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...helped thwart Gore's efforts to win Florida's electoral votes - and the presidency - in 2000. That bizarre recount drama gave the White House to George W. Bush by just 537 ballots. This time Gore was stumping for Barack Obama, but memories of the 2000 debacle were surely not forgotten, especially since Palm Beach keeps experiencing electoral mishaps. The county is using a third voting technology in as many presidential elections, and its first two outings this year weren't encouraging: 697 votes uncounted in one municipal election, and 3,500 missing during the recount of a judge's race...
...vote. The ability to participate in one’s government is an essential check on corruption and ensures that the ruling power serves the interests of those ruled. In a Lockean sense, it also represents the consent of the people that defines civil government. But people have forgotten that there is another right essential to American democracy, nearly as important in what it symbolizes: the right not to vote...
...Faced with America’s collapsing economy, our unsustainable addiction to foreign oil, our inefficient and inequitable health care system, our forgotten war in Afghanistan and our mistaken war in Iraq, and our declining moral standing in the international community, we cannot afford to throw our hands up and offer the excuse that government cannot solve the problems it helped create...
...just that they’re sometimes not willing to search for it, or aren’t sure where to find it.Mixtape creators, mashup artists, and DJs, then, can be thought of as musical mediums, the best of whom dabble in necromancy, bringing the spirit of long-forgotten tracks to life. And it is this point which perhaps deserves most attention—that the best of these channelers really do bring the spirit of the songs they choose to the attention of the listener. The very nature of the genre dictates that the finest...
McCain, John •amusing song about •another amusing song about •four thousand kids from local schools are bussed in to make Ohio rally of seem more crowded •George Shultz's name is forgotten, and then, finally, remembered...