeland Security, "the first phase of a controversial satellite-surveillance . . .
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December 09, 2006 12:51 AM EST --
The strangest part of this story is the fact that this is happening in the town I live in: Rockford, Illinois. We are located about a hour northwest of Chicago, population about 250,000. Today the breaking . . .
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October 03, 2008 01:01 AM EDT --
The title may be extreme, but sometimes I have to sit back and wonder, do we really have as much "freedom" as we like to profess? Can we really afford as a nation to be so righteous when it comes . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:09 AM EDT --
While browsing around the Internet a few days ago, I stumbled on what I thought was a very interesting article by Science magazine. A recent study by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, has found that . . .
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November 30, 2006 12:30 AM EST --
The homeless have been under increasing scrutiny by communities who are tired of the negative side effects that accompany homeless populations: trespassing, lewd behavior, an increase in crime for residents . . .
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February 03, 2007 04:16 PM EST --
It seems clear that Congress will pass some sort of nonbinding resolution about the folly of sending more troops to Iraq. It's a good beginning, but for the Americans who voted the Democrats in as . . .
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February 21, 2007 12:10 AM EST --
This past weekend, I rented the DVD, "Why We Fight," a documentary by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki that examines the military-industrial complex and why as a nation, the United States has become . . .
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November 28, 2006 12:37 AM EST --
It may seem positively Medieval, but Israel is determined to stop the infiltration of arms and militants across the Egyptian-Gaza border in its country. How? By building a 6-mile moat across its southern . . .
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November 19, 2006 12:03 PM EST --
Last month, the Chinese hosted a 3-day meeting with 48 African heads of state (out of a total of 53 African countries), the largest gathering of foreign leaders China has ever entertained. Why? Clearly . . .
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November 25, 2006 03:02 PM EST --
When every doorway in Iraq holds the potential for death and mayhem, soldiers learn to improvise to protect themselves. In this case, according to the latest issue of "Time" magazine, they have . . .
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December 13, 2006 01:20 AM EST --
When the new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi backed a losing candidate for House Majority Leader, the Republicans couldn't start crowing soon enough. Fox News jumped on the story, and the regular . . .
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November 16, 2006 12:45 AM EST --
In a recently released report to the United Nations from the Climate Action Network-Europe and Germanwatch (two environmental groups), the United States ranks in the bottom 5 of the countries reviewed . . .
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November 28, 2006 12:49 AM EST --
Across the country, communities as diverse as Los Angeles (CA), Salt Lake City (UT), Wilmette (IL), Albuquerque (NM), and New Haven (CT) are implementing new driving privileges for folks who choose to . . .
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