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Talk about the world upside down. Public employee unions are now driving our tax policies here in Oregon? Man, that sure does protect their salaries and retirement. There is no conflict of interest here? No hidden agenda? This is like asking the fox to guard the hens. People need to wake up and realize that t...
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Yes because of course there is no middle class that tends to actually make up the majority of ACTUAL taxpayers!! Ignorance is running strong today
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Well, that is totally flawed logic. Europeans were not responsible for the high extinction rate that Native Americans suffered. Read "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies", by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. It won the Pulitzer Prize for best non-fiction book, and also...
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opioid manufacturers should pay for the naloxone not the taxpayers...they created this mess
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Nice to know Alaska government subsidies and high winter ticket prices helped Alaska (aka SeaTac Airlines), aquire Virgin. And 340 million generated with only 308 million of debt? What's the other side of the balance sheet look like? Overzealous expansion.
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"New York has the highest abortion rate in America. In America, one of every ten abortions occurs in New York, and in New York, seven of every ten abortions are performed in New York City. In absolute terms, there are more abortions performed on minors, more repeat abortions, and more late abortions (over 21 weeks) in ...
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Face palm I think my issue with this is that they need to end their contract with alyeska then the problem is solved; only the Catholics want to make an issue where there isn't one; generally a homosexual has no desire to be marred by someone who wouldn't accept them anyways; but in "Catholic owned bldgs?" If it's a de...
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"Thousands of New York women return each year to clinics for a third or fourth abortion. Bill Clinton’s famous formulation that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare” or Hillary Clinton’s more recent proclamation that abortion is “a sad, even tragic choice,” http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/15248/index3.html
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in case you weren't aware, the middle class was murdered by NAFTA a long time ago. That's not actual news. The fact that they are still the backbone of taxpayers is the news. where ignorance reigns life is lost
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It is our oil. None of it is 'free'. We are letting it go at too low a price. If the market is not providing enough for all parties involved to make significant profit without subsidies, it should stay in the ground until the market improves and if the market never improves it should never be removed. It is ridiculous ...
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It seems so easy for European-Amerikkkans in Portland to shrug it off and say people of color are just complaining over nothing. It comes to no surprise since they pride themselves in their ignorance of history and anything takes place beyond their borders. I know this because I am constantly reminded by them how they ...
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IN 1981 I WAS THE NUMBER ONE SALESMAN IN ORANGE COUNTY, L.A. AND VENTURA COUNTY SELLING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE L.A. TIMES WHEN I WAS AT PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY PAYING MY WAY THROUGH BIBLE COLLEGE, I AM PROUD TO SAY I BELIEVE IN HARD WORK. NOW I AM SELLING PEOPLE ON COMING TO ALASKA AND DRILL FOR OIL ON LEASES I BOUGHT IN T...
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In all due respect Sir...If you kill the oil industry and run drillers out of work in Alaska who will provide them jobs and the 90% of the cash they provide to run the government that many good people work for and want to keep their jobs? Based on what you write I can guess you don't own a home or any land in Alaska be...
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Damn spellcheck. Neuman got $250. Since he was the only 'no' vote, perhaps Pfeffer should have upped the ante. The only one to not get Pfeffer money was Coghill.
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Change the oil and gas laws and enable Alaskans to drill and sell oil and get rid of the monopolies and the laws and government workers that stop Alaskans from drilling and making profits!!
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AK still has 2 free bags (3 on in-state flights), but Delta charges for even just one.
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Brad I am glad we agree that oil development is not a bad thing in Alaska. Sir, please help me understand what you mean by saying this.." paying to give it away"? Please understand, say for example we bid on an oil and gas leases and win them with the highest bid and we spend $ 10 million to drill and hit a 100 mil...
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She knows what she's talking about and she doesn't have to call others names to get her point across. You go on to state: "I think what disgusts me the most by your opinion is how you so easily discriminate against other farmers around the world who help local farmers like me make profit so we can make payroll." Just...
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Fracking in cook inlet. What could possibly go wrong in such a geological active area? Makes me glad I'm leaving the area. Tidal and wave generators sound a lot safer.
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Keeping dysfunctional families together and continuing to allow the dysfunction to reproduce is not a good idea
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The Coast Guard does NOT have a "big presence" in Cold Bay. They maintain an intermittently manned "Forward Operating Location" (FOL) in Cold bay that they are capable of intermittently stationing air assets at. The Coast Guard sees their mission as assisting ships at sea, NOT as providing medevac on land. They some...
