dailykos.com - 12/5/2008
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I get the problem with DC residents not having representation in Congress. It's a travesty of democracy. And the partisan in me likes the idea of adding two guaranteed Democratic senators . I also get that DC has a larger population than one other state: Vermont: 621,254 DC: 588,292 Wyoming: ...
savetheparties.blogspot.com - 12/12/2008
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Yesterday, we launched the "Save the Inaugural partying"
petition to DC Mayor Fenty, asking him to resist...
congressional efforts to curtail Obama Inauguration celebrating. Check out all the interest it got in just 1 day: Save Our Parties -- ...
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online.wsj.com - 12/8/2008
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LEARNED FOOTE For nearly four decades, Columbia University
has excluded Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) from its...
campus, a decision made in the wake of student unrest in the late 1960s. But this Sept. 11, candidates John McCain and Barack ...
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Why Columbia Should Welcome ROTC
washingtoninstitute.org - 12/3/2008
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David Makovsky is a senior fellow and director
of The Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East...
Peace Process . He is also an adjunct lecturer in Middle Eastern studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced ...
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... . But kos wonders why no one's talking about having most of the District annexed by either Maryland or Virginia. Making the District a state would violate serious principles, since it's just a tiny city that has fewer residents than every state except for Vermont, writes ...
12/5: The Netroots Eye Specter's Seat
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... fifty-first state": "For Democrats, this would mean two new Senators and one new Representative. It would also uphold the basic American idea that citizens should be allowed to vote and should be represented in congress. It would be totally constitutional. And though Columbia would be a small state, it would have a larger population than several current states. Republicans, obviously, wouldn't like the idea. But I don't think there are serious arguments of principle against it." Moulitsas isn't so enthusiastic about the idea: "I get the problem with DC residents not having ...
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