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Elizabeth Dole

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'''Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole''', born July 29, 1936 (age {{age|1936|7|29}}), is the wife of [[Bob Dole]], a [[Republican]] from [[Kansas]] and former candidate for President of the [[United States of America]]. She is a former Senator from the state of [[North Carolina]]. Her [[maiden name]] was '''Hanford'''.

Following the retirement of Senator Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole ran for his seat and won. She served as Chairwoman of the Republican Senatorial Committee in the 2006 election cycle, but did not enjoy a level of success, as the Republicans lost six seats and became the minority party.
Dole attended [[Duke University]] and [[Harvard Law School]].

Dole, who was up for re-election in 2008 surprised many with a strong showing for her fundraising in for the second quarter of 2007. Her popularity increased in North Carolina following her opposition to President Bush's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.

Dole was defeated for re-election in 2008 by Democratic opponent [[Kay Hagan]].<ref>[http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html North Carolina election results]</ref>

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Michael Ignatieff

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[[Image:Michael Ignatieff.jpg|right|thumb|Michael Ignatieff]]'''Michael Ignatieff''' is the current leader of the [[Liberal Party of Canada]], the previous majority [[political party]] in [[Canada]]. He is an academic and was a university professor in both [[Great Britain]], and in the [[United States]] at the Kennedy School of Government at [[Harvard]] University. Ignatieff has been continuously sited as a opportunist due to his many personal and political ambitions.

In 2005, while still working outside the country, the Liberal Party of Canada successfully drafted him to run for Member of [[Parliament]] in an [[Ontario]] riding for an upcoming federal election. Ignatieff moved back to Canada after he had spent the last twenty years working outside the country. The Liberals believed that if they were defeated in the 2006 federal election (which they were) that Ignatieff could provide a sense of renewal to the party. He enter the 2006 Liberal leadership race but was defeated by [[Stephane Dion]], most notably because of Bob Rae's decision to not drop out and support Ignatieff to prevent Stephane Dion from winning. Rae also supported no candidate after being eliminated, this is said to have cause Ignatieff to lose.

In December of 2008, after Dion was ousted as leader, Ignatieff served as interim leader of the party. In 2009 he was successful in pressuring the two other candidates for the May 2009 leadership convention to drop out. This lead him to become leader of the party by acclamation. As leader he has twice tried to force unpopular and unwanted federal elections, and has continuously worked at trying to force non-confidence votes against the government.

''Blood and Belonging'', a book by Ignatieff has also been criticized for its anti-Ukrainian sentiment. In the book, Ignatieff openly discusses Russian stereotypes towards Ukrainians.

It is also believed that during the 2010 Winter Olympics he may have cheered for and supported Russia over Canada. {{fact}}

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Main Page/Previous Conservapedia Breaking News/Archives/February 2008

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===February 29 ===
The Ten Planks of the [[Leftist|Left]] [http://slayingthegoliath.blogspot.com/2008/02/ten-planks-of-left.html]
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Paying for "[[Gender equality|Gender Equality]]" [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2008/02/28/paying_for_gender_equality]
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[[Conservative]] [[Writer]], Commentator [[William F. Buckley]] Jr. Dies at 82 [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333055,00.html] '''[[William F. Buckley|Buckley]]: The Godfather of [[Conservative|Conservatism]]''' - [http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/329666.aspx Watch the video]
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[[Barack Obama|Obama]]: The [[liberal]] [[Mainstream media|press]] prints glowing tributes to their new [[progressive]] [[prophet]], calling him "the triumph of word over flesh" [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/the_fierce_urgency_of_lies.html]
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[[David Limbaugh]]: The 'Ascendance of [[United States of America|American]] [[Conservative|Conservatism]]' [http://www.newsmax.com/limbaugh/conservatism/2008/02/27/76005.html]
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There is ''no'' [[Science|scientific]] [[consensus]] that [[Anthropogenic global warming|AGW]] is significant [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/27/a-show-of-hands-one-mans-take-on-climate-change-consensus/]
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[[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|FISA]], [[fear]], and [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[fraud]]s [http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/25/fisa-fear-and-democrat-frauds/][http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWEyNTdjNDNiNWY5NTU5ZTI1MDhjNWYxNDA4MDM2MTI]
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[[Barack Obama|Obama's]] [[Class warfare|Class-War]] [[Court]] [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TerenceJeffrey/2008/02/27/obamas_class-war_court]
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Understanding [[Intelligent design|Intelligent Design]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/26/understanding-intelligent-design/]
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[[Feminism]] and the [[English|English Language]] [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/783lvmtg.asp]
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[[Planned Parenthood]] [[Website]] Promotes [[Pornography|Porn]] to Teens[[Planned_Parenthood#Planned_Parenthood.27s_Teen_Website_Gets_It_Barred_from_California_High_School| (more info)]]
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[[Peter LaBarbera]]: Millions to [[Homosexual rights advocacy|pro-homosexual groups]] bad [[news]] for [[Christians]] [http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=68457]
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[[National Education Association|NEA]] Pushes [[Homosexuality]] in [[School]] Booklet [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200802/CUL20080226a.html]
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The Incontrovertible [[Fact]]s About Fathers [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2008/02/27/the_incontrovertible_facts_about_fathers]
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[[Earth]] cooling down, not [[Global Warming|warming up]] [http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=68277]
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[[Hate]] [[Writer]]s Invade [[Liberal]] [[Website]]s [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30973.html]
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[[Gun]]s Save Lives [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/guns_save_lives.html]
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[[College]] [[Northern_Illinois_University#2008_Shootings|Shooting]] Reveals [[Liberal logic|Muddled Thinking]] by the [[Leftist|Left]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/26/college-shooting-reveals-muddled-thinking-by-the-left/]
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[[Custer's Last Stand]]? Last night may have been [[Hillary Clinton]]'s last [[debate]].

===February 28 ===
The public has had enough of [[Hollywood Values]]: the [[Academy Award|Oscars]] was a ratings disaster.[http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/dont_expect_hollywood_to_learn.html]
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The [[Materialism|Materialist]] [[Faith]] of [[Communism]], [[Socialism]], and [[Liberal|Liberalism]] [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/the_materialist_faith_of_commu.html]
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The [[Leftist]] [[School]] Agenda and the Banning of [[Patriotism]] [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/the_left_wing_school_agenda_an.html]
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[[Image:Miracle Baby.jpg|thumb|150px|right|A [[Miracle]]: Becky and Kriss with Brandon]]
A couple was advised to [[abortion|abort]] their baby when [[doctor]]s said he would be [[Deafness|deaf]] and [[Blindness|blind]]. Brandon was born healthy. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=517827&in_page_id=1774]
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[[Phyllis Schlafly]]: [[Congress]] Contemplates Giving [[Money|Cash]] to Foreigners [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2008/02/25/congress_contemplates_giving_cash_to_foreigners?page=1] 
"The Global [[Poverty]] Act would be a giant step toward the Millennium Goals of global governance and international [[Taxation|taxes]] on [[United States of America|Americans]]."
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[[Democratic Party|Democrats]] Demagogue [[Poverty]]. Again. [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/25/democrats-demagogue-poverty-again/]
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[[Pope Benedict XVI]] Calls on [[Doctor]]s to Resist [[Euthanasia]] and Assisted Suicide [http://www.lifenews.com/bio2345.html]
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The Big Spike: What [[Mainstream media|Media]] [[Liberal Bias|Bias]] [[Deceit|Withholds]] From the [[News]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/25/the-big-spike-what-media-bias-withholds-from-the-news/]
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A pair of teenagers were suspended from an [[Oregon]] [[high school]] for "[[gang]]-related [[Deviant Behavior|behavior]]" because they were wearing ''crucifixes'' [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332333,00.html]
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[[United States of America|American]] [[Professor]], Ousted From [[DePaul University]], Declares Support for [[Hezbollah]] in [[Lebanon]] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332360,00.html]
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"A leading [[Catholic]] Church official in [[England]] has dismissed the board of directors of a hospital" for violating Church doctrine against [[abortion]]. [http://www.lifenews.com/int631.html]

===February 27 ===
"[[North America]]n Army created without OK by [[Congress]]" [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57228]
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[[Image:Ralph Nader.jpg|right|200x|thumb|[[Ralph Nader]]]]
[[Ralph Nader]], two years older than [[John McCain]] and a strong critic of [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]], announces that he is running for president. Will he tip the balance to [[Republicans]] in the swing states of [[Wisconsin]] and [[Iowa]], as he did in [[Florida]] in 2000? [http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/ralph_nader_running_again_impa.html]
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Will the [[Mainstream media|Media]] Touch [[Barack Obama|Obama's]] Wild [[Gun control|Anti-Gun]] Proposals?
[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/02/23/will-media-touch-obamas-wild-anti-gun-proposals]
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"Shame on you," [[Hillary Clinton]] scolds [[Barack Obama|Obama]]. [http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8a4ba5d5-1cbf-4cf1-8c88-76544b6718af&k=91139]
 See point #28 in [[liberal style]]: "often declare that an adversary should be 'ashamed of himself.'"
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[[Barack Obama]]'s [[liberal logic]]: "I heard from a Army captain, who was the head of a rifle platoon, supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to [[Afghanistan]] with 24, because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to [[Iraq]]. ''And as a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition; they didn't have enough humvees. They were actually capturing [[Taliban]] weapons because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.'' ... I said [blah blah blah], and I was right." [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21text-demdebate.html?_r=1&sq=transcript&st=nyt&scp=2&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin] Less men means ... not enough ammo and humvees??? More Taliban than [[U.S.]] weapons??? Which [[American]]s were hurt in Afghanistan from inadequate equipment??? "'I find that account pretty hard to imagine,' Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters." [http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSN22630167]
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Right to carry arms helps keep [[peace]] [http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_workman13_02-13-08_ES8JA6P_v17.38cb7f5.html]
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Are pornography addicts teaching in [[public school]]? Back to teaching after 1 week off for someone who had pornography on his school-issued laptop and had spread a virus from downloaded movies. [http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/22/me-teacher-viewed-porn-on-school-laptop/]
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Explaining to the [[Barack Obama|Obamas]] Why They Should Be Proud of Their [[United States of America|Country]]
[http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2008/02/22/explaining_to_the_obamas_why_they_should_be_proud_of_their_country]

===February 25 ===
[[Illegal immigration|Illegal Immigrant]] Charged With [[Homicide]] in Deadly [[Minnesota]] [[Public schools|School]] [[Bus]] Crash [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331989,00.html]
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A [[liberal]] study admits: "'''Liberal teenagers always felt more stress than conservatives.'''" [http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10717915]
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''Conservapedia surpasses 51 million page views; the truth shall set you free.''
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Young artist hangs herself over grief of [[abortion|aborting]] her twins. Coroner: "It is clear that the termination of pregnancy can have a profound effect on a woman's life." Suicide note says "'''I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital.'''"[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=517346&in_page_id=1770]
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Another case of a government screwup, this time about a woman who's still alive, yet officially dead: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331647,00.html]
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"[[Global Warming]]? New Data Shows Ice Is Back." [http://newsmax.com/newsfront/global_warming_or_cooling/2008/02/19/73798.html]
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[[Serbia]]ns attack the U.S. embassy as a result of American support for [[Kosovo]]'s freedom and independence: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331811,00.html]
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Concealed by the media, [[conservatives]] are taking back the [[Republican Party]]: [[liberal]] incumbent [[Wayne Gilchrest]], endorsed by the [[environmentalist]]s, by President [[George W. Bush]] and by [[Newt Gingrich]], was defeated in his primary by a [[conservative]] challenger in [[Maryland]]. [http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DavidARidenour/2008/02/17/rep_wayne_gilchrest_finds_it%E2%80%99s_not_easy_being_green]
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Conservapedia's [[Young Earth Creationism]] article is now ranked #6 by Google for the search term young earth creationism! [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=young+earth+creationism&btnG=Google+Search]
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That didn't take long: the [[liberal]] media, which has promoted [[John McCain]] for a decade, suddenly turns on him and starts to smear him in this [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin New York Times article]. Let the [[liberal]] smear campaign begin!
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[[Conservapedia:Contest5|Contest5]] has concluded. See the results [[Conservapedia:Contest5#Teams|here]]

===February 23 ===
Private Philanthropy is Bad for [[Socialism]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/20/private-philanthropy-is-bad-for-socialism/]
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[[Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro's]] sorry legacy [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973548/posts]
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[[Pro-life]] [[Doctor]]s Group Challenges OBGYN Org on [[Abortion]] [[Conscience]] [[Rights]] [http://www.lifenews.com/nat3748.html]
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[[Abortion]] Practitioner Loses License After [[Manslaughter|Killing]] [[Women|Woman]] in Botched [[Abortion]] [http://www.lifenews.com/state2922.html]
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[[Death|Dying]] From [[Universal Health Care|Universal Health Insurance]] [http://www.redstate.com/stories/policy/dying_from_universal_health_insurance]
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[[Economics]] 101 for [[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary]] & [[Barack Obama|Obama]] (and for [[Liberal]]s on Conservapedia) [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30885.html]
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'[[Gun control|Gun free zones]]' can be [[Death|deadly]] [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/gun_free_zones_can_be_deadly.html]
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Are the hard [[Economics|economic]] times facing the [[newspaper]] [[industry]] stressing newsroom denizens beyond the breaking point? [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/the_wacko_journalist_narrative.html]
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You can get a flavor of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Barack Obama|Obama's]] conventional, [[liberal]] program on his [[website]]. [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/reviewing_obamas_blueprint_for.html Reviewing Obama's Blueprint for Change]
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Raised by [[Hollywood values]], 26-year-old [[Britney Spears]] is not "qualified or capable of entering into a binding agreement" according to attorneys assigned to look after her. The judge apparently agreed. [http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/20/britney.spears.ap/index.html?eref=yahoo]

===February 22 ===
Michelle Obama's [[United States of America|America]] [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/764fosie.asp] [http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/michelle_obama_thinks_youre_worthless_and_stupid_thinks_voting_for_her_husband_will_be_the_only_worthwhil] 
'''UPDATE''' from [[Michelle Malkin]] - [http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/20/michelle-obamas-america-and-mine/ Michelle Obama’s America–and mine]
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The Paranoid Style in [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Foreign policy|Foreign Policy]] [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/the_saranoid_style_in_democrat.html]
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St. Peter's [[College]] locked down its campus Wednesday after receiving [[e-mail]]s saying [[bomb]]s were planted in campus buildings, authorities said. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220/ap_on_re_us/college_lockdown]
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"[W]hy do we ban [toy] [[gun]]s, yet allow [[children]] to instead [[murder]] thousands of groaning victims in X-box virtual reality?"[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23243083-5000117,00.html]
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[[John McCain|McCain]], [[Barack Obama|Obama]] win [[Wisconsin]] primary.[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-campaign20feb20,0,4726924.story]
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[[Socialism]] On The Campaign Trail [http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/socialism_on_the_campaign_trail/]
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[[Image:Darwin vs Lincoln.jpg|thumb|right|Evolutionists try to convince schools to shift their focus from Lincoln's birthday to [[Darwin Day|Darwin's birthday]] - both of which fall on Feb. 12.]]
[[Evolution]] Supporters Fight for "[[Charles Darwin|Darwin Day]]" [http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/321151.aspx] 
[[Evolutionism|Evolutionists]] not only want to elevate [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]], they plan to demote [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] in the process.
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Conservapedia's [[atheism]] article continues to climb the Google rankings! Conservapedia's atheism just passed the [[liberal]] website Religioustolerance.org's website for the search term atheism! [http://www.google.com/search?q=atheism&hl=en&start=10&sa=N]

===February 21 ===
[[Image:Korea - Free Market.jpg|thumb|right|50 years ongoing, the results are illuminated by the nighttime view over Korea.|150px]]
Visual [[Evidence]] For The Success Of [[Capitalism]] [http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/visual_evidence_for_the_success_of_capitalism/]
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[[George Washington]]: A True [[Christian]]? [http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/324387.aspx]
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What [[Barack Obama|Obama]] Means By Unity ... ''A [[liberal]] [[majority]]'' [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/722gicto.asp]
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Who's More [[Liberal]], [[Clinton]] or [[Barack Obama|Obama]]? [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8573.html] [http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/to_the_left_of_hillary]
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[[Heath Ledger]] and Personal [[Responsibility]] [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/heath_ledger_and_personal_resp.html]
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[[Liberal]] [[professor]]s and [[teacher]]s [[Labor union|unions]] seem intent on reshaping [[United States of America|America’s]] [[history]], [[tradition]]s, and [[moral]] guidelines. 
The solution? [http://www.newsmax.com/boone/god/2008/02/19/73732.html ''Turn to God for Treatment'']
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[[Arlen Specter|Specter]] decries [[cost]] to hold deportable [[alien]] criminals [http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20080219_Specter_decries_cost_to_hold_deportable_alien_criminals.html] 
The [[Department of Homeland Security]] has estimated that in 2007, about 302,000 "removable aliens" were admitted to state and local [[jail]]s. 
"Most . . . incarcerated aliens are being released into the [[United States of America|U.S.]] at the conclusion of their respective sentences" because of lack of [[federal]] resources.
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[[Battle]] brews over [[Federal Funds|federal funds]], [[Religion|religious]] groups [http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/NATION/437006614/1001]
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[[College]]s scramble to offer curriculum on [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Mormon]] [[religion]] [http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/02/19/colleges_scramble_to_offer_curriculum_on_mormon_religion/?page=1]
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[[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Clinton's]] struggle vexes [[Feminism|feminists]] [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/19/clintons_struggle_vexes_feminists/]
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[[Sex education|Sex Education]] Veers the Wrong Way [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25062]
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[[Barack Obama|Obama]] Has More [[Faith]] in the [[United Nations|UN]], [[Iran]] & [[Syria]] than in [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Military|Soldiers]] in [[Operation Iraqi Freedom|Iraq]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/16/obama-has-more-faith-in-the-un-iran-syria-than-us-soldiers-in-iraq/]
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Five Questions about [[Murder|Shootings]] at [[University|Universities]] [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/02/19/five_questions_about_shootings_at_universities?page=1]
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[[New York Times|NY Times]], Tell it to the [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/18/ny-times-tell-it-to-the-marines/]
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Should the [[Democratic Party]] Apologize for Supporting [[Slavery]]? [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/18/should-the-democratic-party-apologize-for-supporting-slavery/]
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'''[[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|FISA]] related articles:'''
*The Reason [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] Won’t [[Vote]] On [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|FISA]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/19/the-reason-democrats-wont-vote-on-fisa/]
*Whose [[Politics]] Of [[Fear]]? [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/02/18/whose_politics_of_fear]
*[[Tort]]s and [[Terrorism]] [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2008/02/18/torts_and_terrorism]
*'John Doe' [[Telecommunications|Telecoms]] [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankJGaffneyJr/2008/02/19/john_doe_telecoms]
*[[Nancy Pelosi|Pelosi’s]] Reckless Gamble on [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|FISA]] [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25064]

===February 20 ===
[[Time magazine]] Talks Down to Real [[Christian]]s [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/19/time-talks-down-to-real-christians/]
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Kirkwood Massacre Shooter: [[Hero]], Victim, or [[Monster]]? [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/19/kirkwood-massacre-shooter-hero-victim-or-monster/]
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[[Iran]] [[Education|Educates]] [[Children]] to 'Seek [[Martyr|Martyrdom]]' [http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/289970.aspx] 
Iran's educational curriculum teaches children as young as first grade to prepare for [[war]] and seek martyrdom.
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[[Maryland]] Group Fights [[Bill]] for Co-ed Bathrooms [http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/324385.aspx]
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Study Says [[Homosexuality|Gays]] Can Change [[Sexual orientation theory|Orientation]] [http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/324337.aspx]
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[[Oxford University|University of Oxford]] Spends $3.7M for Study About Why People [[Faith|Believe]] in [[God]] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331190,00.html]
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[[Journalism|Journalist]] Who Exposes [[United Nations|U.N.]] [[Corruption]] Disappears From [[Google]] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331106,00.html] UPDATE: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331469,00.html Google Quietly Reinstates Work of News Organization Critical of U.N.]
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''America, 1. ACLU, 0'' - [[U.S. Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] Rejects [[ACLU]] Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance Program [http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/19/america-1-aclu-0/][http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331203,00.html]
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[[George W. Bush|Bush]] demands [[democracy]] as [[Fidel Castro]] resigns as [[Cuba]]n [[president]] and commander in chief.[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/19/wcastro919.xml]
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[[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]] honor [[Presidents' Day]] with a schoolyard whinefest about who copied who...[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/19/2008-02-19_hillary_cries_plagiarism__barack_sez_she.html]
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Life sentence for [[Muslim]] fanatic in soldier kidnap plot who showed son, aged 5, how to behead [[British]] 'infidels'.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=515633&in_page_id=1770]
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[[Kosovo]] Declares Its Independence From [[Serbia]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/world/europe/18kosovo.html?ex=1360990800&en=579b01366cbc2ea5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss]
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[[Image:McCain-GHBush.jpg|right|140px]]
Former President Bush Endorses [[John McCain]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/us/politics/18cnd-campaign.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203355477-7smBx05b5pFwEsn8RSK2Sw]
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Another example of [[Hollywood Values]]: [[Britney Spears]] doesn't want her kids back! [http://www.nypost.com/seven/02132008/news/nationalnews/brit_doesnt_want_her_kids__1st_ex_97425.htm]
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[[Bill Clinton]] Lashes Out at [[Pro-life]] [[Advocate]]s During [[Ohio]] Stop for [[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary]] [http://www.lifenews.com/state2908.html]
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[[Che Guevara]] and the [[Barack Obama|Obama]] Campaign [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25045]
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[[Barack Obama|Obama’s]] International [[Socialism|Socialist]] Connections [http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=1386626]
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[[Intelligence]] 'Expelled' from [[Evolution]] [[Debate]] [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25046]
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Democrat [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]'s campaign released a 13-page blueprint for fixing the economy Monday, detailing the former first lady's plans to achieve universal health care, address the home foreclosure crisis and develop jobs for the middle class. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080218/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_economy]

===February 19 ===
[[Rush Limbaugh|Limbaugh]], [[Sean Hannity|Hannity]] Still Tops on [[Talk radio|Talk Radio]] [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200802/CUL20080213a.html] 
Rounding off the top five of the rankings were [[Michael Alan Weiner|Michael Savage]] in third, [[Dr. Laura Schlessinger]] in fourth, and [[Glenn Beck]] in fifth. They were followed by [[Laura Ingraham]], [[Don Imus]], Ed Schultz, Mike Gallagher, and [[Neal Boortz]], respectively. 
Two of the most popular [[liberal]] hosts on the list lost ground in the ratings compared to last year. Ed Schultz dropped from fifth to eighth. [[Air America Radio|Air America Radio's]] Randi Rhodes plummeted from 13th to 40th place.
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The head of a major [[homosexual]] [[activist]] group said [[Human Immunodeficiency Virus|HIV]]/[[Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome|AIDS]] is a "[[gay disease]]." [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200802/CUL20080215b.html]
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Howard Kurtz Bashes [[Mainstream media|Media's]] [[2008 Presidential Election|Presidential Campaign]] Coverage [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/02/17/howard-kurtz-bashes-medias-presidential-campaign-coverage]
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[[Liberal logic]] - Western [[Greenland]] [[Ice]] ''Growing'', Still [[Global Warming]] [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2008/02/16/western-greenland-ice-growing-still-global-warming]
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[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]] [[Professor]] Suggests [[Abortion]] for [[Down Syndrome]] [[Fetus|Babies]] [http://www.lifenews.com/state2906.html]
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A Journey from [[Islam]] to [[Christianity]] [http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/282531.aspx] 
Muslims who convert to Christianity face harsh [[Christian persecution|persecution]] and more. When Adam refused to return to Islam, he was attacked and is now permanently paralyzed.
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A [[children|children's]] [[book]] about two male [[penguin]]s that hatch a chick together has been pulled from [[Public schools|public school]] library shelves in [[Virginia]] after [[parents]] complained that the book has a [[homosexual agenda]] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330956,00.html]
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[[Liberal denial]] hides this, but the [[Northern Illinois University|NIU]] killer's girlfriend has revealed that he sent her [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietszche]]'s book, "The Antichrist," before his killing rampage.[http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/17/shooter.girlfriend/?iref=mpstoryview]
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[[Image:Obama 2008.jpg|140px|right]]
[[Barack Obama]] sneaked down to [[North Carolina]] Sunday and met with former rival [[John Edwards]], who has yet to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080217/ap_on_el_pr/obama_edwards]
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A [[California]] state lawmaker wants to require [[public schools]] to teach [[Global Warming|global warming]] in all [[science]] classes [http://www.mercurynews.com//ci_8262486?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330932,00.html]

===February 18 ===
"During the primaries so far, Mr. [[McCain]] has done well with Hispanics, while Mr. [[Obama]] has not." [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120304264630870683-nbDLbVn_oaBRcuZndOMuFF8wHI0_20080315.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top]
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[[Image:Berkeley.jpg|right|]]
"[[Berkeley]] is no longer the home of [[liberal]]s who [[honor]] and protest the [[First Amendment]]. It is now a [[city]] that embraces [[fascism]] that allows [[radicals]] to [[suppress]] the [[Free Speech Clause|free speech]] of those with whom they disagree, even those who have [[Death|died]] to give [[United States of America|America]] her [[freedom]]s." [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25035]
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Multicultural [[Hypocrisy]] and [[Deceit]] [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30726.html]
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Who Is "Fascist"? ([[Liberal]] [[Fascism]]) [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/02/14/who_is_fascist]
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[[Michelle Malkin]] defends [[Conservative]] [[Talk radio|Talk Radio]] [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30784.html]
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Conservapedia's [[atheism]] article moves further up in the Google rankings! [http://www.google.com/search?q=atheism&hl=en&start=10&sa=N] Conservapedia's atheism article outranks prominent atheist Sam Harris's website for the search term atheism! [http://www.google.com/search?q=atheism&hl=en&start=10&sa=N]
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[[Barack Obama|Obama’s]] Plans For Global [[Income Redistribution|Wealth Redistribution]] [http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obamas_plans_for_global_wealth_redistribution/]
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Attacking Big [[Business]] Means Attacking The [[United States of America|American]] People [http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/attacking_big_business_means_attacking_the_american_people/]
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[[Pro-choice|Pro-Abortion]] [[Magazine]] “[[Nation (magazine)|The Nation]]” Paints Worldwide [[Pro-life|Pro-Life]] Group as [[Racism|Racist]] [http://www.lifenews.com/int622.html] 
[[United Nations]] [[Committee]] Pushes [[Nation state|Countries]] to Promote [[Abortion]] [http://www.lifenews.com/int620.html] 
[[Pro-choice|Pro-Abortion]] Groups in [[Canada]] Continue [[Deceit|Misleading]] on [[Fetus|Unborn]] Victims [[Bill]] [http://www.lifenews.com/int621.html]
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[[College]] [[President]]s: How Many [[Student]]s Have to [[Death|Die]] Before You Allow [[Gun]]s on Your Campus? [http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DougGiles/2008/02/16/college_presidents_how_many_students_have_to_die_before_you_allow_guns_on_your_campus]
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[[Liberal denial]] has begun for [[Northern Illinois University|NIU]] killings: "Grad student killer didn't fit the profile," screams the [http://www.philly.com/dailynews/national/20080216_Grad_student_killer_didnt_fit_the_profile.html Associated Press].
 In fact, the killer ''did fit'' the profile of a [[public school]]-trained [[atheist]]: dressed in all black, was an above-average student (at age 27!), obsessed with self-injury, and his [[arm]]s were covered with disturbing [[Tattoo|images]], including a [[doll]] from the horror [[Motion picture|movie]] "Saw." [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_re_us/niu_shooting;_ylt=Ai0VCIgJK.zUP6fNtZsDqfis0NUE]
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[[Liberals]] won't admit it, but the [[Northern Illinois University|NIU]] killer fit the profile of [[young mass murderers]]: a good student indoctrinated by [[atheistic]] [[public schools]], he wore all black. Will authorities conceal what he wrote on his computer, as they have for the [[Virginia Tech killer]]?

