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The Dream Team

The Dream Team

This is my dream team! If you want this logo for your own site, go ahead.

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NPR: Obama Will Lose

NPR: Obama Will Lose

NPR has put up a map (NPR: 2008 Election Map Obama vs McCain) that is not only National data but includes local affiliate data, and Obama will lose. So, why is the DNC not supporting Clinton? I first heard about the maps on Bryant Park Project (BPP) which is a new format that I really enjoy. When the BPP hosts were talking about the maps I was in a little disbelief. Here is NPR telling me that if Obama is the DNC nomination then McCain will be president. Listen to NPR with my Sirius Radio I couldn’t wait to...

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Bush Daughter Just As Stupid

On the taping of the Ellen DeGeneres show, the recently married Jenna Hager (Bush) told Ellen that she could use her parent’s ranch for her same-sex wedding to longtime partner Portia de Rossi, People reports. Hager’s statement came with her mother, Laura Bush, by her side (with both promoting the importance of reading among young children), and is somewhat controversial because of the President Bush and his party’s stance on gay marriage. “So the ranch was a great place to get married,” DeGeneres says. “It looked like nobody could fly over and get pictures or bother you, really.” “Yeah,”...

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Why You Should Vote for Clinton

Why You Should Vote for Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if his wife Hillary Clinton is not the partyâ’s presidential nominee, and suggested some people were trying to â’cover this upâ’ and â’push and pressure and bullyâ’ superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely. “I canâ’t believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out,â’ he said at a South Dakota campaign stop Sunday, in remarks first reported by ABC News. â”Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her....

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First Woman Vice President :: Following History

First Woman Vice President :: Following History

April 1848 New York State passed the New York Married Woman’s Property Rights Act. Before married women’s property acts were passed, upon marriage a woman lost any right to control property that was hers prior to the marriage or have the rights to acquire any property during marriage. A married woman could not make contracts, keep or control her own wages or any rents, transfer property, sell property or bring any lawsuit. An act for the more effectual protection of the property of married women: §1. The real property of any female who may hereafter marry, and which she...

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