Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

What I would do if I were president (Part 3)

Posted: 13th August 2007 by John in Personal
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To continue on with my series of posts about what I would do were I President of the United States (and had the ability to change whatever I wanted with impunity), I’d like to take the opportunity to tackle two topics in this post. The first, and perhaps most important in my eyes is Government [...]

What I would do if I were president (Part 2)

Posted: 6th August 2007 by John in Personal
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In my  last post, I discussed a challenge my friend Matty gave me,  to tell the world what I would do differently, were I made president.   My response, which will come in a multi post format,  started off with election reform,  the elimination of the dual party system to introduce and put into the [...]

One of my good friends from my days in military school offered a challenge to me after reading my last post. I guess I’ve complained enough about our government that my friends are now wanting to know exactly what *I* would do instead. I can’t say that I blame them, and at least in part [...]

To Congressman Tom Cole: QUIT LYING TO ME!

Posted: 30th July 2007 by John in Personal
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Back in January, I wrote this post, describing how Congressman Tom Cole’s National Republican Congressional Committee was offering to award me a leadership award for the business advisory council.   The catch was that I would be expected to donate a few hundred dollars to them, supposedly to fund a press release talking about it.  Nevermind [...]

Bill of Rights? What’s that?

Posted: 20th July 2007 by John in Uncategorized
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A historic event took place this week, and a scant few people even know about it, much less understand the implications. President Bush, this week, signed an executive order sanctioning the treasury department seizing the money, property, stocks, etc of anyone deemed to be “undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq [...]