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Herman Goldwater

True positive change suffered a setback from which we may not recover. Herman Cain offered real substantive change, not the canned, vacuous, hollow campaign promises typified by politicians. But to understand what happened, we must go back and look at what has happened before. This isn’t the first time a true champion of the people [...]

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I’m following my mother’s example

This weekend was a rough one for me. Of course there was (and continues) my outrage at what was done to Herman Cain. Then Saturday evening around 11:30 PM the care facility my mother is at, called to tell me she was being taken to hospital with respiratory problems. They called back moments later to [...]

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Islam is pink gorilla

Over the next few days, or until something more exciting bumps it, we will hear about Anders Behring Breivik, the Oslo shooter. I’m not suggesting he be removed from the front pages, nor am I suggesting that he is not newsworthy. Quite the opposite. He is emblematic of a deeply troubled individual, and just because [...]

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