Mall Shooting Leaves Holiday Shoppers Unsettled - A shooting at the crowded Westfield Mall in Wheaton sends one person to the hospital. [KRich] |
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 of this order. Sec. 2. The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 26, 2008, for reasons of national security or defense or other public need. Sec. 3. Friday, December 26, 2008, shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States. read more » |
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It seems like for the past few years the elections just keep getting closer and closer. The media gets wooed one way or the other with words like "change" and "flip-flop". Pundits and candidates warp the phrases and words and use them any, and every way they can. By the time election day comes around voters are sick of hearing the same rhetoric, that we're really not sure what the hell it means anyway. Both sides beat their drums and hope that if theirs is slightly louder it will stick out a little more in our minds. read more » |
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A cartogram for the 2008 Presidential Election based on predictions by fivethirtyeight.com for 10/23/08 |
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I do talk radio and most talk radio is conservative-dominated ideologues; Kool-Aid drinking idiots. Idiots. Screaming at you that this is socialism, this is this, this is that. ‘It’s Clinton’s fault.’ It’s Clinton’s fault? He hasn’t been in office in 8 years. It’s Bush’s fault! It happened under Bush’s watch. |
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. |
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