Tag: joe manchin
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Election Day 2010: Voting For a Restraining Order?
By the time the ballots are counted in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Obama’s personal approval ratings will have fallen to historic lows and he will be universally recognized as the man who brought ruin on the Democratic party.
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jesse johnson, 3rd party wv senate candidate, questions 9/11 account
from wvgazette: A third party candidate in West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race questions whether the Sept. 11 attacks were masterminded by Osama bin Laden and carried out by al-Qaida terrorists. Mountain Party nominee Jesse Johnson told The Associated Press that he is also not convinced that hijacked airliners caused the collapse of buildings at the…
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Mission Accomplished: The Speech Obama Should Give About Iraq War
Fellow Americans, and Iraqis who are watching this speech, I have come here this evening not to declare a victory or to mourn a defeat on the battlefield, but to apologize from the bottom of my heart for a series of illegal actions and grossly incompetent policies pursued by the government of the United States…
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west virginia’s robert byrd, longest-serving congressman, dead at 92
from cnn: West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, the self-educated son of a coal miner who became the longest-serving member of Congress, died early Monday at age 92, the senator’s office said. Byrd, a nine-term Democrat, was known as a master of the chamber’s often-arcane rules and as the self-proclaimed “champion of the Constitution,” a jealous…
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west virginia worry: 25+ killed in massey coal mine explosion
25 dead in west virginia mine blast, worst since 1984 related: rev billy placed ‘holy hex’ on jpmorgan over wv moutaintop removal* from ap: A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 miners in the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1984, and rescuers on Tuesday began a dangerous and possibly futile attempt…