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Brad, well said, I couldn't agree with you more! AIDA gifting 30M of the People's money to big oil is ludicrous! It's like Parnell never left the administration.
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I disagree the folks who incorrectly used/abused their medications are the ones who created the mess
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If Alaska oil laws are so good why don't you or any of your friends drill for oil? Alaska, keeps changing the laws and tax system so no one can plan or depend on the state for a stable forecast. Alaska needs to be dependable and stable, so use the PFD or savings and count this oil price crisis as a raining day so u...
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If Alaska oil laws are so good why don’t you or any of your friends drill for oil? Alaska, keeps changing the laws and tax system so no one can plan or depend on the state for a stable forecast. Alaska needs to be dependable and stable, so use the PFD or savings and count this oil price crisis as a raining day so use...
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If Alaska oil laws are so good why don’t you or any of your friends drill for oil? Alaska, keeps changing the laws and tax system so no one can plan or depend on the state for a stable forecast. Alaska needs to be dependable and stable, so use the PFD or savings and count this oil price crisis as a raining day so use...
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Trump the ZOMBIE candidate. Fortunately for America people have started paying attention to what he really is saying and there just isn't enough Trumpie's to elect him, but there are enough people for him to screw up the nominating process. The chicken's are coming home to roost in the party of HYPOCRIT'S.................
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Not likely. You can hear an echo of all the promises made by the oil industry before the Exxon Valdez incident. Promises can be very hollow, as many who lived here found out.
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The State Department said it would conduct an internal review on whether the information in the Hilary emails sent through Hilary's private clintonemail.com account on her private server in her New York home were classified. The FBI notified the State Department to suspend it's investigation while there is an ongoi...
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You tell me Andi. What chance do we stand against the good old white boy club.
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Tidal and wave generators would benefit local Alaskans a LOT more than it would benefit those in Texas and those investing in the stock market. Even more if they tied in a bit of the revenue of sold electricity, to the PFD system. Wave and Tidal power generation also does not benefit the state legislature's campaign ...
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And who is that candidate?
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I hope this raises our taxes. I was hoping tax rates would go up. I want to pay more.
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So, there will be a lot more heavy traffic (tanker trucks) running from Anchor Point to North Kenai where the refinery is. This will go year round, and directly through a high tourist & fishing traffic area, not to mention directly through the center of a number of towns. Has any part of the state calculated how this...
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Opiate withdrawl is not life threatening. Alcohol withdrawl can be. Detox is not treatment. Detox may be needed so that the patient can sit still long enough...and be better able to focus on Treatment. Detox is an important part of Treatment. Detox if needed....followed by, Long Term Residential Substance Abuse Tr...
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And the billary reference may be a moot point if she ends up in the rebar hotel.
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Springfield High School does have many of the courses you seek. http://shs.springfield.k12.or.us/files/2012/10/SHS_Course-Catalog-2015-2016.pdf
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said the person, who was not authorized to speak about the matter.
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There is no way this article can be true. Alaskans know how evil the Federal govt. is and would never let the Evil Empire pour money into the state. The people of Alaska know, deep down, that if they took Federal money they would be hypocrites. Alaskans hate the President of the United States and everything he stands f...
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No Don, wealthy comes from selling your constituents hopes and dreams to Florida builders of wealthy communities, making fun a coastal destruction and watching your wealthy friends piece meal Alaska till no one is left but rich oil companies, mining companies and foriegn fishing fleets and canneries! Vote anyone but th...
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With up to 17,000 more (subsidized) barrels from Cook Inlet and the recent agreement with the State to buy its royalty oil seems like Tesoro feedstock will be mostly or all Alaskan oil. Hopefully that keeps the price of gas down.
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There is nothing more anti science then telling healthy pregnant women with a healthy developing human being, that they are not taking a life when they participate in the abortion of their developing child. Abortion is an industry based on lies and disregarding the science of anatomy, physiology, and biology. Human...
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Just like a sales tax, this starts out being "only" X percent, and Y and Z are exempt. Once the infrastructure is in place, a few years later the unions decide they need more of your money, and by this time many businesses (victims) have fled the state, so XYZ all are adjusted accordingly. And of course it's all a scam...
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This is a genius idea: In a state struggling to produce good full time jobs, let's punish the people who actually provide employment.
