Tag: usa
member name: Steve Petersen
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January 23, 2007 07:09 PM EST --
I am not going to watch President Bush's State of the Union Address this evening just as I didn't watch his recent speech announcing his troop surge in Iraq. This desire to avoid watching the address . . .
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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 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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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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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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October 03, 2006 02:55 PM EDT --
Campaign money is a major factor in a politician's electoral success in the United States, and that is why campaign finance reform is a hot issue from time to time in the Senate and House of Representatives. . . .
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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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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 11, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
The seniority system in Congress is a debacle because it enables politicians who are not ready to act when they are first elected to sit on their laurels. When they get nothing done, they can claim that . . .
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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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January 17, 2007 12:38 PM EST --
"[Many Americans] are in college to improve their chances of making a good living. What they really need is vocational training. But nobody will say so, because 'vocational training' is second . . .
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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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September 07, 2006 04:55 PM EDT --
BBC has an interesting feature on its website about significant trends in the United States five years before and after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Here are salient points concerning . . .
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September 22, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Note: I titled this article in the sensational style of Fox News' "Have/Has ___ declared on America?" model punctuated by a question mark... umm, I mean a "Cavuto" as Jon Stewart . . .
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