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Jim B says: If we start voting Independently, just don’t vote for some schmo they stick out there that hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. If enough of the nation starts voting independently, neither the jackasses nor the elephants will have a filibuster-proof 60% majority any longer. You vote for the best choice, and to that, I would like to add...that means don’t vote for someone who CLAIMS to be Independent, but is actually a puppet of the 1 party system we have. (February 9th, 2010 at 10:09am)
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Stop the Blitz
Why we shouldn’t give in to the hype over Sandra Bullock’s latest blockbuster.
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Benjamin McKenzie
The Austin-born star of the hit FOX drama The O.C. on getting his start, losing his privacy— and kissing in front of his mother.
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Bishop Takes Castle
When clergyman Jack Iker became convinced the Episcopal Church was losing its way, he left—and took the Fort Worth diocese, with almost all its property, with him. Now the church is fighting back, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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Right Place, Right Time
An exquisite sense of timing—and a good deal of luck—has helped transform Rick Perry from an unknown Democratic state legislator into a swaggering Republican who’s spent more years in the Governor’s Mansion than anyone in Texas history. Is it enough to carry him past Kay Bailey Hutchison and all the way to the White House?
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