Tag: social commentaries
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March 09, 2007 11:59 AM EST --
Crime is on the rise again in major U.S. cities, according to a Washington-based law enforcement think tank, the Police Executive Research Forum. Dozens of large cities show a 10 percent jump in . . .
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March 23, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
It’s the kind of moral dilemma many of us wonder about: how would we handle the situation?
A young couple struggling to have a second child turned to a fertility clinic for help. . . .
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November 14, 2007 11:55 AM EST --
Every generation believes that the latest invention will save the world. None of the greatest minds in world history ever used a computer, yet an organization called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) . . .
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April 21, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
With Pope Benedict XVI ending his visit to the U.S., the biggest question will be whether his very public efforts to address the Catholic priest sex scandal that has rocked the Church . . .
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April 25, 2008 02:31 AM EDT --
A New York City columnist has ignited a firestorm of controversy with the proud revelation that she lets her nine-year-old son ride the New York City subway alone. Currently featured in Newsweek . . .
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March 05, 2007 11:54 AM EST --
“Freight train, freight train, goin’ so fast…” Elizabeth Cotten
Make no mistake. Gay marriages will one day be legal . . .
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March 13, 2007 12:45 AM EDT --
"Corporate greed at its worst" - Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt)
The most cited contractor for fraud, bribery, over-billing, and shoddy service to the U.S. soldiers in Iraq, oil . . .
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March 15, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
The biggest tragedy of the Iraq war is no longer the thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians that are dying, but that, here at home, it has become a political issue, rather . . .
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April 10, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
In the latest verbal exchange between President Bush and Democratic leaders on the Iraq war-spending bill, Bush has invited Democrats to sit at the table with him and top Republicans to discuss their impasse. . . .
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April 24, 2007 07:42 AM EDT --
“This war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything.” - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
One would think that Reid’s comments last week about the status of . . .
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September 10, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
To no one’s surprise, Gen. David Petraeus’ recommendation in his testimony before Congress this week is that the troop surge is working and the U.S. just needs more time to begin to pull troops . . .
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October 24, 2007 11:56 PM EDT --
Like a desperate gambler putting his life savings on a single number in the hopes of recouping all his loses, President Bush seems poised to put his money on a war with Iran to save his legacy from . . .
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May 09, 2008 02:18 AM EDT --
The heated contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has once again brought out the worst of the Democratic Party's leadership - or lack thereof - and clearly highlighted why the Democrats . . .
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March 21, 2007 02:36 AM EDT --
It’s like peeling an onion. President George W. Bush sits at the core of layers upon layers of advisers and loyalists, who are being peeled away from him through scandals, corruption . . .
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April 01, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
She’s the presidential frontrunner a lot of people love to hate, but apparently she’s loved by enough people who are willing to put their money where their mouths are. Hillary Clinton . . .
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April 08, 2007 08:52 PM EDT --
The presidential dreams of Al Gore have been marked by a series of unfortunate events, and an even worse series of fatal political decisions.
Somewhere in the world last week, midway through . . .
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June 06, 2007 02:07 AM EDT --
The Grand Old Party’s third presidential debate last night in Manchester, NH, finally saw the presidential hopefuls abandoning all hope that President Bush will ever pull out of the death spiral . . .
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October 12, 2007 12:23 AM EDT --
American politics today is rife with corruption and mediocrity. We live in a society so obsessed with uncovering scandals and adhering to political correctness that only the naïvely optimistic, . . .
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November 02, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
With the first presidential primary just around the corner, presidential debates, like the recent Democratic face-off, are getting nastier as opponents go for the knock-out punch. This . . .
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July 28, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
No one can deny that Democrat Barack Obama is working hard for the money. According to the latest tally, Obama raised $52 million in June toward his presidential campaign, beating out his Republican . . .
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