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FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited

What next?  Are they going to go all the way and pull a 1984 and put cameras in all of our houses to make sure we aren’t breaking the law?
WASHINGTON–The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement [...]

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As she mocks Obama using a teleprompter, Palin uses notes written on the palm of her hand

What a hypocrite and an idiot. Really? Crib notes written on your palm? Seriously? She needed notes to remember Energy, Tax, Cuts, Lift American Spirits for heaven’s sake. Her hand has been declared on the Internet to be the new iPalm.
Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, [...]

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Hugo Boss Threatens to Move Overseas if Workers Refuse $4/Hr Pay Cut

How decent of them to offer to stay if employees took a $4 an hour pay cut.  Wow, we are all in this together, right?  Has it ever once occurred to CEO’s that their companies need to make some sacrifices during a time of recession in order to keep people working?
It wasn’t very long ago [...]

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Video: Women’s Health — Always a Political Football

It really is simple for me.  A woman’s right to choose is about respect for women as mature, intelligent people who can make the right decisions for their lives.
Well, the good news for the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts is that probably more women know when the Super Bowl is this year than [...]

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Christians Desecrate Wiccan Religious Site at Air Force Academy

Sometimes I just don’t know about people.  Why would anyone desecrate the place of worship of another religion?  Are people so insecure in their own faith that the idea of someone having a different faith is intolerable?
Maybe the Air Force needs to get out of the religion business altogether.
The opening of the worship area at [...]

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Va. Senate bans health insurance mandate

This move would almost be admirable if the decision was made because of a firm belief that mandatory insurance is a bad thing for Virginians.  After all that is what we have state government for.  But, this is really just a political move because of fear of losing a re-election by supporting the federal health [...]

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Top Defense Officials Seek to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is the right thing to do in my opinion.  If our troops are mature enough to endure the horrors of war, they are certainly mature enough to handle fighting beside a gay person.   A homosexual who is willing to put his/her life on the line for the country deserves the [...]

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Tucson Citizen takes on Supreme Court in wordless editorial

By Robin Phillips on Feb 02, 2010 in Story ideas
Business is rarely the subject of editorials in daily newspapers.
Today’s editorial in the Tucson Citizen is even more rare than that.  It is a wordless editorial. .. and about business.

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Obama’s budget proposes $100-billion jobs plan, higher taxes on wealthy

7 million jobs lost in 2 years.  The creation of jobs has got to be the number one issue this year.  I don’t much care how the jobs package is paid for as long as it happens.
Reporting from Washington – President Obama on Monday sent Congress a $3.8-trillion federal budget that includes a $100-billion jobs [...]

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Franken Fights To Keep Foreign Interests Out Of American Elections

Al Franken continues to impress me with his work as a senator.
I wonder where all of the right’s outrage over activist judges is?
PRESS RELEASE
Washington, D.C. [Jan 28, 2010] – Late last night, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) introduced the “American Elections Act of 2010” to keep foreign interests out of American elections. Franken’s bill would [...]

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