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Political Sports Player of the Week - Oct. 10, 2005
Mohamed ElBaradei is this week's Political Sports Player of the Week. Mr. Baradei and the organization he leads, The International Atomic Energy Agency, won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which was announced this week. The White House strongly criticized ElBaradei in the period leading up to the start of the Iraq War, contending that his findings, indicating that Iraq did not have any WMD, including nuclear weapons, was absolutely wrong. You can read the article ...Read the rest of this post »
January 26, 2012
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Political Radio Advertising for 2006
With the landscape of American politics becoming extremely polarized, the scope and type of radio commercials that are produced will be challenged to offer rhetoric and copy that touches the heart and not deflect off the shield that surrounds the soul of most voters. The conditioning of the mind has been evolving since the first political radio commercials. Scott Radio (www.scottradio.com) a radio political voice and script writing organization conducted a survey of over five hundred radio ...Read the rest of this post »
January 25, 2012
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Here They Come Again: Another Go Round for Wacky 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
There isn't much that the 9/11 conspiracy theorists say that can or should be believed. That even includes the windy claim that their celebration in New York of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks will be the biggest in history. The problem with that grandiose boast is that the same bunch claimed last year that their fifth anniversary event would be the biggest yet. In the fine print at the bottom of the wearechange.org website release, they add the "clarification" that ...Read the rest of this post »
January 24, 2012
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Nationalism
This article discusses how governments seek public endorsement of their policies through Nationalism. In speeches and on Vietnam memorials it always states that the soldiers, who died, died for our freedom. This is really strange and illogical. We actually lost the war. Did the victorious "Charlie Cong" storm America and enslave us? Once we left Vietnam, we hardly had anything to do with them and they no longer posed a problem. But did they ever pose a problem? It seems the word "Communist" was ...Read the rest of this post »
January 21, 2012
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Gun Control Will Solve Nothing
Statistics from the National Federation of State High School Associations reveal that, in 1999, 15 students perished while playing in high school football games. This fact received little to no coverage in the national media. Angry parents did not parade into Washington, D.C., in order to demand stricter regulation of high school football. Politicos feigning intense anguish did not bemoan football's domination of most learning institutions' sports programs. The large majority of this country's ...Read the rest of this post »
January 19, 2012
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TOP REPUBLICANS RAISE THE VOLUME ON TEN COMMANDMENTS JUDGE ROY
When former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore acted on principle and refused to adhere to a federal court order that he considered was both unlawful and improper, he never thought that his actions would lead to an overwhelming groundswell of support from across the country. His stance made headlines and brought international attention to this modern-day, David vs. Goliath showdown. Now, the same group of political and religious leaders that supported his actions then, are calling ...Read the rest of this post »
January 17, 2012
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Poverty Is Still America's Katrina Shame
President Bush and the three top Democrats that want to replace him couldn't get to New Orleans fast enough this week. The occasion of course was the second anniversary of the Katrina debacle. Predictably, Bush as he's done in his twelve previous treks to the Gulf since Katrina publicly boasted that he's done everything humanly possible to get the region back on its feet. He also insisted that much more still must be done and his administration will do it. Just as predictably, his would be ...Read the rest of this post »
January 16, 2012
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When the Levee Breaks, a selfish look at the financial effects
/p> The aftermath of Katrina has affected more that just New Orleans and the surrounding gulf coast. There are huge financial implications associated with the catastrophe, from the initial humanitarian aid to the rebuilding and repairing needed to get the local area back on its feet. Eight oil refineries shut down as a result of Katrina could take many months to restart. The Gulf Coast is a prime supplier of oil, through pipelines now shut due to lack of power and ocean-going barges unable to ...Read the rest of this post »
January 15, 2012
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A Tale Of Mythical Proportions
Here we go again! Without fail after each major natural disaster the unprepared and those sympathetic to them see prices increase because of shortages and shortly after begin telling tall tales of a mythical beast so terrifying that it strikes fear in all. That beasts name? "Price Gouging''. Uh oh. Did I really dare say that price gouging was a fiction? A mythical beast that doesn't exist? Yep. And you're going to either deal with it and read on OR bury your head in the sand and try to drown ...Read the rest of this post »
January 14, 2012
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The 40% President
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast, people wondered when President George W. Bush would show up at the scene to offer some hope to the 100,000 plus people left behind in New Orleans. When would the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) take action? The truth of the matter is, FEMA was slow to take action, and Bush decided not to be presidential. What happened to the George W. Bush of Sept. 11, 2001? When he was at ground zero, bullhorn in hand, offering up support and ...Read the rest of this post »
January 11, 2012
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