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Veterans Day
Posted on November 11, 2009
Veterans Day At the 11th hour of 11th day of the 11 month in 1918, the Germans signed the peace treaty that ended the First World War. Woodrow Wilson proclaimed...
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Don’t Fear the Primary
Posted on November 10, 2009
Washington (CNN) — Tea Party activists and other conservative Republicans are threatening to run their candidates against more moderate senatorial and congressional candidates in next year’s primaries. Many Washington-based lawmakers...
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Damned if they do….
Posted on November 10, 2009
Damned If They Do, Damned if They Don’t I was gone last weekend, so I wasn’t paying too much attention to the floor debate and amendment process that surrounded the...
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My Brother’s Mother-in-Law
Posted on November 9, 2009
I was in South Bend this weekend and stayed at my brother’s in-law’s house the night after the game (the drive back to Chicago was just a bit too long)....
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Being and Time
Posted on November 9, 2009
Being and Time I still remember my freshman year philosophy teacher intoning in mind-numbing fashion, “Being qua Being.” He was talking about the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, and his seminal...
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