===February 17 ===
[[Image:HClinton.jpg|right]]
Sen. [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] smothered Sens. [[Barack Obama]] and [[John McCain]] with kindness on Friday, then declared her rivals wrong on the issues and vowed to beat both in her quest for the presidency. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_el_pr/clinton]
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Profiles in Cowardice - we have inescapable confirmation that [[United States Senate|Senators]] [[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]], the two contenders to be the [[Democratic Party|Democrats’]] nominee, are not fit to be [[President of the United States of America|president of the United States]]. [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25017]
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[[Wikipedia]] just deleted a well-referenced entry on [[Hollywood values]] within hours after its creation. The "encyclopedia" that has every [[liberal]] entry imaginable insists on censoring anything that might embarrass [[liberals]]!
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[[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary Clinton's]] Old [[Church]] Plans [[Civil union|Same-Sex Union]] [[Blessing]]s [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/02/15/hillary-clintons-old-church-plans-same-sex-union-blessings]
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Ken Hutcherson said "You can see the arrogance that's going on in our [[Public schools|public school]] system with the agenda of making our schools just so open and available to what the [[homosexual agenda]] is all about" [http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=67371]
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[[Conservative]] Vaclav Klaus was re-elected President of the [[Czech Republic]] today, after a failed election last week. He opposes [[Anthropogenic global warming]] and is a critic of [[Environmentalism]]. The [[Czech Republic]] is one of the countries where US missile defense sites are planned.
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"Stimulating Nonsense": [[John Stossel]] shows how the latest economic package is nonsense. [http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/02/13/stimulating_nonsense]
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We say "[[Saint Valentine's Day]]" here, while [[Wikipedia]] deletes the "Saint" part. Teens Embrace Day of [[Sexual purity|Purity]] on [[Saint Valentine's Day|Valentine's]] [http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/322276.aspx]
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[[Mitt Romney]] Endorses [[John McCain]] for [[Republican Party|Republican]] Nomination, Releases Delegates [http://www.lifenews.com/nat3733.html] 
Romney has asked the 280 [[delegate]]s, whose support he won at [[primary]] [[2008 Presidential Election|elections]] during his campaign, to support McCain.
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[[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Clinton's]] and Buffett’s Facts Are Wrong: Top 1% Now Paying Record Level of [[Taxation|Taxes]] [http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/22804.html] 
"The top 1.1 million [[United States of America|American]] households pay a greater share of the [[income tax]] burden than the bottom 90 million combined."
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[[Liberal bias]] - [[Consumer]] Confidence: Only [[News]] When It's Low(er) [http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080213140829.aspx] 
"Is consumer confidence at an “all-time low”? The [[Mainstream media|media]] say yes, but the [[facts]] say no."
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[[Retrospective study|Study]] Finds [[Women]] Who Have [[Abortion]]s Experience [[Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder|Post-Traumatic Stress]] [http://www.lifenews.com/nat3730.html]
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'''Yahoo ranks Conservapedia's [[atheism]] article #5!''' [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=atheism&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8] Conservapedia's [[atheism]] article has also been increasing its Google ranking. MSN ranks Conservapedia's [[atheism]] article #4. [http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=atheism&FORM=MSNH] AltaVista ranks Conservapedia's atheism article #5. [http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=atheism&kgs=1&kls=0]New developments occurring in the next 30 days. Stay tuned for details!
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The [[Berkeley]] City Council refuses to apologize for formally telling the [[Marines]] that they are "uninvited and unwelcome intruders" in Berkeley. [http://origin.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_8249064]
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Lights, Camera - Homeschoolers!" CBNNews.com - What happens when you take Christian home-school kids and put them on-stage to perform in high-pressure situations for hundreds of people? CBN News found out on the 12 of February at a national speech and debate tournament for home-schooled teens."[http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/321048.aspx]

===February 16 ===
Another addition to our growing list of [[liberal denial]]s: homeschoolers do better than public schoolers. Latest (of many) examples is winning a [[Go]] tournament [http://www.usgo.org/index.html here].
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[[Venezuela]] suspends oil provision to Exxon Mobil Corp. [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/481681.html] (In Spanish)
Petroleos de Venezuela SA has paralyzed sales of crude to Exxon Mobil and suspended commercial relations with the Irving, [[Texas]]-based company. [http://www.newsweek.com/id/110800]
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Vice President [[Dick Cheney]], 55% of the [[U.S. Senate]], and nearly 60% of the [[House of Representatives]] take a more [[conservative]] position than President [[George W. Bush]] in standing up for [[self-defense]] with guns. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020803802.html?referrer=emailarticle]
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[[Image:amd_williams.jpg|right|thumb|Hillary's new campaign manager]]
"Meet Maggie Williams, [[Hillary Clinton]]'s new campaign manager"
[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/11/2008-02-11_meet_maggie_williams_hillary_clintons_ne.html]
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An "epidemic" of House [[Republicans]] are resigning in 2008: 26, just 1 shy of their record set in 1952. [http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/485591.html]
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Secrets of the [[Great Seal of the United States]] Revealed [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330388,00.html]
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[[Islam|Islamist]] extremists have infiltrated the [[British]] Government and key public utilities to pass sensitive information to [[terrorist]]s, the security services have warned.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513771&in_page_id=1770&ct=5]
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"Actor Brad Renfro died as a result of a drug overdose, a Los Angeles coroner has ruled." [http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/renfro%20died%20of%20drug%20overdose_1059108]
 [[Hollywood Values]] claim another victim, as [[liberal denial]] tries to hide the cause-and-effect.
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How the [[Mainstream media|Media]] Stir the Brew of Identity Group [[Politics]] [http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2008/20080206211716.aspx]

===February 14 ===
'''Hillarycare''' Is ''Not'' the Answer [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/02/11/hillarycare_is_not_the_answer]
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New report confirms [[Weapons of mass destruction|WMD]] [[Operation_Iraqi_Freedom#Weapons_of_Mass_Destruction|fears]] in [[Iraq]] were legitimate [http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=66956]
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The Dark Side of [[Illegal immigration|Illegal Immigration]] [http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=1386104]
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[[Barack Obama|Obama]], [[Clarence Thomas|Thomas]] and [[Liberal Bias]] [http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2008/20080208132709.aspx]
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The Twisted [[Relativism]] of [[Abortion]] [http://www.visandvals.org/The_Twisted_Relativism_of_Abortion.php]
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[[Anthropogenic global warming|Global Warming]] [[Politics of global warming|Skeptics]] Prepare for International Conference in [[New York]] [http://www.grassrootinstitute.org/GrassrootPerspective/SkepticsConference020608.shtml]
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There's Nothing [[Conservative]] Or Principled About Helping A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Beat [[John McCain]] [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2008/02/08/theres_nothing_conservative_or_principled_about_helping_a_democrat_beat_john_mccain_in_november]
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[[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Clinton]]/[[Barack Obama|Obama]]: 10 Questions in Search of a [[Debate]] [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24913]
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[[Conservative]]s Unite to 'Stop [[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary]]' [http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/11/conservatives-undecided-about-mccain-but-united-on-clinton/]
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[[Phyllis Schlafly]] says [[China]] Pharmaceutical [[Trade]] is a [[Prescription]] for Disaster [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24939]
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Representative Tom Lantos (D-California) passed away, the only member of the United States Congress to have survived the [[Holocaust]]: [http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080211/D8UO9ATO1.html]

===February 13 ===
[[Image:Richard Dawkins.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Richard Dawkins]] is leaving his Charles Simonyi "post" at Oxford without ever becoming the "Charles Simonyi Professor" that Dawkins claims on his own resume.[http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/CV.shtml] There now is an outpouring of the [[atheistic]] substitute for [[love]] for him, and Dawkins deftly declines one request by a fan to continue calling him "professor". [http://richarddawkins.net/article,2246,n,n]
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[[Image:Barack.jpg|right|]]
[[Barack Obama]] defeated [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] in [[Maine]] presidential caucuses Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/maine_caucuses]
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[[New gay plague]]: [[Conservative]] groups say the [[truth]] about a new "multi-drug resistant microbe" prevalent among [[homosexual]] men is not being presented to the [[public]] because of [[Politically correct language|political correctness]] [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080126a.html]
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[[Los Angeles Times]] Reports [[Abortion]] Clinic Atrocities; Will They Follow Up? [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/dave-pierre/2008/02/11/lat-reports-abortion-clinic-atrocities-will-they-follow] [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-abortion8feb08,1,2888587.story]
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Another Loony [[Theory]] from the Wonderland of [[Theory of Evolution|Evolution]] [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/01/31/another-loony-theory-from-the-wonderland-of-evolution/]
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The [[History]] of the [[Democratic Party]] and the [[African Americans|Black]] Vote [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30706.html]
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Public approval of the [[Democratic]] [[Congress]] has fallen to a record low: 22%. [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jR80ylRipRFz_BSPltSUJ06-lMegD8UM8AJO4]
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Ranting journalists suspended:
*ESPN First Take Host Dana Jacobson got a '''one-week''' suspension for using the f-word in regards to Jesus. [http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/01/23/espn-suspends-dana-jacobson-one-week-for-saying-f-jesus-at/]
*MSNBC' David Shuster was suspended '''indefinitely''' for saying Chelsea Clinton was "pimped out" by her mom's presidential campaign. [http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/shuster_suspended_for_pimped_out_comment_77059.asp]
This shows you the relative importance of the two personages in question, to the US media machine.

===February 11 ===
[[John McCain]] is a "true conservative," President Bush says, although the presumptive [[Republican]] presidential nominee may have to work harder to convince other conservatives that he is one of their own. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush]
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[[Ron Paul]] will not become a third party candidate for president. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ron_paul_campaign]
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Judge says [[Navy]] must restrict its use of sonar. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/08/BAULUTMRQ.DTL]
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'''Big wins by the underdogs: [[Mike Huckabee]] crushes [[John McCain]] in [[Kansas]]! [[Barack Obama]] trounces [[Hillary Clinton]] in [[Louisiana]], [[Nebraska]] and [[Washington]].''' [http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/09/feb.9.contests/index.html] The primaries are far from over.
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[[Ohio]] [[mayor]] orders [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] out of downtown Toledo - because their training would 'frighten people' [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS16/802090394]
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[[United States Secretary of the Treasury|U.S. Treasury Secretary]] [[Henry M. Paulson|Henry Paulson]] shrugged off fears that the U.S. [[economy]] is in [[recession]] [http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UMR6VG0&show_article=1&catnum=0]
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"[[Florida]] education leaders are on the brink of requiring an [[evolution]]-as-dogma approach to teaching origins in public schools in the Sunshine State." [http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/8368.article]
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[[Liberal]] actors implode again: its union bans Randy Quaid for life and slaps him with $81,572 fine, but it's not clear who is worse: Quaid or the [[liberal]] union. [http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0738802920080207]
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The theologically liberal [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] says that [[Sharia]] law in the [[United Kingdom]] "seems unavoidable". '''UPDATE''': Archbishop in shock as he faces demands to quit; the most damaging attack came from the [[Pakistan]]-born Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512876&in_page_id=1770&ct=5]
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[[John McCain]] wants [[conservatives]], but says, "I also realize there are some people who may not be able to support me." [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKz0lMEzaxWg&refer=home]
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[[Mitt Romney]] suspends his campaign. [http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/07/time-magazine-blog-romney-to-quit-today/]
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[[Image:Bncjcfjuh.jpg|right|thumb|120px|Condoleezza Rice]]
[[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Condoleezza Rice]] said Thursday she has seen progress in [[Afghanistan]] during the past few years, despite a determined [[Taliban]] insurgency that has disrupted security and prompted concerns that the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]]-led [[military]] campaign is failing. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080207/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rice]
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Contrary to what [[Gun control|anti-gun]] [[advocate]]s predicted, after 5,000,000 [[carry permits]] have been issued in the U.S., violent [[crime]] has dropped dramatically — and virtually no gun-related crimes have been committed by ordinary people with carry permits. [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/07/in-election-season-mum%e2%80%99s-the-word-about-gun-control/]
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[[Rabbi]] Aryeh Spiro says “There is a madness in today’s [[liberal]] thinking." [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30625.html The Materialist Faith of Communism]
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[[Michelle Malkin]]: The [[liberal]] troop-bashers in [[Berkeley]] are at it once more. But this time, the rest of [[United States of America|America]] lashed back. [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30647.html]
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How [[Liberal]] [[College]]s Purge [[Conservative]]s [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/04/how-colleges-purge-conservatives/]
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[[Abortion|Abortionist]] says it's ok to [[deceit|lie]] to [[patient]]s. [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200802/CUL20080207a.html]
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[[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary Clinton]] lent her campaign $5 million in January to keep up the pace with [[Barack Obama]]. Senior staff have also been working without pay in February. [http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/06/clinton-loaned-her-campaign-5-million-in-january-as-obama-outpaced-in-fundraising/]

===February 10 ===
[[Saudi Arabia|Saudi Arabia's]] Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested an [[United States of America|American]] businesswoman for sitting with a male colleague at a [[Starbucks]] [[coffee]] shop in [[Riyadh]]. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3321637.ece]
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[[Britain]] has passed a "worrying tipping point" where '''more''' 13-year-olds drink [[alcohol]] than do not, the [[Home Secretary]] said yesterday. She also warned of young adult binge-drinkers with an "appetite for destruction" causing mayhem in town centres. Despite admitting the huge alcohol problem, the [[left wing]] [[socialist]] [[Labour Party|government]] gave a clear indication that 24-hour drinking is "here to stay".[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512572&in_page_id=1770]
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Caught on camera: The 10-year-old [[Al Qaeda]] fanatics ready to launch terror attacks in [[Iraq]]. [[Islam|Islamists]] are offering the lives of children as the new generation of mujahedeen.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=512697&in_page_id=1811]
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[[Global Warming]]: Kerry vs. Edwards
:[[John Kerry]] calls recent [[tornado]] deaths part of a trend of increasingly stormy weather, which he blames on [[global warming]]. But Roger Edwards, a meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center of the [[National Weather Center]], said in April 2007, "As of this writing, no scientific studies solidly relate climatic [[global temperature trends]] to tornadoes." [http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080206170159.aspx]
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[[Wikipedia]] is the focus of protests over its images depicting [[Muhammad]]. [http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=52089]
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[[Heath Ledger]], a healthy, wealthy 28-year-old Hollywood star, died from "acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine" resultant from "abuse of prescription
medications," according to the medical examiner's [http://www.abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/Heath_Ledger_080206.pdf report]. His needless death is the latest in a long list of similar accidental overdoses amid [[Hollywood Values]].

===February 7 ===
The headline says, "No link between MMR jab and [[autism]] spectrum disorders" [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/bmj-nlb020108.php]
 But the fine print says that no link ''was found'' in a study ''of fewer than 100 children with autism, all of whom received an MMR jab''!
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[[John McCain]] is the projected winner of [[New Jersey]], [[Illinois]] and [[Connecticut]]. [http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=9827]
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Democratic presidential hopeful [[Barack Obama]] coasted to victory in [[Georgia]] over rival [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], riding a wave of support from the state's large black population. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080206/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_georgia]
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[[Mike Huckabee]] won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday, picking up all 18 national delegates awarded at [[West Virginia]]'s state GOP convention. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp]
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Why More [[Feminist]]s Should [[Conversion|Convert]] to [[Christianity]] [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/02/05/why_more_feminists_should_convert_to_christianity]
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The latest [[liberal]] gimmick: "Partners pitch college, not jail, for kids." [http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/020408/met_243467798.shtml]
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[[Liberal]]s want you to believe that these aren't really human beings and have no right to life; but these [[abortion|aborted]] babies survived the procedure, and as they lay "gasping for breath" were simply ignored by medical staff who left them to die. One helpless infant struggled to live for '''ten''' hours. The [[Daily Mail]] reports on this wickedness.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=512129&in_page_id=1774]
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Just how is [[education]] being conducted in the [[United Kingdom]]? UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 Brits, and discovered one quarter of them think [[Winston Churchill]] is a myth: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/od_afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat]
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On the eve of [[Super Tuesday]], [[Mitt Romney]] and [[John McCain]] are tied for the lead in the polls in [[California]], and McCain leads in most other states and [[Mike Huckabee]] leads in a few. The delegate tally [http://www.lifenews.com/state2856.html] is:
 [[John McCain]]: 93 delegates
 [[Mitt Romney]]: 77 delegates
 [[Mike Huckabee]]: 40 delegates
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[[Image:Obama Michelle.jpg|right|120px]]
Michelle Obama's fiery campaign style belies the fact that she was hesitant at first about getting involved in her husband [[Barack Obama|Barack]]'s bid to become U.S. president.

Obama says she never expected to be on stage extolling her husband's virtues, but she is revving up crowds as she tells them he is the [[Democratic]] candidate who offers the best option for change in the [[United States]]. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080204/pl_nm/usa_politics_obama_michelle_dc]
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Just how is [[education]] being conducted in the [[United Kingdom]]? UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 Brits, and discovered one quarter of them think [[Winston Churchill]] is a myth: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/od_afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat]
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[[New York Giants]] ends the [[New England Patriots|Pats']] perfect season with a fantastic fourth-quarter rally to win [[Super Bowl XLII]]. [http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/recap?gid=20080203017]
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'''Conservapedia surpasses 50 million page views!!! Thanks to all who have edited here, and thanks be to [[God]].'''
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"A [[resolution]] in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] that recognizes [[United States of America|America's]] 'rich [[spiritual]] and [[Religion|religious]] [[history]]' is drawing fire from some of America's most prominent [[atheist]]s." [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080131a.html]
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[[Al Gore]] expresses support for [[Homosexual Marriage | homosexual marriage]] [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080130a.html]
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[[Cellular telephone|Cell phone]] users can now choose a [[CREDO Mobile|company]] that will donate some of its profits to [[liberal]] causes like the [[ACLU]], [[Greenpeace]], [[Planned Parenthood]], [[Media Matters for America]], [[Rock the Vote]], [[Center for Constitutional Rights]], [[Human Rights Watch]], and GLAAD. [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/8219.html] [http://www.credomobile.com/causes-list.html]
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[[Code Pink]] and their [[liberal]] helpers in the city council of [[Berkeley]], [[California]], express their hatred and contempt for one of several groups who ensure their freedom: the [[United States Marine Corps]] [http://www.examiner.com/a-1193361~Berkeley_council_says_Marine_recruiting_center_is_not_welcome.html][http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/02/BALTUQKOE.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea][http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=02-01-08&storyID=29069]
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[[Mitt Romney]] crushes [[John McCain]] in the [[Maine]] caucuses, 52-21%. [[Ron Paul]] has a strong 19%, and [[Mike Huckabee]] wins 6%.[http://news.aol.com/story/_a/romney-wins-maine-caucuses/n20080202224309990008]
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Alleged [[terrorist]] threats at a [[public school]] by ... one of the [[teacher]]s! She faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted. [http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/2382598/]

=== February 5 ===
An example of [[liberal]] contempt for the [[flag]], for the [[military]], for retired [[veteran]]s ... it's spitting on the [[soldier]]s all over again: [http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?020108/020108_an_flags&Americas%20Newsroom&No%20Respect&No%20Respect&US&-1&News&137&&&exp]
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'''"[[Homosexual Marriage|Gay marriage]] ban makes ballot" in [[Florida]]''', which renders it unlikely that [[Democrats]] -- who tend to support gay marriage -- can win this key state in the November presidential election. [http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080202/NEWS01/80202002]
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[[Terrorists]] (sometimes called "freedom fighters" by [[Wikipedia]]) attach bombs to two mentally disabled women and detonate them remotely to kill over 70 people in Baghdad. "The al-Qaeda terrorists and criminals are proud of this method," Brig Qassem Ata al-Moussawi told the [[BBC]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm]
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The Bishop of Rochester, Britain's only Asian bishop, is under police protection after receiving death threats for saying Britain has "no-go areas" for non-Muslims.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=511885&in_page_id=1770]
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[[Education]] impacts on human development and [[economics|economic]] growth, and it is a fundamental requirement for [[democracy]]. Education helps our young people grow into responsible and informed citizens, and to have a voice in politics and society. Faced with shocking test results which demonstrate that state-provided education is failing in [[Britain]], what does the [[Left wing]] government plan to do to remedy the situation? Make the tests [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=511810&in_page_id=1770 easier.]

=== February 4 ===
[[Great Britain|Britain's]] [[Peter Hitchens]] alleges that the [[Socialist]] government "has actively encouraged promiscuity by undermining marriage, promoting 'alternative lifestyles' and preaching immorality in schools - and, of course, by continuing to subsidise the results" [http://www.valhayes.com/Look_forward_in_anger.html]. To prove his point, a state benefits adviser tells a 17 year old orphan she should get pregnant to get more cash![http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7221234.stm]
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[[American Idol]] contestants -- and winners -- promote chastity, including last year's and last week's winners. [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080130c.html] [[Hollywood Values]] proponents seem perplexed by this trend.
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Tougher identification rules go into effect at U.S. border. [http://www.yahoo.com/s/796560] Video.
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Arlo Guthrie endorses [[Ron Paul]]. [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59967]
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"The judges I would appoint are along the lines of Justices [[John Roberts|Roberts]] and [[Sam Alito|Alito]], who have a proven record of strict interpretation of the [[Constitution]] of the [[United States]] of America," said [[John McCain]] in last night's debate. [http://www.lifenews.com/nat3682.html]
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[[Ralph Nader]] wants to run for president now! He seems to be the only one in politics willing to criticize [[Barack Obama]], whom Nader called "mediocre, and quite cautious" in his [[U.S. Senate]] record, accusing Obama of "censoring himself." [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/30/nader-takes-steps-towards-another-white-house-bid/] In the state senate Obama voted "present" rather than "aye" or "nay" on an astounding total of nearly 130 issues.
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Welcome to [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Airstrip One]]! Courtesy of its [[Left wing]] government, [[Great Britain|Britain]], which already has the world's largest [[DNA]] database and the greatest number of CCTV cameras, now exists "under a level of state surveillance that would make even the [[Stasi]] proud". [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=511210&in_page_id=1770]
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[[Liberal]] [[Rudy Giuliani]] will drop out of the race Wednesday morning. His campaign spent over $30 million for a grand total of ... only 1 delegate. Anyone expect him to admit that his [[liberal]] views were the problem? [http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/01/29/rudy-drops-out/]
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[[Hillary Clinton]] crushes [[Barack Obama]] in [[Florida]]: 51% to 31%. However, she wins no delegates due to a [[Democratic]] penalty against [[Florida]]. [http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B3A3D7C9B%2DB046%2D4F72%2DA701%2D14469F07B289%7D]
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The House voted to approve the fiscal stimulus package, hoping to quickly seal a deal with the [[White House]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/]

=== February 2 ===
[[Image:John McCain official portrait 2009.jpg|right|120px]]
[[John McCain]] edged ahead of [[Mitt Romney]] in the [[Florida]] primary Tuesday night, a battle for the biggest delegate prize to date as well as precious campaign momentum heading into next week's competition across more than 20 states. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/florida_republicans]
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[[Republican]] candidates made last minute appearances to rally supporters in the hotly contested [[Florida]] primary on Monday morning, as voters trooped to the polls under sunny skies. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/us/politics/30cnd-primary.html?hp]
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"Too close to call as voting begins in [[Florida]]." Will the winner today be [[Mitt Romney]] or [[John McCain]] in the biggest primary yet? [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22887546/]
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[[Liberal]] [[Rudy Giuliani]] declared on national television Sunday, "We're going to win in [[Florida]]." But recent polls show he will finish a distant fourth, despite airing far more ads than his rivals. [http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080128/NATION/806460815]
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'''The [[Ninth Circuit]] unanimously ordered [[Arizona]] to allow [[Choose Life License Plates]]!''' [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/28/BAM6UNM37.DTL]
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[[Barack Obama]], way behind in [[California]], endorses drivers' licenses for [[illegal aliens]]. Even the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] is surprised: "Obama takes big risk on driver's license issue." [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/28/MNH1UL57Q.DTL&type=politics]
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11-Year-Old Boy Partially Deaf for Nine Years Is Suddenly "Cured"! [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325986,00.html]
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[[Democrats]] now lining up against [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]]: "[[Ted Kennedy|Kennedy]] Will Endorse [[Barack Obama|Obama]] In Blow to [[Hillary Clinton|Clinton]]" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/01/27/ST2008012702331.html]
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Another assault on [[Christianity]] by the liberal elite, this time in the form of a mocking opera based on [[Jerry Springer]]'s show (video link): [http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?012708/012708_ff_musical&FOX_Friends&%27Jerry%20Springer%27%20musical%20draws%20fire&acc&Faith&-1&News&270&&&new]
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2010-05-02T19:12:17Z

QK: replace amazing with awful, electing Obama was negative

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Template:User Obama acronym

2010-05-02T19:09:54Z

QK: I believe this picture is more fitting for anti-obama

Marco Rubio

2010-04-29T02:24:59Z

QK: Senate run

[[Image:000MarcoRubio.jpg|right]]'''Marco Rubio''' (born May 28, 1971, [[Miami]], [[Florida]]) is a [[conservative]] [[Republican Party]] politician who served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 2007 through 2009. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the [[University of Florida]] and a juris doctor from the [[University of Miami]]. During his tenure in the state legislator (2001-2009) he advocated an overhaul of the Florida [[tax]] system that would have eliminated all property taxes in favor of a flat consumption tax. Americans for Tax Reform called him "the most pro-taxpayer legislative leader in the country." <ref>http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/10/State/On_special_session_st.shtml</ref> Additionally, he is a strong advocate of limited government and property rights.

