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The Speech I Hope the President Will Give

My Fellow Americans: I speak to you tonight at a crucial moment in our nation’s history. When you elected me president almost one year ago, you voted in favor of hope, and in favor of change. You voted for the idea that we are all in it together, and that we share a...

Deja Vu All Over Again ... Again

Sometimes you think you've lived beforeAll that you live todayThings you do come back to youAs though they knew the wayOh, the tricks your mind can play! "Where or When," Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart "It seems we've stood and talked like this before," goes the...

Succeeding at Failure: Republicans Drag Down Congress

The Republican strategy of obstruction is working. The latest Pew poll shows Congressional Favorability Falls to 24-Year Low Former Senate Republican Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss, didn’t hide his goals. "The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail...and so far...

Taking Pride In Being Ignorant

Well the reviews are already in on Obama's big speech on "the importance of education", and they aren't pretty. The descriptions range from "brainwashing" and "indoctrination of your children" to accusations that Obama's speech shows that he is actually Mao, Hitler,...

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