Tag: united states
member name: Steve Petersen
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November 11, 2006 05:56 PM EST --
While running on the morning of Veterans Day 2006, I came across a mini American flag. It looked like someone attached it to their car or truck, and somehow it blew loose.
It was lying on the side . . .
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April 09, 2006 07:21 PM EDT --
Protests -- despite their negative connotation -- are sometimes beneficial for society. Of course, as long as these events are peaceful and don't lead to unrest, a group's point is clearly enunciated . . .
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October 31, 2006 03:21 PM EST --
CNN reports today that:
So far this campaign, the political parties have exposed voters to nearly $160 million in ads attacking congressional candidates. How much spent painting a positive image? About . . .
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November 09, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
Regardless of your political persuasion, you must admit that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is an impressive politician.
"Barack Obama has been heralded as a new star in the Senate and is already . . .
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October 24, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
I just voted since early voting is now legal in Utah. While I have voted using an absentee ballot before as I was out the country or in another state attending university, voting today seemed weird. I . . .
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September 11, 2006 01:36 AM EDT --
Since the Reagan Revolution -- likely before -- many devout American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have pondered if one can enjoy good standing Church membership and contemporaneously . . .
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May 02, 2006 03:02 PM EDT --
As the intensity over immigration reform increases as members of Congress battle each other over various strategies to address the burgeoning illegal immigrant population and as thousands of people flood . . .
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September 26, 2006 11:05 PM EDT --
In the unlikely event that both the President and Vice President are rendered unable to preside over the country, the constitution states that the Speaker of the House will assume that role, followed by . . .
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October 06, 2006 01:45 AM EDT --
A segment from the October 5, 2006 episode of CBC's As It Happens focused on a Canadian Senate committee's recommendations of how to improve the country's military. One of the committee's . . .
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December 21, 2006 12:55 AM EST --
I must admit when I found out that Law & Order star and stud Sam Waterston was going on Your World with Neil Cavuto on Faux News, I kind of giggled that this reaffirmed my thoughts that the show is . . .
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August 16, 2006 02:52 AM EDT --
On yesterday's show of the BBC World Service's World Have Your Say about multiculturalism and extremism, the discussion about how the United States is much more of a melting pot than other countries . . .
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September 08, 2006 01:41 AM EDT --
Ed Kociela, an editor at Gannett's The Spectrum newspaper in St. George, Utah, asks at the Southern Utah Blog where were you when you heard about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Here's . . .
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May 15, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
Like many media pundits, staunch conservatives, Mexican governmental officials, and illegal immigrants, I was disappointed in President Bush's speech tonight about immigration reform. Part of . . .
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September 12, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
Yesterday was truly an interesting day as the world commemorated the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In observance of . . .
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October 16, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
During last week's edition of Talk of the Nation Science Friday Ira Flatow discussed water policy with three experts about how the western United States is facing water shortages as states are squabbling . . .
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May 24, 2006 02:30 PM EDT --
I found President Vicente's Fox address to the Utah Legislature on Wednesday interesting. It appears to me that he had four main objectives.
First, Mexico has made a lot of economic, . . .
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July 14, 2006 10:06 PM EDT --
Results from the new Pew Hispanic Center survey released on Thursday about how the current illegal immigration debate in the United States has affected Hispanics' views indicate that the debate has . . .
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July 06, 2006 11:24 PM EDT --
Wikimedia Foundation (which includes the popular Wikipedia) founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales launched a political wiki community this week named Campaigns Wikia for normal folk to converge to discuss . . .
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May 18, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
At times political parties fixate on certain issues to the detriment of the rest of their causes and the people they aim to represent. Currently, the Republican Party here in the United States is . . .
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September 07, 2006 01:59 AM EDT --
As on-line technology and businesses progress, it is interesting to see how different organizations and groups are harnessing the power of the Internet to specifically cater to a particular niche -- including . . .
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