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  • Rough Sailing

    —kavips

    Those of you waking up and checking here first, expect a rough day in the financial world this morning…. Stability if obtained by mid day, could show profits in the later half as cash sops up stocks at bargain prices… If still free falling after 12:00, it will be ugly; [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:51am EST
    by kavips

  • A Most Wonderful Thanksgiving

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 1
    Today I woke up above ground. [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:21am EST
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  • Heads Up….

    —kavips

    If we are able to keep him/her hidden and alive before we go public, we think we have the opportunity to bring forth that crack dealer supplying those who are against the public option, both the Blue Dogs and Republicans of Congress! … Stay tuned… It’s keeping us pretty busy [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:50am EST
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  • A Brief, Final Word On Valero

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 3
    Bottom Line. Valero did not reinvest in its plant during the time gasoline reached up to $4.25 a gallon. It needed to. That was wrong. Charlie Copeland apparently by his own statement, agrees with the philosophy and tactics taken by Valero… That is wrong. There may be others out there who also agree [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:07am EST
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  • Get Mad!

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 10
    There were seven fights today at Shue-Medill Middle School on Kirkwood Highway. The Christina School District is responsible for that location… Due to privacy restrictions details are sketchy, but this is what we do know… Seven Fights in one school of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders… Why? Report cards went out last [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:54am EST
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  • “We, The People” Should Pressure the Senate; Not The Other Way Around

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 1
    As expected the House Health Care Bill passed with a smaller margin than expected… But it won, and now (after a much needed rest) we move forward. Again, as expected, the real debate is in the Senate… The Constitution is a marvelous document… One chamber is designed to move fast… that [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:01pm EST
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  • Greatness In Human Form…

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 2
    All I hear is negativity… whether from the right (as always) or left… Therefore in this caustic environment, it was reassuring to hear the man who personifies our national ideals discuss openness and the principals of communication with Chinese students… You reading this are savvy. You already know that was a [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:05am EST
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  • Time For A Change..

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 2
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:12am EST
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  • The Best Representation That Money Can Buy…

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 2
    Thanks to the Washington Post for putting this up… It shows in three columns how each House member voted, how much the Health Industry has put into each campaign chest, and the number of non insured in his district… Out of 435 Representatives, Mike Castle was, from the top, 119th with [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:33am EST
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  • The Best We Can Do…..

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 1
    “We only send one….. let’s send our best….” Obviously the best person we have to represent us in the current House of Representatives, is there now. Recent events have called me to question whether it is the best we can do. The President’s version of the Health Care Reform Act passed the House [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:58pm EST
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  • Why Can’t We Be This Lucky?

    —kavips

    “I felt last night’s decision was the right decision for my district, even though it was not the popular decision for my party,” Cao told CNN on Sunday. Cao is the lone Republican to vote for the Healthcare Act yesterday… Mike Castle is Delaware’s lone Republican…. who, unlike Cao, obviously puts [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:58pm EST
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  • Republican Health Care Bill Proves Republicans Don’t Know Why We’re Reforming Health Care in The First Place

    —kavips

    These guys are a hoot… Man, if anyone was ever a joke in politics it would have to be Boehmer and his Republican cadre in the House… What a laughing stock. Man, they have to be doing it for laughs. Can any human being possibly be this dumb… Is it [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:17am EST
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  • Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Republicans….

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 3
    I’m saying nothing here. Just let their own health plan speak for itself…. * No national exchange * No mandates for employers or for individuals * Insurance companies still get to exclude people with pre-existing conditions * No tax credits to help [...] [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:07pm EST
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  • Those Who Lead; and those who follow

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 2
    The preview elections have passed. Debate is swirling among those paid for spin, otherwise the rest of the country heaves a deep sigh of “who cares”… Far more important is this evening’s World Series Game.. Far more important is next Sunday’s Eagles Game… One could even venture that here in [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:47pm EST
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  • Energy Moves to Delaware’s Forefront

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 3
    Delaware last week was on the cutting edge of energy technology… Fisker announced the building of electric cars in our state. NRG is rumored to buy a controlling stake in Bluewater Wind, and Claymont Steel may become the manufacturer of towers off the coast of Rehoboth. An interesting fact was [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:03pm EST
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  • Improper Words Being Forced on Young Children

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 8
    Next door in Cecil County, at an Elementary School near the large Wal*mart, a controversy is brewing this weekend… A music teacher called out a first grader as a “stupid” faggot. Investigation shows this is not a one time occurrence. A fifth grader verified he always says that in class… Always. A [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 5:56am EDT
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  • Reid Announces Public Option WILL Be In Health Care Bill

    —kavips

    This is a good thing. Apparently extensive lobbying has not destroyed the voice of the people.. Unless you receive daily threats by email from the Republican Party leadership, if you live in this country, between 70% and 80% of you are for the public option to be included. The plan is [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 2:35am EDT
    by kavips

  • America’s Best Loved Hero to Visit Delaware

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 1
    Former president Clinton will be in Delaware November 10th for the Jefferson- Jackson Day Dinner. Anyone today not making enough money, looks fondly back on the days when this human being diminished the Republican party, rendering it completely harmless so that prosperity reigned for all… Anyone today not making enough money, [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 4:16am EDT
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  • Loans For Congress?

