First, let me say that what happened to Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby is a true tragedy; a great horse having to be put down like that is just awful.
But the comparisons are really spooky. Eight Bells, the filly that Hillary picked to win, runs an excellent race, but finshes second to Big Brown(??), [...]
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The Iron Man movie’s underlying story is political–mainly about the Afghanistan operations and character Tony Stark’s company’s involvement in selling arms to both sides of the conflict. Americans and terrorists are both shooting each other with Stark Enterprise weapons.
Iron Man becomes a movie about some sort of moral sense to Tony Stark that his [...]
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The New York Times is running a piece on Republicans that are voting in the Democrat primary. The story mostly talks about those who are crossing over to vote for Barack Obama, but there is mention of possibly the most interesting “covert operation” of any national election held in the United States: Operation Chaos.
Rush Limbaugh’s [...]
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The death penalty is back. The Supreme Court ended a seven-month moratorium on lethal injections and at least 14 executions dates have been set in six states.
And the state of Texas executes the most number of individuals.
More inmates whose appeals have expired are certain to be added to execution rosters soon, including, in all likelihood, [...]
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