I was always fascinated by the miscellaneous items in the back of the hymnals in the churches I attended while growing up. Most of the hymnals had various compendiums of prayers, creeds, and popular ceremonial call-and-response scripts.
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The ink is hardly dry on the 247,000+ Ohio votes that, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer report, are never going to be counted. Yet, our President has already begun gloating about his “political capital” generated by his so-called victory.

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In 1964, famed political trickster and professional Nixon baiter, Dick Tuck, ran for a state Senate seat in California. Suffering a heavy defeat, Tuck stepped before cameras and uttered the words that have been ringing in my ears all night: “The people have spoke – the bastards!”
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I chose to launch this web site on Election Day, November 2, 2004. The way I figure it, this is likely to be an auspicious day, no matter how it turns out. So what better day to begin a new web site where I’ll from time to time talk about the renewal and rehabilitation of Liberalism as a core American value!

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