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...assessments would apply only to the wealthy and to corporations. He also tried to erase doubts among the crowd at a Democratic meeting last weekend saying, "No matter how many punches they throw, I?m still standing." And he?s on the attack this week with a plan to rid the state capital of special interest influence, claiming Schwarzenegger hasn?t honored his three-year-old campaign promise to do it. The Governor?s staff, in response, accused Angelides of accepting contributions from companies seeking business from the state employees? retirement fund, of which he is a trustee...
...amass it. I spend it. Money isn't any good unless you get rid...
...Congressman who is running to replace retiring Bill Frist as Senator from Tennessee has voted to outlaw gay marriage and to repeal the estate tax, and wants to amend the Constitution to ban flag burning. He supports getting rid of the handgun ban in the nation's capital and says the Ten Commandments should be posted in courtrooms around his state. He favors school prayer, argues that more troops should have been sent to Iraq and wants to seal the border with Mexico. He likes to tell a story about the time he campaigned at a bar called the Little...
...always very original, and it came from the people. Socialism did not come from the higher-ups: the people struggled, and they deposed the Batista government. There was a liberation. True. But it was a relative liberation: we got free from Batista, but we could not get rid...
...stand in awe of science, its discoveries, its modern-day miracles that we use every day, that we couldn’t imagine living without. How many of us truly know the physics behind the computers we type at daily, or the biology of Tylenol, which we trust to rid us of the slightest headache? We do not understand the fruits of science, but we have no choice but to rely on the objects of our naïveté. The public fears what it cannot control, for it cannot control what it cannot comprehend: science. And it worries that...