Posted on December 5, 2006 by thestateofblog
Rich’s reasons why Obama shouldn’t run in ‘08.
1. Obama shouldn’t run because he doesn’t have the experience as an executive yet. When he answers a question he weighs both sides at length before coming to a conclusion. And that conclusion usually has a caveat. Although we like the fact that he sees the [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2006 by thestateofblog
A few years ago, I (J) visited Amsterdam, Holland and Durban, South Africa. (Roderick, I was with my wife, OK.) One of the more intriguing (and disturbing) aspects of both cities was the high level of prostitution. But the prostitution differed significantly. In Amsterdam’s famous “Red Light District,” the women of the night, many of [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2006 by thestateofblog
It took, and is taking, the South some time to adjust to integration. Imagine how some Southern communities feel about illegal immigrants. Thanks to E Jones up in Michigan, We’ll share with you some snippets of how some Tennesseans feel about it.
According to the African-American minister pictured above: “They made Kunta Kinte say [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2006 by thestateofblog
“We can’t ignore the fact that abstinence and fidelity, although the ideal, may not always be the reality — that we’re dealing with flesh and blood men and women and not abstractions, and that if condoms and, potentially, things like microbicides, can prevent millions of deaths, then they should be made more widely available. [...]
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