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 1
    Delawind receives a state loan. John Carney, who is running for Congress, is head of Delawind. Some are putting two and two together and getting their signals crossed to say Delaware is loaning Carney money to run for Congress.. Now I disagree… and the basis on that disagreement is solely due [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 1:21am EDT
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  • Scream Bloody Murder….

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 5
    Judging from today’s chatter or lack of it, I was probably the only one listening in on Rick Jensen’s take of the spending controversy of our state legislatures… As you see, in the News Journal a list of spending on out of state trips, has been itemised for every citizens [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 12:23am EDT
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  • Dump Health Insurance Stocks

    —kavips

    If you have any, get out now. [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 8:48pm EDT
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  • Hardball

    —kavips

    Here is what can be done to insurance companies with only 51 votes in the Senate. 1) Revoking the insurance’s companies favored antitrust exemption. 2) Tacking on a $40 billion dollar fee to be paid by insurance companies. 3) Tacking on a windfall profits tax for insurance companies and making it retro to [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
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  • A Big Squawk About Health Care

    —kavips

    In Robert Reich’s recent plug for the public option, there was a subtle line that slipped by and only just now has begun to resonate… “Unless you make a hell of a racket, the for-profit insurers and drug companies along with their platoons of Washington lobbyists. and lawyers are going to [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 11:42am EDT
    by kavips

  • John Carney Fights Ghost

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 6
    John Carney, former Lieutenant Governor, is campaigning for the Democratic spot on the ticket for U.S. Congress. In a recent series of town halls, he has brought up questions from the audience on health care… He has found that the topic is contentious, although not in the way you [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 6:01am EDT
    by kavips

  • Obama Wins Peace Prize

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 4
    Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today. Republican’s are outraged. What did he do that was so great they exclaim? They may be right. I was surprised as well. My first thoughts were I don’t remember hearing anything spectacular he had done…. But the answer is embedded in the actual transcript… Obama has as [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
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  • Tom Carper Switches to Republican Party

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 1
    Imagine this scenario. To be considered a true Democrat, you need to support people over corporations. To be a true Republican, you need the support of corporations over the American People… That is how it’s always been; that is how it will always be…. The public option inserted into our Health Care legislation, [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:58am EDT
    by kavips

  • REPUBLICANS WANT TO KILL SENIORS

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 1
    Just in! Unbelievable…. According to the Republican leadership, they want to kill seniors.. they want senior citizens to die.. They want to do away with Medicare…. Senior Citizens worked hard all their life. They deserve dignity. Republicans disagree. They believe insurance companies deserve high profits. To achieve those profits, they must [...][...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:34am EDT
    by kavips

  • Every Vote Against the Public Option is A Vote Against Jobs

    —kavips

    It’s a no brainer. We have a recession with many people not working. We have a health care industry that is cutting back because their rooms are empty simply because fewer Americans have health insurance. The more people who get health insurance, the more who will show up to be treated…. The [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:03am EDT
    by kavips

  • Every Vote Against The Public Option Is a Vote for the Insurance Industry

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 3
    So said Shep Smith. Exactly…. “Every vote against the Public Option is a vote for the Health Insurance Industry”. The same industry that is spending $1 million dollars a day on lobbyists, to spend just on the 535 members of Congress. The same industry whose profits rose 300% just since the Republicans came [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:53pm EDT
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  • It Never Hurts to Listen to Common Sense

    —kavips

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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 6:18am EDT
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  • The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794: A Lesson for Today

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 4
    Photo courtesy of Travelbeat.net An analogy can be made between the farmers of Western Pennsylvania who rebelled against the Federal Government under President George Washington, and today’s health care executives and medical practitioners who continue to oppose the public option in this years Health Care Bill. In both cases you have a [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 6:03am EDT
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  • Iran Is Not That Hard To Figure Out…

    —kavips

    Courtesy of the Spectator.co.uk Much has been said about the new missiles tested this past weekend. It is hard however to find anything about the turmoil taking place in Iran as we speak.. Courtesy of Mirror.co.uk/News To understand Iran, is to understand the connection between the two… Iran’s leaders have very little interest in [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
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  • Public Option

    —kavips

    It was as if the whole town was getting excited about the new Wal*Mart coming in on it’s edges, and the town council votes to allow it, only if the owner of that town’s businesses, can be in charge and set Wal*Mart’s prices. What then is the point? That, my friends, is [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 7:36am EDT
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  • Oh, The Trouble We’re In

