Tag: politics
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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July 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
The trend in politics today is to reduce, in many cases eliminate, government services. This trend reflects the consensus amongst the population that government is inefficient, too costly, burdensome, . . .
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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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April 10, 2009 08:25 PM EDT --
Canadian political scandals rarely receive much ink or airtime from the American media. I'm sure the reaction of most Americans to any inquiry as to the "Mulroney-Schreiber Affair" . . .
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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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August 07, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
I was pondering the question which serves as the title of this piece, after participating in another conversation string here on Gather in which the idea of "common sense" was thrown out.
My . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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February 26, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Gather.com recently promoted a six-part series of articles by Alan M. Dershowitz entitled "Ex-President for Sale" written in response to the publication of the book "Palestine Peace Not . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . .
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March 05, 2007 12:10 PM EST --
It has been almost six years since the United States, Great Britain, Canada and a variety of other allies have been embroiled in the “War on Terrorism”. The U.S., U.K. and some other . . .
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April 20, 2009 07:26 PM EDT --
As a Canadian member of the Gather community I have always been free with my comments and the expression of my opinions on matters pertaining to American politics. I do this for several reasons, . . .
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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 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . .
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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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