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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Homosexuality and the Bible...Dr. Laura, we need some answers here...

Robert Schumacher 8.11.09 9:28 AM | Heh...I'd love to see some of the answers to these questions...the open letter is a riot!Dr. Laura...we're waiting.Here's the text of the "open letter"...I'm not holding my breath on a...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Wow...conservative argument against British-style health care gets their example increcibly,...

Robert Schumacher 8.10.09 9:50 PM | But my favorite part of the editorial deals with the British health-care system, which if you believe IBD is basically condemning the old and disabled to die.“People such as scientist Stephen...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Frist Rejoins All-White Country Club

Robert Schumacher 8.10.09 8:05 AM | "Frist has applied to rejoin the Belle Meade Country Club... Frist joined the club in the 1980s but resigned his membership in 1993 when he first ran for the U.S. Senate. At the time the club was...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

A fact-check on the President's health care reform proposal

Robert Schumacher 8.10.09 7:55 AM | Debunking the rationing and forced euthanasia myths, and more...some truth in an arena flooded by conservative lies.Kavita Patel, who works with Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and who worked for...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

What is single payer health care (by the way this is NOT Obama's plan, but this is an...

Robert Schumacher 8.9.09 8:31 PM | Every resident of the US will be covered from birth to death.No more pre-existing conditions to be excluded from coverage.No more expensive deductibles or co-pays.All prescription medications will...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Sarah Palin proves once again how stupid she really is

Robert Schumacher 8.8.09 12:45 PM | "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

More examples of "classy" GOP behavior at town hall meetings

Robert Schumacher 8.8.09 8:58 AM | Rick Scott, who leads Conservatives for Patients' Rights, a group that has helped publicize the local meetings, said: "The polls reveal the real picture of what is happening across the country --...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Bush invaded Iraq...wait for it...because he though it was the Biblical last days

Robert Schumacher 8.7.09 11:26 PM | Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Honest. This...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Angry UNINFORMED Americans disrupt town-hall healthcare talks

Robert Schumacher 8.7.09 8:31 PM | A chorus of people in the audience heckled, shouted down and interrupted Inglis, a Republican, even as he tried to explain why he opposed the plans put forward by Obama, a Democrat who became...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Quitting early seems to be the new GOP thing to do...

Robert Schumacher 8.7.09 5:05 PM | Martinez said he is resigning "of my own free will. There is no impending reason; it's only my desire to move on and to get on with the rest of my life."He added that he is in good health and that...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Republicans flat-out lying on the healthcare debate

Robert Schumacher 8.7.09 12:24 PM | The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) resigning

Robert Schumacher 8.7.09 10:39 AM | Another GOP senator going away. Can't say I'm upset. This is the guy who, along with Rick Santorum and Bill Frist, took it upon themselves to pass a one-person law (for Terry Schiavo). No quorum,...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

U.S. jobless claims fall sharply

Robert Schumacher 8.7.09 9:46 AM | The number of U.S. workers submitting new claims for jobless benefits fell sharply last week, fanning hopes the fragile labor market was on the mend and that the broader economy was...
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Robert Schumacher

Murdoch vows to charge for all online content

Robert Schumacher 8.6.09 11:31 PM | Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all the online content of his newspapers and television news channels, going well beyond his prediction in May that the company would test pay models on one...
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Robert Schumacher

Congratulations Justice Sotomayor

Robert Schumacher 8.6.09 7:10 PM | On a 68-31 vote (with 9 GOP Senators joining all Democrats), Judge Sonia Sotomayor became Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice on the United States Supreme Court.Congratulations,...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Five people who are out of luck, and the argument against them I endured at work...

Robert Schumacher 8.6.09 10:38 AM | I recently overheard a conversation on healthcare between some coworkers at lunch. One is very, very conservative and has not studied the issue at all aside from the Republican talking points he's...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Oh, there was nothing wrong with Blackwater...remember? Nothing at all...

Robert Schumacher 8.4.09 9:23 PM | A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal...
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Robert Schumacher

Good job, Bill Clinton!

Robert Schumacher 8.4.09 4:07 PM | Eight years post-Presidency and 'ol Bill can still get things moving.North Korean President Kim Jong Il has pardoned and ordered the release of two U.S. journalists, state-run news agency KCNA said...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

The Kenyan birth certificate...certified FAKE

Robert Schumacher 8.4.09 9:03 AM | So here it is: the “certified copy of registration of birth” that Orly Taitz obtained and is submitting as evidence in her lawsuit on behalf of Alan Keyes. The most obvious problems: - It records...
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Robert Schumacher
Robert Schumacher

Make your own fake Kenyan birth certificate!

Robert Schumacher 8.4.09 8:45 AM | Orly Taitz has produced a (supposed) Kenyan birth certificate for the President. Again, actually (the first one was a fake, I would be really surprised if this one is any more genuine).So since we...
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