Around 1pm Eastern the day after the election, while Democrats were still celebrating their victories, Bush made a sudden announcement of the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. To many, this was icing on the cake of a good election. Many missed the larger picture. Democrats largely did not campaign on any...
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Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans Wednesday with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994.
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“We’re very concerned and disappointed that Democratic liberals will be running the House and possibly the Senate,” said Gary Bauer, who serves as chairman of the Campaign for Working Families.
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In many Evangelical Christian circles, the time of the Puritans is looked back upon almost as a golden age in American History. However, upon reading Puritan Adventure by Lois Lenski, most will conclude that, while the period might be a nice place to visit, they wouldn’t want to live there. Puritan Adventure centers around...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP On Wednesday morning Americans awoke to the news that Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elevated to the powerful position of Speaker of the House of Representatives by the voters. While the news media and pundits played down its importance, the issue of illegal aliens and lax border security proved devastating to...
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By Thomas E. Brewton We are no longer “One nation under God.” The destructive blows of liberal-progressivism since the 1930s have increasingly left us a disunited, spineless rabble. The urgent readiness of the majority of voters to pull out of Iraq, regardless of the consequences, is the expression of a nation that no longer...
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I’ve said about all I can about the election (or that I want to say), so here are a few other opinions about yesterday’s vote from some of my favorite blogs: Kitty over at Kitty Litter effectively compares yesterday with some dialog from The Godfather. Good thoughts about the election, and from Iowa in particular, from...
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After months of listening to pundits, politicians and prognosticators (forgive the alliteration, but the election results have made me giddy) the American electorate finally had their say and they handed Bush and the Republicans a crushing blow.Americans sick of the Republican “Culture of Corruption” and weary of the Iraq war brought down the Republican...
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James Webb is declaring victory “I’d also like to say the votes are in, and we won. This is a great moment for all of us.” But… All the votes are NOT in. Accurate tallies, as of 5PM EST, are still going on (see URL at the bottom of the page). In some cases,...
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As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war’s neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence. In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, David Frum, and others play the blame game with shocking frankness. Target No. 1: the...
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When former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insisted last month that female Muslim constituents show their faces when meeting with him, he set off a fiery debate about whether the face-covering niqab should be allowed in Britain’s multicultural society…
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Pope Benedict said today that Europe risked “de-Christianisation” from the spread of divorce, abortion and same-sex marriages, and urged bishops to defend traditional Catholic practices.
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Cancelled conference spurs debate over laws set by Israeli rabbinate.
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“The timing is right for new leadership at the Pentagon,” Bush said at the White House Wednesday afternoon.
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Recently we celebrated the Day of the Dead, el Dia de los Muertos. As the shadows over Jocotepec lengthened with coming night, Vi and I went up on the rooftop patio. She began setting up the altar to the dead, los antepasados. It was not elaborate. She lit three candles, which proved difficult in...
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Supreme Court justices Wednesday sharply questioned attorneys on both sides of the legal battle over so-called partial birth abortions as the high court weighed whether to uphold Congress’s ban on the procedure.
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Virginia voters easily approved a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, making the state one of nearly two dozen to pass such measures.
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Four days after she said she was raped, the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case told co-workers at a Hillsborough strip club that she was going to get money from some boys at a Duke party who hadn’t paid her, the club’s former security manager said.
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In a stunning come-from-behind victory, the state’s package stores, backed financially by big liquor wholesalers and beer distributors, fended off an attempt by supermarket chains to move in on their turf.
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