Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Sometimes I think I live in an entirely backwards state that does more harm than good. Other days I read stories like these that make me proud to be a Texan:
El Paso denies feds access to road for border fence
from HoustonChronicle
EL PASO, Texas — The country’s largest border city has decided to block efforts [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
CALLING STUDENTS AND YOUTH NATIONWIDE
from AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-02-06 16:32.
Spring Break in Washington D.C. to End the Iraq Occupation
We invite you to invite yourself, your friends, and your peers to come to Washington D.C. to join youth and students from around the nation to
Break [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Lucas
Today during my social studies class, we had a debate over the Supreme Court case, Wade vs. Boy Scouts of America. In the case, a man that had been in boy scouts for 12 years, earning the coveted rank of Eagle Scout, began to tell people that he was gay. because of this he [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Would someone please tell me why the story about Huckabee wanting to change the Constitution and start a theocracy here is NOT in regular newspapers? I am not allowed to use AlterNet or TPM or the blogs as sources for weekly “current events in politics” assignments. And if it isn’t even news for a high [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
In general, I have really strong opinions about things. But I am not sure how I feel about the reports of online bullying of kids. On the one hand, kids need to be protected from sexual abuse and all that kind of stuff. On the other hand, is the online world better or worse [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I have heard a lot of liberal and progressive adults say that is is indecent and wrong to criticize 12-year-old boys. I disagree. There are a lot of reasons why you might criticize 12 year-old boys. Some of them don’t shower often enough and they have terrible table manners and their [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
It seems that George W is concerned about his legacy, and he is talking to a biographer named Robert Draper:
In book, Bush peeks ahead to his legacy
from Americas - International Herald Tribune
In an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, President George W. Bush daydreamed about the next [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
–Benjamin Franklin
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Posted on August 18th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Think Progress has a post up called If It’s Sunday, It’s Karl Rove and in it they have a list of questions that they want the talk show hosts to ask Rove tomorrow morning. Here’s their list:
Promoting the war as a member of the White House Iraq Group
Leaking Valerie Plame’s identity
Compiling the list of [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Am I the only one that is not surprised by this headline? Or the details? People a lot older than I am seem very surprised that the government is behaving like this, but kids are used to having no privacy and no personal freedom. So, if they can take this from Americans now and patriotic [...]
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