General Politics

Debunking Obama’s debunkery

September 10, 2009
By Rick Shaw

I’ve had some time to digest Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on 9/9/09 and so far I have the following observations: First of all, I’d like to address the loss of freedom by the questionably unconstitutional requirement that citizens buy some form of insurance: …under my plan, individuals will be required...

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Presidential Address to Joint Session

September 9, 2009
By Rick Shaw

I’m playing around with CoveritLive for a future project I’m considering. I’m going to test it on tonight’s speech on health care from the White House to a joint session of Congress.

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Candidate matching quiz

January 8, 2008
By Rick Shaw

I took the Presidential Candidate Quiz and below are my results. Keep in mind that in order to keep the quiz succinct they had to limit the options. There were many questions that I felt should have more options, like health care and immigration. 74% Rudy Giuliani73% Mitt Romney70% John McCain65% Fred Thompson64% Mike...

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U.S. Government 101

October 7, 2007
By Rick Shaw

Okay folks, it’s time for a government lesson. It’ll be short but sweet. According to the U.S. Constitution, the President of the United States can not declare war. Only the US Congress can. In addition, Congress must approve all funding for said war, which must be justified every two years, as stated in Article...

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The 2nd Amendment

March 11, 2007
By Rick Shaw

just got stronger: http://www.packing.org/news/articleview/178/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller

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