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Karen & Gerard
| 2 months ago
THE ETHNIC PRESIDENCY HOW RACE DECIDES THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE BY EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House is an expl...
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inteldesignfailed
| 2 months ago
As of writing, Hillary is winning an astounding victory in West Virginia, (in fact all the major news networks, as wells as Fox News had declared her after 0% of the preci...
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Lew Brown
| 2 months ago
Friday afternoon, Louisville Kentucky, the NRA was out in full force, deep throated gurgles from the audience marked key moments in the otherwise pedantic speech of Arkans...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
This is my first blog entry here at www.pnn.com and I admit, I'm a little excited about the prospects of a new forum. I've blogged about not following the herd for a coup...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
One of the most significant differences in the way the Democrats approach the Presidential race and the way the Republicans approach it is the amount of groveling and pan...
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Titania Jones
| 2 months ago
Thank god for all those god fearing men and women out there. You know........For years I thought god was this "nice" all loving sort of forgiving ethereal being that didn...
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Dan Weisman
| 2 months ago
Dear Mr. President, WHAT THE MF'IN HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING??? Seriously, what the F is wrong with you? Why do you even want to pretend t be president? It makes no ...
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Dan Weisman
| 2 months ago
I've got a Diebold voting machine at my house. Totally legal. The San Diego County Registrar of Voters gave it to me. Makes you wonder, who else has these machines? How se...
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nasims
| 2 months ago
Question for thought: If I support the idea of women being priests, then under this decree should I excommunicate myself? -- Please let me know your thoughts. VATICAN CIT...
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Tom Murphy
| 2 months ago
At RedwoodAge.com, we encourage our readers to live a "whole life" by balancing the physical, intellectual and spiritual parts of our lives. It's a philosophy that we car...
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Tom Murphy
| 2 months ago
Where We're Coming From... The generation that came of age in the '60s and '70s changed the way we think about music, race, women, war, food, fashion, poverty, marriage, ...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
I like wrasslin'. I like Moon Pies. I own a pickup truck. Mindless entertainment is just fine with me. One of the greatest enjoyments for me is to go to the movies and lo...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
As I type this Obama appears to be just 4 delegates short of tying up the Democratic nomination and Hillary Clinton is talking about her willingness to accept the Vice Pr...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
As a lawyer, whenever I had a client say the words "It's not about the money", you could bet it was about the money. Recently I noticed the same type of phenomena occurin...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
Mitt Romney is on CNN pitching for McCain this morning. Of course, the main point they are making is that McCain is so much more experienced than Obama. I'm not sure that...
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Mark Jacobson
| 4 months ago
Bill O'Reilly is disliked by both the right and left. He seems to be an equal opportunity irritant. O'Reilly describes himself as an independant, and I tend to agree with...
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Mark Jacobson
| 4 months ago
Whatever happened to the bird flu? I was sure that half the world's population would be wiped out by now. Could it be that our mainstream mass media could have actually b...
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Mark Jacobson
| 4 months ago
The latest environmental battle is on over the listing of the Polar Bear as an endangered species. As usual, there may be more to the story than meets the established med...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
I watched as much as I could stomach of the now infamous John McCain lime green, "I'm not W and Obama is not experienced enough" speech. John McCain has always been an en...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
It's very interesting how McCain is willing to let the press into his fundraisers now that Bush isn't there. Just another acknowledgement that Bush is political poison in...
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CMOR
| 2 months ago
Hello!!! And please wipe your feet as you enter... This is very much a new genesis in my creative undertakings... All you could never need may be found here, if only I cou...
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CMOR
| 2 months ago
People rarely comment on my songs, besides the usual, 'Great Song!!!' feedback... Here is your chance to tell me what you think or feel... You can comment anonymously, or...
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CMOR
| 3 months ago
This is a 2 year old mice pace post which I am happy to paste for you... I did write it, however... Redundancy Is Getting Old... Today is a fresh day... A chance to weigh...
