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Now that the 2012 election season is fully upon us, the field of national candidates who will run against President Obama has been winnowed down to a handful of contestants. Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul are all still fully involved in the primary process, and continue to debate and visit states where primary elections are yet to be held, including Indiana. As the Republican Primary contest...

The following speech, I Have A Dream, was delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. It is one of the greatest speeches ever given. It is worth reading again. --- Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great...

Mubarack leaves Cairo. Is democracy coming to Egypt?

What do you give him & why?

"Um goin ta Hatey!" First the quake, now the fake.

A haiku, sort of, for you: Bill Clinton, what did his BJ heard round the whirled, give us: not Gore, but Bush, & war; economic meltdown, distress, all because of that goddam blue dress.

Please read and forward to everyone, especially the president and your state repsDear Mr. President Re: illegal immigration Do you not care about the victims? What laws are you passing to assist the victims and what are you doing to prosecute the criminals? What am I talking about? IDENTITY THEFT! In Texas the number one reason someone’s identity is stolen and used is for employment, the...

Why did the American government decline to accept Dutch expertise? They changed their minds later on! The BP disaster after the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was reason for the Dutch government to offer help, three days after the disaster took place. The Netherlands has ships with oil-skimming booms, they did a proposal for a plan to build sand barriers to...

When you grow older you get more time to participate in politics and make some difference. My husband Toussaint is active in politics, I am getting more interested as well. Wednesday 9 June the elections took place here, to get a new parliament and government. The outcome was a sort of political nightmare. Not here, where I live, the labour party wan, but in Limburg, in the deep South,...

Hi Folks, I'm writing this from the Senior Center in Orlando. For those who have wondered where I've been. I'm living at a Homeless Shelter at 68 years old. Needless to say, things have gotten bad for me. Neck operation costs much more than I thought it would, and I'm in debt up to my ears. Thank God I have a roof and food, but boy, do I have things to say about Homeless living in Florida. It's an...