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Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
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Jurisprudence
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MichaelBernard1
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July 28, 2008
Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -
So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
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Moneybox
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MichaelBernard1
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July 18, 2008
Democrats in Congress Failed Us All 8 Years
The Democrats and Democratic Party failed to stand up for what is right for the entire eight years of the Bush / Cheney White House misrule. They gave away our American two-party system; they gave away majority rule; they gave away our civil rights and bill of rights and civil liberties; they gave away the constitutional authority of the ...
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Jurisprudence
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MichaelBernard1
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January 30, 2008
Dumb Fred Kaplan: Too Smart for his Own Boots
In Fred Kaplan’s recent military analysis (Slate; Jan 24, 2008), he reports the Army’s ‘lowering standards’ for military recruits and editorializes that soldiers who do not meet his educational and testing standards are ‘Dumb and Dumber’. Kaplan’s pejorative slander of Americans who sacrifice their lives (literally) so his snotty ...
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War Stories
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rco1234
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January 25, 2008