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CMOR
| 2 months ago
Living at the crossroads has been both beautiful and rough... The real estate is plentiful, but the cost is one's soul, and every moment is spent paying, albeit paying at...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
For the third time, and by the narrowest of margins, the Supreme Court has handed Bush a defeat. Yesterday, by a 5-4 vote, the Supremes upheld the right of prisoners bein...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
Sometimes you should err on the side of caution. A few years ago there was a big project here in Texas. They were building a particle accelerator to study exactly what ha...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
Sometimes I can't help myself. Eventually I'll take some time to talk about Barack Obama's finer points but they just keep throwing these big fat pitches slowly across th...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
" Anger is the rawest, most common form of insanity." - Bounty-Hunter, Author, Preston Law " Be the change you want." - Gandhi Walter has been our neighbor since the days...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 3 months ago
Presidential Democratic Nominee Barack Obama last week launched a website, fightthesmears.com to combat the usual gossip and pettiness that seems to dog most high profile...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
This is an area where I can see both sides, at least a little. The ban on drilling offshore doesn't apply to most of the Gulf of Mexico so we're used to looking out over ...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 3 months ago
The Supreme Court decided 5-4 last Thursday that foreign suspects held at Guantanamo have a right to challenge their detention in American Courts. "The laws and Constitut...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
Nothing good can come from staying in the middle of the road. It's time to choose a side. As we all know. the political rhetoric will increase and the "swift boating" wil...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
Four generations under one roof. We're not talking family reunion here. We're talking necessity borne of tough times. We took advantage of the Spring weather last night a...
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Maya
| 2 months ago
If you've been paying attention to the news over the past 48 hours, you'll likely have seen the headline that reads something to the effect of "Teens made pregnancy pact."...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
Barack Obama announced he was not going to accept public funds for his fall campaign and was immediately lambasted by editors, pundits, and Repuglicans. Why? First, Sen. ...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
I assume everyone on here has read at least one of the Harry Potter novels and is familiar with the concept so I won't go into any explanations of the characters or the p...
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Just a Guy
| 2 months ago
The AP reports President Bush's "appearance at a Republican National Committee reception Tuesday boosted his fundraising total for the year to about $66 million." More th...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 3 months ago
In 1990 George H. W. Bush signed a presidential executive order banning coastal oil exploration. The Congressional moratorium was first enacted in 1982 and has been renew...
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politicschick
| 3 months ago
The Pointless Politics of Cable News Recently, America lost Tim Russert. With his death, a commendable standard of political debate has temporarily gone down the drain. O...
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politicschick
| 3 months ago
Recently, America lost Tim Russert. With his death, a commendable standard of political debate has temporarily gone down the drain. On Meet the Press, Russert and his tea...
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ten things
| 17 days ago
1. Both overshadow the presidents they serve or would serve. One's better looking, the other is, well just plain scary. 2. Both can read a script as well as well as any H...
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Galvanize
| 2 months ago
The world is falling apart. Southern California burns while Iowa floods.Earthquakes rock off-shore Alaska and inland China. Our once arch-nemesis, North Korea, has sudden...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
I have decided to be One of those People . There are two choices. 1. You will see me on the evening news, (pictures at 11), just another crazy, screaming about our corrup...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
" Wake up, Ted. You wanna go for a helicopter ride? Come on, get up! "Ted? . . . . . Ted?!" Ted Kulongoski, the Governor of Oregon, the great 'Trailer Park' of the United...
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vbright
| 3 months ago
It occured to me long ago that this race would never be about the issues. Back when it was Hilliary, Obama and McCain, I could see the lines drawn. None of the campaigns ...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 3 months ago
I coulda been a contender... And she was. On Saturday, as planned, Hillary Clinton ended her historic bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination. She couldn't deliver...
