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  • Palin Should Do Nation a Favor and Run For President (MEGA BARF ALERT)

    02/19/2010 7:04:11 AM PST · by Russ · 35 replies · 922+ views
    The Reading (Pa.) Eagle ^ | 2/19/2010 | Leonard Pitts, Jr
    Originally Published: 2/19/2010 Leonard Pitts Jr.: Palin should do nation a favor and run for president -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sarah Palin: I hear you're pondering a run for the White House in 2012. You told Fox News it would be absurd to rule it out. I'm writing to ask that you rule it in. I very badly want you to run for - and win - the Republican nomination for the presidency I know you're waiting for the punch line. Maybe you figure I think you'd be a weak candidate who would pave the way for President Barack Obama's easy re-election....
  • Today Is My 10th Anniversary on Free Republic

    12/05/2007 4:18:03 AM PST · by Russ · 75 replies · 541+ views
    12/5/2007 | Self
    Dec. 5, 1997 I became a member of FR
  • Environmental Wacko Letter to Editor

    12/15/2004 6:25:45 AM PST · by Russ · 60 replies · 1,165+ views
    Reading (Pa.) Eagle | Dec. 15, 2004
    Find alternative to cutting trees Editor: When I saw the article headline “No need to take a bow for switch to using alternative Christmas tree” in the Dec. 8 edition of the Reading Eagle, I thought I would read about an alternative to cutting live trees. Instead, the article extolled the qualities of an open-branched live tree which could display more ornaments than the machine-sheared variety. At a time when increasing numbers of us bemoan the loss of beautiful trees, this season still represents the wholesale slaughter of many millions of them. People who buy live cut trees rave about...
  • After Win, Specter Looks To Fall Election (already distancing himself from Bush)

    04/29/2004 6:27:24 AM PDT · by Russ · 375 replies · 384+ views
    Associated Press | April 29, 2004 | Lara Jakes Jordon
    Apr 28, 4:50 PM EDT After Win, Specter Looks to Fall Election By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- After surviving a close scrape in the Republican primary, Sen. Arlen Specter turned his attention to the fall contest and began a campaign Wednesday that could put him at odds with the White House that helped him pull through. The four-term moderate narrowly defeated conservative Rep. Pat Toomey, 51 percent to 49 percent, in Tuesday's primary after Toomey branded Specter as too liberal. The race was perhaps the most serious challenge yet to any Senate incumbent this season....
  • Inmate Seeking Free Abortion

    05/01/2003 4:39:39 AM PDT · by Russ · 6 replies · 45+ views
    Reading (Pa.) Eagle | May 1, 2003 | Dan Kelly
    Inmate seeking abortion for free The woman wants the county to pay for the procedure because she has learned the father is an informant who had her arrested on drug charges. By Dan Kelly Reading Eagle A Berks County Prison inmate asked a county judge Wednesday to order Warden George A. Wagner to arrange an abortion for her at county expense. The woman, identified only as A.G. in court papers, has been in prison for about one month and is 21 weeks pregnant and cannot afford the procedure. She also cannot pay to have deputy sheriffs transport her to and...
  • GOP Retains Two State Senate Seats

    03/22/2001 10:40:09 AM PST · by Russ · 17+ views
    Associated Press | 3/22/01 | unknown
    Republicans retained both of Pennsylvania state Senate seats that were at stake in Tuesday's special elections, unofficial results showed.In suburban Pittsburgh's 40th District, Jane Orie, a third-term state representative, had 30,407 votes, or 59 percent, while Democrat Jim Rooney, the son of former Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, had 19,925 votes, or 38.7 percent. Independent candidate Jim Stefanik had 1,216 votes, or 2.3 percent.The district takes in parts of Allegheny, Butler and Westmoreland counties.On the other end of the state, in the 26th district, Republican Edwin "Ted" Erickson had 60.1 percent of the vote and Democrtic lawyer Melissa Maxman ...
  • Latest Newsweek poll has Gore leading Bush 49% to 42%

    08/19/2000 1:37:57 PM PDT · by Russ · 27+ views
    ABC News | August 19, 2000 | ABC
    ABC News is reporting in their top of the hour broadcast that the latest Newsweek poll shows Gore now leading Bush by 7%, 49 to 42. The survey is a result of interviews of 600 likely voters.
  • Poll Shows Most People Unaware of Convention

    07/27/2000 5:53:27 AM PDT · by Russ · 6+ views
    Associated Press | July 27, 2000
    As Philadelphia gears up for Monday's start of the Republican National Convention, about three-quarters of Americans have no idea the event is just days away, according to a national poll.About 74 percent of respondents didn't know when the convention will be held, and another 6 percent said it was a month away, according to a poll by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.Just 19 percent said the convention was a week or two away, an estimate poll takers considered reasonably accurate."I think it's another piece of data that indicates a lack of interest ...
  • Unions Threaten Strike During GOP Convention

    06/29/2000 5:45:39 AM PDT · by Russ · 25+ views
    AP | June 29, 2000 | AP
    With their contracts about to expire, municipal union leaders are threatening to strike the Republican National Convention unless the mayor agrees to a "fair" contract. Contracts for the unions representing police, firefighters and blue and white-collar workers expire at midnight Friday. "I'm prepared to do whatever I can to disrupt the proceeding of that (GOP) convention," Thomas P. Cronin, leader of the white-collar District Council 47, said Wednesday.He would not elaborate. On Tuesday, more than 3,500 union members from around the country marched on City Hall in support of the local city workers.If a strike happens, Republican convention delegates ...