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Resolution condemning Trump’s hate speech: Full text

July 16, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Racial issues, Republicans Leave a comment

The resolution passed today in the U.S. House of Representatives, condemning Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress is an amazing piece of

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The 2015 Reagan Ranch calendar just landed in my mailbox

August 20, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik History, Republicans Leave a comment

It’s fun to live in a zip code that politicos view as split between Republicans and Democrats. I get phone calls, door knocks and

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Playing chicken with the debt ceiling: So dangerous, even Reagan wouldn’t go there

January 14, 2013 Renee Shur Budget, Consumer issues, Economy, Financial reform, Good government, Politics, Republicans, Senate, Taxes Leave a comment

$18.9 billion.  That’s what the 2011 debt-limit standoff and the threatened U.S. credit default will be costing taxpayers in higher interest payments over the

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