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It's almost the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York — and he hasn't even been convicted of a crime.
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Michael Jackson died last Thursday, and on Friday the House of Representatives voted on the cap and trade bill. How did my congressman vote? He had not made up his mind on Thursday or Friday. But I thought since President Obama had said under his plan of cap and trade, electricity bills would necessarily skyrocket and since we were told at the co-op meeting our bills would go up $250 per month on average, it's a no brainer: He will vote “no.”
Sanford damaged integrity of office
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I spent last week in the Appalachian Mountains on my church's annual mission work trip. Though I can't take much credit, our group helped a lot of people who needed help, and we were blessed ourselves by the experience. But even in my second year, I still found it a bit disorienting to try to be productive for an entire week at tasks on which I have no expertise. If there's anything I know less about than putting a new roof on a house (or doing any sort of home repair, for that matter), it's chaperoning a bunch of teen-agers.
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Look on the bright side, South Carolina. Our governor wasn't locked out of the executive mansion by the first lady, as Rudy Guiliani was while he was mayor of New York.
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Congratulations upon your first Father's Day.
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I had an Aesop's Fable moment last week.
Dragging a garden house toward a patch of wax myrtles I planted earlier this spring, I rounded a corner of the house and found myself looking at a small cottontail rabbit, less than 60 feet distant.
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Watch out for those women from Argentina.
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President Barack Obama is the best friend gun dealers have had in a long time.
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A bipartisan bill to lift travel restrictions to Cuba was introduced this month, and if it passes, President Obama is likely to sign it. Maybe I'll finally get to visit the island my old friend Danny Valdes used to reminisce about.
