Posted on 05 November 2009
We find ourselves once again tangled over abortion as Congress debates its place in national health care reform. A number of lawmakers believe language in a House health care bill will lead taxpayers to fund abortion, and the discussion has pro-abortion interests once again using words to mislead.
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Posted on 21 October 2009
In 2001, I was riding high. I had spent seven years in the U.S. House of Representatives and had won my most recent re-election with 65.7 percent of the vote.
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Posted on 08 October 2009
Because of all the hoopla over the proposed public option in versions of the health care package, we overlook that there are two things on which Republicans and Democrats agree.
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Posted on 28 September 2009
"There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." That is a comment made recently by former President Jimmy Carter, which is fascinating coming from a man who once ran for governor of Georgia proclaiming himself to be a "Lester Maddox Democrat."
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Posted on 24 August 2009
Tags: J.C. Watts
I don't know if I'm sick or tired, or just sick and tired of Michael Vick drama.
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Posted on 06 August 2009
As I consider all the hysteria that's blowing in the political air nowadays, can't help but thing back to 1995, when Republicans controlled Congress and were working with President Bill Clinton in the White House.
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Posted on 03 June 2009
Judging from the accolades showered on Sotomayer over the past several weeks, you would think that coming from humble beginnings is the benchmark for the Supreme Court.
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Posted on 24 May 2009
If you spent 30 minutes with him, it didn't matter if you were liberal or conservative, red, yellow, brown, black or white, rich or poor. You were impacted.
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Posted on 10 May 2009
In fact, the stability that is returning to Iraq, the result of the policies pursued by the Bush administration and excoriated by candidate Obama as failed and counterproductive, is allowing President Obama the luxury to draw down troop strength in Iraq and shift some to Afghanistan.
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Posted on 26 April 2009
I'd like to offer a word to the wise in both political parties.
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