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Talk:Daily Kos

2007-04-06T01:01:48Z

Flyntz: New page: Words like "mindless" and "disrespectful" are opinion; they have no place in an encylcopedia entry.

Words like "mindless" and "disrespectful" are opinion; they have no place in an encylcopedia entry.

Daily Kos

2007-04-06T01:01:23Z

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[http://www.dailykos.com/ The ''Daily Kos''] is a left-wing [[blog]] that features advertisements like "DraftGore.Com ... Sign Our Petition" with a picture of a smiling Al Gore in front of what appears to be an image of earth from outer space.<ref>viewed Feb. 25, 2007.</ref> It also features a picture of [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[George W. Bush]] with a large cartoon cowboy hat.

Entries on this blog on Feb. 25, 2007 range from gossip (such as teaser about "eviscerating coverage of [[Mitt Romney]]'s polygamist ancestors") to vulgarity and use of four-letter words.

CBS News has recently suggested that liberal blogs (not necessarily the ''Daily Kos'') may be their favored candidates own worst enemies, as they provide ample political fodder for the other side:<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/opinion/main2507660.shtml</ref>

: [A] former aide to Joe Lieberman advised the party to refuse bloggers access and "deny them jobs that confer party approval." ... [P]lenty of Democrats were upset with the netroots.

This statement on behalf of Lieberman was, of course, ironic, considering he no longer identifies with the Democratic party himself, and ran in the general election on a separate party line named "Connecticut for Lieberman," having been denied the Democratic party's nomination.

A list of liberal blogs, and their advertising rates, is [http://web.blogads.com/advertise/liberal_blog_advertising_network here].

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'''Sources:''' <references/>

[[category: blogs]]

Daily Kos

2007-04-06T01:00:03Z

Flyntz:

[http://www.dailykos.com/ The ''Daily Kos''] is a left-wing [[blog]] that features advertisements like "DraftGore.Com ... Sign Our Petition" with a picture of a smiling Al Gore in front of what appears to be an image of earth from outer space.<ref>viewed Feb. 25, 2007.</ref> It also features a picture of [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[George W. Bush]] with a large cartoon cowboy hat.

Entries on this blog on Feb. 25, 2007 range from gossip (such as teaser about "eviscerating coverage of [[Mitt Romney]]'s polygamist ancestors") to mindless vulgarity and use of four-letter words.

CBS News has recently suggested that liberal blogs (not necessarily the ''Daily Kos'') may be their favored candidates own worst enemies, as they provide ample political fodder for the other side:<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/opinion/main2507660.shtml</ref>

: [A] former aide to Joe Lieberman advised the party to refuse bloggers access and "deny them jobs that confer party approval." ... [P]lenty of Democrats were upset with the netroots.

This statement on behalf of Lieberman was, of course, ironic, considering he no longer identifies with the Democratic party himself, and ran in the general election on a separate party line named "Connecticut for Lieberman," having been denied the Democratic party's nomination.

A list of liberal blogs, and their advertising rates, is [http://web.blogads.com/advertise/liberal_blog_advertising_network here].

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'''Sources:''' <references/>

[[category: blogs]]

Richard Nixon

2007-03-30T05:08:40Z

Flyntz:

[[Image:Richard_nixon.gif|right|thumb|The 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon]]

'''Richard Milhous Nixon''' (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994), considered by many to be the greatest American President, was the 37th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1969 to 1974. He was the 36th [[Vice President of the United States of America]] from 1953 to 1961, in the administration of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. As a [[Congressman]] from [[California]], he investigated [[Communists]] and instigated the successful prosecution of [[Alger Hiss]]. Nixon served as Vice President under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and lost his first presidential race to [[John F. Kennedy]] by a tiny margin. In 1968 he was elected president, and was reelected in 1972 by a landslide, but resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974 due to a threat of impeachment by Congress for the [[Watergate scandal]]. The main impeachment charge was that Nixon obstructed justice by telling employees to mislead FBI investigators about the Watergate burglary. Other charges included lying to the American public.

