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20 hours ago ago from Later On
Timothy Egan in the NY Times : After the last insult had been spat from the Senate floor, after final passage of a legislative attempt to do something significant in this messy democracy, a leading voice of the opposition made a public prediction: “People will be hunting Democrats with dogs,” said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas. This was 1993, in the fragile first year of Bill Clinton’s presidency, on a vote to raise taxes for the ...
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18 hours ago ago from GOING GLOBAL - EAST MEETS WEST - ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Dec 26, 2009 The electoral law that preoccupied Iraqi politicians for the last 8 months has finally been adopted . After the Iraqi Vice President Tariq Al Hashimi vetoed the law a second time, with last minute arrangements the election law was passed unanimously by the Iraqi parliament and Tariq Al-Hashimi withdrew his. Hashim’s point of contention was the seats allocated for Iraqis who will vote from abroad and how the votes would be ...
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1 hour, 51 minutes ago ago from theblackbottom
The political demographic in New York City is changing according to this article. It is also changing in Western Michigan too. It bodes well for the future if political leaders can put together effective issues that are based on socio-economic interests and the strength of cultural pluralism, especially in urban muncipalities around the country. For First Time, Minority Vote Was a Majority By SAM ROBERTS NY Times Much of the ...
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22 hours ago ago from Patchwork: A Chronicle of Alabama in the New South
The link below is to the Washington Post 's reporting to his story but they are far from the only ones to cover it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203508.html . Democratic Rep. Parker Griffith of northern Alabama recently switched political parties, and is now a Republican. A couple of things about this story struck me. First of all, northern Alabama has always leaned Republican more than ...
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