Why Do 19% of Liberals + 44% of Moderates Hate Themselves?

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Friday July 14, 2006 · 8:59 AM PDT

2006/07/14 · 08:59

The following story was printed today. http://news.yahoo.com/...

The AP-Ipsos survey asked 789 registered voters if the election for the House were held today, would they vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate in their district. Democrats were favored 51 percent to 40 percent.

Not surprisingly, 81 percent of self-described liberals said they would vote for the Democrat. Among moderates, though, 56 percent backed a Democrat in their district and almost a quarter of conservatives -- 24 percent -- said they will vote Democratic.
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Sometimes Many Of You Democrats Are Wimps

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Thursday July 13, 2006 · 3:45 PM PDT

2006/07/13 · 15:45

At times, I feel it might be better to have a conservative army in front of me then a Democratic army behind me.

Although some of my views are to the "right" of the Democratic party (pro death penalty in certain circumstances, supporting civil unions, a moderated version of affirmative action, etc..) and I would qualify as moderate or even "Republican" to some, I am often labeled as being "from the left" even by those who claim to be "moderate Democrats" despite the irony that they are actually further to the left than me on many issues. Read More

Joe Lieberman is a Cut + Run, Terrorist Helping Buffoon

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Wednesday July 12, 2006 · 9:30 AM PDT

2006/07/12 · 09:30

On Sept 11, 2001 Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda attacked America. Notwithstanding the negligence of the Bush administration and their PNAC objectives, virtually all of America (and the world) was united against Osama Bin Laden and his organization of terrorists.

99.8% of those "anti war" Democrats in Congress supported an immediate invasion of Afghanistan to rid the world of the terrorists (Bin Laden) and his harborers (The Taliban). Read More

Non Religious Doesn't Mean "Hostile Towards Faith."

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Tuesday July 11, 2006 · 11:29 AM PDT

2006/07/11 · 11:29

Although i grew up in a home with religion, somewhere along the way I concluded that all bibles were fiction, all characters passed off as deities fictitious or exaggerated, and recognized that God may or may not exist.

Being non religious doesn't make me spiritually or morally void. I would assert, perhaps arrogantly but primarily by default, that my pinkie is on an astronomically higher moral and spiritual plateau than Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, and George W Bush combined.

My belief system is primarily rooted in logic and reason (From the word reasonable). It's about listening to a wide variety of opinions, gathering factual information, observing life around me, analyzing and synthesizing this information, and reaching the best possible solution or course of action based on the best information available. Read More

What if Those Italian Flags Were Mexican?

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Monday July 10, 2006 · 10:09 AM PDT

2006/07/10 · 10:09

Congratulations to Italy and all of her supporters on defeating France and winning the World Cup. As I ventured onto the streets yesterday, people were driving by with Italian flags. All across America, people took to the streets waving the Italian flag, holding up signs in Italian, and celebrating a soccer victory.

To me, this is America. Our flag symbolizes not only the liberal values enunciated in our Constitution and Bill of Rights but our flag encompasses the melting pot cultures of the planet.

To my knowledge, not one single person has complained that people should "go back to where they came from" or "go speak English" or "This is America, wave our flag only." Nor should they. People have a right to be proud of their heritage. There should be no complaints.
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The New York Times has a Conservative Bias

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Sunday July 09, 2006 · 3:32 AM PDT

2006/07/09 · 03:32

The New York Times is a biased, conservative rag. Whether it's Clinton tabloid coverage, lies about Iraq, or fake reviewers with ties to the Bush administration trashing books critical of Bush, the New York Times routinely spews conservative propaganda.

Sure a reader can usually find two paragraphs on the editorial page and a columnist or two who write articles that could be labeled as liberal or moderate. However, the rest of the New York Times sections on news-related, political issues might as well be written by Karl Rove or Ken Mehlman. News outlets like Buzzflash, the Village Voice, Oped News, are fairly liberal. The New York Times is not. Read More

All Churches Should Be Taxed

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Saturday July 08, 2006 · 11:52 AM PDT

2006/07/08 · 11:52

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It is as simple as that.

By providing tax free status to churches, synagogues, mosques, etc... America is indeed respecting the establishment of religion.

Psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, all preach to patients in some form. Yet these individuals have to pay taxes on property and services if they open up a small business. So too should every church. Read More

I'm Tired of the "Anti War" Smear

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Friday July 07, 2006 · 8:55 AM PDT

2006/07/07 · 08:55

I generally support the use of military force in the following circumstances.
1) To defend your homeland from attackers and to pursue those who kill your civilians; or
2) To stop mass genocide or ethic cleansing, or
3) To prevent the proliferation of certain weapons of mass destruction.
4) To defend allies when they've been wrongly attacked by an outside government. Read More

Republican Conservatives Are Perpetual failures on national security issues

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Thursday July 06, 2006 · 12:15 PM PDT

2006/07/06 · 12:15

The story of conservative failure in America dates back to the 1770s when they sided with the British and to the 1860s when they supported slavery but for expedience purposes we will pick up the narrative in the 20th Century.

After Democrats won World War I, three corrupt conservative Presidents (KKK Harding, KKK Coolidge, and Hitler lover Hoover) managed to destroy our economy and our military. Throughout the 1930s, prominent conservatives like Prescott Bush and Henry Ford funded Adolf Hitler while liberals were aghast. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, it was FDR and Democrats who won World War Two. Read More

It's Your Integrity Joe Lieberman Not Iraq

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 9:40 AM PDT

2006/07/05 · 09:40

Time is up Joe Lieberman, you phony immoral scoundrel who cares only about JOe Lieberman and not the people of Connecticut. YOur time is up not because of your position on Iraq but because you have no integrity.
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Declaration of Independence Word For Word

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 11:39 AM PDT

2006/07/04 · 11:39

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's further to the left than the Democratic Party.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Read More

How to Label The Political Spectrum.

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Monday July 03, 2006 · 6:45 AM PDT

2006/07/03 · 06:45

Part of the success of right wingers and conservatives in getting 51% of the vote despite collectively being only 20% of all Americans is rooted in their ability to shrink the political spectrum in the minds of voters. (With help from the press they own). They have effectively misdefined moderate and the center as a position to the right of Nelson Rockefeller and to the left of the KKK. Of course those two positions are conservative and very conservative. But if moderate simply means finding a person on either side of an individual then Karl Marx is a left winger, Paul Wellstone is a centrist, and Ted Kennedy is a right wing conservative. Read More

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