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jerrymalcolm
| 3 months ago
A few days ago I was watching the national news while my young nephew played on the floor. It was a cozy domestic scene as I watched the usual anxiety on display about th...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 3 months ago
Tuesday, Bill Clinton called Barack Obama. No one can really know the content of the call except those on the phone and anyone listening...still the speculation was all o...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
Grandpa was forced to quit his job pumping gas ( in Oregon, motorists are not allowed to pump their own fuel ) because could not afford the gasoline to get to work. His p...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
We fell to sleep, our last night as normal people, in the house that had been our home for three years, listening to the difference of it's emptiness. Barren of the thing...
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Maya
| 3 months ago
Being a supporter of the Democratic Party is a frustrating business, because you know that no matter how golden the situation may look (the current political climate, for ...
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BiGiDiE
| 2 months ago
All I hear from Barack Obama is rhetoric and the candidate's theme word, "change". But I never heard exactly how this supposed "change" is going to occur. I have yet to h...
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vbright
| 2 months ago
Some are calling it an overreaction by the public, Republicans, and the Media. Some are calling it a different delivery of what he has been saying all along. What he SAID...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 3 months ago
Barack Obama had two press conferences last week to clarify his stance on Iraq after he said the inflammatory statement that he could "refine" his policy after assessing ...
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shivers
| 2 months ago
Pumped by the likes of you and of me Wading through bills and sweet eternity You come looking for a cheque that ain't gonna bounce And you find that your money just ain't...
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shivers
| 2 months ago
The policeman's a rapist the CM's a thug You've women to molest and beers to slug Who cares if they catch you and put you in jail Even drunk drivers who kill can now get ...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
It takes alot to piss-off Grandma. "You hitch up the wagon to an ornery mule, well after you ride to town a time or two, the orneyness just becomes a fact of life." Grand...
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shivers
| 2 months ago
Oh to be an Indian in the 21 st century by Shivani Tibrewala, 2007 All rights reserved by the Intellectually Challenged Property Act Pumped by the likes of you and of me ...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 3 months ago
I've been getting to know Barack Obama better in the last few weeks...but like any new relationship reality is setting in. He just isn't who I thought he was and I'm begi...
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frontporch
| 2 months ago
Grandpa kept himself busy in the barn, finding little chores - the ones that always need doing but mostly aren't important enough to hem and haw about. But a stir in his ...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 2 months ago
On Monday, July 14, 2008 the above The New Yorker magazine cover, "The Politics of Fear", hit the newsstands. The cover immediately became a headline itself. The editors ...
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SWilliams
| about 1 month ago
If you're looking for everyday news, you've come to the wrong place. If you want to read about real life (the good, the bad, and the rest), stick around! I am very opinio...
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SWilliams
| 2 months ago
We're all in the same boat. Gas prices are rising and there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight. Some argue that we're in a recession, while others say signs point to ...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 2 months ago
Former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas resigned on Friday, July 21, 2008 as the top advisor and co-chair of John McCain's election efforts. Phil Gramm, the man behind the cur...
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twentysomething
| 2 months ago
Here is an article that is very useful, especially if you receive a lot of politically-based "chain" emails. Factcheck.org concludes that the majority of political chain ...
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Hollee Chadwick
| 2 months ago
Hollee Chadwick-Spicer has been a published writer since 1976 when she was hired after her high school graduation to work as a staff writer for Gibson Greeting Cards. Her...
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ML Mathers
| 2 months ago
Before global travel, cable television and internet access brought Earth to "everyone is your neighbor" manageability, international perceptions were influenced via tradi...
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twentysomething
| 2 months ago
On Tuesday I found out that a friend was mugged in North Berkeley, near the university, at 9:30 am. He lost his entire wallet, his cell phone, and a laptop computer. For t...
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Eleanor Roosevelt II
| 2 months ago
With brightness in her eyes and slight hand gestures, Aunt Eleanor described her work with the United Nations. She had helped her husband think through the charter for th...
