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Category: Political comment
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What do “Right to Work” laws do? Right to work laws allow individuals to work within a unionized company without paying union dues. Unions refer to these individuals as “free-riders”. The union is still required by law to represent these employees. By lowering the amount the union takes in for its various functions the…
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Roe Vs. Wade, a decision of the Supreme Court on abortion, has passed its fortieth anniversary date. This decision has at least one thing in common with the Constitution of the United States in that the religious have fought to destroy it since its inception. Wild eyed religious zealots have attacked abortion clinics and killed…
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Republican lies, read… Conservative lies. Conservatives tend to support the Republican party. Conservatives tend to be religious, and having learned how to deceive from the experts in the pulpits, are masters of deception. From a perspective skewed by belief, nothing said by such people is exactly as it appears. Some of the major players are…
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Rush Limbaugh who labeled a Georgetown law student a Slut for daring to speak about contraception made a condescending apology as a result of pressures emerging from many sources. No doubt at all the major source of pressure being from sponsors who began to leave his show (Despite his prevarication to the contrary). ProFlowers.com was…
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I have never been much of a politically oriented person. For many years I was a registered Republican, for no particular reason at all, that I can recall. It was toward the end of George W. Bush’s last term wherein I made the decision to become a registered Independent. Increasingly, I found, his viewpoints and…
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In an effort to draw all of America together President Obama is attempting to be all inclusive of the many factions in this nation. On the one hand he will do something he knows the Far Right will applaud. The Far Left cries foul and denounces what he has done. Then the next day he…
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The United States is in sad shape. The economy is tanking, we are at war on at least two fronts, and involved in turmoil worldwide. Obama is faced with not only the problems of the economy and the war, but he has also made numerous campaign promises to numerous groups who are now watching and…
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