Marco Rubio is a candidate for the [[United States Senate]] in 2010, who challenged [[moderate Republican]] [[Charlie Crist]] in the primary. Till April 2010 when Crist decided to drop out of the Republican primary and run as a Independent candidate.

==External Links==
*[http://www.marcorubio.com/ Campaign Website]

==References==
{{reflist|}}

[[category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:2010 Midterm Elections]]

Charlie Crist

2010-04-29T01:58:03Z

QK: /* Senate Run 2010*/

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'''Charlie Crist''' (1956- ), is the current Governor of the state of [[Florida]]. A [[moderate Republican]], he will run for the [[United States Senate]] in the [[2010 Midterm Elections]]. He appointed [[George LeMieux]], a top aide, to hold the Senate seat temporarily.

==Career==
Crist was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where his Greek grandparents had immigrated in 1912. His parents moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1960, where his father practiced medicine.

As a public school student Crist quickly learned the value of participation, leading him to serve as class president at St. Petersburg High School and, later, as student body vice president at Florida State University. In high school Crist was the starting quarterback for his football team. He later played football at Wake Forest University before transferring and receiving his undergraduate degree from Florida State in 1978. Governor Crist then earned his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.

Crist received invaluable experience in Florida’s criminal justice system while interning in the State Attorney’s Office before accepting a position as general counsel for the minor league division of the Baseball Commissioner’s Office.

==Politics==
Crist began his government service as state director for U.S. Senator Connie Mack before later returning to the private practice of law with the Tampa firm of Wood and Crist.

After a defeat in 1986, in 1992, Crist won a seat in the Florida Senate. For six years in the Senate, Governor Crist served as Chairman of the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee and as Chairman of the Appropriations Criminal Justice Subcommittee. A strong voice for public safety, he sponsored, among other legislation, the Stop Turning Out Prisoners (STOP) bill requiring prisoners to serve at least 85% of their prison sentences.

After Crist completed his Senate service, Republican Governor [[Jeb Bush]] appointed him as Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Christ challenged Democratic Senator [[Bob Graham]] in 1998, losing 38%-62%.

In 2000, Governor Crist won a special election and became Florida’s last elected Commissioner of Education. He was elected Attorney General in 2002. He carried the general election by more than one-third of a million votes to become Florida’s first elected Republican Attorney General.

==Record as Governor==

On November 7, 2006, Charlie Crist was elected to serve as Florida’s Governor.<ref>[http://www.flgov.com/gov_biography|Charlie Crist's Biography]</ref> Although he has held conservative positions on social issues, such as broadening the use of [[capital punishment]] <ref>http://issues2000.org/Governor/Charlie_Crist_Crime.htm</ref>, and he also signed legislation that allows employees, customers and those invited to a business establishment to keep guns locked in their motor vehicles, as long as they have a concealed weapons license. [[Liberal]] critics dubbed it "bring your gun to work day." <ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0948339420080409</ref> He also supported a ban on gay adoption. <ref>http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2008/as-nation-1001-0-8i30u4543.htm</ref>

On economics however, his actions have alienated conservatives. Crist supported President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package. With a $2.4 billion state deficit, Crist vetoed Republican proposals to reduce $365 million from the budget. <ref>http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/875453.html</ref> In December of 2008, when the state economy was plunging, Governor Crist took a 12 day trip to Europe with his fiancée that cost taxpayers $430,000. <ref>http://www.palmbeachpost.com/local_news/content/local_news/epaper/2008/12/08/1208europe.html</ref> Crist defended it as a trip to promote [[free trade]].

Although Crist opposed offshore oil drilling during his gubernatorial campaign, he changed his position, saying "I mean, let's face it, the price of gas has gone through the roof, and Florida families are suffering, and my heart bleeds for them." <ref>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91CGGV81&show_article=1</ref>

Crist's style is folksy and he searches for bipartisanship. His handling of the great hurricanes of 2005-6 was widely praised. He appointed one moderate and two conservatives to the state supreme court. His support for [[John McCain]] helped carry the state primary and defeated [[Mitt Romney]].

Crist demonstrated his support of [[gambling]] when he "signed a new gambling compact (August 31, 2009) with the Seminole Tribe, worth an estimated $6.8 billion over 20 years."<ref>http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/01/na-crist-signs-gaming-pact/</ref>

==Senate Run 2010==
Polls show a strong base of support from conservatives and moderates and some liberals. Crist will run for the Senate in 2010; his rival in the 2010 GOP primary was state House Speaker [[Marco Rubio]], a conservative Cuban American. Crist started trailing in the polls to Rubio by large margins and in April 2010 he decided to run as a Independent since it was almost certain he would lose the Republican nomination to Rubio.

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External Links==
*[http://www.flgov.com/ State of Florida - Governor Charlie Crist Official Website]
*[http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=24311 Project Vote Smart - Governor Charlie Crist]

[[Category:Florida Governors]]
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[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:2010 Midterm Elections]]

Charlie Crist

2010-04-29T01:52:30Z

QK: /* Record as Governor */

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'''Charlie Crist''' (1956- ), is the current Governor of the state of [[Florida]]. A [[moderate Republican]], he will run for the [[United States Senate]] in the [[2010 Midterm Elections]]. He appointed [[George LeMieux]], a top aide, to hold the Senate seat temporarily.

==Career==
Crist was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where his Greek grandparents had immigrated in 1912. His parents moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1960, where his father practiced medicine.

As a public school student Crist quickly learned the value of participation, leading him to serve as class president at St. Petersburg High School and, later, as student body vice president at Florida State University. In high school Crist was the starting quarterback for his football team. He later played football at Wake Forest University before transferring and receiving his undergraduate degree from Florida State in 1978. Governor Crist then earned his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.

Crist received invaluable experience in Florida’s criminal justice system while interning in the State Attorney’s Office before accepting a position as general counsel for the minor league division of the Baseball Commissioner’s Office.

==Politics==
Crist began his government service as state director for U.S. Senator Connie Mack before later returning to the private practice of law with the Tampa firm of Wood and Crist.

After a defeat in 1986, in 1992, Crist won a seat in the Florida Senate. For six years in the Senate, Governor Crist served as Chairman of the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee and as Chairman of the Appropriations Criminal Justice Subcommittee. A strong voice for public safety, he sponsored, among other legislation, the Stop Turning Out Prisoners (STOP) bill requiring prisoners to serve at least 85% of their prison sentences.

After Crist completed his Senate service, Republican Governor [[Jeb Bush]] appointed him as Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Christ challenged Democratic Senator [[Bob Graham]] in 1998, losing 38%-62%.

In 2000, Governor Crist won a special election and became Florida’s last elected Commissioner of Education. He was elected Attorney General in 2002. He carried the general election by more than one-third of a million votes to become Florida’s first elected Republican Attorney General.

==Record as Governor==

On November 7, 2006, Charlie Crist was elected to serve as Florida’s Governor.<ref>[http://www.flgov.com/gov_biography|Charlie Crist's Biography]</ref> Although he has held conservative positions on social issues, such as broadening the use of [[capital punishment]] <ref>http://issues2000.org/Governor/Charlie_Crist_Crime.htm</ref>, and he also signed legislation that allows employees, customers and those invited to a business establishment to keep guns locked in their motor vehicles, as long as they have a concealed weapons license. [[Liberal]] critics dubbed it "bring your gun to work day." <ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0948339420080409</ref> He also supported a ban on gay adoption. <ref>http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2008/as-nation-1001-0-8i30u4543.htm</ref>

On economics however, his actions have alienated conservatives. Crist supported President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package. With a $2.4 billion state deficit, Crist vetoed Republican proposals to reduce $365 million from the budget. <ref>http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/875453.html</ref> In December of 2008, when the state economy was plunging, Governor Crist took a 12 day trip to Europe with his fiancée that cost taxpayers $430,000. <ref>http://www.palmbeachpost.com/local_news/content/local_news/epaper/2008/12/08/1208europe.html</ref> Crist defended it as a trip to promote [[free trade]].

Although Crist opposed offshore oil drilling during his gubernatorial campaign, he changed his position, saying "I mean, let's face it, the price of gas has gone through the roof, and Florida families are suffering, and my heart bleeds for them." <ref>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91CGGV81&show_article=1</ref>

Crist's style is folksy and he searches for bipartisanship. His handling of the great hurricanes of 2005-6 was widely praised. He appointed one moderate and two conservatives to the state supreme court. His support for [[John McCain]] helped carry the state primary and defeated [[Mitt Romney]]. Polls show a strong base of support from conservatives and moderates and some liberals. Crist will run for the Senate in 2010; his rival in the 2010 GOP primary was state House Speaker [[Marco Rubio]], a conservative Cuban American. Crist started trailing in the polls to Rubio by large margins and in April 2010 he decided to run as a Independent since it was almost certain he would lose the Republican nomination to Rubio.

Crist demonstrated his support of [[gambling]] when he "signed a new gambling compact (August 31, 2009) with the Seminole Tribe, worth an estimated $6.8 billion over 20 years."<ref>http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/01/na-crist-signs-gaming-pact/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External Links==
*[http://www.flgov.com/ State of Florida - Governor Charlie Crist Official Website]
*[http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=24311 Project Vote Smart - Governor Charlie Crist]

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[[Category:Republicans]]
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Cynthia McKinney

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[[File:Cynthia McKinney.jpg|thumb|Cynthia McKinney]]

'''Cynthia McKinney''' (born March 17, 1955 in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]]) is a former [[liberal]] [[Democrat]] United States [[Congress|Congresswoman]] from the state of Georgia's Fourth Congressional District from 1993-2003 and 2005-2007. Prior to being elected to Congress, from 1988 to 1992, she was a Georgia state legislator.

McKinney, who was defeated for reelection by her own party in 2002 after voting against the [[Iraq War]], was again defeated in 2006 by her own party after creating a disturbance during which she struck a Capitol Hill [[police officer]] who stopped her after she tried to illegally bypass a metal detector.<ref>[http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/04/arrest_warrant_.html Arrest warrant sought for Rep. McKinney], USA Today''.</ref> Depsite this she still ran for the [[United States]] [[Presidency]] on the [[environmentalist]] [[Green Party]] ticket with her running mate, Rosa Clemente.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62891,00.html Cynthia McKinney for President?], ''[[FOX News]]'', September 12, 2002.</ref>

==Also See==
*[[Chip_Berlet#Eco-racism|Eco-racism]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{2008 presidential candidates}}
{{Liberalism}}

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[[Category:Anti-war Movements]]
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Gallery of American Heroes

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''For sports heroes, see [[Gallery of Sports Idols]]'' 
'''Gallery of American [[Hero|Heroes]]'''
[[Image:The babe.jpg|thumb|[[Babe Ruth]]]]

 
'''Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration'''

I am loth (sic) to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

[[Abraham Lincoln]], First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html] [[Library of Congress|The Library of Congress]].

{{Clear}}
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<gallery perrow="5">
Image:Benjamin.jpg|[[Benjamin Franklin]]
Image:George washington 3.jpg|[[George Washington]]

Image:John adams.gif|[[John Adams]]
Image:Daniel Boone.jpg|[[Daniel Boone]]
Image:TCJJ.jpg|[[Thomas Jefferson]]
Image:432px-Cpt John Paul Jones.jpeg|[[John Paul Jones]]
Image:7648ruy6g.gif|[[James Madison]]
Image:Alexhamilton.jpg|[[Alexander Hamilton]]
Image:Andrew Jackson.jpg|[[Andrew Jackson]]
Image:Zachary taylor.jpg|[[Zachary Taylor]]
Image:Davy Crockett.jpg|[[Davy Crockett]]
Image:RLee.jpg|[[Robert E. Lee]]
Image:Lincoln.jpg|[[Abraham Lincoln]]

Image:Elizabethcadystanton.jpg|[[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]
Image:Freddouglas.jpg|[[Frederick Douglass]]
Image:3a10453r.jpg|[[Harriet Tubman]]
Image:Sherman (B).jpg|[[William T. Sherman]]
Image:Ulysses grant.jpg|[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg|[[Andrew Carnegie]]
Image:875997.jpg|[[Thomas Edison]]
Image:Macarthur1.jpg|[[Douglas MacArthur]]
Image:Patton.jpg|[[George Patton]]
Image:Irving Berlin.jpg|[[Irving Berlin]]
Image:Yte7567.jpg|[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
Image:Earhart.jpg|[[Amelia Earhart]]
Image:George Gershwin.jpg|[[George Gershwin]]
Image:Louis Armstrong.jpg|[[Louis Armstrong]]
Image:Aaag.jpg|[[Ronald Wilson Reagan]]
Image:RosaParks.jpg|[[Rosa Parks]]
Image:Jesse Owens.jpg|[[Jesse Owens]]
Image:Archie Moore.jpg|[[Archie Moore]].
Image:John kennedy.jpg|[[John F. Kennedy]]
Image:Joseph_McCarthy.jpg‎ |[[Joseph McCarthy]]
Image:Ted Williams 1847...jpg|[[Ted Williams]]
Image:Jackie Robinson in Dodgers uniform, 1954..jpg|[[Jackie Robinson]]
Image:JGlenn.jpg|[[John Glenn]]
Image:Robert M. Hanson.jpg|[[Robert M. Hanson]]
Image:Martin Luther King Jr Washington DC. 1963.jpg|[[Martin Luther King]] Jr.

Image:NeilArmstrong.jpg|[[Neil Armstrong]]
Image:Johnny Unitas.jpg|[[Johnny Unitas]]

Image:Muhammad Ali..jpg|[[Muhammad Ali]]
Image:Michael Jordan.jpg|[[Michael Jordan]]
Image:Joe Montana.jpg|[[Joe Montana]]
Image:Peyton Manning Colts.jpg|[[Peyton Manning]]
Image:Pat Tillman.jpg|[[Pat Tillman]]
Image:McDonald- Computer Aged.jpg|Congressman [[Larry McDonald]]
Image:Chesley B. Sullenberger III.jpg|Pilot [[Chesley Sullenberger|Chesley B. Sullenberger]] III
Image:John McCain official portrait 2009.jpg|Senator [[John McCain]]
File:Kim Munley.jpg|Police officer [[Kimberley Munley]]
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== See also ==
[[Image:M Mantle.jpg|thumb|Mickey Mantle]]
*[[Founding Fathers]]
*[[Hank Aaron]]
*[[Mickey Mantle]]
*[[Joe Louis]]
*[[Andre Agassi]]
*[[Phyllis Schlafly]]
*[[Famous American artists]]
*[[Gallery of British Heroes]]
*[[American Patriots]]

== External links ==

*[http://usa-hero.com/ American Heroes Who Inspire the World]
*[http://www.foundingfathers.info/ The Founding Fathers home page.]
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/opinion/04furstenberg.html Spinning the Revolution] By FRANÇOIS FURSTENBERG, The NY Times.

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Joe Biden

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'''Joe Biden''' (born Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. on 20 November 1942) is the Vice President of the United States. Biden, notorious for his long-winded speeches and his foot-in-mouth moments, is an expert on foreign affairs, as noted by his support of opening a new front on the War on Terror in 2003. He is a staunch liberal on domestic policy, and is the first Catholic Vice President.

He won few votes when running for [[2008 Presidential election|president in 2008]]; he dropped out after placing fifth in Iowa in January, 2008. Biden became Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate. His campaign stressed his Irish Catholic roots in appeals to working class Democrats, who had deserted Obama in the primaries but returned in the fall.

Biden, senator from [[Delaware]] 1973-2009, chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee and subsequently the Committee on Foreign Relations. Biden in 2007 was ranked as the third most liberal Senator by the non-partisan ''National Journal''. <ref>http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080823_9669.php</ref> He previously ran for President in 1988 but dropped out of the race after admitting he had [[plagiarism#Joe Biden|plagiarized ]] a speech by the leader of the British Labour Party.<ref>
[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50116538.html?FMT=FT&dids=50116538:50116538&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+20,+1987&author=JOHN+HARWOOD&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&desc=Biden's+way+with+words+now+seems+to+be+a+liability&pf=1 Biden's way with words now seems to be a liability] - St. Petersburg Times - Sep 20, 1987</ref>

==Early Life and Education==
Biden was born at Scranton State General Hospital in Scranton, [[Pennsylvania]]<ref name="timeline">Joe Biden Timeline [http://biden.senate.gov/senator/timeline/]</ref> and grew up in New Castle County, Delaware, <ref name="bio">Joe Biden Biography [http://biden.senate.gov/senator/]</ref> in a middle class family. His father was a white collar businessmen who did well, but had fallen on hard times when Biden was a youth.<ref name="bluecollar">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/joe_bidens_mythical_bluecollar.html</ref> Biden attended Archmere Academy, a private Catholic college-preparatory high school in the Wilmington, Delaware area, graduating in 1961.<ref name="bio" /> Biden took a summer job to help his family pay for his schooling.<ref name="bluecollar" /><ref>Archmere Academy [http://www.archmereacademy.com/Default.aspx?tabid=74]Tuition for 2008-2009 is $18,450.</ref> He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968 near the bottom of his class.<ref name="bio" /> While attending Syracuse Law School, he submitted a paper in which he plagiarized from a law review article. After receiving a grade of F, he was permitted to retake the course.<ref>Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent', By E. J. DIONNE JR., SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, Published: September 18, 1987 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DB143FF93BA2575AC0A961948260]</ref>

In 1966, while still in law school, Biden married Neilia Hunter.<ref name="timeline" /> They had three children together: Joseph R. "Beau" Dien, III, Robert Hunter, and Naomi. Shortly after his election to the Senate in 1972, his wife and infant daughter were killed in a car accident, and his two sons were seriously injured.<ref name="timeline" /> He eventually remarried to Dr. Jill Biden (nee Jacobs), an educator in Delaware's schools.<ref name="bio" /> She currently is an instructor<ref>http://www.dtcc.edu/catalog/pdf/personnel.pdf</ref> teaching at Delaware Technical Community College. Together, the couple added a daughter, Ashley Biden, to the family.<ref name="bio" />

Since 1991, Biden has been an [[adjunct professor]] at the Widener University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on constitutional law.<ref name="bio" />

==United States Senate==
[[Image:Biden_on_Meet_the_Press.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Biden on Meet The Press, 09/09/07]] Biden took office on January 3, 1973, at age 30, becoming the fifth-youngest U.S. Senator in [[United States]] history. He was later reelected five times. Biden calls himself pro-choice and opposed president [[George W. Bush]]'s two nominees to the U.S. [[Supreme court]]. On [[Roe v. Wade]] he said, "I strongly support Roe v. Wade....That’s why I led the fight to defeat [Robert] Bork. Thank [[God]] he is not in the Court or Roe v. Wade would be gone by now." <ref>http://nrlc.org/Election2008/comparison0909084c.pdf</ref> He received a 100% rating from [[NARAL Pro-Choice America]] in 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006. <ref>http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53279</ref> However, not in other years because of his opposition to [[partial-birth abortion]] and public funding for abortions. <ref>http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Joe_Biden_Abortion.htm</ref> On government spending Biden requested 116 congressional earmarks in 2008 alone, resulting in $342 million in taxpayer money. <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/biden.earmarks/?iref=hpmostpop</ref> He is a strong opponent of 2nd-amendment rights, earning an F by the [[National Rifle Association]]. Biden has also voted to give [[Social Security]] benefits and citizenship to [[illegal aliens]]. On energy, he opposes more domestic oil production, saying proponents of offshore drilling want to "rape" the Outer Continental Shelf. <ref>http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=400058</ref>

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden was a major player in making foreign policy. He voted against the Persian [[Gulf War]] in 1991, but voted for the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, although he criticized the [[Bush administration]]'s management of the war. He voted against setting a timetable for troop withdrawal and is against cutting off funding for the troops on the ground. In a 2005 interview with Meet the Press, Biden said, "I’ve been calling for more troops [in Iraq] for over two years, along with [[John McCain]] and others subsequent to my saying that." On July 23, 2007 Biden said, "there's not a single [[military]] man in this [[audience]], who will tell this Senator he can get those troops out in six months if the order goes today, lets start telling the truth." <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylferBh3IA</ref> He has also proposed dividing the Iraqi Population by giving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis their own regions.

Biden was a long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which he chaired from 1987 until 1995 and served as ranking minority member from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 1997. He almost never supported a supreme court nominee who was not in his party and presided over two of the more contentious [[U.S. Supreme Court]] confirmation hearings ever, [[Robert Bork]] in 1987 and the [[racism|racially motivated]] hearings for [[Clarence Thomas]]<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTyaIAaqz8 Clarence Thomas High-Tech Lynching]</ref> in 1991.

Joe Biden has close ties with lobbyists, receiving $5,133,072 in contributions from [[lawyer]]s and [[lobbyist]]s since 2003. <ref>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12735.html</ref> One of Biden’s sons, Hunter Biden, has been a registered [[Washington]] lobbyist since 2001. <ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-24-Biden-son_N.htm</ref>

==Controversial comments==
*During the 2005 confirmation hearings for Justice [[John Roberts]], Biden asked Roberts, "Can a microscopic tag be planted in someones body to track his every move, you will rule on that." <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPvWm9ZkYw</ref>

*In July 2006, while speaking to a group of Indian-Americans in Delaware, Biden stated, "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." His comment was caught on C-SPAN. <ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13757367/</ref>

*In August of 2006, Biden was on [[Fox News]] Sunday and bragged about his state being a former [[slave]] state. "You don't know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state is the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a northeast liberal state." <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFduMuP7v-k</ref>

*Talking about his fellow Democratic presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]] he said in January of 2007, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, ... I mean, that's a storybook, man." <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/</ref>

*In March 2007, Biden was criticizing President [[George W. Bush]] for vetoing a bill that would set a time line for troops to be removed from Iraq, saying that [[Congress]] should "shove it down his throat."<ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/5/1/144042.shtml?s=us</ref>

*Joe Biden once told voters that his [[helicopter]] was "forced down" on "the superhighway of terror" by Afghan extremists. When actually, snow forced the helicopter pilot to land and wait out a [[storm]]. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,431604,00.html</ref>

*In the Oct. 2008 VP debate, Biden made numerous misstatements, on topics ranging from the Constitution to the Mideast. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433314,00.html</ref>

==1988 Presidential Campaign==
Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President in 1987. He ran on his experience, saying in an campaign advertisement "The [[White House]] isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation." <ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121919956426355701.html</ref> His campaign was short-lived due to controversies. While campaigning in [[New Hampshire]] in 1987, a civilian asked about his grades in college, to which Biden yelled, "I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do." He went on to say that he "went to law school on a full academic scholarship - the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship" adding that he "ended up in the top half" of his class (Biden graduated 76th in a class of 85) and "graduated with three degrees from college."

Biden explained his comments "I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inacurate...I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors - I said 'three' and should have said 'two'." <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/22/us/biden-admits-errors-and-criticizes-latest-report.html</ref>

Later in the campaign he was found to have plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party (UK) leader [[Neil Kinnock]]. The plagiarism was considered all the more serious, because it included details of Kinnock's life which were not true in Biden's case. Biden dropped out of the race in December 1987, and did not participate in the 1988 Democratic caucuses and primaries.

== 2004 Presidential Election ==
Joe Biden considered running as a Presidential candidate for the 2004 elections, but then decided against it, saying that it would be "now too much of a long shot."<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/special/president/candidates/whos.in.out.html CNN: Who is in, who is out 2004]</ref>. He was later mentioned as a possible running mate for Democratic Senator [[John Kerry]], but he instead urged Kerry to chose Senator John McCain.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4961694/</ref>

== 2008 Presidential Campaign ==

Biden declared his candidacy for [[President]] on January 31, 2007 after months of prior discussions, but later withdrew after the [[Iowa Caucus]] when his candidacy failed to catch on with the voters.<ref> FOX News: [http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/04/chris-dodd-abandons-presidential-campaign-after-poor-showing-in-iowa/ Biden, Dodd Bow Out of Presidential Race After Poor Showings in Iowa]</ref>

He ran on his foreign policy experience and credentials in the Senate. On November 15, 2007, during the CNN presidential debate, he said

"This is not about experience. It's not about change. It's about action. Who among us is going to be able to, on Day 1, step in and end the war?".

