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Don’t Let Them Crash
Posted on September 28, 2008
A scene from the classic movie Airplane keeps coming to my head. The famous conservative commentator Jack Kirkpatrick, who used to do a Point/Counterpoint segment on 60...
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Historic Debate
Posted on September 26, 2008
If you don’t get the history of this debate, you aren’t paying attention. The fact that Barack Obama could come to Oxford, Mississippi, the home...
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The Same Old Rodeo
Posted on September 26, 2008
(This originally appeared in The Politico) I have been to this rodeo before. House Republicans are in full revolt. A prominent Republican leader condemns harshly a...
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Irony
Posted on September 26, 2008
According to Wikipedia: “Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does, and what one means...
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Louisiana Purchase
Posted on September 25, 2008
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson paid about $23 million dollars for 828,000 square miles that included Louisiana, some parts of Texas, most of Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, some parts of...
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