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There's also an old Native Alaskan legend of a tall man with long yellow hair who walked around angrily looking at the edge of the sky (the horizon?). He was called 'Smart Beaver' and he made the animals behave. (By means of a weapon?) He taught the people a great many things, such as how to make snow shoes, boats, fi...
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I've seen them bought for a lot less; so have you if you were looking.
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Five posts later and you still haven't addressed the facts I referenced that expose your babbling ridiculous nonsense for what it is. RUN FOREST RUN
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But the billions that organized labor, Soros, et al. give to Democrats is good money, right?
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No, Ornery Bear.
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John Jasinski. Electric was higher due to the very high employee costs that the IBEW has extracted from their contracts. The cost of the natural gas to generate electricity is a low cost factor for the overall cost of electricity to your home. Property taxes in Anchorage are going up by 4.5% and the tax assessment of y...
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This is the perfect tax. Big bucks are raised. Gullible citizens think that somebody else is going to pay for it. I could not design a better tax to sucker in citizens to vote for it believing that somebody else was going to pay when in reality the citizens will through higher taxes. Obviously, Fred Meyer with a 1....
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But the billions that organized labor, Soros, et al. give to Democrats is good money, right?
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Why does ADN repeat same post over and over for response? The editor is an idiot. Civil discourse? Choking up time.
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Yep. I remember years ago reading excerpts from Columbus' journals that clearly stated he took Gambian Muslims with him as interpreters to communicate with the black folks he found in the Bahamas when he landed there. Never once saw those excerpts referred to in any 'history' book--certainly not the ones foisted on u...
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The Mat-Su is ground zero for the budget cuts only / no new revenue crowd. Trooper consolidation is one result of the severe cuts that the Mat-Su legislative delegation champions. The rest of us don't want to hear any whining from the people that put the Mat-Su delegation in office. In other words, you reap what you ...
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Your ignorance of basics of business is profound. Lone Pine, and Thistledown, 2 local growers who carry their own weight, buy wholesale and mark up retail, produce, to generate profit to make payroll and their overhead. Only an ignorant fool limits themselves in business and why so many wannabe pretend farmers come and...
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Good law, please pass it.
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Don Young IS the problem with the GOP Old, White, Racist, Uneducated and should have been arrested for hitting the staff worker in Washington D.C.
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Hey ADN, no one CARES who Don Young is voting for!! This is a non-story.......... Try doing real investigative journalism this diatribe is for the funny pages. The lack of your ability to produce informative news is viciously apparent!
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Mr Wohlforth, thanks for connecting the approval/negotiation of public employee union contracts to funding of elected officials. It would seem that the public unions have people on both sides of the negotiating table. Where is the public's representative?
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As real science is practiced, it is fraught with controversy and argument. New discoveries are uncertain and disputed. Developmental engineering is similar. As new production processes are developed, engineers are in a perpetual state of confusion about how to make the process better. So, no, K-12 education should ...
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Andy Holleman, you know darn well that the NEA delivers voters and funds candidates for the school boards in AK. Follow the money.
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Why not just call this a sales tax that is desperately needed to bail out the PERS funds that were lost when those in charge of the funds gambled them away in the name of greed and lost big time when the bubble busted in 2008? It is in the best interest of all non government workers in Oregon to give IP 28 a definite N...
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Mr Pfeffer gives money to almost every legislator regardless of Party. Check the entire APOC report
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You have a negative effect on our Oregon. Please, go back to Europe and pollute that continent as your consumption and living here is killing our environment.
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another loser like Young !!!
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If I am limited to $500 to a particular candidate, then why are union PACs able to give $1,000?
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So...the republican party wants to obliterate what few campaign finance laws we have and open up state elections to unlimited, anonymous outside money. There isn't a better reason to vote the republican party out of power in Alaska. Virtually nobody I know thinks the answer to political corruption is more, unlimited ...
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Do it! Please! It works in Douglas County!
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Not bought....RENTED, like a Pfeffer lease.
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WOW! He's really getting modern. I was sure he'd be quoted as saying Eisenhower.
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In today's corruption climate awareness environment, shouldn't we be pushing for the pendulum to swing the other way? Why not a $100 limit? Make it harder for money to influence elections, not easier.
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Kasich is another republican dingbat. This is the guy who told seniors who are losing their social security to, "get over it". I guess they want all the occupants of the clown car to get some time in the spotlight and it must finally be Kasich's turn.
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And your point is? She makes reasonable arguments for the benefits of a sales tax. The progressive tax, or exempting groceries ,etc. should allow relief to low income earners, while also capturing tourists and non-Alaskan workers who otherwise only export their earnings. Do you have a non-political argument against the...
