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Oct 10, 2008 - I knew I wanted to do something to help with Barack Obama's campaign. I feel very strongly that he will turn this country around, and I have been very discouraged with the way this country has been run the past 8 years. I wasn't really sure what I could do, but I knew I had to do something. - 2 Comments

Rise of conservative women

Nov 18, 2009 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/michele-bachmann-president-sarah-palin   She is much more Religious Right then I like in Conservative politicians, but I still found her interesting.   The new wave of female firebrands striking fear into liberal America Right-wing radicals are already pinning presidential ambitions on a mother-of-five from Minnesota who calls herself a 'fool for Christ' and condemns Obama as a socialist at the head of a gangster regime

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Michele Bachmann gestures as she speaks at the Republican National Convention in 2008. Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. - 8 Comments

Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack with guns

Nov 18, 2009 -   By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer – 32 mins ago Source NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.   A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds. - 7 Comments

Volunteerin' and it feeels so gooood

Oct 07, 2008 - I have canvassed four times now in my area and done one day of phone banking, and it has been such a wonderful experience! It's great to get to meet and chat with other volunteers on the same team and get each other psyched and pumped up (and, to be honest, crack political jokes knowing you have a friendly audience). The campaign office is full of hand-drawn signs, buttons and yard signs, a cardboard cutout of the candidate, and lots of food. - 8 Comments

Iran condemns Oxford for honoring slain protester

Nov 11, 2009 - TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the disputed June election. In Tehran, a small group of hard-line women demonstrated Wednesday against the scholarship in front of the British Embassy. The women chanted "Death to Britain," the semi-official Fars news agency reported. - 2 Comments

Proposed 9/11 Memorial In Kent Causing Stir

Nov 11, 2009 - It is a bright, Indian summer afternoon in the Litchfield Hills, and the downtown streets of this tourist mecca look invitingly peaceful. But the communication lines connecting First Selectwoman Ruth Epstein to the outside world have been anything but peaceful for two weeks as the passions aroused by the 9/11 tragedy have turned Kent into a national lightning rod over terrorism, Islam and the role towns should play in memorializing the dead. Epstein, a former journalist who is stepping down after two terms as first selectwoman, was approached more than a year ago by Peter Gadiel, the father of James Gadiel, a young Kent native who worked as a trader in the World Trade Center and perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks. - 81 Comments