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A New Tax Proposal
I have a federal tax proposal radically different from any you have heard before. We do not tax income. We do not tax sales. We do not need a big IRS. We do not need accountants wasting their knowledge on taxes.
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Race Dialogue
There is confusion about Barack Obama's message about talking to your enemies, to those you disagree with, to those who do not look like you and to those who have a different viewpoint from, yours. Because Obama happens to be black this has turned into a dialogue about race.
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The Free Market for Agribusiness
I remember when farmers boasted of being self-reliant, taking care of themselves withhout any handouts, rigorous individualists and believers in the free market. What do we have now? Farmers being paid for not producing and not selling. We don't call them handouts any more, they are subsidies.
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Wright Boosts Obama
I know the conventional wisdom is that Rev. Jeremiah Wright has damaged Obama as a candidate for the presidency. The outrageous statements of Wright can be found by anyone merely by turning on the TV - any station, day or night! As the saying goes, Wright threw Obama under the bus. How can Wright's actions do anything but hurt Obama?
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I'm For It and Against It
Remember how the Republicans attacked Kerry during the last presidential campaign after he said, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it”? They called him a flip-flopper. Well, John McCain beats him when he in essence says, "I am for it and against it at the same time." What would you call him?
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Food Carbon Footprints
Technologists and other geeks have been talking about carbon footprints for a long time. Now the rest of us are getting into the act. If we want to reduce global warning it's up to each of us to calculate our carbon footprint, or how much carbon we are responsible for during a year. A very important part of a person's carbon footprint is the carbon footprint of each of the foods he buys.
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A League of Democracies
John McCain, whom I do not favor, has come up with a good idea: Let's have all the democracies in the world join forces in a League of Democracies. This way we'll be able to fight authoritarianism and terrorism.
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Gotcha Politics
Yesterday there was a "debate" between Obama and Clinton with Gibson and Stephanopolous as moderators - or should I say gotcha catchers. For at least 1 hour out of the 2-hour program, both moderators kept throwing inconsequentilal questions primarily at Obama. Very little of what could be called "issues" were asked about.
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Bitter-Sweet
Senator Barack Obama was careless with his language and as usual Senator Hillary Clinton pounced. Obama said that people in small towns are bitter about their deteriorating economic conditions and as a result concentrate more on social rather than economic conditions. Clinton attacked his remarks as "elitist."
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Obama Integrity
According to the polls, Hillary Clinton is ahead of Barack Obama in Pennsylvania. Obama has been struggling to narrow the difference. He needs every vote he can get. Though he knows he may lose some votes with this action, he refuses to pay so-called "street money" to political operatives working to get out the vote.
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