In the 2007 ABC debate with the Democratic presidential candidates, Biden was asked about the statement he made earlier regarding [[Barack Obama]]. He said:

<blockquote>"I think he can be ready but right now, I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Biden replied "I think that I stand by the statement." <ref>[http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/23/mccain-launches-tv-ad-using-bidens-words-against-obama/ McCain Launches TV Ad Using Biden’s Words Against Obama] Fox News, August 23, 2008</ref></blockquote>

Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race on January 3, after coming 5th in the Iowa caucus, receiving only 1% of the vote.

==Vice Presidential Nomination==
[[Image:0.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Biden campaigning for Barack Obama, 09/24/08]] Biden had been mentioned as a Vice Presidential candidate for Senator [[Barack Obama]], in that he would add foreign policy experience to the ticket. When asked in June over the speculation, Biden stated, "I'd make a great president. I'd make a great [[Secretary of State]]. I'd make a great vice president." <ref>The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: [http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/06/17/biden-id-make-a-great-president-secretary-of-state-vice-president/ Biden: I'd Make a Great President, Secretary of State, Vice President]</ref> On August 19th, Biden was asked by reporters of his VP status, to which he replied "Hey guys, I'm not the guy. See ya." <ref>[http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/biden-on-obamas.html?cid=127045696 Biden on Obama's VP Pick: 'I'm Not The Guy'] ABC News, August 19, 2008</ref>

In August 2005 Biden paradoxically and nonsensically said, "[[John McCain]] is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off."<ref>National Review Online: [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRhNzJlMWY5NjdiNzhjMTRkYjMzNjYwOGJmYzNjMTY= 'Just Words' That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget]</ref>

However, on August 23rd it was announced that Biden would be Obama's 2008 running mate. They appeared together in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. Obama proudly introduced Senator Biden,
''

''"Let me introduce to you, the next president — the next vice president of the United States of America, Joe Biden."''

Biden took the stage and endorsed Obama, saying,
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''"In this election year the choice is clear, one man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need, a man I'm proud to call my friend, a man who will be the next President of the [[United States]], Barack America."''
''

Obama hoped Biden would help the ticket in multiple ways:

* Biden has extensive foreign policy experience in the United States Senate and as such could have helped to bolster Obama's comparative lack of experience in this area.
* Biden is [[Catholic]], and Obama was weak with that key voting bloc; however, the [[Catholic Church]] may have taken offense at Biden's pro-[[abortion]] positions (see below).
* Biden was born in [[Pennsylvania]], a must-win state for Obama where he was thought to be weak;<ref>[[Hillary Clinton]] defeated Obama by a wide margin in the [[Pennsylvania]] primary; in August polls show Obama leading McCain by an average of only 5.8% in [[Pennsylvania]] [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/pa/pennsylvania_mccain_vs_obama-244.html RealClearPolitics Pennsylvania Tracking]</ref>
* Biden's son is going to [[Iraq]], which may have helped to rehabilitate Obama's image as anti-military; however, Biden himself never served.

Almost immediately after his selection, the conflict between his pro-[[abortion]] position and that of his church surfaced:<ref>Reuters: [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS29316+23-Aug-2008+PRN20080823 Choice of Biden Re-Opens Catholic Wound]</ref>

:Biden has said: "I am a long-standing supporter of ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' and a woman's right to choose." But Biden's own bishop, Bishop Michael Saltarelli of Wilmington, Del., has ... denounced the notion that politicians can 'personally oppose' abortion, but refuse to pass laws protecting the unborn. He made clear that pro-abortion Catholic politicians should refrain from receiving the Eucharist:

:"The promotion of abortion by any Catholic is a grave and serious matter. Objectively, according to the constant teaching of the Scriptures and the Church, it would be more spiritually beneficial for such a person to refrain from receiving the Body and Blood of Christ. I ask Catholics in this position to have the integrity to respect the Eucharist, Catholic teaching and the Catholic faithful."

In September of the campaign Biden asked [[Missouri]] State Senator Chuck Graham, who has [[paralysis]], to "Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about? I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal. I tell you what, stand up for Chuck." <ref>http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091008/content/01125107.guest.html</ref>

Biden's [[Republican]] opponent for the Vice Presidency was [[Alaska]] [[Governor]] [[Sarah Palin]]. They participated in their first and only Vice Presidential debate on October 2nd in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. Biden was elected the 47th Vice President of the United States on November 4, 2008.

==Vice Presidency==
[[File:Biden-flu.jpg|thumb|300px]] Biden's responsibilities as vice president are not yet clear. He has no specific portfolio of responsibilities. He alarmed the nation on April 30, 2009, by going on network television to warn Americans to stay out of confined spaces such as subways and airplanes, lest they catch [[Swine Flu]]. People health officials rejected his scare tactics and the White House immediately repudiated them.

Under President Obama the budget [[deficit]] reached over $1 trillion for the first time in history. When asked over the fate of the United States' going into bankruptcy, Biden stated at an [[AARP]] meeting, "Now, people when I say that look at me and say, "What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’" Biden said. "The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you." <ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=51162</ref>
[[File:Varvel-11-19-09.jpg|thumb|320px|left|Gary Varvel pokes fun at VP Biden's outlandish claims as the unemployment rate keeps rising]]

==See also==
*[[Obama Administration]]
*[[2008 Presidential Election]]
*[[John McCain]]
*[[Democratic Party]]

[[category:Obama Administration]]

==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://biden.senate.gov/ Official Site]
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Joe_Biden.htm Biden On the Issues]
*[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/b000444/ Voting Record]
*[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000444, Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
*[http://www.joebiden.com/ Presidential Race Site]

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Alan Keyes

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[[Image:Keyes.jpg|thumb|Alan Keyes]]

'''Alan Keyes''' (born 1950) is an [[American]] conservative activist and pundit, and was a [[Republican]] candidate for president in 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep17/0,4670,Keyes2008,00.html</ref> In 2004 Keyes unsuccessfully ran against Democrat [[Barack Obama]] in the [[Illinois]] U.S. Senate, after the former Republican nominee, [[Jack Ryan]], dropped out when details of his divorce proceedings were released to the media. According to the Obama camp, as studiously reported by [[NBC]] affiliate WMAQ-TV of Chicago, Keyes is alleged to have said that [[Jesus]] would not vote for Obama.<ref>http://www.nbc5.com/politics/3712293/detail.html</ref>

During the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration, Keyes served as an ambassador to the [[United Nations]]. This position made him the highest-ranking African-American in the Reagan administration.

== External links==
*[http://www.alankeyes.com Alan Keyes for president (official website)]
*[http://www.alankeyes.com/issues.php Alan Keyes on issues]

==References==
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John McCain

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'''John Sidney McCain III''', born in the U.S. [[Panama Canal]] Zone, August 29, 1936 (age {{age|1936|8|29}})<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m0003http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Button_enter.png Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]</ref>, was the Republican candidate for President in 2008 as well as a prominent maverick politician and [[Vietnam War]] hero. He is also the senior [[United States Senate|Senator]] of [[Arizona]]. He has been an influential leader in American politics since 1986, when he ran for office attacking corruption, attacking [[pork barrel]] spending and working for [[campaign finance reform]]. He was defeated by [[George W. Bush]] for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, and lost to [[Barack Obama]] in the 2008 Presidential Election.

As a pilot for the [[United States Navy]] and former Prisoner-of-War ([[POW]]), he served in the military for 22 years.<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000303 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]</ref> McCain, a [[Baptist]],<ref> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296973,00.html</ref> has impressive credentials on issues of foreign policy and national security, which have propelled him in the forefront of national politics as both an outspoken voice for the United States military and as a Presidential contender for the Republican Party since 1993.<ref>Paul Alexander, ''John McCain: Man of the People''. (2003)</ref>

In the Senate in 2009 McCain has moved to the right, shedding his maverick image with full-throated attacks on the Democrats' proposals for health care reform, cap-and-trade environmental taxes, and wasteful stimulus spending, while supporting President Obama's aggressive policies in the [[Afghanistan War]].
==Early Life==
McCain's family has a long history of military service, including ancestors who fought as army soldiers in the Indian Wars, [[American Revolutionary War]], [[War of 1812]], for both the Union and the Confederate States of America during the [[American Civil War]], and in [[World War I]]. Both his father and grandfather were four-star Navy admirals. In addition, McCain's two sons are currently serving in the U.S. Navy.

In 1951, the McCain family moved to Northern [[Virginia]] and he attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria. McCain was on the wrestling team and went on to graduate in 1954. He later joined the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in 1958.

==Military career==
[[Image:McCain 1965.jpg|left|thumb|200px|McCain photographed in 1965]]
McCain served heroically in the [[United States Navy]] from 1958 to 1981. He spent two and a half years as a naval aviator in training at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in [[Florida]] and the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in [[Texas]]. By 1967, McCain was a veteran pilot aboard the [[USS Forrestal|USS ''Forrestal'']] [[aircraft carrier]] off the coast of Vietnam. On 29 July 1967, while preparing to take off on a bombing run over North Vietnam, a missile accidentally fired from another plane, hitting the fuel tanks on McCain's aircraft and triggering explosions and a fire. McCain escaped from his plane by crawling onto the nose of the aircraft and diving on to the ship's deck which was ablaze from burning fuel. His attempt to rescue a fellow pilot whose flight suit was on fire was prevented when McCain was blown over by further explosions. When the fire was contained 24 hours later, 134 men had been killed and hundreds more injured. It was called the worst non-combat-related accident in U.S. naval history.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=526451&in_page_id=1811 ''The coronation of the ultimate survivor, John McCain''] 5 March 2008 [[Daily Mail]]</ref>

===Prisoner-Of-War (1967 - 1973)===

On October 26, 1967, as McCain was flying over [[Hanoi]]'s Thermal Power Plant during his 23rd bombing mission, he was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese. He had just released his bombs when [[A-4 Skyhawk|his plane]] was shot down by a [[surface-to-air missile]]. As he ejected, unconscious from the accident, he broke his knee and both arms and descended by parachute into a lake. When he floated ashore, Vietnamese locals spit and kicked him, nearly killing him. The police took him to Hoa Loa Prison where he was held in solitary captivity without medical attention or sufficient food. During brutal interrogations, he was asked for information in return for medical care. McCain refused, giving only his name and date of birth. When it was discovered that he was the son of a top U.S. Admiral, he was given medical care. Hospital personnel never believed he would survive, as he had large wounds and weighed a mere 100 lbs. He also had completely white hair, a product of accelerated aging under harsh conditions. Nonetheless, his health improved and McCain was held as a Prisoner-Of-War (POW) at the [[Hanoi Hilton]]. As a prisoner, guards tortured him with frequent beatings and painful contortions, breaking his teeth and bones. <ref>Alexander, Paul. John McCain: Man of the People. Published 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-47545-9</ref>

After months of beating sessions and intense interrogations, McCain was psychologically and physically weakened. At one point, he was forced to sign a statement which made claims exonerating his captors of inhumane treatment. The paper was intended for use as propaganda, but in all their subsequent attempts for promoting a "humane" image of the POW camp, McCain worked his hardest to thwart them. In 1971, four years from his capture, he was placed with 20 to 30 other Americans in better treatment. They were allowed to celebrate Christian holidays, including Christmas. McCain, who served as an impromptu chaplain, recalled that during their services, men cried; "They were tears of joy that for the first time... we were able to celebrate Christmas together."<ref>Alexander, Paul. John McCain: Man of the People. Published 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-47545-9</ref> In light of his father's high military status, McCain was offered early release, which he adamantly refused in honor of the "First in, first out" clause of the POW Code of Conduct.

On March 14, 1973, after five and a half years of imprisonment, McCain was released alongside 106 other pilots under the Nixon administration. McCain received a heartfelt reception at the White House and was pronounced a war hero and eminent voice for the Vietnam War. Awards from the military followed, including the Legion of Merit, a [[Silver Star]], a [[Bronze Star]], a [[Purple Heart]], the [[Distinguished Flying Cross]], and the Vietnamese Legion of Honor.<ref>Alexander, Paul. John McCain: Man of the People. Published 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-47545-9</ref> McCain's severe war injuries prevent him today from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. <ref>http://graphics.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/McCain_character_loyal_to_a_fault+.shtml</ref>

===Return to the Navy (1973 - 1981)===

The Vietnam War and his military service remained strong in McCain's. He immediately wanted to rejoin the Navy, and spent years preparing with excruciating physical therapy and a year of study in the Naval War College, where he attacked the liberal anti-war movement for weakening the morale of his fellow POWs.<ref>Kirkpatrick, David D. "[http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/14/america/15pows.php In '74 thesis, the seeds of McCain's war views.]" The New York Times (June 15, 2008) p. A1.]</ref> With his extensive experience in the Navy's Aviation division, he was selected to reform the flying fleet as Commanding Officer. John McCain quickly transformed his crew's personnel, which had been underfunded in the post-Vietnam era. Carl Smith, who served under McCain, stated, "He immediately began making changes. He fired people, and he replaced people at the top who he thought were not being as effective as he wanted them to be. He wanted real leadership. He wanted the squadron to come to life."<ref>Alexander, Paul. John McCain: Man of the People. pg. 57</ref> Many in his staff were disappointed to have him leave, and praised his work in promoting efficiency.<ref>Alexander, Paul. John McCain: Man of the People.</ref>

During his assignment to the Senate as the Navy's liaison, 1977-81, McCain began to join the ranks of politicians. He transformed the position from a rather unimportant post into one of authority and respect{{fact}}, gaining allies in the Senate. The Senate liaison role provided a learning experience in national security policy and foreign affairs.

==Political career==
===Congressional (1982 - 1986)===

Prior to entering public service, McCain worked in [[Phoenix]] for his father-in-law's company, Hensley & Co, which was an Anheuser-Busch beer wholesaler and distributor. With nagging injuries and limited physical mobility, McCain realized he would never become a four-star general like his forefathers.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542249 John McCain Biography (1936-)]</ref> Some biographers argue that he shifted into politics so that he could achieve the equivalent in politics, leading to his Senatorial career. After gaining support from local business leaders, he ran for a congressional seat for Arizona's 1st congressional district as a Republican in 1982. His [[liberal]] opponents labeled him as a "carpetbagger". McCain responded to a voter making the charge of "carpetbagging" saying,

{{cquote|Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.}}

With the endorsements of local newspapers, McCain easily won the election. In 1983, he became President of the Republican freshman class of representatives. At the time, he largely supported Reagan's hard stance against the [[Soviet Union]], his tax cuts and matters on Indian Affairs. He did, however, break with the President on the decision to place a U.S. military presence in Lebanon, saying {{cquote|''I do not foresee obtainable objectives in Lebanon; I believe the longer we stay, the more difficult it will be to leave.''<ref>Alexander, Paul. John McCain: Man of the People. pg. 100</ref>}} During his four years in [[Congress]], McCain and his wife Cindy had three children.

===Senatorial (1986 - Present)===
[[Image:Reagan mccain.jpg|left|thumb|300px|3/3/1987 President Reagan and Nancy Reagan greet John McCain in the Blue Room during a dinner for newly elected members of the 100th Congress]]
When Republican and [[conservative]] icon [[Barry Goldwater]] retired from the United States Senate in Arizona in 1986, Congressman McCain announced his candidacy for the seat. He easily won the election, defeating his Democratic opponent Richard Kimball by 20 percentage points. When entering the Senate, he became a member of the powerful Armed Services Committee and he also joined the Commerce Committee and the Indian Affairs Committee. During the 1988 Presidential Election, McCain was named chairman of Veterans for Bush. In 1991, Senator McCain became part of the "Keating Five" scandal, where McCain and four other Senators (all Democrats) were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received approximately $112,000 in political contributions from Charles Keating Jr. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined that McCain's involvement was minimal and was criticized for using "poor judgement".

===="Maverick" Image in the Senate====
John McCain has gained a reputation as a "maverick" for his sponsorship of many bills and leadership on almost every issue. Starting in 1994, he worked with Democratic [[Wisconsin]] Senator [[Russ Feingold]] on campaign finance reform. The McCain-Feingold bill banned "soft money". It passed and was signed into law on November 6th, 2002, by President Bush. In the 1990's, McCain gained attention for his strong opposition to pork barrel spending. He championed the 1996 Line Item Veto Act, which gave the President the power to veto individual spending items. However, in 1998, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled the act unconstitutional.

Voteview.com rated McCain as the second most conservative Senator in the 109th Congress (Jan. 2005 - Jan. 2007).<ref>http://voteview.com/SEN109.HTM</ref>

John McCain and the Bush administration agree on most issues. He voted with the Bush administration 95% of the time in 2007, according to Congressional Quarterly's "Presidential Support Scores". <ref>http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/512/ Politifact fact checks McCain's voting support</ref> Issues include making the Bush tax cuts permanent (even though he originally opposed and voted against them), energy independence, winning the war in Iraq, reforming Social Security, and continuing and expanding Bush's supply-side economic policies.

In 2008, McCain asked for $0 in earmarks.<ref>[http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2008_database 2008 ''Pig Book''], Council for Citizens Against Government Waste</ref>The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste has given him a rating of 100% in 2007 (88% lifetime).<ref>[http://councilfor.cagw.org/site/DocServer/2007_Senate_Ratings_Final.pdf?docID=3242 2007 Senate Scorecard]</ref> A score of 100% represents voting against all pork, and 0% represents voting ''for'' all pork. Democrats averaged 5% in 2007, whereas Republicans averaged 60%. <ref>[http://councilfor.cagw.org/site/News2?abbr=CCAGW_&page=NewsArticle&id=11590 CCAGW Releases ''2007 Congressional Ratings'']</ref>

==Presidential Politics==
===2000 Presidential Campaign===
McCain launched his first campaign for President in 2000, when he challenged then-[[Texas]] Governor [[George W. Bush]] for the Republican nomination. McCain's campaign was surprisingly strong. By ignoring the [[Iowa Caucus]], he was able to win the [[New Hampshire]] Primary by nineteen percentage points. He then won the [[Michigan]] Primary. However, he went on to lose [[South Carolina]] and 9 out of the 13 [[Super Tuesday]] states. McCain withdrew from the race on March 9, 2000.

After withdrawing, McCain announced that he supported the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the top of the South Carolina statehouse. During the primary he had stated he believed it was an issue for the state to decide, which was his true belief from a federal standpoint, but not his personal belief. He felt by withholding her personal belief that he had erred. He explained that he lived his life by being open and felt he should have been at that time and apologized for not speaking up sooner. <ref>http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/19/mccain.sc/</ref>

===During Bush Presidency 2001 - 2008 ===
Following McCain's loss in the 2000 Presidential primary and reports of dirty tricks in [[South Carolina]]<ref>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/ The anatomy of a smear campaign, March 21, 2004</ref><ref>http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2007/12/30/top-romney-advisor-tied-to-anonymous-attacks-of-previous-presidential-primary/ Top Romney advisor tied to anonymous attacks of previous presidential primary, December 30, 2007</ref>, McCain began to disagree with President Bush on many issues, such as tax cuts, climate change, and gun legislation. After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], McCain wrote legislation that created the 9/11 Commission, while he and Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings co-sponsored the Aviation and Transportation Security Act that federalized airport security. In May 2005, McCain led the so-called "[[Gang of 14]]" in the Senate, which established a compromise that preserved the ability of senators to [[filibuster]] judicial nominees, but only in "extraordinary circumstances". McCain also co-sponsored comprehensive immigration reform (see below under political record for details). In addition to bipartisan work in the Senate, it was during this period that McCain was courted by the Senate Democrats, and considered switching parties.<ref>http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-say-mccain-nearly-abandoned-gop-2007-03-28.html</ref>

===2008 Presidential Campaign===

{{main|John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign}}

McCain announced his run for President in early 2007 at New Hampshire, a state which had boosted his floundering 2000 run for President. From the onset, he ran on an unwavering support for the Iraq War and a close tie to President Bush, stemming from his shift during the 2004 election. The Republican Party was highly splintered among political groups, with strong constituents of the Christian social conservatives (Sam Brownback and Mike Huckabee), anti-immigration activists (Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo), and the blockbuster fundraisers, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, who appeared to be media favorites upon entry. McCain was not seen as a viable candidate by many Republicans because of his strong support for immigration reform and distaste for political fund-raising. Mitt Romney, for instance, had raised $23 million in the first three months of 2007, for instance, three times that of Sen. McCain.<ref>Cook, Charles. "The 2008 Presidential Primaries: What in America's Name Is Going On?" The Washington Quarterly Vol. 31 Issue 3 pp. 193-204.</ref>

Christian conservatives overwhelmingly backed Mike Huckabee and Sam Brownback, rejecting McCain from longstanding offense he had struck during his 2000 run. John McCain had called politically-charged leaders such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson "agents of intolerance" for their part in a smear campaign during the South Carolina Primary. Many Christians were angered by these remarks, and fumed that they would field a Third Party candidate if McCain was chosen as the nominee. McCain had shown unfavorable views on abortion and religious initiatives in the past, and many Republican voters were worried that he could not be a reliably conservative candidate. <ref>Luo, Michael. "Evangelicals see Dilemma in GOP Field." July 8, 2007. New York Times.</ref>

Sen. McCain's unwavering support for victory in Iraq was made into a hot-button issue by many politicians following stories of insurgent violence erupting during early 2007. People began to fear the worst in Iraq, and the idea of a timetable for withdrawal became a major issue. At this time, conservative Republicans also feared McCain's position on immigration reform, and booed him loudly at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference. A news story by the New York Times was a major blow to the campaign, which reported that a scandalous affair between McCain and a lobbyist had taken place. It was found to be completely false, but the story severely hurt his political advances.

When news had spread that McCain's campaign bankrupted and "imploded" in the summer of 2007, the Republican nomination began a period of quick shifting; other candidates began to soar in the polls, detracting McCain's support. Rudy Giuliani, who collected a strong following based on his leadership as "America's Mayor", began to court evangelical Christians who felt uneasy about McCain, gaining the endorsement of televangelist Pat Robertson. However, as his less-than-flattering personal life and liberal positions on social issues became apparent, he quickly lost momentum to Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee.<ref>Cook, Charles. "The 2008 Presidential Primaries: What in America's Name Is Going On?" The Washington Quarterly Vol. 31 Issue 3 pp. 193-204.</ref> Fred Thompson, who entered late in the race, quickly withdrew because of lackadaisical popularity and poor fund-raising efforts. Huckabee remained popular in the Southern United States, but failed to win major contests among independents and Democrat voters.

Romney had the edge in early races, but couldn't deliver a knockout blow. McCain's poll numbers slowly increased and benefited as the field narrowed. After McCain defeated top contender Mitt Romney by a large margin on Super Tuesday in delegate-rich states like New York, California, and Arizona,<ref>Scott Neuman and Howard Berkes. "Mitt Romney Drops Out of GOP Presidential Race." Feb. 7, 2008. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18772382</ref> Mitt Romney withdrew with some protest, leaving McCain the clear front-runner.<ref>Bumiller, Elisabeth, Kirkpatrick, David. "Romney Is Out; McCain Emerges as G.O.P. Choice." Feb. 8, 2008. New York Times.</ref> Although McCain's proportion of the vote was not much higher than Romney's, he won most of the 'winner take all' states giving him a much higher proportion of the delegate count. Without Romney's well-financed opposition, McCain easily clinched the necessary delegate lead of 1,191 in March after a spirited yet short-lived fight from Mike Huckabee.<ref>NPR.org. "Election 2008: Huckabee, Romney Stay in Race for GOP Nomination." Feb. 6, 2008. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18739137</ref>

McCain had won the nomination and could focus on the [[2008 United States Presidential Election]].

==Domestic Policy==
[[Image:McCain_on_Meet_the_Press.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Senator John McCain discusses his opinions with Tim Russert on "Meet the Press", 2005]]

===Balanced Budget===
McCain has emphasized reducing government spending over tax cuts. He is one of the Senate's most outspoken critics of pork barrel spending and has pledged to veto any bill with pork as President. Congressional experience has enabled John McCain to identify items that are unnecessary. McCain is fiscally responsible with the taxpayers' money and created a simple method to detect spending abuses. <ref>[http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=d1a878d9-f16c-4570-b402-9d1bc3fe6ab9] , http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=d1a878d9-f16c-4570-b402-9d1bc3fe6ab9, U.S. Senate Pork Barrel Spending</ref>

* An appropriation that is not properly authorized by the Senate and not requested by the Administration.
* An unauthorized and unrequested, locality-specific or facility-specific earmark (including those funds that are above the Administration request).
* A budget add-on that would be subject to a budget point of order.
* The transfer or disposal of federal property or items under terms that circumvent existing law.
* New items added in conference that were never considered in either bill in either House.