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 5
    All in all, it stems from two things the past administration did… 1) Deregulated business to the point of not monitoring our financial capital markets. 2) Taxing too low, so that it became way too expensive for a corporation to reinvest it’s money back into America. Errors not in philosophy, but in achieving [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 3:08pm EDT
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  • Health Care Deflaters

    —kavips

    Arguments from the other side about health care don’t hold much water… Here is a random sampling of what I heard today.. Q1. I have good insurance. I don’t want to lose it because of Obama. A1. Under Obama’s plan you keep your insurance… His plan doesn’t affect you one bit. But [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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  • Doctors Prefer Public Option

    —kavips

    (For full image: right click, view Image) Courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine So says the New England Journal of Medicine… Does this contradict what you hear in the news? Here is why: The voices of physicians in the current debate have emanated almost exclusively from national physicians’ groups and societies. [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 4:40am EDT
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  • Ramblings from an Old Republican

    —kavips

    I was talking to an old Republican who visits his doctor tomorrow for his monthly visit, and we were discussing hospitals around where he lived… As he was ruminating about why he wouldn’t go to this hospital, or that hospital, or the problems with every other except for the one he [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 4:03am EDT
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  • Riverstone Acquires Babcock & Brown’s North American Wind Holdings

    —kavips

    This was dated July 3, of this year… Riverstone Holdings LLC and the management team of Babcock & Brown’s North American Energy Group confirmed the purchase of the wind development portfolio from Babcock & Brown LP to form Pattern Energy Group LP. Pattern Energy will be an independent, fully integrated [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:50am EDT
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  • Ben Franklin Would Disapprove of Private Insurance Today

    —kavips

    I heard insurance was first proposed by Ben Franklin… His philosophy was that if everyone paid a little bit into a kitty of sorts, there would be plenty of funding available to rebuild if disaster struck… One can afford a small pittance. but tragedy is often catastrophic. Stability over the [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:35am EDT
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  • The Wal*Mart of Health Care

    —kavips

    Despite the economic downturn, Wal*Mart has done well… It would make sense to use the same approach with health care… Of course Wal*Mart is a private corporation…. But since no private corporation is willing to jump into the fray of reforming health care, it befalls the people, through their representative government [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:24am EDT
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  • Newtonian Physics….

    —kavips

    If you have any worth upon this planet you have already seen this comment…. “I think I got drawn to ______ over health care because–as important as the health care debate is for our future from anybody’s perspective–there’s not really a damn thing left for me to say about the issue [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 6:11am EDT
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  • Some Profound Thoughts on ACORN

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 4
    They seed oaks and feed squirrels. [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
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  • The Only Question That Matters…

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 2
    Here’s what I’ve found… a range of 65 to 80 percent answering in the affirmative. In any group of people, ask this question. Do you favor a government option of health care, like Medicare and Medicaid, which can compete against your private insurance company, to help keep costs in line? Get back [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 6:40am EDT
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  • Troubling News

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 5
    In a conservative study done on Oklahoma High School students, it was found that only 2.8% of its students could pass the U. S. Citizenship test… This could explain why conservatism still has a hold of some parts of this country. Only one out of five Oklahoma students could even name [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 2:49pm EDT
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  • Lies and Policy

    —kavips

    You may have heard about CNN’s bashing of FOX news over the coverage of the Conservative Tea Party on the Washington Mall.. At first because FOX news was getting bashed, you might have cheered… But upon reflection, is it just two people finger pointing at each other… We probably wouldn’t even recognize [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
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  • September 19th: Talk Like A Pirate Day

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 3
    It was two years ago, and I believe Donvitti led the charge on Delaware’s blogworld. I was just beginning my reading of blogs and probably, solely because of all the fun that persisted throughout that day (check out one of Cassandra’s finer moments), I kept at it, and today here [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 10:45am EDT
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  • Helping One’s Neighbor… Americanism

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 10
    Times are hard for people. And there are two genetic strains of personalities reacting to those hard times. The first is dominated by the selfish gene. They are the ones who say “hey, look at me! I’m doing just fine. If I could do it, you can too. I’m blessed. And [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 1:33am EDT
    by kavips

  • End of a Political Era?

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 3
    Who controls our thoughts? The media? Political Parties? Johnny Carson from beyond the grave? Or are we in control of what we think? I think each of us is responsible for our thoughts. Correct me if your wrong, but each of us has the responsibility to be right. Some of us [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
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  • How To Fix America’s Media Problem

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 6
    During my travels I came across a great comment that now seems to be lost forever … Basically the author of that comment said he was tired of listening to the same prattle from leaders of our nation’s  minority party, that said the same thing over and over again,  yet what [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 9:16am EDT
    by kavips

  • Missed Obama’s Health Care Speech? Here Is A Quick Synopsis

    —kavips

    Number of comments: 2
    a) I believe it makes more sense to build on what works and fix what doesn’t, rather than try to build an entirely new system from scratch. b) There is agreement in this chamber (House) on about eighty percent of what needs to be done, putting us closer to the goal [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 3:04am EDT
    by kavips

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