N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Oct 16, 2008, 5:33 pm
An online preview of the upcoming segment on ABC's news show 20/20 takes an interesting look at potential voters who have a shocking ignorance of all things political. Stossel brings up a point that I've always thought made a lot of sense. If you don't know what you're voting about, you really sho...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Oct 1, 2008, 11:53 am
Senate Conservatives Fund has a link to a PDF file version of the Senate bailout bill that will be voted on at around 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Update: if that link doesn't work, try this one.
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jul 17, 2008, 7:03 pm
One of the most contentious areas of American politics is energy policy. With rising gas prices, energy has become even more important. One of my major problems with the leaders of the Democratic Party on this issue is that they seem to want to have it both ways. Read this excerpt from an article ab...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jul 14, 2008, 9:49 am
Yesterday, Barack Obama spoke at La Raza's national convention in San Diego. Predictably, Obama devoted most of his speech to highlighting his support of "comprehensive immigration reform" a.k.a. allowing illegal aliens to become legal residents. But he went further by talking about how horrible US ...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jul 13, 2008, 3:29 pm
After every major natural disaster, someone will inevitably blame global warming for the disaster. At first, it annoyed me to no end. But now, I find it absolutely hilarious. On Thursday, Congressman Ed Markey decided to have some fun and play the blame game as well. Story from CNS News. A top Democ...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jul 9, 2008, 2:23 pm
To most people, a black hole is a term from astronomy. But according to a Dallas County Commissioner using the term black hole is offensive. Story from the Dallas City Hall Blog. County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket ...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jul 3, 2008, 3:30 pm
That's exactly what the EU wants to do regarding the Lisbon Treaty. After the defeat of the proposed EU constitution in popular referendums in France and the Netherlands, the EU decided to repackage that failed Constitution as the Treaty of Lisbon. According to the rules set out by the EU, ratificat...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jun 30, 2008, 1:33 pm
Yesterday Wesley Clark appeared on Face the Nation to support Barack Obama for president. In the course of the interview, Clark made some baffling statements about John McCain in regards to his military service. Here's the part of the transcript when Clark talks about McCain's military service. SCHI...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jun 24, 2008, 3:35 pm
The OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) is an organization that has repeatedly shown its utter contempt of freedom of speech. Over the last two years the OIC has used the Danish cartoon brouhaha as a reason for Western countries to restrict free speech when that speech involves Islam. So, i...
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N M. posted an article on No More Spin - Jun 21, 2008, 3:00 pm
On June 21, 2001, the great blues musician John Lee Hooker passed away. So, I thought it would be fitting to do my weekend music post about him. Although he was born in the Mississippi Delta in 1917, John Lee Hooker's music career didn't start until he was living in Detroit in the late 1940s....
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