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What They Thought March 3, 2007 Alan
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As February came to an end, a page one story in my local daily was headlined, “Retired teachers told: Medical bills on state.” In what was described as “a side deal with the state teacher’s union” New Jersey’s Governor Jon Corzine had agreed that taxpayers would pick up their share of the bill cited at $53.6 billion! These kinds of sweetheart deals exist everywhere state teacher’s unions wield the kind of political power that exists in New Jersey. Political pundits have concluded that, if the National Education Association—a union—ever deserted the Democrat Party, it could no longer exist. They are the volunteers and much of the money that keeps it going. Read the rest... |
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No column this week. R.A. Hawkins Web Site Contact Back to Top |
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For those of you who were lucky enough to miss it, the Fox News Channel recently aired a new show called “The Half Hour News Hour,” which attempts to do for conservatives what Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” apparently do for liberals. “The Half Hour News Hour” is a self-professed conservative answer to those Comedy Central programs. It features Hillary jokes, fake ACLU ads, and comedy sketches where Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter ingeniously run the White House. I don’t find it strange that conservatives would want a conservative answer to “The Daily Show.” But I do find it strange that a news channel would feel the need to do the answering. Read the rest... Jonathan David Morris Web Site Contact Back to Top |
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Hundreds of thousands of American troops already occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, a number that is rising as the military surge moves forward. The justification, given endlessly since September 11th, is that both support terrorism and thus pose a risk to the United States. Yet when we step back and examine the region as a whole, it’s obvious that these two impoverished countries, neither of which has any real military, pose very little threat to American national security when compared to other Middle Eastern nations. The decision to attack them, while treating some of region’s worst regimes as allies, shows the deadly hypocrisy of our foreign policy in the Middle East. Read the rest... Rep. Ron Paul Web Site Back to Top |
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Now comes word that Congressional Democrats are considering placing curbs on 527s, those shadowy soft-money groups that inundated the radio and television airwaves with propaganda ads during the last few election cycles. One has to wonder why Democrats would want to place curbs on organizations such as MoveOn.org and America Coming Together, two ultra Progressive-Liberal 527s that have completely toed the DNC line since their inception. The answer is that the 527 political playing field is starting to level and liberals know that in a fair and factual fight they always get slaughtered. Read the rest... |
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I’ve always wondered about going to an Ivy League school. My brother, who attended Cornell, told me that up to the first day of Law School, fellow students were packing and leaving for Harvard upon receiving late acceptance notices to that school. Apparently, the name Harvard is just that important. For those of us who choose (or are accepted into) less prestigious institutions of learning, there are other factors to consider. Extensive networking activities may avail themselves upon graduation, depending on college of choice, extra curricular affiliation, city and state you will eventually reside, degree, and myriad additional reasons. Who knew? Back then, I thought higher learning was mainly about quality and degree of education. Read the rest... Nancy
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