Patrick Leahy Wants To Help The Ski Set With Cheap Imports

ITimes 4/20/2012
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He talks about preserving American jobs, but yesterday, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced legislation that will, if passed, protect exemptions from reasonable import fees for foreign-made ski boots.

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Obama, Choose Hope Not Tar Sands Pollution

ITimes 9/2/2011
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If Barack Obama approves the tar sands pipeline, it will be the moment when the rise of hypocrisy drowned the last remnants of our hopes, and our resentment of Obama’s many broken promises turned into fury.

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Maybe Exceeding The Debt Limit Isn’t Really A Big Deal After All

ITimes 7/25/2011
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Maybe the time has come for Americans to stop freaking out about the supposed “debt limit crisis”, and ask themselves whether it’s really the big deal that it’s supposed to be.

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Justice Denied By Supreme Court Refusal To Hear Torture Case

ITimes 5/17/2011
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The victory for George W. Bush and Barack Obama comes in the form of an end to a lawsuit by people who were kidnapped by the U.S. government and subjected to extraordinary rendition – the shipping of the victims to foreign governments that are known to use torture against prisoners. The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to consider the case.

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Barney Frank Exposes Military Keynesians in GOP

ITimes 3/3/2011
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It’s military Keynesianism: Republicans are claiming that big government is a terrible drag on the economy, except when it comes to the programs they like, such as global military adventurism and the construction of a vast Homeland Security infrastructure.

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Jared Lee Loughner Sought To Be End Times Mind Controller

ITimes 1/8/2011
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A second part of the religious terrorist manifesto of Jared Lee Loughner references the End Times and mind control

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Obama Settles Justice For Some, Not For Others

ITimes 10/20/2010
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Barack Obama was happy to accommodate the lawsuit of Native Americans against the Department of Agriculture. He won’t do the same for gays and lesbians, though.

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1001 Congressional Nights

ITimes 4/2/2010
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Today marks the 1,001st article at the independent congressional news site That’s My Congress.

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Why Bother With Google SideWiki?

ITimes 12/14/2009
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Google Sidewiki is a column that opens up on the side of a web page, making the page’s content smaller, shoved over to the right, and showing the latest Google users’ comments on the page.

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Shrinking Pains At Irregular Times

ITimes 11/9/2009
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If ever-escalating widget, plugin and theme complexity is not matched by the server power most web sites have available to them, there isn’t much point.

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Patriot Act Used Almost Always Against Non-Terrorists Last Year

ITimes 10/1/2009
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Almost no sneak and peek Patriot Act spy invasions of Americans’ homes were terrorism related last year – only 3 out of 763 last year. 65 percent of the remaining cases had to do with drug investigations, not terrorism – and just what kind of investigations were the remaining 34.61 percent of cases related to? Shoplifting? Parking violations? Jaywalking?

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Mel Martinez Gives A Non Explanation

ITimes 8/7/2009
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Martinez swerved into Sarah Palin incoherence when he explained that he would be leaving the Senate for “no impending reason, it’s only my desire to move on and get on with the rest of my life.”

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Impovertwitting Online News

ITimes 7/28/2009
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I encourage Gunzburger not to give up the Politics1 site for good. It’s been online and active for many years, and that makes it worth quite a bit, even if that value isn’t translated into financial form at present. It would be a shame to see Ron Gunzburger devote the worthy content within his skull to the benefit of the owners of Twitter and Facebook, rather than to preserving his own independent stage.

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Afghanistan Under US Control Sends Man To Prison For Promoting Women’s Rights

ITimes 3/13/2009
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This story, full of political relevance and human interest, is not being published in American newspapers. Why? Because it illustrates how the war in Afghanistan has not resulted in the liberation of the people there?

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New Look For Irregular Times

ITimes 2/11/2009
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At the top is Theodiclus Locke, Mr. Odd Clock, our long-lived irregular man character, now in sharper focus. He’s still got a little bit of graininess around the edges.

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Irregular Jim Arrives At Demonstration Site

ITimes 1/20/2009
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Jim started out many miles away, hiking down the Capital Crescent Trail, and through Georgetown before arriving at the National Mall.

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What Happened to Irregular Times?

ITimes 1/9/2009
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Irregular Times has a new design. Give us your feedback.

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GOP Economics in a McCain Nutshell

ITimes 11/4/2008
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McCain campaign staffers were expected to actually work as volunteers, even though they were told that they would be paid to pretend to be volunteers.

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