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phoenixfire75
| 2 months ago
My generation is from the 70's where women were still discovering how to be women and feminists were proud of that title. We marched and Took Back the Night, Our Bodies, ...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 2 months ago
Opps, I didn't mean to say that... From the beginning of this campaign, which suddenly feels like a very long time ago, McCain has been leading Obama in polls on the subj...
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phoenixfire75
| 2 months ago
I remembered something yesterday - something I hadn't thought about in years. I suddenly remembered my 5th grade classroom and we were having to get up and give impromtu ...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
Barak Baby, Maverick McCain, or Bob below the radar Barr-whose slogan do you wear? With such clever slogans as, "Change you can believe in", "Ready from day one", and "Li...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
Well, another lie has been exposed. Is anyone really shocked? While some bloggers have been quick to take issue with John McCain’s alleged lies concerning Obama’s tax...
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L Wallgren
| about 1 month ago
Webster’s says: Socialism -a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership, and control of the means of production and distributio...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 2 months ago
There is a lot of buzz today regarding the new McCain ad comparing Barack Obama to Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton. The McCain ad claims on one hand Obama has very littl...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
During a July 31, 2008 conference call heard by a relatively small group, it was announced that Ron Paul will be appointed as the next Secretary of the Treasury...that is...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
Obama now says he is in favor of tapping the US strategic petroleum reserves for up to 10% of the 700 million barrels of oil. During today’s campaign speech In Lansing,...
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L Wallgren
| about 1 month ago
The Autism Society of America , founded more than 40 years ago, asked the 2008 presidential candidat es to share their views on the issues surrounding autism. In response...
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Ed Michalski
| about 1 month ago
For a moment or two I would like you all to suspend your disbelief and treat yourself to a metaphor in which each candidate is in fact a confection. On a recent walk thro...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
The Paragon is my attempt to do what few others are interested in-provoking thought-real thought. Thought that does not pollute, that does not give audience to buzzwords,...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
Are you opposed to Obama and don't trust McCain? Are you worried that all hope is lost? Do you feel like you are alone in a sinking ship? If you answered yes to any of th...
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Moms @ Home
| 2 months ago
Our main focus here will be the home and family. I am a Homeschooling mom of two teenaged sons, I work from home, and spend most of my time at home with my family. We are...
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Margaret Gendreau
| 2 months ago
In the Proust Questionnaire in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Bette Midler reveals her greatest fear, “That the greatest days of my country are past.” It is a fear ...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts’s Secretary of State on behalf of presidential candidate Bob Barr. According to Boston.com , the ACLU Ma...
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tvwatching
| 2 months ago
As glamorous as the life seems, it must be frustrating to be a public figure. On the one hand, you might be fabulously rich and adored, but the downsides aren't always ea...
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vbright
| 2 months ago
Is there anyone else who just doesn't care? I have never been a huge fan of the Olympics, but this year, I have even less reason to follow it. Nothing against the Athlete...
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Kimberly Michalski
| 24 minutes ago
I was duped big time. At the risk of being called naïve, I gave Edwards the benefit of the doubt - because ultimately I would rather wear a ditz label than wrongly accus...
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Ed Michalski
| about 1 month ago
Everyweek, and practically everytime I am working in downtown Columbus I manage to take a walk further south on High Street and visit the state house. This day I was luck...
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minutemaid
| about 1 month ago
Question of the day: who will Angelina Jolie vote for in the 2008 elections? Apparently it is on the minds of both of the presumptive nominees - according to Variety mag ...
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Dan Weisman
| 2 months ago
We get it, John Edwards. You're a liar and can't stop yourself because, tsk. yeech, you're a narcissist and anything else you can think of as a poor excuse. What, can't b...
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L Wallgren
| 2 months ago
The "celebrity" is back. Yesterday, John McCain's campaign released a new web video. This time it's called "Fan Club". I am not a McCain supporter but I am one of those t...