President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and was the first President to visit the People's Republic of China. He appointed a conservative (William Rehnquist), two moderates (Warren Burger and Lewis Powell) and a liberal (Harry Blackmun) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Nixon was from a Quaker family. His foreign policy as president was marked by détente with the [[Soviet Union]] and the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and the [[People's Republic of China]]. His centrist domestic policies combined conservative rhetoric and liberal action in civil rights, environmental and economic initiatives. As a result of the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned the presidency in the face of likely impeachment by the United States [[House of Representatives]]. His successor, [[Gerald Ford]], issued a controversial [[pardon]] that allowed Nixon to avoid prosecution.

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[[Category:Presidents of the United States]]

Richard Nixon

2007-03-30T05:06:03Z

Flyntz:

[[Image:Richard_nixon.gif|right|thumb|The 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon]]

'''Richard Milhous Nixon''' (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1969 to 1974. He was the 36th [[Vice President of the United States of America]] from 1953 to 1961, in the administration of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. As a [[Congressman]] from [[California]], he investigated [[Communists]] and instigated the successful prosecution of [[Alger Hiss]]. Nixon served as Vice President under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and lost his first presidential race to [[John F. Kennedy]] by a tiny margin. In 1968 he was elected president, and was reelected in 1972 by a landslide, but resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974 due to a threat of impeachment by Congress for the [[Watergate scandal]]. The main impeachment charge was that Nixon obstructed justice by telling employees to mislead FBI investigators about the Watergate burglary. Other charges included lying to the American public.

President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and was the first President to visit the People's Republic of China. He appointed a conservative (William Rehnquist), two moderates (Warren Burger and Lewis Powell) and a liberal (Harry Blackmun) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Nixon was from a Quaker family. His foreign policy as president was marked by détente with the [[Soviet Union]] and the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and the [[People's Republic of China]]. His centrist domestic policies combined conservative rhetoric and liberal action in civil rights, environmental and economic initiatives. As a result of the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned the presidency in the face of likely impeachment by the United States [[House of Representatives]]. His successor, [[Gerald Ford]], issued a controversial [[pardon]] that allowed Nixon to avoid prosecution.

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[[Category:Biographies]]
[[Category:Presidents of the United States]]

William Howard Taft

2007-03-30T05:03:02Z

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'''William Howard Taft''' was President from 1909 to 1913. He is famous for being the fattest president in history, once getting stuck in the White House bathtub. Taft is also the only President to go on to serve as Chief Justice of the United States.

Hippies

2007-03-30T04:53:42Z

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A subculture that originated in the late 1960s, notable for its opposition to the [[Vietnam War]], psychedelic music, sexual freedom, and [[drug]]-use.{{Fact}}
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==Famous Hippies==

===Ken Kesey===
Most famous for writing the novel "[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]," [[Ken Kesey]] was also known as one of the most famous hippies of the 1960's. He famously rode around on top of a technicolor school bus called "Furthur." He had a troupe of hippies who he lived and traveled with called the [[Merry Pranksters]]. The adventures of Kesey and the Pranksters are documented in "[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]," by [[Tom Wolfe]].

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2007-03-30T04:53:28Z

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Harriet Miers

2007-03-30T04:50:04Z

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Despite never having served as a judge, Harriet Miers was nominated by President [[George W. Bush]] to replace retiring Associate Justice of the Supreme Court [[Sandra Day O'Connor]]. However, when conservative interest groups made their opposition to Ms. Miers clear, Ms. Miers was forced to withdraw her nomination. Bush went on to nominate [[Samuel Alito]], whose nomination succeeded.
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2007-03-30T04:49:40Z

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Harriet Miers

2007-03-30T04:46:55Z

Flyntz: New page: Harriet Miers was nominated by President George W. Bush to replace retiring Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor. However, when conservative interest groups m...

