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Stephen Manes unloads on Vista

February 10, 2007
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Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody’s liver out. Go to original by Stephen Manes
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Neighbors fear proposed Bush library will be a terrorism target

February 10, 2007
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Terrorists will destroy the Bush library and take out most of the Park Cities at the same time. The question isn’t if but when, says Sam Boyd, a Park Cities lawyer. A number of Park Cities residents say they fear that building the presidential library in University Park would be like painting a big,...
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Today in history: Joseph McCarthy begins his witch hunt

February 9, 2007
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Today in history: Joseph McCarthy begins his witch hunt

Joseph McCarthy The biggest national issue at the time was the suspicion of communist infiltration of the United States government following a series of investigations and espionage trials. McCarthy engaged this issue on February 9, 1950, in a speech before a Republican women’s group in Wheeling, West Virginia. In his address, McCarthy charged that...
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Key Democrats push for e-voting paper trail

February 8, 2007
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Troubled by irregularities, they say it’s urgent to enact federal laws requiring voter-verifiable records of ballots cast.
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How to fix campaign financing forever for $50

February 8, 2007
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A radical proposal by two Yale professors goes far beyond any reform envisaged by Feingold or McCain. The current system of public matching funds is paid for by taxpayers who check off a box on their tax forms directing $3 to candidates. In the 1970s, more than a third of taxpayers checked off the...
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