Boycott the Olympics

The International Olympic Committee made a bad choice by awarding Beijing the summer games in 2008. In the past year and half the chinese government has not opened up in fact its become more of an autocracy than ever. We need to boycott the games and stage a protest that works. We should not be apartying ourselves to evil.
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Completing Butcher

My historical novel of the 1860's entitled "Butcher" is scheduled to be completed this month. It is the story of General Ulysses S. Grant. He was without a doubt the Greatest General of the Civil war as well as a monumental figure of the Gilded Age. This novel is dedicated to his achievements as a major military commander.
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Tim Duncan is a hall of famer

Tim Duncan should be seen as a unanimous first ballot hall of famer. After all he has won more championships than Larry Bird and Bird is considered to be a hall of fame player. To tell you have the NBA's hall of fame selection is not that great four players who never won a title Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley, John Stockton and Karl Malone are all considered to be hall of fame eligible none of them have a ring. Duncan's got more championships under his belt than the lot of them combined. Who's better the one with four or the one with none. You Decide.
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Goodbye Solsynitsan

Late yesterday Famed Russian Novelist Alexander Solsynitsan died at the age of 89. He was born 1919 in the town of Rostov on the Don. Solsynitsan was best known for the trilogy of 1960's novels called the Gulag Archipelago. Basically it was the Prison Island. They were notorious Soviet labor camps. Gulag is Russian for prison. Solsynitsan won the nobel prize in literature for standing up to the Soviet union's belittling of the individual. He was a man of great moral conviction and will be sorely missed.
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the democrats have failed

In 2007 the democratic party came back into power in Washington after a decade in the wilderness. The democrats made several promises to restore honesty and integrety to Washington. They have failed on both counts. A lot of back room deal making, pandering to special interest groups and in some cases out right impropriety has marked the democratic tenure in the senate and house. By no measure of the term accountability have they succeed. The democrats as far as I am concerned have no business claiming the moral high ground. After all what drove them from power in the early nineties was a major corruption scandal. Democrats don't make false claims that you are more moral than us republicans. We also have to remember that satisfaction in congress's job ranks at all time.
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Sweet Deals

What is up with politicians and sweet deals? Senator Barack Obama got a good deal on his house that was purchased through Tony Rescgo. Chris Dodd the junior Senator from Conneticut got a lone deal from Country Wide Financial Corporation at a better rate than was available to the General Public. Another politician who benefited from a sweet deal was Kent Conrad senator from South Dakota and head of the senate budget committee. Really it seems as if politicians like to have perks that are unavailable to the rest of us.

What is Up With Philandering Politicians?

This year has seen a rash of cheating politicians. From New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, cheating is rampant. It seems like there is no end to philandering politicians. Is it to hard to ask that politicians to stay loyal to their spouses. Or are we in for more?
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