elections | elections
Nov.13.2012
It's been sort of sad watching right wing commentators address what to do about the Republican Party's shocking showing in the last Presidential election in America. They were very certain they were going to win. They didn't win, and they don't understand why they didn't win, other than...
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Nov.12.2012
It's magazine week again, so let's dispense with the political smoke today and move on.
Harper’s Monthly - November 2012
We here in the U.S. have been ensnared of late with presidential election kerfuffles, both candidates and their surrogates disputing the claims of the other, and a cottage...
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Nov.09.2012
The election is over and I've decided that my state may not ready for self-government. I’m reasonably happy with the voting results but the process seems crazy. I live, and vote, in Missouri, at one time considered to be a bellwether state for elections. Years ago, Missouri usually picked the...
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Nov.08.2012
Our teens vote with their voices on Express Yourself!™
November 6, 2012
Hosted by Youngjoo Ahn, with the Express Yourself! STAR On-Air Team
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It’s an election year and the Express Yourself!™ teens may be too young to vote, but they certainly have...
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Nov.08.2012
Barack Obama has not won. He just defeated the traditionally bad guy, like burning the symbolic Old Man year after year to herald a new beginning that would arrive anyway.
We had been saturated with analyses in the run-up, and the ones after the elections are not much different, except perhaps...
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Nov.07.2012
Our teens vote with their voices on Express Yourself!™
November 6, 2012
Hosted by Youngjoo Ahn, with the Express Yourself! STAR On-Air Team
[Download MP3] [itunes] [Bookmark Episode]
It’s an election year and the Express Yourself!™ teens may be too young to vote, but they certainly have...
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Nov.05.2012
Today I helped to save the world … or maybe ruin it. I did my “homework” for the 2012 election. I picked up the newspaper’s Sunday editorial section and found a link to a website where I read a short blurb on each candidate or issue and made a choice. At the end of the session, the computer gave me...
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Nov.05.2012
In English, we say “Shhh” to mean “Quiet down.” In Yiddish, it’s “Sha.” If a nightmare sent me into inconsolable sobs, my grandmother would say, “Sha, sha, bubeleh, don’t scare yourself, it’s only a dream,” and that gave me some comfort. My grandmother was a tiny, ruthless person with biceps...
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Nov.05.2012
On Mondays Phil Naessens Show Phil shares his thoughts regarding Hurricane Sandy, the cancellation of the NYC Marathon, Tuesdays Presidential election, his Fantasy Football woes, the New York Knicks 2-0 start, his Fantasy Basketball leagues and the scores from this past weekends NFL action.
To...
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Nov.04.2012
This Tuesday it all comes to an end: The Presidential election cycle that kicked off with great fanfare about the same time that Ronald Reagan was playing George Armstrong Custer in the movie, “Santa Fe Trail.” Obviously I’m kidding. It only seems like President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt...
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