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Election season useful as a time for learning

postcrescent.com     Jun 29, 2008          

Children's critical thinking can be developed By J.E. Espino • Post-Crescent staff writer • June 29, 2008 APPLETON — Ever since the presidential contest kicked off, rides in Marty Schrampfer's car are filled with the energy of...                    

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Joseph A. Palermo: "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

huffingtonpost.com     Jun 27, 2008   134 related          

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the greatest, most progressive president of the 20th Century. He also tried to stack the Supreme Court and imprisoned 112,000 Japanese-Americans without due process. John F. Kennedy is often lauded...                    

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Southern Discomfort

forbes.com     Jun 26, 2008   3,732 related          

Interview with Thomas F. Schaller, author of Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South ($15, Simon & Schuster, $15, 2008). Yet in his book, Whistling Past Dixie, Thomas F. Schaller argues that Democrats have...                    

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timesonline.co.uk: Stewart Mott timesonline.co.uk

Stewart Mott: eccentric liberal philanthropist

timesonline.co.uk     Jun 24, 2008          

It is a measure of how far campaign funding in the United States has grown over the past 25 years that in 1968 a gift of $210,000 from the philanthropist Stewart Mott was enough to cause Lyndon Johnson to abandon thoughts of a...                    

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McCarthy Forty Years Ago

alterwords.wordpress.com     Jun 24, 2008   1 related          

Banner of Eugene McCarthy rises above the people Democratic Convention, 1968 After McCarthy won 42 percent of the vote in the Demoratic primary, the contest changed. On March 31, 1968, President Johnson announced that he would...                    

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When Florida Counted: 1972

tbo.com     Jun 22, 2008          

Presidential candidates took turns lambasting an unpopular war, a flagging economy and a controversial president. In Washington, a sitting Republican president urged the faithful to circle the wagons; in Florida, partisans...                    

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Brainwashing Agitates Victims Into Submission

abusesanctuary.blogspot.com     Jun 22, 2008          

(Abusers use similar methods with their targets & victims!! Read on:)Was Elizabeth Smart -- the Utah teenager snatched from her bedroom last June, then remarkably rescued -- brainwashed into staying with her captors?Her father,...                    

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Richardson, Webb Lead Readers' Obama VP Picks

reverbiage.com     Jun 18, 2008   3,252 related          

The end of the long battle for the Democratic presidential nomination hasn't cooled political passions. Readers of "Political Junkie" feel strongly about whom they want to see as Barack Obama's running mate. Bill Richardson,...                    

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Escape from 'Nixonland'

nysun.com     Jun 19, 2008   2 related          

There has been a good deal of comment on "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein, a pastiche of journalistic highlights of the tumultuous years between Lyndon Johnson's immense landslide over Barry Goldwater in 1964, and Richard Nixon's...                    

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A Liberal Freedom Fighter

opinionjournal.com     Jun 18, 2008          

Some people walk to the beat of their own brass band, and so it was for Stewart Mott, the eccentric liberal philanthropist and General Motors heir who died last week at 70 years old. Beloved by Democrats for his decades of...                    

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