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An old friend of mine, a street cop who eventually made captain, once told me about a term the cops sometimes used to describe the cause of death for a certain class of the deceased. These poor souls, often homeless, whose bodies had been so ravaged by illness and disease, exposure to the elements, decades of [...]

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');document.write('Threat of Socialism
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From an anti-T.R. letter to the editor of the New York Times in 1908:Moreover, most of the Rooseveltian policies - the arid land reclamation schemes, the National forests, the leasing of coal and mineral rights, the renting of grazing lands, the construction of the Panama Canal by direct employment, the development of water powers under [...]

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');document.write('The ?Death Throes? of the Reagan Revolution
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As time runs out on the Reagan Revolution… the notion that tax cuts, de-regulation, and cutting every government service except defense is not the solution to every problem, it is instructive to see where the two candidates stand as far as fixing the problem. On the one hand, McCain promises more tax cuts, especially for [...]

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');document.write('Your 401k Under Bush
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Under Bill Clinton the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 3,223 to 11,497, an increase of 3.56 times. So if you invested $50k in 1992, your money grew to $178,000, assuming average returns.

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');document.write('A Letter to my Christian Friends
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Many of you have been “kind” enough to send me emails warning about the many dangers of an Obama presidency. You have implied (or stated) that Obama is Muslim, not ready to lead, Liberal, Socialist, a Terrorist, and quite possibly the anti-Christ. Most frequently though, you like to talk about abortion, as though killing unborn babies [...]

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