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[14 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Guns and Religion – Part 1

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” – Barack Obama

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[14 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
TUP Update – October 2009

Quick update:
As I dive more and more into this political venture, updates and revamping the site comes as a necessary.
The site, itself, and the focal point of its purpose stand strong and firm.  The changes or additions that will be taking place will be big and little.
The “big” will be actual site functions and design upgrades.  This is a love of mine and an easy item to do.  Another big item is the amount of writers.  I will be look for and adding new writers. If anyone wants to write, …

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[4 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
The real “Fundamental Issues”

This Sunday morning (Aug.30, 2009), many of the political pundit shows discussed the loss of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.  One show, “This Week w/ George Stephanopolis”, discussed not on the the former Senators life, but also a recently released report by Attorney General Eric Holder.  The report can best be summed up by a New York Times overview of the CIA:
On Aug. 24, it was revealed that the Justice Department’s ethics office, the Office of Personal Responsibility, had  recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, …