Harriet Miers was nominated by President [[George W. Bush]] to replace retiring Associate Justice of the Supreme Court [[Sandra Day O'Connor]]. However, when conservative interest groups made their opposition to Ms. Miers clear, Ms. Miers was forced to withdraw her nomination. Bush went on to nominate [[Samuel Alito]], whose nomination succeeded.

Talk:Bill Frist

2007-03-30T04:43:43Z

Flyntz: New page: So, why is it that any references to Frist's diagnosis of Terri Schiavo get deleted? Bringing that up is not opinion; it is fact. It happened. The editors who are removing legitimate refer...

So, why is it that any references to Frist's diagnosis of Terri Schiavo get deleted? Bringing that up is not opinion; it is fact. It happened. The editors who are removing legitimate references are trying to rewrite history. Ridiculous!

Samuel Alito

2007-03-30T04:34:26Z

Flyntz:

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Samuel Alito is an Associate Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] (2006-). He was appointed by [[George W. Bush]] to fill the seat vacated by [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] after [[Harriet Miers]] was forced to withdraw her nomination.
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Arlen Specter

2007-03-30T04:32:11Z

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Arlen Specter is the senior [[United States]] Senator from [[Pennsylvania]]. He was first elected in 1980, and has been reelected five times since then. Senator Specter is widely regarded as a moderate [[Republican]], disagreeing with the [[Bush Administration]] on numerous issues. His moderate views have affected his political career as a Republican. For example, his status as the Chairman of the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] (a position he held from January, 2005 through January, 2007) was in question when he made comments hinting that he would oppose candidates who would overturn [[Roe v. Wade]]. In addition, in the 2004 Republican Senate Primary Election, he only received 51% of the vote when the conservative [[Patrick Toomey]] challenged him. However, in the 2004 General Election, he succeeded with ease, beating [[Joseph Hoeffel]] by nine percentage points.
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2007-03-30T04:31:44Z

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Bill Frist

2007-03-30T04:27:37Z

Flyntz:

'''William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr.''' is a physician and former [[United States Senator]] from Tennessee.
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Bill Frist

2007-03-30T04:24:29Z

Flyntz:

'''William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr.''' is a physician and former [[United States Senator]] from Tennessee, also serving as Republican Senate Majority Leader. During his time as a U.S. Senator, he used his knowledge as a physician as a way to face the issues. For instance, during the Terri Schiavo case, Mr. Frist announced his disagreement with Mrs. Schiavo's doctors, who had diagnosed her as being in a persistive vegetative state. He made his diagnosis without ever seeing Mrs. Schiavo in person and without having any expertise in nuerology. In another instance, Mr. Frist, in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, showed his medical expertise by suggesting that HIV could possibly be transmitted through sweat and tears.

Socrates

2007-03-29T23:31:37Z

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[[Image:Socrates.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Greek philosopher Socrates]]

Socrates was an ancient [[Greek]] philosopher, who lived between approximately 470 and 399 BC. He is best known for his method of argument, which poses questions that may expose logical errors underlying an opponent's argument, though he usually stated that his purpose was not to argue but to pursue the truth in alliance with his opponent. Socrates had served in the army in his youth, like all Greek men of his time. To modern readers he is most familiar as a character in many books by his disciple [[Plato]]. Eventually the courts of Athens found him guilty on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth, and forced him to drink hemlock.

Some famous Socrates quotes:<ref>http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Socrates</ref>
*Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
*Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
*Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
*I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
*The unexamined life is not worth living.

