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...West Virginia. The idea has even been contemplated on the federal level, too. In 2005, Michigan Representative John Conyers proposed the establishment of “Democracy Day,” a holiday that would fuse Election Day and Veterans Day in order to both promote voting and remind citizens that voting is a form of national service. Making Election Day a federal holiday—whether in addition to or in conjunction with Veterans Day—would instantaneously turn every workplace into a potential polling place and would result in a drastic increase in the number of possible...
...While it is imperative for McCain's campaign to define Obama on its own terms, McCain also has to build himself up, explain his ideas for the economy, remind voters what they like about him, display sincere optimism and flash some charm, which has been sorely lacking of late. Adding even more complexity, the format for this debate is a town hall, with most of the questions coming from voters in the auditorium, which could potentially limit McCain's ability to play rough when trying to score points against the Democrat...
...Ahmadinejad does himself the benefit of deflecting attention away from his increasingly horrifying treatment of his own people. In a report by Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released last week in order to coincide with his visit, the groups remind us that “reaching a resolution of the nuclear standoff should not come at the expense of attention to the human rights crisis in Iran.” They then provide a shocking chronicle of the extent to which Ahmadinejad—who began his pre-UN interview with Larry King...
...gossip, and jealousy that characterized the inner workings of Williams’s world. Yet these interviews of elderly, solitary, forgetful “new-agers”—juxtaposed with the ephemeral, joyous images of them from Williams’s lovely original films—remind the audience that the Factory was very human, if only because it shows that idols also age. “I wanted to show the inconsistency of the whole narrative of the time and to show people as people,” Robinson says, “not as icons...
...whatever new programs or tax cuts he is trying to pass. "Nothing will pass without a majority of Blue Dogs voting for it, that's true on this vote," Stenholm says. And if they do help pass this bill, the Blue Dogs will be sure to remind Nancy Pelosi of it next year...