===Economy===
Upon his party gaining the White House in 2001, McCain opposed a $1.35 trillion cut in [[taxation]] over 10 years, but switched his position around 2006, and voted to renew it twice. The plan included the objectives of doubling the child tax credit from $500 to $1,000, reducing the tax penalty on [[marriage|married couples]] and fully repealing the [[Estate tax|tax on estates]]. A [[United States Senate]] Finance Committee Report estimated that with all the planned reductions fully phased in, the average family of four making $50,000 would save $1,825 per year.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/06/07/bush.taxes/ $1.35 trillion tax cut becomes law], CNN, 21 June 2001</ref>

Since the tax cuts, [[IRS]] revenues increased from $1.78 trillion in 2003 to $2.56 trillion in 2007 with a 46.3% increase of individual income tax receipts. Surging $785 billion since the 2003 investment tax cuts, it is the largest four-year revenue increase in U.S. history<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119189497675953035.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</ref>

During this same time period, spending mandated by Congress has also increased by more than 29 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars, representing an 11.4 percent increase in federal spending as a percentage of [[Gross domestic product|GDP]]. This spending has doubled the federal debt, increasing it from 58 to 66 percent of GDP. Defense spending increased 61 percent, and non-defense by 23 percent during the eight years since 2000. The largest non-defense spending increase has been for federally-funded medical expenses, at 54 percent.<ref>[http://www.aier.org/research/commentaries/750-big-government-under-the-bush-administration Big Government Under The Bush Administration], AIER, 16 November 2008</ref> In total, Congress and the White House has increased government expenditures by the largest percentage since the administration of President [[Lyndon Johnson]], but McCain has opposed every earmark put forward in the Democratic and Republican congresses, even ones Bush supported. Part of the huge spending increases are directly traceable to the economic repercussions of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the economic downturn in its aftermath, and increased defense and Homeland Security spending. However, this appears likely to be eclipsed by the spending plans of [[Barack Obama]], who pledged on 6 December 2008 to invest "record amounts of money" in infrastructure, a plan which some members of Congress are estimating at $400 to $700 billion.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/us/politics/07radio.html?ref=us Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale], New York Times, 6 December 2008</ref>.

McCain's policies have caused general economic growth. This is partially due to changes in the stock market that lead to a record high in 2007, although the [[NASDAQ]] is still down considerably from the levels it was at before the Dot-com bubble burst. Corporations showed profits growing by double digits growth.<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/us/2006-05-08-mart-usat_x.htm</ref> Even the working class benefited from the Bush economy, as unemployment hit an all time low in March 2007.<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/economy</ref> McCain supported a minimum wage increase, one of the platforms for the Democrats in the 2006 Congressional elections, after the House and Senate included McCain's request of provisions for small-business tax breaks.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122001784.html</ref><ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001666.html</ref> Tax policies have been favorable to reducing the [[Capital Gains Tax]], with a subsequent surge in investment.

===Earmarks===
John McCain staunchly opposes [[earmarks]] as [[corrupt]] and wasteful spending. In his 28 years in federal government, McCain has never requested an earmark. He vigorously crusaded against earmarks in his 2008 presidential campaign.

===Education===
McCain supports [[school vouchers]] and [[charter school]]s. His voting record shows support for reducing the federal government's role in [[education]]. He voted for school vouchers for Washington, D.C., education savings accounts, and against $5 billion for grants to local educational agencies. McCain sponsored the Education A-Plus bill in 1997 and again in 1999, which allowed parents to open tax-free saving accounts for their children's school supplies. McCain also co-sponsored the Child Nutrition Act, which would provide [[federal funding]] for at-risk children. He has publicly stated he supports [[intelligent design]] teaching in schools.<ref>http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/politics/90069 "On Tuesday, though, he sided with the president on two issues that have made headlines recently: teaching intelligent design in schools...McCain told the Star that, like Bush, he believes "all points of view" should be available to students studying the origins of mankind."</ref>

===Health Care===
McCain's record and stated positions on [[health care]] are based on true conservative principles. He is against socialized health care and health coverage mandates. McCain supports tax credits for personal health savings accounts and enhancing competition in the health care industry to improve quality and lower costs. He also supports allowing citizens to purchase out-of-state health insurance. In an October 2007 statement, McCain said: "In health care, we believe in enhancing the freedom of individuals to receive necessary and desired care. We do not believe in coercion and the use of state power to mandate care, coverage or costs." McCain is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership. <ref>[http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/healthcare.htm Pro Healthcare]</ref>

===Energy===
John McCain has stated "ethanol subsidies, tariff barriers and sugar quotas drive up food prices and hurt Americans. However, we cannot take the wrong direction and cut off trade for American goods."<ref>[http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/4dbd2cc7-890e-47f1-882f-b8fc4cfecc78.htm], McCain Economic Plan</ref> “America’s most vital interests call us to the mission of energy security, and so does our sense of honor. And the straightest, swiftest path to energy security is to produce more, use less, and find new sources of power — so that no commodity can determine our security, and no crisis can undermine our economy,” McCain said in Houston, TX, June 16, 2008. He proposes to remove federal obstacles to offshore drilling. Among his major initiatives is the removal of the 27-year old federal moratorium on states’ abilities to explore and drill for oil and natural gas.<ref>[http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/06/17/mccain-slaps-obama-on-energy-calls-for-more-drilling/], McCain slaps Obama on energy, June 17th, 2008</ref> In addition, he wants the states to receive incentives and royalties to drill. The current ban on offshore drilling covers an estimated 80 percent of U.S. coastal waters."We've seen the impact of it in the form of food prices, in the form of gasoline, in the form of threats of inflation and indeed indications of inflation, and we must embark on a national mission to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil." <ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_el_pr/mccain] , http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_el_pr/mccain , AP McCain urges end to ban on offshore drilling , June 16, 2008</ref> He indicated, though, that the end of the ban on offshore drilling would have mostly psychological effects in the short term. At a town hall meeting, McCain stated, "I don't see an immediate relief, but I do see that exploitation of existing reserves that may exist -- and in view of many experts that do exist off our coasts -- is also a way that we need to provide relief. Even though it may take some years, the fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have psychological impact that I think is beneficial."
He would support incentives for building new nuclear power plants. <ref>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/24/1163504.aspx</ref> John McCain wants more nuclear reactors to increase America's energy independence. He is calling for the construction of 45 new reactors by 2030. Also, McCain wants to increase federal funds for clean coal technology by 2 billion dollars to reduce dependence on foreign oil. <ref>[http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91CMT0O0&show_article=1] , http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91CMT0O0&show_article=1 , AP McCain calls for building 45 new nuclear reactors, June 18, 2008</ref>
McCain supports increasing ethanol imports and more production of hybrid vehicles. He is co-sponsor of a Senate cap-and-trade bill designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. He has consistently voted for preserving the budget for ANWR but against drilling for [[oil]] in the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]] (ANWR), because of environmental concerns. Conservationists differ from conservatives that 2000 acres for oil drilling is not enough to impact [[polar bears]] in the region.

===Environment===
McCain's position on [[global warming]] issues has put him at odds with conservatives. His [[environment]]al proposals are mostly sound modern thinking by someone that understands the enormity of the problem. McCain says that we can go green as a nation without bankrupting America. Per his website, Senator McCain "wants to leave a better future for our children."
On January 2007, McCain said, "we continue to learn more about the science of climate change and the dangerous precedence of not addressing this environmental problem. The science tells us that urgent and significant action is needed." On October 30, 2003, he co-sponsored the Climate Stewardship Act (S.139), which was defeated. McCain is a member of, and was endorsed by, the Republicans for Environmental Protection organization. His conservative stances include voting to confirm Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior and he is in favor of renewable energy such as solar, hydro, and wind. "Wind power is one of many alternative energy sources that are changing our economy for the better, and one day they will change our economy forever."

===Immigration===
John McCain says that he will secure the borders first and many [[immigration]] issue are still needed but will have to come later. In 2007, McCain worked to provide border security efforts with a temporary worker program and an eventual path to citizenship for many illegal immigrants. Conservatives wanted nothing to do with the proposal and in June 2007, Congress' efforts collapsed. McCain said of the outcome,"I say it is a lesson learned about what the American people's priorities are. And their priority is to secure the borders." <ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-11-03-610628094_x.htm] , http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-11-03-610628094_x.htm, AP McCain emphasizes border security, November 4, 2007</ref> "..I support the same solution. But we've got to secure the borders first" says McCain

On Jan. 5, regarding the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, Senator McCain announced that anyone who says he supported amnesty is "a liar, is lying." The senator stated "I do not support, nor would I ever support, any services provided to someone who came to this country illegally, nor would I ever and I never have supported [[Social Security]] benefits for people who are in this country illegally. Any assertion to the contrary is absolutely false." During the comprehensive immigration reform debate, Senator McCain voted to table an amendment that would have prevented illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security who "are not able to receive Social Security benefits as a result of unlawful activity."<ref>http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00130</ref> Senator McCain stated in a May 29, 2003 interview, "Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens." Arguing amnesty is not a free pass or a reward for law breaking, McCain stated, "Well, because amnesty, according to the dictionary, is forgiveness. The proposal that we had- would require fines, would require back in the line, would require deportation for some. It would require others to go back to the country of their origin" <ref>[http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/John_McCain_Immigration.htm] , Ontheissues.com, John McCain on Immigration</ref> At the [[Republican]] debate at the Reagan Library, McCain stated he supports the deportation of 2 million illegals who have committed crimes in the USA.

Conversely, in a June 2008 meeting with Hispanic leaders in Chicago, McCain indicated he would push legislation to overhaul federal immigration laws if elected. According to one attendee, Rosanna Pulido, head of the Illinois [[Minuteman Project]], ""He's one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he's a different John McCain in front of Hispanics..." <ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/20/mccain-discusses-immigrat_n_108297.html McCain Discusses Immigration With Hispanic Leaders</ref> <ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-06-19-4020801806_x.htm McCain Meets With Hispanic Leaders</ref> Pulido further stated, "He was telling one group of people one thing and the Hispanics another, I'm a conservative and I think he's throwing conservatives under the bus."<ref>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/title----mcca-1.html McCain Double-Talk on Immigration?</ref> Due to his support, members of the Minuteman Project, participating in the Minuteman Project Caravan, traveled to Washington, D.C. to register their disapproval. They made an entry into McCain's Guest Log Book asking him to uphold the Constitution and enforce the law. After making the entry, the group was forced to leave by a senior staffer for Senator McCain or be reported to the police. <ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643181/posts Minuteman Project Thrown Out of McCain's Office</ref>

Senator McCain's position on illegal immigration has arguably resulted in the most criticisms from conservatives. On May 12, 2005, McCain joined Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] (D-[[Massachusetts]]) as co-sponsor of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. The bill would legalize and eventually grant citizenship to the estimated 12–20 million [[illegal alien]]s in the United States and have them immediately start collecting social security and other government benefits. The bill never came for a vote on the Senate floor. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 are two additional compromises based on the original McCain-Kennedy bill. McCain has consistently voted for visas for skilled workers. McCain voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and has said border security should be a bigger priority then the illegal aliens who are currently here.

===Global Trade===
McCain has actively supported reducing barriers to trade and has shown leadership in the [[United States Senate|Senate]] on Free Trade Agreements (FTA). Senator McCain supports both pending FTAs for Columbia and [[South Korea]]. <ref>[http://useconomy.about.com/od/candidatesandtheeconomy/p/McCain_Trade.htm], John McCain and Trade</ref> He voted for and defends the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

===Social Security===
McCain is a strong supporter of private [[Social Security]] accounts.

===Tax Reform===
In 2001, McCain gained attention as one of only two Republicans who voted against President Bush's tax cuts. He opposed accelerating the cuts in 2003, saying, "I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportional amount that went to the wealthiest Americans. I would clearly support not extending those tax cuts in order to help address the deficit." He has now changed his stance, by voting to make the tax cuts permanent, and says he would do the same as President. In 2002, Senator McCain was one of only two Republicans to twice vote against the permanent repeal of the Death Tax. He has also refused to sign a pledge put forth by Americans for Tax Freedom not to impose any new taxes or increase existing taxes. However, many of McCain's votes has shown support for lower taxes, such as eliminating the marriage penalty, a 1997 vote to cut capital gains taxes and he introduced measures that would require a sixty-vote majority to pass a tax increase.

==Foreign Policy==

===National Security===

McCain urges the Senate to pass FISA. “For months, House Democrats, the [[ACLU]], and the trial lawyers have held up legislation to modernize our nation’s terrorist surveillance laws. Today, the House passed a compromise bill to end this impasse. While I would have preferred to see the Senate bill enacted, which I voted for earlier this year, I am pleased Congressional leaders and the Administration were able to reach an agreement to reform our current surveillance law and not let FISA expire in August. I hope [[United States Senate|Senate]] Democrats will allow this matter to quickly be considered by the Senate and sent to the President for his signature. I will support this measure and hope that politics will be put aside in favor of this vital national security matter.” <ref>[http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=a7f9dc6c-da0e-459d-dd6c-91e20a46e1e5] , McCAIN URGES SENATE PASSAGE OF FISA
, June 20, 2008</ref> Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was established in 1978.

McCain has voted in support of the [[Patriot Act|USA PATRIOT Act]] as well as National Missile Defense. However, he has joined [[liberal]]s in support of immediately closing [[Guantanamo Bay]], and moving all the prisoners to Fort Leavenworth. On October 3, 2005, he introduced the McCain Detainee Amendment which prohibits inhumane treatment of prisoners, including prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The bill was passed and signed by President [[George W. Bush]]. McCain has recently criticized the practice of [[waterboarding]], saying "they should know what it is. It is not a complicated procedure. It is torture." McCain voted against HR 2082, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which included provisions that would have prevented the CIA from water boarding prisoners.

===Afghanistan===
After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] McCain was a strong advocate for military action in [[Afghanistan]], saying:

''We did not cause this war. Our enemies did, and they are to blame for the deprivations and difficulties it occasions. They are to'' ''blame for the loss of innocent life. They are to blame for the geopolitical problems confronting our friends and us. We can help'' ''repair the damage of war. But to do so, we must destroy the people who started it.'' <ref>http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001375</ref>

McCain is currently calling for 15,000 additional troops to address the situation in Afghanistan, similar to his victorious 2007 troop surge in Iraq.

===Iran===
McCain has said that "We continue to be concerned about [[Iran]]ian influence and assistance to Hezbollah as well as Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons." He tried to ban Iran from playing in the 2006 World Cup, citing Iranian President [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]'s [[Holocaust]] denials.

===Iraq===
[[Image:610x.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Senator John McCain with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, 03/17/08]] McCain voted with the majority [[Republican]] Party and 29 Democrats of the Senate in favor of the 2002 "[[Iraq War]] Resolution" authorizing President George W. Bush to go to war against Iraq and overthrow the [[Saddam Hussein]] regime. In 1998, McCain voted in favor of HR 4655 Iraq Liberation Act, signed by then President Clinton. <ref>[http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Legislation/ILA.htm], http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Legislation/ILA.htm, HR4655 Public Law: 105-338, October 31, 1998</ref> HR 4655 declares that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government. McCain went on to became a critic of the management of the war, arguing that there wasn't enough troop strength in the area. However, he never became a defeatist advocating surrender. McCain publicly stated that he had "no confidence" in then-Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]]. However, he refused to call for his resignation, saying that "the President picks his team, and the president has the right to stay with that team if he wants to." McCain became one of the strongest leading advocates in the Senate for the 2007 troop surge, which increased the number of American troops by 20,500, deployed to provide security to [[Baghdad]] and Al Anbar Province. On February 4, he criticized a non-binding resolution opposing the troop buildup, calling it a reckless "vote of no confidence" in the U.S. Commanders and in the military. Additionally, he voted against all measures aimed at withdrawal of U.S. forces and voted against cutting off of war funds. McCain rightly believes that Congress should not micromanage the war and to give the military everything they ask for to successfully complete the mission. He has mentioned in a town hall forum that staying the course in Iraq for 'a hundred years' would not bother him if no American soldier's were losing their lives. This became an issue for Democratic political strategy. The DNC lead by chairman [[Howard Dean]] repeatedly tried to use false statements in justifying attacking McCain.<ref>[http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/04/mccains_100year_war.html]http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/04/mccains_100year_war.html, Washington post Fact Checker, April 2, 2008</ref> What McCain said is very different from what the liberal media and the DNC were reporting. Asked in Derry, NH of the willingness to keep troops in Iraq for 50 years, he said "Make it 100" and

{{QuoteBox|"That's fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed."}}

===Russia===
Senator McCain has strongly criticized [[Russia]]n President [[Vladimir Putin]]. During a primary debate he said, ""He bullies his neighbors and he wants to get a control of the energy supply of Western Europe. This is a dangerous person. And he has to understand that there's a cost to some of his actions." In 2005 McCain and [[Connecticut]] senator [[Joe Lieberman]] drafted a resolution banning Russia from attending the Group of 8 (G8) international forum. McCain is also a strong supporter of ballistic national missile defenses.

===Cuba===
McCain forcefully supports the [[Cuban embargo]] and believes it should be maintained until certain specific political freedoms are restored to the country. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&fta=y&adxnnlx=1222106556-zea3cQG12OakFI9P97dogQ</ref>

==Social Issues==
===Abortion===
{{QuoteBox|"If I am fortunate enough to be elected as the next President of the United States, I pledge to you to be a loyal and unswerving friend of the right to life movement."}}

Sen. John McCain has more than a twenty year anti-[[abortion]] record, first in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]], then in the U.S. Senate. McCain voted 11 times on anti-abortion and other [[pro-life]] issues in the House. Senator McCain has voted 119 times on anti-abortion and other pro-life measures in the Senate. <ref>[http://www.naral.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf], http://www.naral.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf</ref>

McCain's record in the Senate on abortion is pro-life. He voted for the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. McCain has also voted against government funding of birth control and sex education.<ref>http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00214 Voted Nay on an amendment to authorize grants to carry out programs to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies</ref> <ref>http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00075 Vote against allocation of $100m for prevention of unintended pregnancies </ref><ref>http://www.nowpublic.com/quiet-campaign-against-contraception Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's campaign officials boast that he has "consistently voted against taxpayer-funded contraception programs." And Mr. McCain reports that his adviser on sexual-health matters is Sen. Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who leads campaigns claiming condoms are unsafe and opposing emergency contraception.</ref> During his first Presidential campaign for the 2000 election, McCain said the following on [[Roe v. Wade]], "I'd love to see a point where it is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." <ref>http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/feb/07021908.html McCain's "</ref> He has since changed his position, saying Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

John McCain:
* Voted against a [[Roe v. Wade]] resolution
* Co-sponsored and voted for the Federal Abortion Ban
* Supported H.R.1997, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act
* Voted for four anti-abortion U.S. Supreme Court judges
* Voted for six anti-abortion lower court judges
* Supported H.R.3913, to prohibit federal funds for abortion services in any case
* Voted to make it a federal crime for anyone but a parent to cross state lines for abortion termination
* Voted in favor of a national network of parental notification.

====Quotations====
“I do not support Roe v. Wade. It should be overturned.” <ref>Ann Althouse, Rudy & Mitt Hem & Haw on Abortion, N.Y. TIMES, Feb. 24, 2007.</ref>

*"I have many, many votes and it’s been consistent. And I’ve got a consistent zero from NARAL throughout all those years…."<ref>John McCain for President 2008, On the Issues: Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life</ref>
*"My record is clear, and I think the important thing is you look at people’s voting record because sometimes rhetoric can be a little… misleading…. As you know I don’t support Roe v. Wade…. I thought it was a bad decision, and I think that the decision should be made in the states"<ref>John McCain for President 2008, On the Issues: Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life</ref>
*“I’m proud that we have Justice Alito and Roberts on the United States Supreme Court. I’m very proud to have played a very small role in making that happen.” McCain explained further that he “will try to find clones of Alito and Roberts” to fill future court vacancies.<ref>[http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=26539], Letter from Sen. John McCain to Pro‐Life Community Janary 23, 2008</ref>

===Gun Control===
McCain's record on [[gun control]] is mixed. He co-sponsored the Gun Show Loophole Closing and Gun Law Enforcement Act of 2001. This act would reduce the number of gun shows, require gun-owners to purchase trigger locks, and allow federal agents to arrest those who violate federal gun laws. However, McCain has frequently voted in support of the Second Amendment, such as voting against background checks at gun shows and voting in support of prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. In August of 1999, McCain said he was open to voting for an assault weapon ban, depending on the details. However, he still voted against the Federal Assault Weapons Ban and the efforts to renew it, as well as the Brady Bill.

A top official of the [[National Rifle Association]] said McCain has been a reliable ally of gun owners despite divisions with the powerful lobbying group on some issues. NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told The Associated Press "...We're not foolish enough to ignore the vast areas of agreement in which John McCain has been a friend to gun owners." <ref>[http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/may/0514_nra_mccain.shtml], http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/may/0514_nra_mccain.shtml, NRA chief stresses common ground with McCain, May 14, 2008</ref> The Republican presidential nominee has voted against a ban on assault-type weapons with restrictions which were objected.

===Same-sex marriage===
In the speech on the Senate floor July 13th, 2004, McCain stated “Mr. President, most Americans believe, as I do, that the institution of marriage should be reserved for the union of a man and a woman." <ref>http://www.friendsofmccain.com/news/dspnews.cfm?id=143</ref> John McCain revealed his decision based on super majority requirements and the current political realities within Congress. “By my count, there is not at this time even a small majority of senators who would vote for Senator Allard’s amendment, much less the 67 votes required by the Constitution. That won’t change, Mr. President, unless public opinion changes significantly. The [[Founders]], wisely, made certain that the Constitution is difficult to amend, and, as a practical political matter, can’t be done without overwhelming public approval. And thank God for that. Were it any easier I fear we could not make the claim for the Constitution’s enduring success that I have just made." Further, he explained his approach to the amendment's ultimate success “If a constitution is to be amended, Mr. President, it should be a state constitution." McCain voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment. In May 2008, the California Supreme Court effectively created a ruling to grant same-sex partners equal rights to [[Marriage]] and to be recognized by the state. A spokesman for Republican John McCain, who opposes gay marriage, said the Arizona senator "doesn't believe judges should be making these decisions."

===Evolution===
Senator John McCain's position on evolution is nuanced:

{{QuoteBox|"I think Americans should be exposed to every point of view, I happen to [[believe in evolution]]. ... I respect those who think the world was created in seven days. Should it be taught as a science class? '''Probably not'''." [http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/12/mccain-creationism/]}}

==Personal life==
[[Image:Cindy McCain.jpg|thumb|Cindy McCain]]
McCain has been married twice. His first marriage, to Carol Shepp, ended in [[divorce]] in 1980 after 15 years, of which he spent five in captivity. McCain publicly acknowledges the responsibility for the breakup as his, stating in a 2008 interview with Pastor Rick Warren that "My greatest moral failing, and I have been a very imperfect person, is the failure of my first marriage". .<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/rules021299.htm</ref> His second and current wife is Cindy Lou Hensley, to whom he has been married for 28 years. His son John Sidney IV is a Midshipman at the [[United States Naval Academy]], Annapolis, and his son James is a non-commissioned officer in the [[United States Marine Corps]], who is serving in [[Iraq]] as part of [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]]. Also, the McCains adopted a ten-week old baby girl in 1993, who they named Bridget, from [[Mother Teresa]]'s orphanage in [[Bangladesh]].<ref>[http://celebrity.rightpundits.com/?p=3183 Bridget McCain Biography] Rightpundits.com</ref> <ref>[http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/109022008.htm Bridget vs Sonia: McCain vs Rajiv Gandhi] News Analysis India</ref>
Cindy McCain was in the country as part of the American Voluntary Medical Team <ref>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-041408-cindy-mccain-bio,1,2151434.story Bio of Cindy McCain]</ref> in response to the 1991 [[Bangladesh]] cyclone.
===McCain's family===
*Wife Cindy
*4 sons
**Douglas
**Andrew
**John (''"Jack"'') Sidney IV
**James
*3 daughters
**Sidney
**Meghan
**Bridget
*Parents
**[[Admiral]] John Sydney McCain, Jr. (from [[Indiana]])
**[[Roberta McCain|Roberta Wright McCain]] (from [[Oklahoma]]).

== Books ==
* ''Faith of My Fathers'' (Random House; 1999) ISBN 0-3755-0191-6
* ''Odysseus in America'' (Scribner; 2002) ISBN 0-7432-1156-1
* ''Worth Fighting For: A Memoir'' (Diane Publ. Co; 2002) ISBN 0-7567-6759-8
* ''Medal of Honor'' (Artisan; 2003) ISBN 1-5796-5240-9
* ''Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life'' (Random House; 2004) ISBN 1-4000-6030-3
* ''Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember'' (Random House; 2005) ISBN 1-4000-6412-0
* ''Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them'' (Twelve; 2007) ISBN 0-4466-9911-X

==Further reading==
*McCain, John [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=513224&in_page_id=1811 ''My six years of hell: John McCain recalls life as a prisoner of war in Vietnam''] 8 February 2008 [[Daily Mail]]. Accessed 9 February 2008

==References==
{{reflist|2|small}}

==See Also==
* [[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign]]
* [[Previous Breaking News/John McCain|Articles about John McCain from previous "Breaking News"]]
* [[White House]]
*[[Cindy McCain]], spouse of John McCain
*[[Roberta McCain]], mother of John McCain

== External links ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsckD9trn4&eurl=http://evangelicalsformccain.org/meetthesenator.htm ''John McCain: Courageous Service''] - Streaming video documentary hosted at YouTube, including footage of McCain's time as a POW and the Forrestal incident.
*[http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542249 John McCain Biography]
*[http://evangelicalsformccain.org/index.htm Evangelicals for McCain] - Christians, Families and Patriots for John McCain
*[http://studentsformccain08.blogspot.com/ Students for McCain 2008]
*[http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/mccains-mom-pop.html McCain's Mom Pops Off]
*[http://www.rd.com/national-interest/people-and-politics/our-interview-with-sen-john-mccain/article.html Presidential Candidate John McCain on the Issues]
*[http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53270 Voting record]
*[http://www.opencongress.org/people/show/300071_john_mccain OpenCongress]

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Governors and Lt. Governors of the United States of America

2010-04-28T18:30:53Z

QK: adding his party

This is a listing of the current '''Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the [[United States of America]]'''. Each of the '''[[Governor]]''' and '''[[Lt. Governor]]''' links takes you to the applicable state government website. (R) signifies the officeholder belongs to the [[Republican Party]]. (D) signifies the officeholder belongs to the [[Democratic Party]].

Note: The Lt. Governors of [[Alaska]], [[Hawaii]], and [[Utah]] are responsible for many of the functions usually associated with the [[Secretary of State]].

