Tag: america
member name: Rory M.
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . .
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August 01, 2009 01:27 AM EDT --
As the United States once again suffers through the throws of a new round of debate over health care reform, the opponents of reform are resorting to their time honoured tactic of scaring the public . . .
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December 09, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
Jimmy Carter’s latest book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid) is causing quite a stire as various defenders of Israel scream blue-murder (or at least hint of anti-Semitism) and recently triumphant . . .
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September 08, 2008 01:33 AM EDT --
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a redneck as follows:
A slang term, usually for a rural white southerner who is politically conservative, racist, and a religious fundamentalist. This . . .
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February 25, 2009 07:58 PM EST --
Dictionary.com defines socialism as follows:
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of . . .
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August 12, 2009 06:26 PM EDT --
There is an infection in the US body politic and in the psyche of the nation itself.
It is an insidious infection, one that seems impervious to reason or logic , one that eschews facts or . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
"The Good old hockey game is the best game you can name
and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game."
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November 05, 2008 02:24 AM EST --
The election of 2008 has already gone a long, long way to restoring the dream and the amazing reality of the United States of America. It has done this in numerous ways.
Race Relations: . . .
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May 08, 2009 12:37 AM EDT --
Well, it certainly is no wonder that the Republicans lost the last election so thoroughly. No wonder that Barack Obama is soaring in popularity across the nation. No wonder that no one . . .
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July 17, 2009 09:09 PM EDT --
There is a conviction in the Western world, particularly in America , that capitalism and democracy are almost one and the same thing, or at least complimentary to one another. The corollary to that . . .
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January 20, 2009 03:20 PM EST --
Being a Canadian I have, like many of my countrymen, grown used to looking south to our great friend and ally with a mixture of admiration, fear, hope and judgement .
America is the most powerful . . .
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September 28, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Someone remarked to me recently how ironic they found it that Germany, a country which had lost the two biggest wars in history within the last century alone, had been torn in two and governed by two opposing . . .
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September 20, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
With the crisis in the financial markets of recent months and especially the past week, and the back-of-cocktail-napkin policy writing on the fly, there is a very big change coming to the way Americans . . .
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November 16, 2008 01:41 AM EST --
Freedom ain't free. It's kind of a slogan, isn't it. You might see it on a bumper sticker, perhaps on the back of a beat up Ford F150 beside a "Support Our Troops" . . .
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November 22, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
I am not in the habit of reading books authored by American political figures. Though I have read two of former President Jimmy Carter's books, I am not drawn to partisan writings on politics in . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
There is a tendency to compare the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam, especially as opposition to the war continues to rise as it did during the waning years of the Vietnam war.
The question must be . . .
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February 18, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
The hot, Cuban sun was a comfort in spite of the hardship created by being forced to sit out in it for hours without rest, shade or water. It reminded Omar of home. He had spent too many years in the northern, . . .
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May 22, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
This is the fourth installment of a series of articles I recently began to pay homage to words that have had special meaning in my life. Links to the first three articles will appear at the end . . .
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January 08, 2007 11:57 PM EST --
America has never been an empire in the same way that, for example, Britain and Spain once were. Those nations established colonies around the globe from Hong Kong to North America and from The Philippines . . .
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May 19, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
This is the third article in the series I have begun to pay homage to the words of other writers that have meant so much to me through my life. The first two articles can be found here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977347468&nav=MyGather . . .
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