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If you like having state funded services and you like driving your car to work, having work, and living in a modern house, you can't in good conscience be against oil production. Anything else is hypocracy.
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I see Charles' excellent article as a metaphor. Its not whether campaign contributions less than $1,000 influence municipal candidates, it's about our largely unregulated federal campaign system. The Koch brothers alone have budgeted $889 million for the current presidential race. Large out-of-state donors now have out...
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Lubbock Christian lost to UCONN at UCONN in the first game of the season for both. It was labeled an exhibition game so didn't count against the official record. But, they are not undefeated. The score was UCONN - 95 vs Lubbock - 39. GO SEAWOLVES!
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Trump is nothing more then a two-bit Tabloid Caesar who will say anything for a headline. The fact that he is the republican favorite says a lot about their party.
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The only ones who favor this are educated morons who have never ran a business in their life, have absolutely no idea what it takes to make payroll much less create jobs, because the only thing they have ever ran is their mouth and frankly they suck at that too. Unions are the ones backing this profound stupidity as th...
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This is great news... Godspeed to BlueCrest energy in their fracking operations... Get er' done.
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I see Charles' excellent article as a metaphor. Its not whether campaign contributions less than $1,000 influence municipal candidates, it's about our largely unregulated federal campaign system. The Koch brothers alone have budgeted $889 million for the current presidential race. Large out-of-state donors now have out...
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Robin, I've known many public school teachers as I've had two children spend their entire K-12 years in Alaska schools. I've found teachers to be similar any other professional employee group with values, opinions and attitudes that differ throughout buildings and districts. Teachers experience first hand the societal ...
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I was on Mayor Sullivan's transition team on collective bargaining issues and might well have been a part of that administration. I looked around wrote my report and got back to Juneau as fast as I could. The MOA is union chattel and the taxpayers have zero representation at the bargaining table in most administrat...
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Its funny that so many Alaskans claim to be "independent" voters when republican Don Young is about the serve his 45th straight year in office. "Independent" in Alaska means republican. Apologies to those of you who actually practice independent voting habits...I know there are a few of you out there.
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And how much have the AFL-CIO, the NEA, various left-leaning non-profits and environmental groups, and Soros and other leftist billionaires budgeted for this year's elections? What the left doesn't like about Citizens United is that it damaged their monopoly on buying elections.
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I figured one Donald would back the other Donald.....
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My how the mighty have fallen. From one of the elite teams in the ECHL to one of the three worst in a matter of two seasons. No change in site, the future appears bleak, as far as winning goes. Sit back and enjoy a return to the good old days of losing hockey teams. Anchorage now enjoys two underachieving teams.
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Art, It's the system that's wrong. All parties will improve when the system improves. Organized labor is involved however keep in mind.....labor unions comprise less than 10% of this country. Political contributions don't come from dues but from individuals beyond their dues. Many contribute but not nearly as much as G...
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Thanks Alaska
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A thousand $ here, a thousand $ there, soon adds up. The amount of political donations contributed between 1998 and 2004 by the top seven VECO executives to AK lawmakers with their legislative position listed: source (Alaska Public Office commission as detailed by Wikipedia) Sen. Lyda Green $28,000 Sen. Cowdery $24,550...
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Every woman should be free to make her own decisions about her own body. If you are not the woman in question, then it's none of your business.
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You sir need to fact check.
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'A mind like an empty room....'
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This is good reason #278 for voting republicans out of power in Juneau. Their loyalty lies with the oil industry, not Alaskans.
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Art. Republicans and Democrats are tainted with same tar brush. They both are responsible for the destruction of Libery and Justice for anyone but Romney's top Percenter's.
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Interesting... I thought the "air is free" argument was purely from playground legal experts, not adult legal philosophers! The defense says the current system is as if the government has taken over an unused room in their house to provide contraceptives. That is a bit of a stretch. Maybe the solution is for the Littl...
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Who said there's no good argument for abortion?
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Jonah wants another politician.
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Yes, he has spread the money around widely, including to some dems. But his money is far more concentrated on the legislative majority members (R&D). If you're going to buy influence, why waste time with the minority? Interesting that Lora Reinhold got stiffed - guess when you break with party orthodoxy the tap g...
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The Pusher ~ http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/steppenwolf/the_pusher.html#! He On The Streets & He In The AMA ~ Good Luck America.... We Need It
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