Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Chris Cillizza sums it up on The Fix:
There is widespread agreement among Democratic and Republican observers that the GOP is headed for a loss of seats in the fall. But the depth of those losses remains a point of real debate, as more and more Republican districts appear to be vulnerable while the GOP campaign [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Frenchdoc has a post below on religious fundamentalism in France. Personally, although I respect the right of people to practice whatever religion they choose, I don’t like when religious leaders get all up in our politics as they have in recent years.
In a nutshell, I’m a separation of church and state sort of person. I [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
From Le Nouvel Observateur, we get this appalling story. Here is how it goes, a man sues a hospital because his baby is born handicapped due to neurological problems during labor. Pretty straightforward, huh? Not so: the child is now disabled because when problems arose during labor, the father physically prevented male ob-gyns and other [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Beer drinkers must unite to keep John McCain out of the oval office, or else there will be no more beer in America:
Call it prohibition McCain style… It was a slip of the tongue… McCain waving the veto pen:
“I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer — bill with earmarks,” [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Marc Ambinder reports today that “multiple Democratic sources” say Hillary Clinton, “in a series of private conversations and conference calls, continues to urge her pledged delegates to vote for Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention.”
Clinton plans a series of calls with superdelegates, interest groups and state delegations over the next few days. (One of [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
Until they invent a robot that can read you the news as you wake up to your morning alarm, you will have to settle for this Ten Post Round-Up. Batteries not included.
1: Before there was Cindy, there was Carol…
John McCain’s first wife–AMERICAblog
2: Do you feel old, yet? (Check out [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
ELYSBURG, Pa.–Registration at the annual Colonial Classic and Pennsylvania State Shoot is down 15–20 percent this year.
The problems are both the increase in the price of gas and the economy says Bruce Murphy, president of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, which sponsors one of the nation’s largest trap shoot tournaments.
With the price of gas averaging [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Raw Story reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinich presented thirty-five articles articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to the House of Representatives late Monday night, airing live on C-SPAN. Here’s a clip:
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