: *[[Arizona]], [[Maine]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New Jersey]], [[Oregon]], [[Wyoming]] do not elect Lt. Governors.

{|class="wikitable"
!State!!Office!!Current Office Holder!!Image!!Deputy!!Current Office Holder!!Image
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|[[Alabama]]||[http://www.governor.state.al.us/ Governor]|||[[Bob Riley]] (R)||| [[Image:Bob Riley.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.state.al.us/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Jim Folsom, Jr.]] (D)|||[[Image:Jim Folsom, Jr.jpg|50px]]
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|[[Alaska]]||[http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ Governor]||[[Sean Parnell]] (R)||[[Image:Sean Parnell.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgov.state.ak.us// Lt. Governor]||[[Craig Campbell]] (R)||
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|[[Arizona]]*||[http://www.governor.state.az.us/ Governor]||[[Janice K. Brewer]] (R)|| [[Image:Jan Brewer.jpg|50px]]
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|[[Arkansas]]||[http://www.governor.arkansas.gov/ Governor]|||[[Mike Beebe]] (D)|| [[Image:Beebe.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgovernor.arkansas.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Bill Halter]] (D)||[[Image:billhalter.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[California]]||[http://gov.ca.gov/ Governor]|||[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (R)|||[[Image:About arnold img-2.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltg.ca.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||Abel Maldonado (R)<ref>John Garamendi was elected to the House, and no successor has qualified. Abel Maldonado has been appointed by Governor to fill vacancy, in interim Senate President pro tem would succeed Governor</ref>||
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|[[Colorado]]||[http://www.colorado.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[Bill Ritter]] (D)|||[[Image:Gov ritter.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.colorado.gov/ltgovernor/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Barbara O'Brien]] (D)||[[Image:barbaraobrien.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Connecticut]]|||[http://www.ct.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[Jodi Rell|M. Jodi Rell]] (R)|||[[Image:Jodi Rell.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ct.gov/otlg Lt. Governor]|||[[Michael Fedele]] (R)||[[Image:michaelfedele.jpg|50px]]
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|[[Delaware]]||[http://governor.delaware.gov/ Governor]|||[[Jack Markell]] (D)||[[Image:jackmarkell.jpg|50px]] ||[http://ltgov.delaware.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Matthew Denn]] (D)||[[Image:matthewdenn.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Florida]]|||[http://www.flgov.com/ Governor]||[[Charlie Crist]] (R)||[[Image:Charlie Crist.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.flgov.com/meet_lt_gov Lt. Governor]||[[Jeff Kottkamp]] (R)||
|-
|[[Georgia]]||[http://gov.state.ga.us/ Governor]||[[Sonny Perdue]] (R)||[[Image:Sonny Perdue.jpg|50px]]
||[http://ltgov.georgia.gov/02/ltgov/home/0,2229,2199618,00.html Lt. Governor]||[[Casey Cagle]] (R)||
|-
|[[Hawaii]]||[http://www.hawaii.gov/gov/ Governor]||[[Linda Lingle]] (R)||[[Image:Linda Lingle.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.hawaii.gov/ltgov Lt. Governor]||[[James Aiona, Jr.|James R. Aiona, Jr.]] (R)||
|-
|[[Idaho]]||[http://gov.idaho.gov/ Governor]|||[["Butch" Otter|C.L. "Butch" Otter]] (R)||| [[Image:C.L. Butch Otter.jpg|50px]]|||[http://lgo.idaho.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Brad Little]] (R)||
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|[[Illinois]]||[http://www.illinois.gov/gov/ Governor]|||[[Pat Quinn]] (D)|||[[Image:Patrick Joseph Quinn.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.standingupforillinois.org/index.php Lt. Governor]||Vacant<ref>Pat Quinn became Governor upon impeachment of [[Rod Blagojevich]] and no successor has qualified. Attorney General would succeed in interim</ref>||
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|[[Indiana]]|||[http://www.in.gov/gov/index.htm Governor]|||[[Mitchell Daniels, Jr.|Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.]] (R)|||[[Image:Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr..jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.in.gov/lgov/index.htm Lt. Governor]|||[[Becky Skillman]] (R)||
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|[[Iowa]]||[http://www.governor.iowa.gov/ Governor]|||[[Chet Culver]] (D)||[[Image:Chet Culver.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.governor.iowa.gov/administration/bios/judge-bio.php Lt. Governor]||[[Patty Judge]] (D)||
|-
|[[Kansas]]||[http://www.governor.ks.gov/ Governor]|||[[Mark Parkinson]] (D)||||||[http://www.governor.ks.gov/LtGov/ Lt. Governor]|||Vacant||
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|[[Kentucky]]||[http://governor.ky.gov/ Governor]|||[[Steve Beshear]] (D)|||[[Image:Steve Beshear.jpg|50px]]|||[http://ltgovernor.ky.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Daniel Mongiardo]] (D)||
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|[[Louisiana]]|||[http://www.gov.state.la.us/ Governor]|||[[Bobby Jindal]] (R)||| [[Image:Bobby Jindal.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.crt.louisiana.gov/ltgovernor/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Mitch Landrieu]] (D)||
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|[[Maine]]*|||[http://www.maine.gov/governor/baldacci/index.shtml Governor]|||[[John Baldacci|John Elias Baldacci]] (D)|||[[Image:John Elias Baldacci.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Maryland]]||[http://www.gov.state.md.us/index.asp Governor]|||[[Martin_O'Malley|Martin O'Malley]] (D)|||[[Image:Martin O’Malley.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.gov.state.md.us/ltgovernor/index.asp Lt. Governor]|||[[Anthony G. Brown]] (D)||
|-
|[[Massachusetts]]||[http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3homepage&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov3 Governor]|||[[Deval Patrick]] (D)|||[[Image:DevalPatrick.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3homepage&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov3 Lt. Governor]|||[[Timothy Murray|Timothy P. Murray]] (D)||
|-
|[[Michigan]]||[http://www.michigan.gov/gov Governor]|||[[Jennifer Granholm|Jennifer M. Granholm]] (D)|||[[Image:Gov granholm.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.michigan.gov/ltgov Lt. Governor]|||[[John Cherry|John D. Cherry]] (D)||
|-
|[[Minnesota]]||[http://www.governor.state.mn.us/ Governor]|||[[Tim Pawlenty]] (R)|||[[Image:Pawlenty.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.governor.state.mn.us/LtGovernor/index.htm/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Carol Molnau]] (R)||
|-
|[[Mississippi]]||[http://www.governorbarbour.com/ Governor]|||[[Haley Barbour]] (R)||| [[Image:Haley Barbour.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.ms.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Phil Bryant]] (R)||
|-
|[[Missouri]]||[http://go.missouri.gov/ Governor]|||[[Jay Nixon]] (D)|| ||[http://www.ltgov.mo.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Peter D. Kinder]] (R)||
|-
|[[Montana]]||[http://governor.mt.gov/ Governor]|||[[Brian Schweitzer]] (D)|||[[Image:Brian Schweitzer.jpg|50px]]|||[http://governor.mt.gov/ltgov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[John Bohlinger]] (R)||
|-
|[[Nebraska]]|||[http://www.gov.state.ne.us/ Governor]|||[[Dave Heineman]] (R)||| [[Image:Dave Heineman.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.ne.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Rick Sheehy]] (R)
|-
|[[Nevada]]||[http://gov.state.nv.us/ Governor]|||[[Jim Gibbons]] (R)|||[[Image:Jim Gibbons.jpg|50px]]||[http://ltgov.nv.gov/ Lt. Governor]||[[Brian Krolicki]] (R)
|-
|[[New Hampshire]]*||[http://www.nh.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[John H. Lynch]] (D)||| [[Image:John Lynch.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[New Jersey]]*||[http://www.state.nj.us/governor/ Governor]|||[[Chris Christie]] (R)||| [[Image:Chris-christie3.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[New Mexico]]||[http://www.governor.state.nm.us/index2.php Governor]|||[[Bill Richardson]] (D)|||[[Image:Bill rich color.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.governor.state.nm.us/ltgov.php Lt. Governor]||[[Diane Denish]] (D)||
|-
|[[New York]]||[http://www.state.ny.us/governor/ Governor]|||[[David Paterson]] (D)|| [[Image:Paterson.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.state.ny.us/governor/ltgov/index.html Lt. Governor]|||[[Malcolm Smith]] (D)||
|-
|[[North Carolina]]||[http://www.governor.state.nc.us/ Governor]|||[[Beverly Perdue]] (D)|| ||[http://www.ltgov.state.nc.us/ Lt. Governor]||[[Walter Dalton]] (D)||
|-
|[[North Dakota]]||[http://www.governor.state.nd.us/ Governor]|||[[John Hoeven]] (R)||| [[Image:John Hoeven.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.governor.state.nd.us/dalrymple/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Jack Dalrymple]] (R)
|-
|[[Ohio]]||[http://governor.ohio.gov/ Governor]|||[[Ted Strickland]] (D)|||[[Image:Ted Strickland.jpg|50px]]||[http://governor.ohio.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Lee Fisher]] (D)
|-
|[[Oklahoma]]||[http://www.governor.state.ok.us/index.php Governor]|||[[Brad Henry]] (D)|||[[File:Brad Henry.png|50px]]||[http://www.state.ok.us/~ltgov/ Lt. Governor]||[[Jari Askins]] (D)
|-
|[[Oregon]]*||[http://www.governor.state.or.us/ Governor]|||[[Ted Kulongoski]] (D)||| [[Image:Ted Kulongoski.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Pennsylvania]]||[http://www.governor.state.pa.us/ Governor]||[[Edward G. Rendell]] (D)||[[Image:Edward G. Rendell.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.governor.state.pa.us/governor/cwp/view.asp?a=1109&q=437832&governorNav=31898 Lt. Governor]||[[Joe Scarnati]] (R)
|-
|[[Rhode Island]]||[http://www.governor.ri.gov/ Governor]|||[[Donald L. Carcieri]] (R)||| [[Image:GovCarcieri.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.ri.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Elizabeth H. Roberts]] (D)
|-
|[[South Carolina]]||[http://www.scgovernor.com/ Governor]|||[[Mark Sanford]] (R)||| [[Image:Mark Sanford.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.state.sc.us/ltgov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[R. Andre Bauer]] (R)
|-
|[[South Dakota]]||[http://www.state.sd.us/governor/ Governor]|||[[M. Michael Rounds]] (R)|||[[Image:M. Michael Rounds.gif|50px]]|||[http://www.state.sd.us/lt.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Dennis Daugaard]] (R)
|-
|[[Tennessee]]||[http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/governor/Welcome.do;jsessionid=7bLVjY_7Qh4LWDKhpr Governor]|||[[Phil Bredesen]] (D)|||[[Image:Phil Bredesen.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Ron Ramsey]] (R)
|-
|[[Texas]]||[http://www.governor.state.tx.us/ Governor]||[[Rick Perry]] (R)||[[Image:Rick Perry.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/LTGOV/ltgov.htm Lt. Governor]||[[David Dewhurst]] (R)
|-
|[[Utah]]||[http://www.utah.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.]] (R)||| [[Image:Huntsman.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.utah.gov/ltgovernor/# Lt. Governor]|||[[Gary Richard Herbert]] (R)
|-
|[[Vermont]]||[http://www.vermont.gov/governor/ Governor]||[[Jim Douglas]] (R)|| [[Image:Jim Douglas.jpg|50px]]||[http://ltgov.vermont.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Brian E. Dubie]] (R)
|-
|[[Virginia]]||[http://www.governor.virginia.gov/ Governor]|||[[Tim Kaine]] (D)||| [[Image:TimKaine.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgov.virginia.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Bill Bolling]] (R)
|-
|[[Washington]]||[http://www.governor.wa.gov/ Governor]|||[[Chris Gregoire]] (D)|| [[Image:Chris Gregoire.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.ltgov.wa.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Brad Owen]] (D)
|-
|[[West Virginia]]||[http://www.wvgov.org/ Governor]||[[Joe Manchin III]] (D)||[[Image:Joe Manchin.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Senate1/President/president.cfm Lt. Governor]||[[Earl Ray Tomblin]] (D)
|-
|[[Wisconsin]]||[http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/ Governor]|||[[Jim Doyle]] (D)|||[[Image:Jim Doyle.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgov.state.wi.us/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Barbara Lawton]] (D)
|-
|[[Wyoming]]*||[http://governor.wy.gov/governor_home.asp Governor]||[[David D. Freudenthal]] (D)||[[Image:Freudenthal.jpg|50px]]
|}
==Notes==
<references/>
[[category:United States Government]]

Governors and Lt. Governors of the United States of America

2010-04-28T18:29:52Z

QK: Abel Maldonado is now Lt. Gov. of Califorina

This is a listing of the current '''Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the [[United States of America]]'''. Each of the '''[[Governor]]''' and '''[[Lt. Governor]]''' links takes you to the applicable state government website. (R) signifies the officeholder belongs to the [[Republican Party]]. (D) signifies the officeholder belongs to the [[Democratic Party]].

Note: The Lt. Governors of [[Alaska]], [[Hawaii]], and [[Utah]] are responsible for many of the functions usually associated with the [[Secretary of State]].

: *[[Arizona]], [[Maine]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New Jersey]], [[Oregon]], [[Wyoming]] do not elect Lt. Governors.

{|class="wikitable"
!State!!Office!!Current Office Holder!!Image!!Deputy!!Current Office Holder!!Image
|-
|[[Alabama]]||[http://www.governor.state.al.us/ Governor]|||[[Bob Riley]] (R)||| [[Image:Bob Riley.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.state.al.us/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Jim Folsom, Jr.]] (D)|||[[Image:Jim Folsom, Jr.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Alaska]]||[http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ Governor]||[[Sean Parnell]] (R)||[[Image:Sean Parnell.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgov.state.ak.us// Lt. Governor]||[[Craig Campbell]] (R)||
|-
|[[Arizona]]*||[http://www.governor.state.az.us/ Governor]||[[Janice K. Brewer]] (R)|| [[Image:Jan Brewer.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Arkansas]]||[http://www.governor.arkansas.gov/ Governor]|||[[Mike Beebe]] (D)|| [[Image:Beebe.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgovernor.arkansas.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Bill Halter]] (D)||[[Image:billhalter.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[California]]||[http://gov.ca.gov/ Governor]|||[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (R)|||[[Image:About arnold img-2.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltg.ca.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||Abel Maldonado<ref>John Garamendi was elected to the House, and no successor has qualified. Abel Maldonado has been appointed by Governor to fill vacancy, in interim Senate President pro tem would succeed Governor</ref>||
|-
|[[Colorado]]||[http://www.colorado.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[Bill Ritter]] (D)|||[[Image:Gov ritter.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.colorado.gov/ltgovernor/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Barbara O'Brien]] (D)||[[Image:barbaraobrien.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Connecticut]]|||[http://www.ct.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[Jodi Rell|M. Jodi Rell]] (R)|||[[Image:Jodi Rell.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ct.gov/otlg Lt. Governor]|||[[Michael Fedele]] (R)||[[Image:michaelfedele.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Delaware]]||[http://governor.delaware.gov/ Governor]|||[[Jack Markell]] (D)||[[Image:jackmarkell.jpg|50px]] ||[http://ltgov.delaware.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Matthew Denn]] (D)||[[Image:matthewdenn.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Florida]]|||[http://www.flgov.com/ Governor]||[[Charlie Crist]] (R)||[[Image:Charlie Crist.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.flgov.com/meet_lt_gov Lt. Governor]||[[Jeff Kottkamp]] (R)||
|-
|[[Georgia]]||[http://gov.state.ga.us/ Governor]||[[Sonny Perdue]] (R)||[[Image:Sonny Perdue.jpg|50px]]
||[http://ltgov.georgia.gov/02/ltgov/home/0,2229,2199618,00.html Lt. Governor]||[[Casey Cagle]] (R)||
|-
|[[Hawaii]]||[http://www.hawaii.gov/gov/ Governor]||[[Linda Lingle]] (R)||[[Image:Linda Lingle.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.hawaii.gov/ltgov Lt. Governor]||[[James Aiona, Jr.|James R. Aiona, Jr.]] (R)||
|-
|[[Idaho]]||[http://gov.idaho.gov/ Governor]|||[["Butch" Otter|C.L. "Butch" Otter]] (R)||| [[Image:C.L. Butch Otter.jpg|50px]]|||[http://lgo.idaho.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Brad Little]] (R)||
|-
|[[Illinois]]||[http://www.illinois.gov/gov/ Governor]|||[[Pat Quinn]] (D)|||[[Image:Patrick Joseph Quinn.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.standingupforillinois.org/index.php Lt. Governor]||Vacant<ref>Pat Quinn became Governor upon impeachment of [[Rod Blagojevich]] and no successor has qualified. Attorney General would succeed in interim</ref>||
|-
|[[Indiana]]|||[http://www.in.gov/gov/index.htm Governor]|||[[Mitchell Daniels, Jr.|Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.]] (R)|||[[Image:Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr..jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.in.gov/lgov/index.htm Lt. Governor]|||[[Becky Skillman]] (R)||
|-
|[[Iowa]]||[http://www.governor.iowa.gov/ Governor]|||[[Chet Culver]] (D)||[[Image:Chet Culver.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.governor.iowa.gov/administration/bios/judge-bio.php Lt. Governor]||[[Patty Judge]] (D)||
|-
|[[Kansas]]||[http://www.governor.ks.gov/ Governor]|||[[Mark Parkinson]] (D)||||||[http://www.governor.ks.gov/LtGov/ Lt. Governor]|||Vacant||
|-
|[[Kentucky]]||[http://governor.ky.gov/ Governor]|||[[Steve Beshear]] (D)|||[[Image:Steve Beshear.jpg|50px]]|||[http://ltgovernor.ky.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Daniel Mongiardo]] (D)||
|-
|[[Louisiana]]|||[http://www.gov.state.la.us/ Governor]|||[[Bobby Jindal]] (R)||| [[Image:Bobby Jindal.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.crt.louisiana.gov/ltgovernor/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Mitch Landrieu]] (D)||
|-
|[[Maine]]*|||[http://www.maine.gov/governor/baldacci/index.shtml Governor]|||[[John Baldacci|John Elias Baldacci]] (D)|||[[Image:John Elias Baldacci.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Maryland]]||[http://www.gov.state.md.us/index.asp Governor]|||[[Martin_O'Malley|Martin O'Malley]] (D)|||[[Image:Martin O’Malley.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.gov.state.md.us/ltgovernor/index.asp Lt. Governor]|||[[Anthony G. Brown]] (D)||
|-
|[[Massachusetts]]||[http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3homepage&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov3 Governor]|||[[Deval Patrick]] (D)|||[[Image:DevalPatrick.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3homepage&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov3 Lt. Governor]|||[[Timothy Murray|Timothy P. Murray]] (D)||
|-
|[[Michigan]]||[http://www.michigan.gov/gov Governor]|||[[Jennifer Granholm|Jennifer M. Granholm]] (D)|||[[Image:Gov granholm.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.michigan.gov/ltgov Lt. Governor]|||[[John Cherry|John D. Cherry]] (D)||
|-
|[[Minnesota]]||[http://www.governor.state.mn.us/ Governor]|||[[Tim Pawlenty]] (R)|||[[Image:Pawlenty.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.governor.state.mn.us/LtGovernor/index.htm/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Carol Molnau]] (R)||
|-
|[[Mississippi]]||[http://www.governorbarbour.com/ Governor]|||[[Haley Barbour]] (R)||| [[Image:Haley Barbour.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.ms.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Phil Bryant]] (R)||
|-
|[[Missouri]]||[http://go.missouri.gov/ Governor]|||[[Jay Nixon]] (D)|| ||[http://www.ltgov.mo.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Peter D. Kinder]] (R)||
|-
|[[Montana]]||[http://governor.mt.gov/ Governor]|||[[Brian Schweitzer]] (D)|||[[Image:Brian Schweitzer.jpg|50px]]|||[http://governor.mt.gov/ltgov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[John Bohlinger]] (R)||
|-
|[[Nebraska]]|||[http://www.gov.state.ne.us/ Governor]|||[[Dave Heineman]] (R)||| [[Image:Dave Heineman.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.ne.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Rick Sheehy]] (R)
|-
|[[Nevada]]||[http://gov.state.nv.us/ Governor]|||[[Jim Gibbons]] (R)|||[[Image:Jim Gibbons.jpg|50px]]||[http://ltgov.nv.gov/ Lt. Governor]||[[Brian Krolicki]] (R)
|-
|[[New Hampshire]]*||[http://www.nh.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[John H. Lynch]] (D)||| [[Image:John Lynch.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[New Jersey]]*||[http://www.state.nj.us/governor/ Governor]|||[[Chris Christie]] (R)||| [[Image:Chris-christie3.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[New Mexico]]||[http://www.governor.state.nm.us/index2.php Governor]|||[[Bill Richardson]] (D)|||[[Image:Bill rich color.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.governor.state.nm.us/ltgov.php Lt. Governor]||[[Diane Denish]] (D)||
|-
|[[New York]]||[http://www.state.ny.us/governor/ Governor]|||[[David Paterson]] (D)|| [[Image:Paterson.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.state.ny.us/governor/ltgov/index.html Lt. Governor]|||[[Malcolm Smith]] (D)||
|-
|[[North Carolina]]||[http://www.governor.state.nc.us/ Governor]|||[[Beverly Perdue]] (D)|| ||[http://www.ltgov.state.nc.us/ Lt. Governor]||[[Walter Dalton]] (D)||
|-
|[[North Dakota]]||[http://www.governor.state.nd.us/ Governor]|||[[John Hoeven]] (R)||| [[Image:John Hoeven.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.governor.state.nd.us/dalrymple/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Jack Dalrymple]] (R)
|-
|[[Ohio]]||[http://governor.ohio.gov/ Governor]|||[[Ted Strickland]] (D)|||[[Image:Ted Strickland.jpg|50px]]||[http://governor.ohio.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Lee Fisher]] (D)
|-
|[[Oklahoma]]||[http://www.governor.state.ok.us/index.php Governor]|||[[Brad Henry]] (D)|||[[File:Brad Henry.png|50px]]||[http://www.state.ok.us/~ltgov/ Lt. Governor]||[[Jari Askins]] (D)
|-
|[[Oregon]]*||[http://www.governor.state.or.us/ Governor]|||[[Ted Kulongoski]] (D)||| [[Image:Ted Kulongoski.jpg|50px]]
|-
|[[Pennsylvania]]||[http://www.governor.state.pa.us/ Governor]||[[Edward G. Rendell]] (D)||[[Image:Edward G. Rendell.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.governor.state.pa.us/governor/cwp/view.asp?a=1109&q=437832&governorNav=31898 Lt. Governor]||[[Joe Scarnati]] (R)
|-
|[[Rhode Island]]||[http://www.governor.ri.gov/ Governor]|||[[Donald L. Carcieri]] (R)||| [[Image:GovCarcieri.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.ltgov.ri.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Elizabeth H. Roberts]] (D)
|-
|[[South Carolina]]||[http://www.scgovernor.com/ Governor]|||[[Mark Sanford]] (R)||| [[Image:Mark Sanford.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.state.sc.us/ltgov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[R. Andre Bauer]] (R)
|-
|[[South Dakota]]||[http://www.state.sd.us/governor/ Governor]|||[[M. Michael Rounds]] (R)|||[[Image:M. Michael Rounds.gif|50px]]|||[http://www.state.sd.us/lt.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Dennis Daugaard]] (R)
|-
|[[Tennessee]]||[http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/governor/Welcome.do;jsessionid=7bLVjY_7Qh4LWDKhpr Governor]|||[[Phil Bredesen]] (D)|||[[Image:Phil Bredesen.jpg|50px]]|||[http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Ron Ramsey]] (R)
|-
|[[Texas]]||[http://www.governor.state.tx.us/ Governor]||[[Rick Perry]] (R)||[[Image:Rick Perry.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/LTGOV/ltgov.htm Lt. Governor]||[[David Dewhurst]] (R)
|-
|[[Utah]]||[http://www.utah.gov/governor/ Governor]|||[[Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.]] (R)||| [[Image:Huntsman.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.utah.gov/ltgovernor/# Lt. Governor]|||[[Gary Richard Herbert]] (R)
|-
|[[Vermont]]||[http://www.vermont.gov/governor/ Governor]||[[Jim Douglas]] (R)|| [[Image:Jim Douglas.jpg|50px]]||[http://ltgov.vermont.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Brian E. Dubie]] (R)
|-
|[[Virginia]]||[http://www.governor.virginia.gov/ Governor]|||[[Tim Kaine]] (D)||| [[Image:TimKaine.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgov.virginia.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Bill Bolling]] (R)
|-
|[[Washington]]||[http://www.governor.wa.gov/ Governor]|||[[Chris Gregoire]] (D)|| [[Image:Chris Gregoire.jpg|50px]]||[http://www.ltgov.wa.gov/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Brad Owen]] (D)
|-
|[[West Virginia]]||[http://www.wvgov.org/ Governor]||[[Joe Manchin III]] (D)||[[Image:Joe Manchin.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Senate1/President/president.cfm Lt. Governor]||[[Earl Ray Tomblin]] (D)
|-
|[[Wisconsin]]||[http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/ Governor]|||[[Jim Doyle]] (D)|||[[Image:Jim Doyle.jpg|50px]]
||[http://www.ltgov.state.wi.us/ Lt. Governor]|||[[Barbara Lawton]] (D)
|-
|[[Wyoming]]*||[http://governor.wy.gov/governor_home.asp Governor]||[[David D. Freudenthal]] (D)||[[Image:Freudenthal.jpg|50px]]
|}
==Notes==
<references/>
[[category:United States Government]]

Alan Keyes

2010-04-25T01:00:36Z

QK: updating photo of Keyes

[[Image:Alan Keyes.jpg|thumb|Alan Keyes]]
'''Alan Keyes''' (born 1950) is an [[American]] conservative activist and pundit, and was a [[Republican]] candidate for president in 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep17/0,4670,Keyes2008,00.html</ref> In 2004 Keyes unsuccessfully ran against Democrat [[Barack Obama]] in the [[Illinois]] U.S. Senate, after the former Republican nominee, [[Jack Ryan]], dropped out when details of his divorce proceedings were released to the media. According to the Obama camp, as studiously reported by [[NBC]] affiliate WMAQ-TV of Chicago, Keyes is alleged to have said that [[Jesus]] would not vote for Obama.<ref>http://www.nbc5.com/politics/3712293/detail.html</ref>

During the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration, Keyes served as an ambassador to the [[United Nations]]. This position made him the highest-ranking African-American in the Reagan administration.

