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What If? : Questions in Subjunctive History

What if? All of us (or at least, the most of us) have encountered this question (or theory) sometimes in our lives. Oh yes, we all understand that living in the past has no use, that you cannot drive...

16 comments    education politics books
...and here's our new President and his wife. Isn't this 'special?'66

Obama-ness

I’m elated, no, overjoyed that Obama won the election. But the icing on the cake, and it keeps on spreading, is that his first hundred days confirms that he’s truly the man I envisioned for our...

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Pardon Ramos and Compean

In the interest of full disclosure, this hub was prompted by an article written by Newt Gingrich in Human Events. You can read that article here. Border agents Ramos and Compean were jailed for shooting a...

2 comments    politics government congress
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Whitewater: A Tempest in a Teapot

When the word "Whitewater" entered my vocabulary, I greeted it with incredulity. How could the Clintons, I wondered, be accused of wrongdoing connected with the Savings & Loan scandal? After all, the S&L debacle was a product of the Reagan Administration.

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Who is to blame for the United States of America's financial collapse in 2008?

2008 is ending. And it cannot end any sooner to the (perceived) relief of many Americans. The United States of America, still dubbed and, perhaps, appropriately so as the richest country in the world, is in...

1 comment    finance real estate financial
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The Law: Not a Matter of Right, Wrong

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's 1999 policy of "drive drunk, lose your car" made the New York Civil Liberties Union downright woozy. The policy, which faced a legal challenge by the CLU, is another example of officials trying to take the easy way out.

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Be Patriotic Stop International Bankers From Raping America

I don't really know if international bankers have always been cockroaches. But certainly after Basel II they have been pests that need to be stamped out. Now I don't believe in just killing them, unless the...

14 comments    business politics credit
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Sonia Sotomayor's Campaign For Senate Confirmation: ABC

The title of a recently released ABC Newsarticle is "Sonia Sotomayor Makes the Rounds on Capitol Hill". She has a lot of work to do. The first sentence of this report is "THOUGH SONIA SOTOMAYOR MADE IT...

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MICHELLE Obama for Sotomayor: Yahoo!

The title of a Yahoo! article released on June 4 is "Michelle Obama Joins Push For Sotmayor", but will the First Lady's endorsement be of any help for a nominee whose nomination is clearly on the ropes? At...

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Boomer's Recession...Rebuilding the Nest Egg

With this recent economic recession, we are seeing more and more baby boomers in a retirement crisis with their “nest egg” either greatly diminished or gone. Boomers everywhere are choosing or trying...

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