Category: US Politics
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Bash Bush or Bash Beef
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36940-2003Dec28.html">This Washington Post article </a>is very interesting. All of a sudden issues of food safety are taking the front agenda of the Democratic race for the President. My question is are they bashing Bush or are they bashing beef.<br />n<br />n<i>Several Democratic candidates said they plan to make beef safety a major issue as…
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Americans Have Rights
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that the President lacks inherent authority to detain American citizens as enemy combatants when seized on American soil outside a zone of actual combat. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11500-2003Dec18.html">The ruling </a>is in response to the Governments holding of Jose Padilla incommunicado as an enemy combatant for allegedly plotting to explode…
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People Never Forget
Some people will just never forget how close the 2000 election was but I am not real sure this would be a good slogan to campaign with.<br />n<br />n<img src="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/BushCheney.bmp"> <br />n<br />n<b>In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.<br />nMark Twain (1835…
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Free Trade
I see <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9850-2003Dec17?language=printer">here</a> that the whole free trade issue is coming to the front burner again in the new Central American Free Trade Agreement. The timing of it is a little off though since Congress is going to be taking it up in a election year and there is a lot of opposition to…