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G-20 refuses to back US push on China’s currency
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Leaders of 20 major economies on Friday refused to back a U.S. push to make China boost its currency's value, keeping alive a dispute that raises fears of a global trade war amid criticism that cheap Chinese exports are...
An Unhealthy Health Care Debate
I guess it was too much to ask that when the University of Washington School of Law decided to hold a roundtable debate on the Constitutionality of the Health Care Reform Act that they would actually have both sides of the argument represented, and that...
Politics has no place in Gang Legislation
Gang Legislation is about protecting our residents from criminal street gangs, it has nothing to with “racial profiling” as the ACLU would have you believe. Almost as quickly as the Senate Democrats in Washington State removed the 2/3rd’s requirement...
Born Again American!
Recevied this from a friend of mine, it was too good not to post.
Remembering Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy was born at Brookline, Massachusetts on 22 February 1932 and died at his Hyannis Port, Massachusetts home late on Tuesday night, 25 August 2009. Born to a large wealthy family, Teddy was the youngest of nine, his three brothers all met...
Remembering Jackie O’
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born at Southampton, New York on this day in 1929. Her father was a playboy stock broker ("Black Jack" Bouvier), her mother the daughter of a bank president. She attended the finest private schools before two years...
…and he voted for George McGovern for president…
Title Courtesy of: Charlie Daniels, “Uneasy Rider” George Stanley McGovern was born at Avon, South Dakota on this day in 1922 and grew up in nearby Mitchell. He graduated from Dakota Wesleyan University, took private flying lessons to overcome his fear...
The Witch Hunt Has Begun…
I had the displeasure of watching C-SPAN today, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s Judiciary Sub-Committee on  Administrative Oversight.  He and his colleagues (“The Left”) have decided that a Bi-Partisan committee should investigate whether or...