creators.com - 3/30/2009
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For Competition Before They Were Against It Despite the shock and awe of Democrats' melodramatic press releases, nobody was genuinely bewildered or surprised by the recent McClatchy newspaper headline screaming that "GOP lawmakers tout projects in the stimulus bill they opposed." We The A Word ...
seattletimes.nwsource.com - 3/23/2009
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Certainly, for all the connotations of fairness inherent
in American politics' "country of law" catchphrases, most of
us know that the selective application of legal principles is as old as the Republic. However, lots of us are only now discovering ...
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