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American Legion Backs Webb GI Bill: This Bill Would Encourage Young People To Join The Military
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2008/ 05/ 12/ american-legion-webb/-
Hagee Promises ‘Greater Compassion And Respect’ For Catholics; Will He Do The Same For Gay Community?
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ hagee-letter-catholics/Since February, when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accepted the long-sought endorsement of controversial Pastor John Hagee, the two have come under criticism for Hagee’s past descriptions of Catholicism as “‘The Great Whore,’ an ‘apostate church,’ the ‘anti-Christ,’ and a ‘false cult system.’” On multiple
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Want To Lose Your Social Security Savings? Vote McCain
http://www.allthingsdemocrat.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ want-to-lose-your-social-securit…Yes, sir. John McCain was a big proponent of Bush’s plan to kill Social Security and steal your savings, which he tried to sell as a bonus at the same time his packed courts keep ruling against retirees who suddenly find themselves without any of their promised benefits package.
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WHAT THEY SAID…
http://havecoffeewillwrite.com/ ?p=7561WHAT THEY SAID… 1147 by Jeff Hess A Daily Dish reader wrote: Not only is it 25 miles round trip just for me to go to the grocery store, hardware store–any store–but I drive for a living, 150,000 miles a year. With the economy in the dumps, freight has tanked.
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WE ARE CLASSIST… NOT RACIST…
http://havecoffeewillwrite.com/ ?p=7560WE ARE CLASSIST… NOT RACIST… 1118 by Jeff Hess I have long argued that the America I live in is a classist society, not a racist one. The fact that a disproportionate number or our lower class is made up of minorities, predominantly African American, masks this reality. Richard D.
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Sampoong Department Store Injustice
http://hotashi.com/ ams/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ sampoong-department-store-injustice…Sampoong Department Store Injustice Posted by Ams in Social (In)Justice 05 13th, 2008 This morning I thought about a documentary that I had seen a few years ago on the Sampoong Department Store collapse in South Korea and I decided to look it up.
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Less Than Fix
http://www.dashhouse.com/ darryl/ 2008/ 05/ less_than_fix.htmAn article I wrote for Compassion Today Magazine: I guess it's a little late to admit you don't want to visit a Compassion project when you're already there. In a way, I wanted to see the project. I'd seen how visiting a project had changed my friend Tim.
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labour just don’t get it, cameron is serious about social justice
http://tygerland.net/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ labour-just-dont-get-it-cameron-is-serious-a…labour just don’t get it, cameron is serious about social justice Liam Murray has an excellent post on how Labour - and the left in general - just don’t ‘get’ the reality that David Cameron’s new “compassionate conservatism” is real, rooted in history, and ideologically sound.
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Joint declaration by Christian Leaders on Israel’s 60th Anniversary
http://saintgazstrikesback.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ joint-declaration-by-christia…Thisdeclaration on the relationship between Israel and Palestine is a well balanced item. It's only words and making it happen is much harder but it's good to see a more objective outlook on the Middle Eastern situation.
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Distorted petrol price perspectives
http://allsaidanddone.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ golly/“Prayer is the answer to every problem in life. We call on God to intervene in the lives of the selfish, greedy people who are keeping these prices high,” Twyman said on the forecourt of the petrol station in a neighbourhood of Washington that, like many of its residents, has seen better days.
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Rejecting the Racist vote
http://bendaniel.org/ ?p=161This column also was published on UPI’s Religion and Spirituality Page on May 12, 2008 OK, so the Democratic primary season is just about over, and this may be a moot point, but as Hillary Clinton wages her final efforts to convince Democrats that she should be the nominee in November, I’ve become