== External links==
*[http://www.alankeyes.com Alan Keyes for president (official website)]
*[http://www.alankeyes.com/issues.php Alan Keyes on issues]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Republican Party]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
{{2008 presidential candidates}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Keyes, Alan}}

File:John McCain official portrait 2009.jpg

2010-04-25T00:41:35Z

QK: categories

Public domain http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/John_McCain_official_portrait_2009.jpg

[[Category:Image]]
[[Category:Public domain images]]
[[Category:2008 Presidential Candidates]]
[[Category:Republican Party]]
[[Category:United States Senators]]
[[Category:American war heroes]]
[[Category:Reagan Era]]

Peter MacKay

2010-04-25T00:11:33Z

QK: spelling

[[File:Peter MacKay.jpg|right|100px]]

'''Peter MacKay''' is a Canadian [[Conservative]] politician. He formerly led the [[centrist]] [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]] before merging with Harper's center-right, [[Canadian Alliance]] in 2003. MacKay has been criticized as being too [[liberal]] but his support by conservatives has risen because he has taken a strong stance against the [[Taliban]] and strongly supports Canada's mission in [[Afghanistan]]. He was elected as an MP from the Province of [[Nova Scotia]]. He was Deputy Leader of the New [[Conservative Party]] after the merge and served in Harper's cabinet as foreign affairs minister, and current serves as Minister of National Defence. {{who says}}

[[category:Canadian Political People]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacKay, Peter}}

Jack Layton

2010-04-24T23:36:30Z

QK: spelling

[[File:Jack Layton.jpg|thumb|Jack Layton]]

'''John Gilbert "Jack" Layton''' (born July 18, 1950) is a [[social democrat]] and current leader of Canada's [[New Democratic Party]].

In 2006, he called for the return of Canadian troops from [[Afghanistan]]. In January 2007, Jack Layton called for a federal ban on [[ATM]] fees. In 2008 after the Conservatives when re-elected to a minority government. Layton was active in an attempt with [[Stephane Dion]] and Gilles Ducceppe to force the creation of a unpopular coalition government with the Liberal and Bloc parties. However in end the this attempt was unsuccessful.

[[Category:Canadian Political People]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Layton, Jack}}

Jack Layton

2010-04-24T23:35:46Z

QK: grammar

[[File:Jack Layton.jpg|thumb|Jack Layton]]

'''John Gilbert "Jack" Layton''' (born July 18, 1950) is a [[social democrat]] and current leader of Canada's [[New Democratic Party]].

In 2006, he called for the return of Canadian troops from [[Afghanistan]]. In January 2007, Jack Layton called for a federal ban on [[ATM]] fees. In 2008 after the Conservatives when re-elected to a minority government. Layton was active in an attempt with [[Stephane Dion]] and Gilles Ducceppe to force the creation of a unpopular coalition government with the Liberal and Bloc parties. However in the this attempt was unsuccessful.

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Jack Layton

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'''John Gilbert "Jack" Layton''' (born July 18, 1950) is a [[social democrat]] and current leader of Canada's [[New Democratic Party]].

In 2006, he called for the return of Canadian troops from [[Afghanistan]]. In January 2007, Jack Layton called for a federal ban on [[ATM]] fees. In 2008 after the Conservatives where re-elected to a minority government Layton was active in an attempt with [[Stephane Dion]] and Gilles Ducceppe to force the creation of a unpopular coalition government with the Liberal and Bloc parties. However in the this attempt was unsuccessful.

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2010-04-24T23:23:45Z

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Elizabeth Dole

2010-04-24T22:47:11Z

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[[File:Elizabeth Dole.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Dole]]

'''Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole''', born July 29, 1936 (age {{age|1936|7|29}}), is the wife of [[Bob Dole]], a [[Republican]] from [[Kansas]] and former candidate for President of the [[United States of America]]. She is a former Senator from the state of [[North Carolina]]. Her [[maiden name]] was '''Hanford'''.

Following the retirement of Senator Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole ran for his seat and won. She served as Chairwoman of the Republican Senatorial Committee in the 2006 election cycle, but did not enjoy a level of success, as the Republicans lost six seats and became the minority party.
Dole attended [[Duke University]] and [[Harvard Law School]].

Dole, who was up for re-election in 2008 surprised many with a strong showing for her fundraising in for the second quarter of 2007. Her popularity increased in North Carolina following her opposition to President Bush's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.

Dole was defeated for re-election in 2008 by Democratic opponent [[Kay Hagan]].<ref>[http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html North Carolina election results]</ref>

==References==
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2010-04-24T22:29:47Z

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Ted Stevens

2010-04-24T22:23:51Z

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[[Image:Ted Stevens.jpg|right|thumb|Ted Stevens]]

'''Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens''' (born November 18, 1923) is a former [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Alaska]]. He is a [[liberal]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] having a pro-[[abortion]] voting record. Among [[conservatives]] he is known as a "[[RINO]]" who has long favored more government spending, particularly for his own state.<ref>Stevens' lifetime ACU rating is only 64.45, far lower than [[John McCain]]'s rating of 82.16. Most [[conservatives]] rank over 90 on this rating.</ref>

As the longest serving [[Republican]] in the Senate, Stevens served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. Stevens chaired the Senate [[Appropriations Committee]] from 1997 to 2005, except for the 18 months when [[Democrat]]s controlled the chamber. The chairmanship gave Stevens considerable influence over fellow Senators, who relied on him for home-state project funds.

Stevens had a six-decade career of public service, beginning with his service in [[World War II]]. In the 1950s, he held senior positions in the Interior and Justice departments during the [[Eisenhower]] administration. He has served continuously in the Senate since 1968, until his ouster in 2008.

On July 29, 2008, Stevens was indicted on 7 felony counts related to making false statements in relation to a Justice Department investigation of business dealings in Alaska. Senator [[Arlen Specter]] expressed the disbelief and dismay felt by many in reaction to the bogus charges, "I've known Ted Stevens for 28 years and I've always known him to be impeccably honest. I don't know that there's a stronger comment to be made than that."<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5472829 Republican Senator Indicted for Allegedly Lying on Financial Disclosure Forms], Jake Tapper and Theresa Cook, ABCNews, July 29, 2008</ref>

According to Republican Senate caucus rules, Stevens resigned from his post as ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. On October 27, Stevens was found guilty on all 7 counts of corruption. On April 1, 2009, the Justice department filed a motion to drop its case against Stevens. Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] decided to abandon the case due to prosecutorial misconduct. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/01/doj-sources-say-case-dropped-ex-sen-ted-stevens/ Justice Department Files Motion to Drop Case Against Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens], Mike Levine, ''FOXNews.com'', April 01, 2009</ref> <ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102589818 Justice Dept. Seeks To Void Stevens' Conviction], Nina Totenberg, ''NPR'', April 01, 2009</ref>

==Early years==

Ted Stevens was born in [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], in 1923. During World War II, he was an Army Air Forces C-47 pilot in the China-Burma-India theater with the "Flying Tigers" of the Fourteenth Air Force from 1943 to 1946, holding the rank of First Lieutenant. There he received two [[Distinguished Flying Cross]]es and two [[Air Medal]]s, as well as the [[Yuan Hai]] medal awarded by the Republic of [[China]].

After the war, Stevens attended UCLA, where he was a member of [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]], and [[Harvard Law School]]. In the early 1950s he moved to Alaska, then a territory.

In Fairbanks, Stevens practiced law, and he was appointed U.S. Attorney for Fairbanks in 1953.

In 1956, Stevens was transferred to Washington, D.C., where he worked as legislative counsel and assistant to Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton. He also pushed for the statehood of Alaska and Hawaii, which occurred in 1959. In 1960, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower promoted Stevens to solicitor of the Department of the Interior.

After returning to Alaska, Stevens practiced law in Anchorage. He was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1964, and became House majority leader in his second term.

==U.S. Senate==

In December 1968, Governor Walter Joseph Hickel appointed Stevens to the U.S. Senate after the death of Democrat Bob Bartlett. In 1970, Stevens was elected to finish the term in a special election, and has been reelected six times since, in 1972, 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996 and 2002.

Stevens served as the Assistant Republican Whip from 1977 to 1985. In 1994, Stevens was appointed Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. Stevens became the Senate's president pro tempore when Republicans regained control of the chamber as a result of the 2002 mid-term elections, during which the previous most senior republican senator and former president pro tempore Strom Thurmond retired. He is a former Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. In the past, Stevens also has served as Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, the Arms Control Observer Group, and the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.

His campaign political action committee is called the "Northern Lights PAC."

Ted Stevens was criticized when he attempted to [[earmark]] the "Bridge to Nowhere," a bridge in Alaska which would have connected the town of [[Ketchikan]] (population 8,900) with its airport on the island of Gravina (population 50) at a cost to federal taxpayers of $320 million, by way of three separate earmarks in a highway bill. A ferry service runs to the island, but some in the town complained about its wait (15 to 30 minutes) and fee ($6 per car). The Heritage Foundation maintained that "the Gravina Island bridge project is an embarrassment to the people of Alaska and the U.S. Congress...fiscally responsible Members of Congress should be eager to zero out its funding."<ref>http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm889.cfm</ref>

== Legal Troubles ==

In July of 2008, Stevens was indicted on charges of taking gifts from the oil servicing company VECO and its CEO Bill Allen who benefited from his legislation. Stevens' son Ben, the leader of the state senate, and other state politicians have also been implicated in corruption related to VECO.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/07/31/vo.stevens.court.depart.cnn?iref=videosearch Stevens pleads not guilty]</ref>
On October 27th, 2008, Stevens was convicted on seven counts of corruption, after a highly politicized trial that attempted to learn the extent of his dealings.
Stevens, however, vowed to continue his bid. On November 18th, Stevens' 85th birthday, the final vote tallies showed that Democrat Mark Begich had won the election by a narrow margin.<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/stevens Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid]</ref>

Stevens' conviction was later overturned after U.S. Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] requested the presiding Judge to vacate the conviction because of prosecutorial misconduct.

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Ted_Stevens.htm On the Issues - Ted Stevens] issue positions and quotes

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Elizabeth Dole

2010-04-24T22:18:04Z

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[[File:Elizabeth Dole.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Dole]]

'''Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole''', born July 29, 1936 (age {{age|1936|7|29}}), is the wife of [[Bob Dole]], a [[Republican]] from [[Kansas]] and former candidate for President of the [[United States of America]]. She is a former Senator from the state of [[North Carolina]]. Her [[maiden name]] was '''Hanford'''.

Following the retirement of Senator Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole ran for his seat and won. She served as Chairwoman of the Republican Senatorial Committee in the 2006 election cycle, but did not enjoy a level of success, as the Republicans lost six seats and became the minority party.
Dole attended [[Duke University]] and [[Harvard Law School]].

Dole, who will be up for re-election in 2008 surprised many with a strong showing for her fundraising in for the second quarter of 2007. Her popularity increased in North Carolina following her opposition to President Bush's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.

Dole was defeated for re-election in 2008 by Democratic opponent [[Kay Hagan]].<ref>[http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html North Carolina election results]</ref>

==References==
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Elizabeth Dole

2010-04-24T22:17:32Z

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[[File:Elizabeth Dole.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Dole]]

'''Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole''', born July 29, 1936 (age {{age|1936|7|29}}), is the wife of [[Bob Dole]], a [[Republican]] from [[Kansas]] and former candidate for President of the [[United States of America]]. She is currently a Senator from the state of [[North Carolina]]. Her [[maiden name]] was '''Hanford'''.

Following the retirement of Senator Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole ran for his seat and won. She served as Chairwoman of the Republican Senatorial Committee in the 2006 election cycle, but did not enjoy a level of success, as the Republicans lost six seats and became the minority party.
Dole attended [[Duke University]] and [[Harvard Law School]].

Dole, who will be up for re-election in 2008 surprised many with a strong showing for her fundraising in for the second quarter of 2007. Her popularity increased in North Carolina following her opposition to President Bush's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.

Dole was defeated for re-election in 2008 by Democratic opponent [[Kay Hagan]].<ref>[http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html North Carolina election results]</ref>

==References==
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File:Elizabeth Dole.jpg

2010-04-24T22:16:02Z

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Presidents of the United States

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== '''Presidents of the United States''' ==
|-
! Presidents !! Vice Presidents
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| [[Image:george_washington_3.jpg|80px]] [[George Washington]] (1789-1797) ||[[Image:John_adams.gif|80px]] [[John Adams]] (1789-1797)
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| [[Image:John_adams.gif|80px]] [[John Adams]] (1797-1801) || [[Image:Thomas_jefferson.jpg|80px]] [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1797-1801)
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| [[Image:Thomas_jefferson.jpg|80px]] [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1801-1809) || [[Image:George_clinton.jpg|80px]] [[George Clinton]] (1805-1809)
|-
| [[Image:James_madison.jpg|80px]] [[James Madison]] (1809-1817)|| [[Image:George_clinton.jpg|80px]] [[George Clinton]] (1809-1812)
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| [[Image:James_madison.jpg|80px]] [[James Madison]] (1809-1817)|| [[Image:Elbridge_gerry.jpg|80px]] [[Elbridge Gerry]] (1813-1814)
|-
| [[Image:James_monroe.jpg|80px]] [[James Monroe]] (1817-1825) || [[Image:Daniel_tompkins.jpg|80px]] [[Daniel D. Tompkins]] (1817-1825)
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| [[Image:John_quincy_adams.jpg|80px]] [[John Quincy Adams]] (1825-1829) || [[Image:John_calhoun.jpg|80px]] [[John C. Calhoun]] (1825-1829)
|-
| [[Image:Andrew_jackson.jpeg|80px]] [[Andrew Jackson]] (1829-1837) || [[Image:John_calhoun.jpg|80px]] [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832)
|-
| || [[Image:Martin_van_buren.jpg|80px]] [[Martin Van Buren]] (1833-1837)
|-
| [[Image:Martin_van_buren.jpg|80px]] [[Martin Van Buren]] (1837-1841) || [[Image:Richard_johnson.jpg|80px]] [[Richard M. Johnson]] (1837-1841)
|-
| [[Image:William_harrison.jpg|80px]] [[William Henry Harrison]] (1841) || [[Image:John_tyler.jpg|80px]] [[John Tyler]] (1841)
|-
| [[Image:John_tyler.jpg|80px]] [[John Tyler]] (1841-1845) || none (1841-1845)
|-
| [[Image:James_polk.jpg|80px]] [[James K. Polk]] (1845-1849) || [[Image:George_dallas.jpg|80px]] [[George M. Dallas]] (1845-1849)
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| [[Image:Zachary_taylor.jpg|80px]] [[Zachary Taylor]] (1849-1850) || [[Image:Millard_fillmore.jpg|80px]] [[Millard Fillmore]] (1849-1850)
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| [[Image:Millard_fillmore.jpg|80px]] [[Millard Fillmore]] (1850-1853) || none (1850-1853)
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| [[Image:Franklin_pierce.jpg|80px]] [[Franklin Pierce]] (1853-1857) || [[Image:William_king.jpg|80px]] [[William King]] (1853)
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| [[Image:James_buchanan.jpg|80px]] [[James Buchanan]] (1857-1861) || [[Image:Breckinridge.jpg|80px]] [[John C. Breckinridge]] (1857-1861)
|-
| [[Image:Abraham_lincoln.jpg|80px]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1861-1865) || [[Image:Hannibal_hamlin.jpg|80px]] [[Hannibal Hamlin]] (1861-1865)
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| || [[Image:Andrew_johnson.jpg|80px]] [[Andrew Johnson]] (1865)
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| [[Image:Andrew_johnson.jpg|80px]] [[Andrew Johnson]] (1865-1869) || none (1865-1869)
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| [[Image:Ulysses_grant.jpg|80px]][[Ulysses S. Grant]] (1869-1877) || [[Image:Schuyler_colfax.jpg|80px]] [[Schuyler Colfax]] (1869-1873)
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| || [[Image:Henry_wilson.jpg|80px]] [[Henry Wilson]] (1873-1875)
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| [[Image:Rutherford_hayes.jpg|80px]] [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] (1877-1881) || [[Image:William_wheeler.jpg|80px]] [[William Wheeler]] (1877-1881)
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| [[Image:James_garfield.jpg|80px]] [[James A. Garfield]] (1881) || [[Image:Chester_arthur.jpg|80px]] [[Chester Arthur]] (1881)
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| [[Image:Chester_arthur.jpg|80px]] [[Chester Arthur]] (1881-1885) || none (1881-1885)
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| [[Image:Grover_cleveland.jpg|80px]] [[Grover Cleveland]] (1885-1889) || [[Image:Thomas_hendricks.jpg|80px]] [[Thomas Hendricks]] (1885)
|-
| [[Image:Benjamin_harrison.jpg|80px]] [[Benjamin Harrison]] (1889-1893) || [[Image:Levi_morton.jpg|80px]] [[Levi P. Morton]] (1889-1893)
|-
| [[Image:Grover_cleveland.jpg|80px]] [[Grover Cleveland]] (1893-1897) || [[Image:Adlai_Ewing_Stevenson.jpg|80px]] [[Adlai Ewing Stevenson]] (1893-1897)
|-
|[[Image:William_mckinley.jpg|80px]] [[William McKinley]] (1897-1901) || [[Image:Garret_hobart.jpg|80px]] [[Garret Hobart]] (1897-1901)
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| || [[Image:Theodore_roosevelt.jpg|80px]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (1901)
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| [[Image:Theodore_roosevelt.jpg|80px]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (1901-1909) || none (1901-1905)
|-
| || [[Image:Charles_fairbanks.jpg|80px]] [[Charles Fairbanks]] (1905-1909)
|-
| [[Image:William_taft.jpg|80px]] [[William Howard Taft]] (1909-1913) || [[Image:James_sherman.jpg|80px]] [[James S. Sherman]] (1909-1912)
|-
| [[Image:Woodrow_wilson.jpg|80px]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] (1913-1921) || [[Image:Thomas_marshall.gif|80px]] [[Thomas R. Marshall]] (1913-1921)
|-
| [[Image:Warren_harding.jpg|80px]] [[Warren G. Harding]] (1921-1923) || [[Image:Calvin_coolidge.jpg|80px]] [[Calvin Coolidge]] (1921-1923)
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| [[Image:Calvin_coolidge.jpg|80px]] [[Calvin Coolidge]] (1923-1929) ||none (1923-1925)
|-
| || [[Image:Charles_dawes.jpg |80px]] [[Charles Dawes]] (1925-1929)
|-
| [[Image:Herbert_hoover.jpg|80px]] [[Herbert Hoover]] (1929-1933) || [[Image:Charles_curtis.jpg |80px]] [[Charles Curtis]] (1929-1933)
|-
| [[Image:Franklin_roosevelt.jpg |80px]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (1933-1945) ||[[Image:John_garner.jpg |80px]] [[John Nance Garner]] (1933-1941)
|-
| || [[Image:Henry_wallace.jpg |80px]] [[Henry A. Wallace]] (1941-1945)
|-
| || [[Image:Harry_truman.jpg |80px]] [[Harry S. Truman]] (1945)
|-
| [[Image:Harry_truman.jpg |80px]] [[Harry S Truman]] (1945-1953) || none (1945-1949)
|-
| || [[Image:Alben_barkley.jpg |80px]] [[Alben Barkley]] (1949-1953)
|-
| [[Image:Dwight_eisenhower.jpg |80px]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (1953-1961) || [[Image:Richard_nixon.gif|80px]] [[Richard Nixon]] (1953-1961)
|-
| [[Image:John_kennedy.jpg |80px]] [[John F. Kennedy]] (1961-1963) || [[Image:Lyndon_johnson.jpg |80px]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (1961-1963)
|-
| [[Image:Lyndon_johnson.jpg |80px]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (1963-1969) || none (1963-1965)
|-
| || [[Image:Hubert_humphrey.jpg |80px]] [[Hubert Humphrey]] (1965-1969)
|-
| [[Image:Richard_nixon.gif|80px]] [[Richard Nixon]] (1969-1974) || [[Image:Spiro_agnew.jpg |80px]] [[Spiro Agnew]] (1969-1973)
|-
| || [[Image:Ford_head.jpg |80px]] [[Gerald Ford]] (1973-1974)
|-
| [[Image:Ford_head.jpg |80px]] [[Gerald Ford]] (1974-1977) ||[[image:NAR0091.jpg|80px| Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller]] [[Nelson A. Rockfeller]] (1974-1977)
|-
| [[Image:Carter_head.jpg |80px]] [[Jimmy Carter]] (1977-1981) || [[Image:WalterMondale.jpg |80px]] [[Walter Mondale]] (1977-1981)
|-
| [[Image:Reagan_head.jpg |80px]] [[Ronald Reagan]] (1981-1989) || [[Image:GHWB_head.jpg |80px]] [[George H. W. Bush]] (1981-1989)
|-
|[[Image:GHWB_head.jpg |80px]] [[George H. W. Bush]] (1989-1993) || [[Image:Uyfkhm.jpg |80px]] [[Dan Quayle| J. Danforth Quayle]] (1989-1993)
|-
| [[Image:Clinton_head.jpg |80px]] [[William Jefferson Clinton]] (1993-2001) || [[Image:Al Gore VP portrait 1994.jpg |80px]][[Al Gore| Albert Gore]] (1993-2001)
|-
| [[Image:George_w_bush.jpeg |80px]] [[George W. Bush]] (2001-2009) || [[image:Dick_cheney.jpg|80px]] [[Dick Cheney]] (2001-2009)
|-
| [[Image:President Barack Obama.jpg |80px]] [[Barack Hussein Obama]] (2009-Present) || [[Image:Joe Biden,_official photo.jpg |80px]][[Joseph Biden]] (2009-Present)
|-
|}

== See also ==

*[[Gallery of American Heroes]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ Presidents of the United States.] The White House.

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Al Gore

2010-04-24T21:57:59Z

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'''Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr.''' ( born March 31, 1948) was the 45th [[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] of the [[United States]] (1993-2001), succeeding [[Dan Quayle]] and succeeded by [[Dick Cheney]], following service in the [[House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate|Senate]], spanning 1977-85 and 1985-93, respectively. He is a Nobel-prize winner for his work on [[global warming]]; Gore spreads [[alarmist]] [[propaganda]], proclaiming the end of the world. Gore likes to say that, "The Earth has a fever." <ref>http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GlobalWarming/story?id=2110628&page=1</ref> Gore is making millions of dollars through his fraud scheme.<ref>http://newsbusters.org/node/11149</ref> He has no degree in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, or climatology. Gore took two science classes as an undergraduate. He got a "C+" in one and a "D" in the other. <ref>http://www.larryelder.com/Gore/goredubiousrecord.htm</ref>

Gore was the [[Democratic Party]]'s candidate for President in the 2000 election, running on a ticket with Sen. [[Joe Lieberman|Joseph Lieberman]] of [[Connecticut]].

In his early life, Gore attended [[Harvard University]] and (briefly) [[Vanderbilt University]]. He also served in the [[United States Army]] and worked as a war correspondent during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>Kennedy,William V. ''The Military and the Media: Why the Press Cannot Be Trusted to Cover a War''. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1993. <http://com.hilbert.edu/students/papers/carolina-1999/1999vietnam.html></ref> He is married to activist [[Tipper Gore]].

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==Political career==

[[Al Gore]] followed his father, [[Albert Gore, Sr.]] a prominent [[Democratic]] Senator from [[Tennessee]], into [[Congress]]. His father was a supporter of the [[New Deal]] who was finally defeated in 1970, despite having sent his son to [[Vietnam]] in order to bolster his campaign.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/gore/stories/gore/</ref>

Al Gore was initially somewhat [[conservative]] on social issues, supporting [[Clarence Thomas]] for the [[Supreme Court]] and, along with his wife, opposing offensive lyrics in rock music. But as his presidential aspirations grew, Gore became increasingly [[liberal]].

Gore ran for president in 1988 but was defeated in the primary by [[Michael Dukakis]]. Gore then continued to serve in the Senate.<ref>While serving in the Senate, Gore introduced the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, signed December 9, 1991, which his supporters claim helped develop the Internet and the National Research and Education Network. [http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d102:SN00272:@@@L&summ2=m&] [http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_90s.shtml] When Gore himself bragged about creating the internet, he was referring to prior legislation (see quotations below).</ref>

In the [[United States presidential election, 1992|1992 Presidential Election]], Democratic nominee [[Bill Clinton]] selected Gore as his running mate. They won the election, and Gore was sworn in as Vice President on January 20, 1993. Clinton and Gore were elected to a second term in [[United States presidential election, 1996|1996]]. Gore had little influence in the Clinton Administration, and almost nothing of significance is attributed to him.

