The Republicans are going down and good riddance. They have delivered as this column predicted in 2000, as Democrats in Drag, and they deserve to be punished. The good news is that as the party out of power in Congress they just might begin to ,once again, act like conservatives as they attempt to...
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Amendments to ban gay marriage won approval Tuesday in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Virginia as voters in many states considered ballot measures addressing an array of the nation’s most divisive social issues.A total of 205 measures were on the ballots in 37 states _ ranging from routine bond measures to a riveting contest in...
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Dick Morris has been predicting to NewsMax readers that the GOP would hold the Senate and lose the House. Based on latest results and exit polls, Morris tells NewsMax: The Republicans will lose the House with a 5 to 10 seat Democratic majority. The Republicans keep the Senate with at least 50 votes. Allen...
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The NEA has one eternal fix-it for every state’s education plan – more money. As for that solution, The Economist reports in its November 4th-10th edition: “New York spends more on its students than any state except New Jersey, but hs the third-lowest graduation rate in the country.”
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In this Contra Costa Times article Separated But Equal McVal Osborne interviewed local teens whose parents chose collaborative divorce and/or shared parenting. Osborne is a junior at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek and a member of the Times’ Life in Perspective, a board made up of local high school journalists. Says...
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The latest Senate and governor results called by the AP and the networks:   SENATE: Joe Lieberman-I elected in Connecticut Hillary Rodham Clinton-D elected in New York Herb Kohl-D elected in Wisconsin Kent Conrad-D elected in North Dakota Craig Thomas-R elected in Wyoming Ben Nelson-D elected in Nebraska Sherrod Brown-D elected in Ohio...
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Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman won re-election on Tuesday after losing the Democratic nomination in August to an opponent of the Iraq war and running as an independent.
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Democrats took back the governorships Tuesday in Ohio and Massachusetts as elections for the top office in 36 states promised the biggest shakeup of state governments in years.
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CNN projects Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez will win the New Jersey Senate race, defeating Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr.
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Bob Casey Is Projected Winner Over Rick Santorum In Pa.; Sherrod Brown Over Mike DeWine In Ohio
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A team of British scientists from the Newcastle University and Kings College in London, England have asked the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority for a three-year license to create embryos by fusing human DNA with cow eggs, according to the Times of London.The researchers claim that the hybrid human-cow embryos would be used to...
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ceeFxPCiV50  A newspaperman finally admits he’s so anti-gun that he won’t act to protect his own family.
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In January last year a majority of Americans started telling pollsters that invading Iraq had been a mistake. Nine months later the Republicans’ reputation for competence took a further lashing, when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast. Much of the bile heaped on Mr Bush over Katrina was unfair. First, the disaster...
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Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead.In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new touchscreen machines that they couldn’t get...
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Men in India are seeking help as they contend with a new Indian law making it a crime to inflict “emotional distress” upon women, and placing the onus on men to prove their innocence against charges of domestic abuse. Indian men now fear harassment and intimidation by their wives.
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A woman is suing a cop, her town, and its police department because she says a female officer was romantically involved with her husband, and therefore covered up the husband’s alleged abuse during a domestic violence call. She claims she was denied “due process.”
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It’s funny what a death sentence will do to a curmudgeonly and formerly defiant old ex-dictator. From an AP article: A somber Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to forgive each other Tuesday when he returned to court two days after being sentenced to death for crimes against humanity in another case. “I call on...
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It’s funny what a death sentence will do to a curmudgeonly and formerly defiant old ex-dictator. From an AP article: A somber Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to forgive each other Tuesday when he returned to court two days after being sentenced to death for crimes against humanity in another case. “I call on...
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A second worker upset over Wal-Mart’s newly-contrived “gay” agenda is quitting the retail chain to take a stand for Christianity, and is citing a report from WND about another woman who also decided she’d had enough. Karin Laginess, of Auberndale, Fla., told WND yesterday that it was as if “God hit me” when she...
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Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.
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