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Today, “I do” seems to be one of the only surefire lines delivered at a wedding. The rest of the ceremony has become complicated as more and more marriages unite persons of different religious backgrounds: it’s not uncommon to witness a priest and rabbi at the same ceremony, readings from Gandhi and Genesis, or an [...]
Imagine this: A high-school student gets out of school and heads to her job at the local diner. All the while, her father has been working at the plant all day. Both make $9.00 an hour. This scenario is not the reality for most Americans, but it could be if Obama successfully raises the minimum [...]
With the federal debt over $16 trillion and the prospect of lowering it remote, conservatives have turned their attention to the last president who accomplished what now seems to be an incomprehensible feat: a decrease in the federal budget and national debt. No, not even Reagan mastered this, but he indeed revered the one who [...]
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Erdogan To Obama: Strong Horse Or Weak Horse? 18 May 2013, 5:59 am
At a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told us what we already knew: They agree that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “needs to go.” The problem, however, lies in the actual playing out of teamwork. Since the start of the civil war [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Elisha Maldonado
Authoritarian Can’t Hide Embarrassing Story In The Internet Age 16 May 2013, 9:41 pm
Horses and powerful rulers have an odd relationship. Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul. More recently, the horse of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov almost killed him. Wearing traditional national dress Turkmen, the authoritarian leader was thrown from his horse last month in a race held in Turkmenistan. He was apparently briefly knocked unconscious [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Joseph Hammond