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David Souter

2007-03-29T23:28:34Z

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The Honorable David H. Souter is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Souter was nominated for the [[Supreme Court]] in 1990 by President [[George H. W. Bush]] to succeed retiring Associate Justice [[William J. Brennan]], often known as one of the Court's two most liberal members (the other being Associate Justice [[Thurgood Marshall]], who would retire the following year). Thus, this vacancy represented a chance for the President Bush to shift the Court to the right, as his predecessor, [[Ronald Reagan]], had tried to do. In nominating Souter, Bush had adopted what has come to be known as the "stealth strategy." Souter had a very small "paper trail," thus making him difficult to label as a conservative or a liberal. However, Bush had received assurances that Souter would be a conservative from his Chief of Staff, [[John Sununu]], who had appointed Souter to the [[New Hampshire]] Supreme Court years earlier. Thus, he hoped to disarm liberal Senators who might oppose a blatantly conservative nominee, as they had done just three years earlier with [[Robert Bork]]. The strategy worked; Souter was easily confirmed by the U.S. Senate. However, Souter has gone on to align himself with the more liberal bloc on the Court, leading to Republican anger at President Bush for this alleged blunder.
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Vietnam War

2007-03-29T23:04:53Z

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The '''Vietnam War''', officially the '''Second Indochina Conflict''', was a [[police action]] initiated by the [[United States]], in response to the [[Communism|communist]] threat presented by what was then called North Vietnam. The war was the longest in American history, lasting approximately 16 years. It was also the first war fought by America in which the stated military goals of the Americans were not met (defending South Vietnam, preventing communist expansion, etc.).

==Opposition to the Vietnam War==

The Vietnam War is remembered as creating massive opposition in the [[United States]]. Much of the [[Hippie]] movement was based in opposition to the Vietnam War and a belief in [[pacifism]] more broadly. This opposition inspired such songs as "The I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag," by [[Country Joe McDonald]], "Give Peace a Chance," by [[John Lennon]], "Run Through the Jungle," by [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], and "War," by [[Edwin Starr]]. This opposition also manifested itself in the form of protests. One of the most famous protests of this era occurred at Kent State University in [[Ohio]], during which four students were killed by the Ohio State National Guard.

Hippies

2007-03-29T22:56:06Z

Flyntz:

{{stub}}
A subculture that originated in the late 1960s, notable for its opposition to the [[Vietnam War]], psychedelic music, sexual freedom, and [[drug]]-use.{{Fact}}

==Famous Hippies==

===Ken Kesey===
Most famous for writing the novel "[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]," [[Ken Kesey]] was also known as one of the most famous hippies of the 1960's. He famously rode around on top of a technicolor school bus called "Furthur." He had a troupe of hippies who he lived and traveled with called the [[Merry Pranksters]]. The adventures of Kesey and the Pranksters are documented in "[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]," by [[Tom Wolfe]].

Arlen Specter

2007-03-29T22:21:42Z

Flyntz: New page: Arlen Specter is the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He was first elected in 1980, and has been reelected five times since then. Senator Specter is widely regarded ...

Rick Santorum

2007-03-29T22:06:48Z

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Rick Santorum served as [[United States]] Senator from [[Pennsylvania]] from January, 1995 through January, 2007. During that time, Santorum was known for his staunchly conservative political views. For instance, he has held that "[[Intelligent Design]]" ought to be taught along side [[evolution]] in public school classrooms. Claims by [[liberals]] that he was out of the mainstream appeared to have been validated in 2006, when [[Bob Casey, Jr.]], the son of a popular former Pennsylvania governor, crushed Santorum by capturing 59% of the popular vote for U.S. Senator. Unfortunately for Santorum, his 2006 reelection bid was one case study of many in which ideologues must come to terms with the fact that the majority of Americans are moderates.

Rick Santorum

2007-03-29T22:04:40Z

Flyntz: New page: Rick Santorum served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from January, 1995 through January, 2007. During that time, Santorum was known for his staunchly conservative political view...

Rick Santorum served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from January, 1995 through January, 2007. During that time, Santorum was known for his staunchly conservative political views. For instance, he has held that "Intelligent Design" ought to be taught along side evolution in public school classrooms. Claims by liberals that he was out of the mainstream appeared to have been validated in 2006, when Bob Casey, Jr., the son of a popular former Pennsylvania governor, crushed Santorum by capturing 59% of the popular vote for U.S. Senator. Unfortunately for Santorum, his 2006 reelection bid was one case study of many in which ideologues must come to terms with the fact that the majority of Americans are moderates.