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In 1971, Mike Gravel staged a five month long filibuste

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

In 1971, Mike Gravel staged a five month long filibuster in order to force the Nixon administration to end the draft, and was successful.

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Either ignorance, callousness or both infected Mitt Rom

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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Either ignorance, callousness or both infected Mitt Romney’s pejorative characterizations of the “government dependent” 47 percent with victim mentalities who believe that they are entitled to the government providing them the necessities of life without paying income tax. Let’s see who these people are in these recessionary times. Unemployed Americans. Americans who are too ...

The lesson is clear. More police, more jails, more toug

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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The lesson is clear. More police, more jails, more tough talk will not help. None of these traditionally instinctive reactions to crime can stem the rising tide. So long as injustice and inequity in larger society exist on the gross scale that they do today, all the reasoning and rhetoric and police clubs in the world will not stop the have-nots from going after the goods they seek through the only ...

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I’m ashamed, as an American, to be building a fence on

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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I’m ashamed, as an American, to be building a fence on our southern border. That’s not the America that I fought for.

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This whole nation should be a sanctuary for the world a

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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This whole nation should be a sanctuary for the world and bring the people in. What’s going on? We’re scapegoating the Latinos of our society because we as a society are failing in education, we’re failing in health care, we’re failing in our crumbling infrastructure, and we’re failing by invading countries and spending our treasure. That’s what’s wrong.

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We can get off of carbon in 10 years

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We can get off of carbon in 10 years.

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We can get off of gasoline in five years; all we got to

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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We can get off of gasoline in five years; all we got to do is want to do it.

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I stuck the credit card companies with $90,000 worth of

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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I stuck the credit card companies with $90,000 worth of bills. And they deserved it, because I used the money to finance the empowerment of the American people with the National Initiative, so you can make the laws.

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I left the Senate no better than when I went in

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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I left the Senate no better than when I went in.

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If you want to make a judgment of who can be the greedi

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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If you want to make a judgment of who can be the greediest people in the world when they get to public office, you could just look up at the people up here. Many of them done very, very well in public office.

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William was state director of Louisiana for United Stat

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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William was state director of Louisiana for United States Senator, Mike Gravel's 2008 presidential campaign.

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first ti

Posted 8 months ago by Terry_K

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It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, "My God, how did I ever get here?" Then, about six months later, you say, "How the hell did the rest of them get here?

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The United States government spent $4 million looking f

Posted 10 months ago by Kiwigirl15

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The United States government spent $4 million looking for Earhart, which made it the most costly and intensive air and sea search in history at that time.

A House Built of Me’s Rather than We’s Cannot Stand

Posted 10 months ago by bsteve2

Dateline: September 8, 2011

In anticipation of this evening’s Job Speech by President Obama, it is as true today as it was on June 16, 1858 when Abraham Lincoln stood in front of 1,000 Republican delegates at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois and proclaimed these words: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

The one thing we, all ...

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I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom

Posted 2 years ago by TrickORTreat

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I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

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Presidents of the United States

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Posted 5 years ago by Areolasmith

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by influence and recognition.

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