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What Are Cain and Bachmann All About?

What Are Cain and Bachmann All About?

by Dick Morris In the lunch alert videos on DickMorris.com last week and this week, Herman Cain, and then Michele Bachmann was interviewed to discuss their candidacies and perspectives. What emerged is a fascinating portrait of these two people and what...
Dear Carrie: The Best Way To Pay Off Student Loans?

Dear Carrie: The Best Way To Pay Off Student Loans?

Dear Carrie: I just graduated from nursing school and am carrying several student loans — both federal and private. I don’t have to start repaying them for a few months, but I haven’t landed a job yet. I’m starting to worry how I’ll...
Filed in: Politics and More
Dick Morris: Newt’s Right

Dick Morris: Newt’s Right

In the 1980s, the pre-Blair leftist Labor Party issued its campaign manifesto to oppose Thatcher’s Conservatives in the coming national election. Its loony, leftist proposals were so extreme that the Tory media promptly dubbed it “the longest suicide...
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Democrat Diane Melendez: ‘Why I Support Mike Hogan’

Democrat Diane Melendez: ‘Why I Support Mike Hogan’

Guest editorial by Diane Melendez While on Facebook a few days back, the live messaging box popped up on my computer screen, it was Austin Cassidy. I clicked on the link and saw the short query he had sent to me. It made me smile. “Diane, you and...
Filed in: Election 2011
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Pete Michaud: Is Your Face Real?

Pete Michaud: Is Your Face Real?

“Is your patch real?” My eye patch is a conversation piece. Many people ask about it, a lot assume it’s either fake or temporary (it’s neither). “Do I need it?” some ask. Some people reflexively yell “Yarrr!!” at the sight of me, like...
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Pete Michaud on Fear and Freedom

Pete Michaud on Fear and Freedom

by Pete Michaud When I first moved to Jacksonville at 18 years old, I lived in a Riverside duplex shared with a woman who insisted on using 4-ply toilet paper. It would block the 80-year-old plumbing at least every two weeks. Mike, the landlord’s plumber,...
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Prostitution: Why Government Isn’t The Answer!

Prostitution: Why Government Isn’t The Answer!

Editorial by Jeff Hunt In the past, when I have argued the case for the decriminalization of prostitution, “morality” has always been the greatest hurdle. This is a good thing! If people were not moral I would be afraid to leave my home, so it is...
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Lou Rose: Politics and Party Loyalty

Lou Rose: Politics and Party Loyalty

There are some folks who think you can say you are a member of a political party and attack your own party’s candidates during an election. I disagree. We have a multiparty system in this country. Not a two-party system as some would say, for anyone...
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Church Politics

Church Politics

I don’t believe that there is a separation of church and state. If you are a member of church and you vote, you know what I mean. I have been visiting various churches for several weeks with a candidate who I am hoping will be elected to office in a...
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Lou Rose: Councilmembers Only Pretend to be Republicans

Lou Rose: Councilmembers Only Pretend to be Republicans

I am tired of men like Dick Brown, Mike Corrigan, Ronnie Fussell, Kevin Hyde, Stephen Joost, Art Shad and especially the President of the City Council, Jack Webb pretending that they are Republicans and voting like Nancy Pelosi. Let me say this publicly...
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