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WHY I COULD NEVER VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP By Don C. Reed Although raised in a Republican household, I could never vote for Donald Trump. This is for a variety of reasons, but today I want to touch on only one: I consider Trump an habitual liar, who will...
by diverdonreed
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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THE GHOST OF RONALD REAGAN MR. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. So said former President Ronald Reagan in a speech in West Berlin on June 12, 1987. In late November1989 the Berlin Wall did indeed come down. No more communist East Germany and Democratic...
by Jeff Morris
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 01:12 PM PST
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Over 350,000 people had starved to death in Somalia. Then, “In 1992, President George Bush desired to strengthen the UN peacekeeping capability. President Bush and his administration looked to the UN as a tool to assist the U.S., ‘shape a world...
by JohnBAlexander
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 10:24 PM PST
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First, let’s review some basic rules regarding honesty and fairness. Under the law (with which I think most people agree), a law officer may not “plant” evidence to try to win a “guilty” verdict, nor knowingly lie about any evidence that was obtained...
by EvanJellicoe
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 08:53 AM PST
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David French is not my favorite NYT opinion writer. Still, this morning’s column, ‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and Our Broken Christian Politics definitely caught my eye. French admits that not only is he a conservative Christian who looks to the Bible for...
by Dan K
164 comments
on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 08:29 AM PST
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14-year-old Connor Halsa of Moorhead, Minnesota was fishing with his family on Lake of the Woods, a massive lake straddling both sides of the US/ Canadian border. “We were doing a walleye drift, so we stopped the boat, put some spinners on, and just...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 03:22 PM PDT
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I was reading a truly excellent diary and I felt like I wanted to add onto that: . Lindsey Graham knows that what he has been saying is false. When he started making false allegations and Hunter and Joe Biden and President Biden said something to him...
by Dem
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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In Amarillo, Lonely, Bullied Boy Rang Doorbell Of Strangers Asking For Friendship. He Got Much More. On July 3rd, 11-year-old Shayden Walker of Amarillo, Texas decided to take a chance. Loneliness compelled him. He walked down the street to knock on the door of Brennan Ray and Angell Hammersmith . Shayden remembered when the couple came over to his...
by Tevye
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on Sun Jul 23, 2023 at 03:53 PM PDT
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www.bing.com/… Look between around 31.26 to 35.00 minutes. Hope you saw it in real time but if you didn’t it is extra pertinent today. It was a great moment for Biden in the State of the Union address when he got a standing ovation from both parties...
by Shower
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on Wed May 10, 2023 at 01:08 PM PDT
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This is just truth as I see it. I greatly respect Marcos and he deserves and has earned it. Marcos and Daily Kos have done a lot of good in the world. . Marcos led Daily Kos to become the leading political website for democrats and progressives Nearly...
by Dem
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on Sat Mar 04, 2023 at 03:05 AM PST
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Talk about the penny taking time to drop. Back when Earth was cooling, during Jimmy Carter’s rise to the top of the Democratic Party, for two semesters I took linguistics. Either in the textbook (Ronald Langacker’s Language and its Structure) or of my...
by Inspector Clueso
4 comments
on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 02:55 PM PST
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Jimmy Carter. A man ahead of his time. He had something most politicians lack: INTEGRITY
by Donnyboy4
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on Mon Feb 20, 2023 at 12:42 PM PST
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Jimmy Carter. Aman ahead of his time. He had something most politicians lack: INTEGRITY
by Donnyboy4
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on Mon Feb 20, 2023 at 12:24 PM PST
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No, not that one—DeSantis. If you can manage getting your head out of his law-abiding tuchas for just a bit, and come up for a little fresh gasp of reality… You might notice that your favorite Covid managing, honest Governorship hasn't reported a...
by oldupperwestsideLIBERALjew
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on Mon Nov 28, 2022 at 07:32 PM PST
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On The Fence is a continuing story. Imagine if you were somehow plucked out of your life in 2012 and dropped into all the craziness of the present day you would be totally disoriented. By the same token if you begin reading this ongoing story on page...
by Partofthesolution
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on Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 07:07 AM PDT
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The combination of ignorance and apathy is likely to bring down American democracy. While many people complain about political leadership in the U.S., it must be remembered that those officials were put in those positions through election processes....
by JohnBAlexander
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on Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 10:50 PM PDT
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Behold my third “diary” entry for Daily Kos. The first was very well received. 240+ recommendations. Made the front page. Oooo. BMOC. The second, not so much. 4 recommendations. But it’s a new venue to explore. Can’t deny that my inner attention whore...
by rougy77
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on Wed Sep 01, 2021 at 02:26 PM PDT
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The tale of Pinocchio contains Biblical allusions to the books of Luke (the Prodigal Son) and Jonah (swallowed by a large fish). In Pinocchio and both of the Bible stories, we see (1) a young man who makes a conscious decision to disobey his father’s...
by rmartin1241
12 comments
on Tue Mar 30, 2021 at 08:28 PM PDT
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As some of you might know, I am currently living in a nursing home. I think, as a side note, that the nurses and nursing assistants at these places do not get paid enough, But that is a point for another diary, As these people take care of me, and can...
by CameronProf
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on Thu Feb 04, 2021 at 10:37 AM PST
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George Orwell described things in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four with some frightful insights into the world that would exist 37 years after his imaginings. 1984 was written by English novelist George...
by rflctammt
15 comments
on Thu Jan 28, 2021 at 02:00 PM PST
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