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Obama’s Birth: Swift Boat II, or Photoshop Fraud? - 354 days ago

Tomorrow’s Chicago Tribune will publish “An Open Letter to Barack Obama” by Robert L. Schulz, chairman of the Foundation for Constitutional Education. For several years, rumors swirled regarding Barack Obama’s birthplace, with partisans and...
Topics: 2008 elections, Americans, Barack Obama, birth certicate, birth certificate, Chicago Tribune, citizenship, current events, Elections, Hawaii, Indonesia, journalism, Kenya, media, Politics, President, President-Elect, Robert L. Schulz, Robert Schulz, Swift Boat

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U.S. Senate Races: Ten Red States that Could Go Blue - 384 days ago

A total of 35 Senate seats are up for grabs this Tuesday; 23 of those seats are currently Republican and 12 are Democrat.All twelve Democrats appear likely to be reelected (the closest race is in Louisiana, where the Democrat, Mary Landrieu, leads her...
Topics: 2008 elections, Al Franken, Alaska, Barack Obama, blue states, Bob Schaffer, Bruce Lunsford, Colorado, Congress, current events, Democrats, Elections, Elizabeth Dole, Georgia, Gordon Smith, Jeanne Shaheen, Jeff Merkley, Jim Gilmore, John McCain, John Sununu, Kay Hagan, Kentucky, Mark Begich, Mark Udall, Mark Warner, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mitch McConnell, New Hampshire, Norm Coleman, North Carolina, Oregon, political parties, politicians, Politics, red states, Republicans, Roger Wicker, Ronnie Musgrove, Ted Stevens, USA, Virginia

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“Everything Changed”: Seven Years of Patriotic Vulnerability - 437 days ago

We’ve heard it uttered countless times that “things changed on 9/11.”And in both parties’ National Conventions, we heard it again.Everything changed. This durable one-liner isn’t just a limp-dicked platitude anymore. Nowadays, it’s the alibi..
Topics: 9/11, Americans, citizenship, civil liberties, democracy, Democratic National Convention, Democrats, freedom, liberty, media, political parties, politicians, Politics, presidential elections, Republican National Convention, Republicans, September 11th, terrorism, terrorists, USA

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Character, Decency, and Integrity: “No Finer Examples” - 445 days ago

From the transcript of President Bush’s video speech, aired tonight at the Republican National Convention:“As you gather tonight in St. Paul, I want to share some thoughts about our nominee _ a great American, and the next president of the United...
Topics: 2008 elections, Americans, Barack Obama, Barbara Bush, Bush, Elections, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, John McCain, Politics, presidential candidates, Republican Convention, Republican National Convention, Republicans

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Yesterday’s Tomorrow Wasn’t Like Today - 453 days ago

Yesterday there were pictures, and we smiled in them. Morning-after images blurrily resembled the night before, to remind us who we were, vague & hazy & lazy, drunken subjects under the flash who never sat still long enough to see it...
Topics: citizenship, college, spectatorship

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