The Political Inquirer

To take a subject from a discussion I was reading, I want to bring up the Pledge of Allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.“
The pledge I recited my whole life [...]

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Food riots in Haiti have caused the ouster of the sitting Prime Minister there, and if Somalia had a functioning government it, too, would be be in collapse. We are told it is the price of oil, the diversion of corn supplies from the food-chain into ethanol production, and restrictions on exports that are [...]

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Barack Obama advances much closer to the Democratic nomination for President as he roundly defeats Hillary Clinton in North Carolina and wins a morale victory in Indiana. But Obama didn’t just defeat Hillary Clinton, but he also defeated Rush Limbaugh and his merry band of followers such as Ann Coulter and the cast of Fox [...]

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I just finished reading the 69-page document from the Human Rights Watch titled “Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement in the United States.”  Unless you are a sucker for punishment or doing a research paper, which I am, this is one of those lengthy essays a condensed version would probably give you all the information you wanted to know.  In a [...]

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After the descriptions of ‘the real struggles of the Average American’ and the not-so-average American, it’s time to end the trilogy by bringing into consideration on ‘non-American averages’ 
Here are three real stories of pretty average non-Americans, though unusual in that they start out somewhat below-average and move to somewhat above average.  Through them, hopefully one will learn [...]

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This posting is to present the counter point to Reading’s well-presented posting in opposition to the death penalty.  Once again, I contend that the way the world actually is conflicts heavily with the way we wish the world was.
no person has any right to take any life 
Excuse me; I do have the right to take [...]

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A reader (Norm) posed the question to us at the Political Inquirer, “What if Obama gets elected? What will the impact of the country be?” It will be hard to say for certain, none of us on the staff are prophets (though some might claim to be).
I think the first thing that we will see [...]

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Journalism is biased, and always has been. The concept of the “fourth estate” as representative of the common people dates back to the French Revolution, and is the first acknowledgement that news reporting has a distinct viewpoint. Over the course of time, corporations began to invest in newspapers (as advertisers), which induced publishers [...]

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A change in the Illinois constitution to allow the recall of the Governor of Illinois is closer to passage. The Illinois Senate, which some of the leadership is closely allied to the Governor, changed the original bill to include other elected officials.
SPRINGFIELD - The question of whether to amend the state Constitution so Illinoisans can [...]

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Reading on Walden Bookstore.

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This will more than likely be my last posting about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, not because there is nothing more to say but because the interest will not be there. I continue to write about it today because the readers of this blog are still interested in reading about him and commenting on him. But soon, [...]

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Here is a change of pace from some of our political stuff like Reverend Wright, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain. Lee Elia would have made an interesting pr guy for one of the candidates. Listen to this.

Lee Elia, then manager of the Chicago Cubs, performed his famous rant on April 29, 1983 after a [...]

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