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Report says Pentagon manipulated intel
Seeded on Fri Feb 9, 2007 4:36 PM EST (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S.
DNC Fails To Follow Its Own Rules
Seeded on Wed Feb 7, 2007 7:21 PM EST (R Cubed)
"A bit of a followup to something I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. At this weekend's DNC meeting, Young Democrats of America.
Can Public Schools Force You To Donate Money?
Wed Feb 7, 2007 12:49 AM EST
As most of you know, I'm rather young and am still stuck in my senior year of high school. At my school in suburban Phoenix, AZ, the student government is putting together a charity effort to raise money for soldiers in Iraq (which I believe is a great idea).
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America Loses Great Voice as Molly Ivins Dies at Age 62
Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:41 PM EST
It was always a treat to open up to the opinion page of the normally conservative Arizona Republic and see a column from Molly Ivins. No matter what the topic, her columns always provided great commentary and interesting criticism of our current administration.
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Call Us By Our Real Name
Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:20 PM EST
In today's seemingly rather toned down State of the Union, the President called the Democratic party the "Democrat Party," which has always been a derogatory term for the party.
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"Featured Writers" Should Be Worth Featuring
Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:19 PM EST
As a newsvine member for the past 10 months, I've seen people come and go, having their fame, bringing their insight (or lack thereof) and publishing their opinions. One of the things that has always interested me is the "featured writers" column.
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Never Mind, Bash Myspace All You Want
Sun Dec 3, 2006 11:18 PM EST
On February 25th of this year, my very uninformed self posted the following article regarding the social networking site myspace.com [URL]http://seamusmccaffrey.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/25/110154-stop-bashing-myspace[URL/] I would like to state that at the moment, my views are …
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Words, Not Bombs
Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:12 PM EST
With the Pope's current visit to Turkey underway, it's apparent how radical, radical muslims are. Any little threat is taken way too personally and death is a must when it comes to those who disagree.
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Jimmy McCain? Honorable Contribution or Convenient Escape?
Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:09 PM EST
It was a big summer story, Senator John McCain's youngest son, Jimmy is about to join the Marine Corps. Sounds great, right? It's what us liberals wanted...a hard talking pro-war Senator sacrificing his own son.
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McCain? Giuliani? How about Lindsay Graham?
Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:09 PM EST
As speculation over the 2008 GOP nomination race continues, two front-runners have emerged, Senator John McCain and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Each have created their exploratory committees and the polls show that they both are about even.
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Second Rate Analysis on a First Rate Crisis
Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:09 AM EDT
Recently this site has been full of blog posts regarding the current Israeli-Lebanon conflict, so I figured I'd add my two cents. I'd like to start out by basically saying that Israel overstepped its boundaries completely.
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Can You Really Blame China and Russia?
Sun May 7, 2006 1:55 PM EDT
As we all know, the fiasco with Iran is really heating up and China and Russia really aren't helping.
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Limbaugh Ruling Almost As Disgusting As He Is
Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:29 PM EDT
As I"m sure most of you know, today conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh turned himself into the police after a long battle regarding drug charges.
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Texas, Texas, Texas
Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:30 PM EST
As you've probably already heard, Texas police are beginning to crack down on public drunkeness in order to prevent drunk driving.
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Is Congress' Distance a Good Thing?
Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:58 AM EST
The Dubaii Ports deal proved that the relationship between Congress and the White House isn't as good as it used to be. The Dubaii deal was a major blow to the President and hurt him greatly on his "strongest issue" national security.
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Quit Being Crass, End the Ban on the Grass
Wed Mar 8, 2006 11:28 PM EST
I'm going to start out by saying that I am not a stoner, I do not like drugs, never tried them, never will try them, they aren't my thing. However, I have nothing wrong with people that do, look at it, it's not nearly as bad as alcohol or even tobacco for that matter.
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Stop Bashing Myspace
Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:39 PM EST
What is it with the recent negative press towards Myspace.com. It seems like everywhere I go, all I hear is "watch out for Myspace" or "Myspace isn't safe." Even Dateline did a huge story bashing the site.
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Creepy Teenagers
Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:26 PM EST
It's definately not a secret that many high school students, or teenagers in general can be complete jerks at times, however, I'm starting to believe things are getting worse. As i'm sure many of you know, one of the main methods of modern communication is myspace.com.
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Those Who Live in Glass Homes Shouldn't Throw Stones
Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:24 PM EST
Over this wonderfully long weekend, something not so wonderful occurred. The son of U.S. Senate Candidate Jim Pederson (D-AZ) was arrested on drug charges. This obvioussly will hurt his campaign, but what disgusts me even more is the remarks made by State Senator Jack W.
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Should School Feel Like a Prison?
Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:55 PM EST
A school is supposed to be an inviting educational environment where students can expand their knowledge and practice for the real world, however, this is not the case at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, AZ.
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"Lost" Gets Political?
Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:54 AM EST
While watching the latest episode of ABC's hit drama, "Lost" I was surprised to see that it was getting rather political.
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What Political Party do you want with your rifle?
Thu Feb 9, 2006 11:08 PM EST
At the moment, there is a bill going through the highly conservative Florida Legislature that would require all firearms dealers to register their customers to vote.
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The more bars you eat, the more makeup you need... - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Tue Feb 7, 2006 11:25 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cosmetics maven Bobbi Brown may be known for her natural makeup for eyes and lips, but her fall collection is intended to appeal to another body part entirely -- the tongue.
Len Munsil for Governor?
Tue Feb 7, 2006 8:54 PM EST
As the 2006 race for Governor is starting to get heated, a front runner has emerged in the GOP primary, and to be quite honest, it's quite frightening. Policy guru Len Munsil has emerged as the favorite to win the GOP primary and take on Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano. Mr.
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