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Life Is Not Fair to Beautiful Women!

July 19th, 2012

By Dan Miller Beautiful women get all the breaks; except in politics.

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: beautiful, fairness, Palin, Pelosi, Politics, satire, Sofia Vergara, women
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Football Games and Political Debates

January 9th, 2012

By Tom Carter I curse the evil forces that malevolently scheduled the Republican debate to coincide with the NFL playoff game on Saturday night. And I mean a serious curse — plague, pestilence, warts, boils, and collapse of their mutual funds! As a football fan and a political junkie, it presented me with an almost […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: debate, election, football, playoffs, Politics, primary, Republicans, satire
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Religion, Presidential Politics and Morality, Part I

June 15th, 2011

By Dan Miller Religion has political components and politics has religious components. Attorney General Holder once called for an “honest discussion” of race, apparently having in mind instead a dishonest one way communication about White “racism.” That hasn’t turned out well. I would like to see a rather more candid discussion of the intersection of […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: agnostic, Black Liberation, Constitution, Mormon, Politics, religion, Unitarian
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Ignorance of History and Politics

April 9th, 2010

By Tom Carter I just read a depressing report about the appalling lack of knowledge of American history and politics among young people. This isn’t really new information, but every time I read about the problem it gets more discouraging. Students leaving high school and entering university score at around 50 percent on a test […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: college, high school, History, ignorance, Politics, university
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