As is often the case for incumbent Vice Presidents, Gore was nominated as his party's candidate in the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential Election]]. He lost to [[George W. Bush]] in the [[Electoral College]] after a close vote, in which Gore received more popular votes than Bush, but fewer electoral votes. Gore contested the results in Florida. On December 13, 2000, after an extensive court battle ([[Bush v. Gore]]), Gore accepted Bush's election to the presidency.<ref>Leip, David. "2000 Presidential General Election Results." David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2005. 18 Mar. 2007 <http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2000>.</ref>

== Al Gore and uncharitableness ==

''See also'': [[Liberal politicians and uncharitableness]] and [[Barack Obama and uncharitableness]]

The political magazine the ''[[American Spectator]]'' declared:
{{cquote|The last two Democratic Party nominees for President have come up short on the charity scale. Al Gore has been famously stingy when it comes to actually giving his own money to charities. In 1998 he was embarrassed when his tax returns revealed that he gave just $353 to charity...<ref>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c5_1238044126&c=1</ref>}}

==Supporters==
[[Image:20001025 xnjdo FredGoreFiny.jpg|thumb|180px|left|From left to right: Fred Phelps, Al Gore, and former Kansas Gov. Joan Finney.]]
In 1988 Gore courted the support of controversial [[activist]] [[Fred Phelps]] of the [[Westboro Baptist Church]] in Topeka, Kansas. In appreciation for Phelps' help and support of Gore, Phelps was provided tickets to the [[inauguration]] of [[President Clinton]] in 1992 and 1996.<ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15559 Gore sought help from anti-homosexual group], 'God hates fags' creator preaches 'hate because the Bible preaches hate', By Jon E. Dougherty, ''WorldNetDaily.com'', October 25, 2000.</ref> Phelps has since changed his opinion about Gore when he joined Bill Clinton on the 1992 presidential ticket. Phelps turned on him and claimed Gore was a conservative icon of the Democratic Party that sold out on some critical social issues. Phelps also demonstrated against Clinton and Gore during the 1997 inaugural. <ref> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={91058469-F6DE-4615-8B2A-73CDF3E8FCAC} </ref>
<ref> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20001104/ai_n11753681 </ref>

==Current activities==
Gore has started an [[Ponzi scheme|investment firm]] to invest in environmentally sustainable technology and industries and a cable channel (Current TV), and is an adviser to [[Google]]. He was also mentioned as a possible [[2008 presidential election|2008 presidential candidate]].
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Gore and the ''Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change'' shared the 2007 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his work on [[climate change]].<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312024,00.html</ref>

Gore is the author of ''The [[Assault on Reason]]''. He also starred in the 2006 film about [[global warming]] entitled, ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]],'' which won an [[Academy Award]]. In 2007, the British High Court directed teachers to inform students to whom they show the film that it "is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument" and to draw attention to eleven specific inaccuracies. Furthermore, the court advised, "If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of ... the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political [[indoctrination]]."<ref>Sheppard, Noel. "Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’." [Weblog NewsBusters] 08 Oct 2007. Newsbusters. 9 Oct 2007 <[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies -eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth]>.</ref> Despite the errors, the judge also concluded "four main scientific hypotheses, each of which is very well supported by research published in respected, peer-reviewed journals and accords with the latest conclusions of the IPCC.” <ref> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301067,00.html</ref>

Speaking in Manhattan to the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative, Gore wants to use "civil disobedience" to combat the construction of coal power plants without the ability to capture carbon. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427421,00.html Al Gore Urges 'Civil Disobedience' Toward Coal Plants] Fox News, September 24, 2008</ref> Civil disobedience or the call for intentional violation of laws is an extremist point of view. It is believed that he was speaking in regards to Western nation coal plants. No mention of China and their coal production. The gravest threat from coal pollution comes from China, in which two plants are constructed per week and 500 more plants over the next 10 years. <ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9947668 China's Coal-Fueled Boom Has Costs] NPR, May 2, 2007</ref>

==Quotes==
* Gore said, '''''"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."''''' <ref>Blitzer, Wolf. Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'. CNN. 9 March 1999. 2 June 2007 <[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/ http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000 /transcript.gore/]></ref>

* Gore falsely claimed that he discovered problems in Love Canal and fixed them. He said:

:"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue."<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/02/politics/main72638.shtml</ref>

:"That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."

:"I love [[Van Jones]]. I love his work. I love his heart and his commitment and his intellect. I love his mission. He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.”<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all</ref>

* During an interview with ''Slate'', regarding the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, a question was asked concerning a sense from the [[Climategate]] e-mails and from data that was "hidden and hoarded." These truths are the opposite of the case Al Gore made in his book about having an open and fair debate. Gore responded with a lack of command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. He said,
{{cquote|I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. [...] So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing [...] but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.<ref>http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/al-gore-cant-tell-time-thinks-most-recent-climategate-email-is-more-than-10-years-old/</ref><ref>http://www.slate.com/id/2237789/</ref>}}
:The most recent emails in Climategate were from November 12, 2009.

* In an interview aired on the ''[[CBS]]'' ''Early Show'', Al Gore read his global warming poem to Harry Smith.<ref>Noel Sheppard. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/15/al-gore-reads-poem-harry-smith-says-wow-i-m-happy-hear-it-your-voice Gore Reads Poem, Harry Smith Swoons: 'Wow...I’m Happy to Hear it in Your Voice'], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', December 15, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_120709/content/01125109.guest.html Algore's Idiotic Poem and All the Latest from the ClimateGate Stack], RushLimbaugh.com, December 7, 2009.</ref>

{{Cquote|
:''One thin September soon''
:''A floating continent disappears''
:''In midnight sun''

:''Vapors rise as''
:''Fever settles on an acid sea''
:''Neptune's bones dissolve''

:''Snow glides from the mountain''
:''Ice fathers floods for a season''
:''A hard rain comes quickly''

:''Then dirt is parched''
:''Kindling is placed in the forest''
:''For the lightning's celebration''

:''Unknown creatures''
:''Take their leave, unmourned''
:''Horsemen ready their stirrups''

:''Passion seeks heroes and friends''
:''The bell of the city''
:''On the hill is rung''

:''The shepherd cries''
:''The hour of choosing has arrived''
:''Here are your tools''}}

==Criticism==
[[Image:Al and GW.png|thumb|400px|Cartoon by Greg Sheffield]]
[[Ann Coulter]] claims Gore exaggerated his military service record: "Al Gore endlessly bragged to the media about his service in Vietnam. 'I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we'd fire first and ask questions later,' he told Vanity Fair. And then we found out Gore had a personal bodyguard in Vietnam, the most dangerous weapon he carried was a typewriter, and he left after three months."<ref>http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi</ref>

In 2007, Al Gore received criticism for his high electricity use. When it was discovered that Gore's electric utility bill is 20 times higher than the average American's<ref>[http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/02/26/al-gore-hypocrite/ Al Gore - Electric consumption bill]</ref> many of his detractors accused him of not living up to his own standards. In the year since the 2007 criticism, energy use at Gore's mansion increased 10%.<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200806/CUL20080619a.html</ref>
Gore's defenders claim that the majority of that power came from "green", or environmentally friendly, power sources such as solar and wind power. These power sources are much more expensive than traditional power sources such as coal and nuclear power.{{Fact}}

Also, some conservatives have pointed to Gore's use of a private jet while spreading the message about the dangers of [[global warming]].<ref>[http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2332/More_Inconvenient_Truths_About_Al_Gore More Inconvenient Truths About Al Gore]</ref>

Attention has also been called to Gore's profits from mining royalties, specifically the mining of zinc adjacent to his property that he leased in Tennessee, which has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances into the environment.<ref>[http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770316074 Tennessee Mine Enriched Gore, Scarred Land]</ref> The mine has been closed since 2003. New owner Strategic Resource Acquisition is planning to re-open the mine. From ''The Tennessean'' (3/12/07):
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"Last week, Gore sent a letter asking the company to work with Earthworks, a national [[Environmentalist|environmental group]], to make sure the operation doesn’t damage the environment.

'We would like for you to engage with us in a process to ensure that the mine becomes a global example of environmental best practices,' Gore wrote."
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However, this was after he had already made $500,000 from the mining operations.<ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/17/93301.shtml?s=ic</ref>

Al Gore's fondness for using [[buzzword]]s became the focus of a prank played on Gore by students at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1996. MIT students distributed a [[bingo]] card containing meaningless buzzwords Gore was known for peppering his speeches with, including "infobahn", "knowledge worker", "vector", "high confidence", and "information marketplace". Sure enough, during Gore's speech at MIT, a commotion erupted in the audience when enough buzzwords were said to complete the Bingo card.<ref>http://hacks.mit.edu/by_year/1996/gore/</ref>. Gore's current favorite buzzword is "unified national smart grid", which he promotes in conjunction with his catastrophic global warming prophecies, earning him ridicule as "The Goracle" in a ''[[Washington Post]]'' article by Dana Milbank.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012803318_pf.html</ref> [[Bjorn Lomborg]] has additionally criticized Al Gore for framing global warming using buzzword terms as some sort of transcendent generational quest, as when Gore called the so-called "climate crisis" the "chance to experience...a generational mission, the exhileration of a compelling moral purpose, a shared and unifying cause, the thrill of...the restless human need for transcendence."<ref>Lomborg, Bjorn. ''Cool It''. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.</ref>

==Fabrications and blunders==
*On February 20, 2000, Gore claimed he has “always, always, always” supported [[Roe v. Wade]]. However, in 1977, he voted for the Hyde Amendment, which says that [[abortion]] “takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being,” and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. He cast many other votes favorable to the pro-life cause and earned an 84 percent rating over the course of his entire U.S. House career (1977 to 1984) from the National Right to Life Committee.<ref>http://www.gargaro.com/lifequotes.html</ref>

*On February 4, 2000, Gore claimed, “We had a huge event with 3,000 people at [[Ohio State University]].” In reality, “Officials at that rally said the room where it had taken place did not hold more than 1,200 people, and, given the area needed for the staging erected for the occasion, they estimated the crowd at 500,” according to known [[liberal]] media source the ''[[New York Times]]''.{{fact}}

*On February 2, 2000, on [[Good Morning America]] Al Gore claimed, “We won in every single [[demographic category]]” in the [[New Hampshire]] [[primary]]. In reality [[Bill Bradley]] carried [[male]] voters and voters aged 18-29, according to exit polls.{{fact}}

Gore's comment that he "took the initiave in creating the [[Internet]]" was criticized in the ''St. Petersburg Times'' (Florida):

:This was not the first time Gore has overreached. A year ago Gore told reporters that he and his wife, [[Tipper Gore|Tipper]], at the time when they were college sweethearts, were the inspiration for the novel "[[Love Story]]." That came as news to the befuddled author, [[Erich Segal]]. [http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/]

Gore wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he said "[he] genuinely wishes [[global warming]] was an illusion," claiming it is very real. This despite mountains of fraud uncovered by [[ClimateGate]]. [[Fred Thompson]] replied, "Hey, Al... the genie says you still have two wishes left." <ref>[http://twitter.com/fredthompson/status/9876626632 Fred Thompson, Twitter feed, March 2, 2010</ref>

==See also==
*[[Previous Breaking News/Al Gore|Al Gore on Breaking News]]

==External links==
*[http://www.algore.com/ Official website]
*[http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=276476942822261 Al Gore, Ignoble Laureate], ''Investor's Business Daily'', October 5, 2007
*[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/al_gore/index.html Al Gore News and Commentary] from the ''New York Times''
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/author/al-gore/ What Liberals Say - Al Gore], [[Accuracy In Media]]
*[http://www.compeaus.com/frozen.html Yearly Frozen Gore Ice Sculpture In Alaska]

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Sir '''Robert Laird Borden''' (June 26, 1854 - June 10, 1937) was the eighth [[Canadian]] [[Prime Minister]], and served during [[World War I]]. Born in Grand Pré, [[Nova Scotia]], Borden was the son of Andrew Borden and Eunice Laird. He was a [[lawyer]] by profession, called to the bar in 1878.

Borden was elected to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] first in 1896 and would become leader of the [[Canadian Conservative Party|Conservative Party]] in 1901. He served as Leader of the Opposition until 1911, when the Conservatives won the election of September 21.

With the beginning of [[World War I]] Canada was ill equipped to fight the new modern type of warfare, and the Total Armed Forces strength was under 4000 men. Borden supported Canadian Industries during the war, including the poorly designed Ross Rifle which often jammed during the fighting in France. Canada also under went a number of changes at home, with the introduction of a "temporary" [[income tax]], and the nationalization of the bankrupt Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Railways. Borden's most controversial act was the passage of mandatory [[conscription]] of men for the Armed Forces, widely unpopular in [[Quebec]].

Following World War I Canada was no longer a colony of [[Great Britain]] as at the start of the war, but recognized for it's contributions and the building of a national character. Over 626,000 Canadian fought and 68,300 died in service. Borden led the Canadian delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference]]. Borden resigned from the Office of Prime Minister on July 10, 1920.

Sir Robert Borden is pictured on the Canadian One Hundred Dollar Bill.

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Lester Pearson

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'''Lester Bowles Pearson''' was the 14th [[Prime Minister of Canada]]. He was born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] on April 23, 1897, the son of Edwin Arthur Pearson and Annie Sarah Bowles and served in the Canadian Army during [[World War I]], achieving the rank of Lieutenant. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (Canada did not have an Air Force until 1924) It was in there he received the nickname "Mike", which would stick with him the rest of his life.

Following the war Pearson became a history professor at the University of Toronto, and joined the foreign service in 1928. He would be involved in the formation of NATO, and was Canada's ambassador to the first [[UN]] assemblies. In 1956 Pearson worked to resolve the [[Suez Crisis]], avoiding a larger conflict through the creation of what would become the [[United Nations]] first peacekeeping force: For this he was awarded the 1957 [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. <ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1957/pearson-bio.html Lester Bowles Pearson - Biography</ref>

Pearson was chosen to be the leader of the federal [[Liberal Party of Canada]] in 1958 and would win the general election of 1963 over [[John Diefenbaker]]. In 1965 the Liberals won another minority government, but Pearson had not delivered a majority win. He would step down in April 1968, and was succeeded by [[Pierre Trudeau]]. However under Pearson, Canada created an Old Age Pension Program, and adopted National Health Care. The minimum wage was established and he would begin the work towards freer [[trade]] with the United States, with the Auto Pact. These were all established without creating a budgetary deficit. Additionally the red and white Maple Leaf flag was adopted and he established the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.<ref>http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/pearson-lester.html Lester B. Pearson</ref> These last acts were meant to bring [[Quebec]] further into Canada, but also was a turning point in the alienation of the western provinces and conservatives.

Pearson passed away in Ottawa on December 27, 1972. The international airport in Toronto is named for Pearson, and the Outstanding Player of the year in the [[NHL]] wins the Lester B. Pearson award.

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Sir '''John A. Macdonald''' (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first [[Prime Minister]] of [[Canada]], one of the Fathers of Confederation and elected six times from the Conservative Party. During his administration Macdonald saw the country expand to include the provinces of British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba. His policies opened the Canadian west to settlers and were instrumental in building the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved with his family to Canada when he was five years old. There he trained to be a lawyer and was called to the bar in 1836. From 1864 onwards Macdonald worked to form a united Canada, in part to end political deadlock, increase trade and end the uncertainty over the American [[Manifest Destiny]]. He was a delegate at the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences. Ultimately the British Government agreed and passed the British North American Act on July 1, 1867 creating Canada without bloodshed or major upset.

Macdonald became the first Prime Minister when the Conservative Party which he led, held the majority of seats in the Parliament following the first post-Confederation general election. He was re-elected in 1872, but during that parliament he was forced to resign because of the [[Pacific Scandal]] when his party was accused of giving contracts to a political contributor.

Macdonald was returned to power in 1878, and he served the country until his death in Ottawa.

==Further reading==
* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ ''The Dictionary of Canadian Biography''] (1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of notables who died by 1930
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCESubjects&Params=A1 ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (2008)] reliable detailed encyclopedia, on-line free

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

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'''William Lyon Mackenzie King''' (1874-1950), prime minister of [[Canada]], whose 21 years in office are the longest of any prime minister in the English-speaking world. As leader of the Liberal Party<ref> Although Canada had both a Liberal and a Conservative party, the names do not correspond to American usage of the terms. Both parties combined what Americans would call "liberal" and "conservative" policies.</ref> he was the dominant political figure from the 1920s through the 1940s, leading Canada through prosperity, depression and war. His surname was "King" but he was usually styled "Mackenzie King."

Mackenzie King lacked the typical personal attributes of great leaders, especially in comparison with [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] of the U.S., [[Winston Churchill]] of Britain, [[Charles de Gaulle]] of France, or even Joey Smallwood of [[Newfoundland]]. Voters did not love him. He lacked charisma, a commanding presence or oratorical skills; he did not shine on radio or in newsreels. His best writing was academic. Cold and tactless in human relations, he had allies but no close personal friends; he never married and lacked a hostess whose charm could substitute for his chill. His allies were annoyed by his constant intrigues. He kept secret his beliefs in spiritualism and use of mediums to stay in contact with departed associates and particularly with his mother, and allowed his intense spirituality to distort his understanding of Adolf Hitler.

Mackenzie King remained so long in power because he had remarkable skills that were exactly appropriate to Canada's needs. He was keenly sensitive to the nuances of public policy; he was a workaholic with a shrewd and penetrating intelligence and a profound understanding of how society and the economy worked. He understood labour and capital. He had a pitch-perfect ear for the Canadian temperament and mentality, and was a master of timing. A modernizing technocrat who regarded managerial mediation as essential to an industrial society, he wanted his Liberal party to represent liberal corporatism to create social harmony. Mackenzie King worked tirelessly and successfully to bring compromise and harmony to many competing and feuding elements, using politics and government action as his great instrument. He conducted the Liberal party over 29 years, and established Canada's international reputation as a middle power fully committed to world order.

==Career==
He was born on Dec. 17, 1874, at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, the eldest son of John King and Isabel Grace Mackenzie, daughter of [[William Lyon Mackenzie]], Scotch-Canadian political reformer and one of the leaders of the failed [[Rebellion of 1837]]. The father was a lawyer with a struggling practice in a small city, and never enjoyed financial security; his parents lived a life of shabby gentility, employing servants they could scarcely afford. The son became a life-long practising Presbyterian with a dedication to applying Christian virtues to social issues in the style of the [[Social Gospel]]. He never favoured socialism.

Mackenzie King graduated college with honours in political science, and then finished law school in one year at the [[University of Toronto]] (B.A. 1895, LL. B. 1896). He played a central role in fomenting a students' strike at the university in 1895. He was in close touch, behind the scenes, with Vice-Chancellor William Mulock, for whom the strike provided a chance to embarrass his rivals Chancellor Blake and President Loudon. King failed to gain his immediate objective, a teaching position at the University, but earned political credit with the man who would invite him to Ottawa and make him a deputy minister only five years later.<ref> Robert H. Blackburn, "Mackenzie King, William Mulock, James Mavor, and the University of Toronto Students' Revolt of 1895." ''Canadian Historical Review'' 1988 69(4): 490-503. Issn: 0008-3755 </ref>

He now took the name "Mackenzie King" to replace his childhood nickname of Willie, and to boast his self-image in terms of his famous grandfather. He never practiced law. Instead of attending Oxbridge, he took advanced degrees in the United States at the [[University of Chicago]] (M.A. 1897), and [[Harvard University]] (M.A. 1897). For a few months he lived at [[Hull House]] in Chicago, coming under the spell of [[Jane Addams]]. His unfinished Harvard PhD thesis compared sweatshop conditions in the clothing industry in the U.S., Britain and Germany. In 1900 became deputy minister of the new formed Department of Labour; he edited the government's ''Labour Gazette.'' The only close friend he ever had died in a a drowning accident in 1901. As a civil servant Mackenzie King was a well-regarded impartial negotiator who helped settle strikes and lockouts. He designed new labour legislation, especially the "Industrial Disputes Investigation Act" of 1907, creating a plan of a cooling off period and a method of government-supervised voluntary conciliation in labour disputes.

In 1909 he began a political career, winning election from the Berlin district to the House of Commons as a Liberal. Prime Minister Sir [[Wilfrid Laurier]] appointed him minister of labour, with cabinet rank. During his term of office he initiated legislation empowering the government to investigate combines, trusts, and cartels. In the election campaign of 1911 he enthusiastically supported the Laurier's policy of commercial reciprocity between Canada and the United States; the Conservatives rode anti-Americanism to victory nationwide, and Mackenzie King lost his seat.

From 1911 to 1921 Mackenzie King was employed as a political organizer, journalist, and labour relations expert, primarily in the United States. From 1914-1918 he was the research director for the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], and served as labour relations adviser to John D. Rockefeller, whose image was tarnished by a bloody strike in Colorado. His solution was a company union that ended the conflicts at the Colorado Coal and Iron Company. Other American corporations hired Mackenzie King as a labour relations consultant. His book, ''Industry and Humanity'' (1918), explained his views on the social service state, and notably on labour relations, including the idea that capital and labour were natural allies, not foes, and that the community at large (represented by the government) should be the third and decisive party in industrial disputes.<ref> Barry Cooper, "On Reading ''Industry and Humanity'': a Study in the Rhetoric Underlying Liberal Management." ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 1978-1979 13(4): 28-39. Issn: 0021-9495 </ref>

==First World War==
Mackenzie King was defeated in trying to regain his parliamentary seat in 1913. In 1917 Canada was in crisis; he supported Laurier in his opposition to conscription, which was violently opposed in Quebec. The Liberal party became deeply split, with most Anglophones joining in the Union government, a coalition controlled by the Conservatives under Prime Minister [[Robert Borden]]. Facing a landslide against him, Mackenzie King lost in the constituency of North York, which his grandfather had once represented. He was Laurier's chosen successor as leader of the Liberal Party, but it was deeply divided by Quebec's total opposition to conscription and the agrarian revolt in Ontario and the Prairies. When Laurier died in 1919, Mackenzie King was elected leader thanks to the critical support of the Quebec bloc, organized by his long-time lieutenant in Quebec, Ernest Lapointe (1876–1941). Mackenzie King could not speak French and had minimal interest in Quebec, but election after election (save for 1930) Lapointe produced the critical seats to give the Liberals a majority in Commons.<ref>Lita-Rose Betcherman, ''Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant.'' (2002)</ref> In the election of 1921 Liberals won a bare majority of seats; Mackenzie King became prime minister.

Once he became the Liberal leader in 1919 he paid attention to the Prairies. With a highly romanticized view he envisioned the pioneers as morally sound, hardworking individuals who lived close to nature and to God. The reform ferment in the region meshed with his self-image as a social reformer and fighter for the "people" against the "interests." Viewing a glorious sunrise in Alberta in 1920, he wrote in his diary, "I thought of the New Day, the New Social Order. It seems like Heaven's prophecy of the dawn of a new era, revealed to me."<ref> See original text at [http://king.collectionscanada.ca/EN/GetImage/GetImage.asp?MKDTHView=0&ID=3469657&ZyNetId={33D7F4F1-E177-4ABA-9BD2-1F39CF183B74}&ext=.pdf]</ref> Realism played a role too, since his party depended for its survival on the votes of Progressive party members of parliament who represented farmers in Ontario and the Prairies. His convinced many Progressives to return to the Liberal fold. <ref> Robert A. Wardhaugh, ''Mackenzie King and the Prairie West'' (2000)</ref>

==Prime Minister==
During his first term of office, from 1921 to 1925, Mackenzie King pursued a conservative domestic policy with the object of lowering wartime taxes and, especially, wartime ethnic tensions, as well as defusing postwar labour conflicts. "The War is over," he argued, "and for a long time to come it is going to take all that the energies of man can do to bridge the chasm and heal the wounds which the War has made in our social life."<ref> Letter of May 5, 1919, in Robert Macgregor Dawson, ''William Lyon Mackenzie King'' (1958) p. 294. </ref> He sought an Canadian voice independent of London in foreign affairs. In 1923 the British prime minister, [[David Lloyd George]], appealed to Mackenzie King for support in the British quarrel with Turkey. Mackenzie King instead said the Canadian Parliament would decide what the policy to follow, making clear it would not be bound by London's suggestions; the episode led to the downfall of Lloyd George.

===The constitutional crisis of 1926===
In the election of 1925 the Liberal Party lost seats, as Mackenzie King struggled to retain office. Charges of corruption in the Customs Department, however, led to the government's defeat in the Commons. Mackenzie King advised the governor-general, Lord Byng, to dissolve Parliament and call another election, but Lord Byng refused the advice and called upon the Conservative Party leader, [[Arthur Meighen]], to form a government. Meighen was unable to obtain a majority in the Commons and he, too, advised dissolution, which this time was accepted. In the ensuing election of 1926, Mackenzie King appealed for public support of the constitutional principle that the governor-general must accept the advice of his ministers, though this principle was at most only customary. The Liberals argued that the governor-general had interfered in politics and shown favor to one party over another. Mackenzie King and his party won the election and a clear majority in the Commons.<ref>For primary documents see Bruce Ricketts, "The King-Byng Affair - Canada's Government in Minority" (2007) [http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Canadian_Political_System/king_byng%20affair.htm online version]</ref>

The crisis of 1926 provoked a consideration of the constitutional relations between the self-governing dominions and the British government. During the next five years the position of the governor-general of a dominion was clarified; he ceased to be a representative of the British government and became a personal representative of the British crown. The independent position of the dominions in the Commonwealth and in the international community was put on a firm legal foundation by the [[Statute of Westminster]] (1931). In domestic affairs Mackenzie King strengthened the Liberal policy of increasing the powers of the provincial governments by transferring to the governments of Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan the ownership of the crown lands within those provinces, as well as the subsoil rights. In collaboration with the provincial governments he inaugurated a system of old-age pensions based on need.
===Great Depression===
The [[Great Depression]] began in Canada in 1929 and hit very hard; it led to a Liberal defeat in the 1930 elections. In opposition, it was Mackenzie King's policy to refrain from offering advice and to let the Conservative government under [[R.B. Bennett]] make its mistakes; Mackenzie King's policy preferences were not radically different. Though he gave the impression of sympathy with progressive and liberal causes, he had no enthusiasm for the [[New Deal]] of American President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (which Bennett tried to emulate), and he never advocated massive government action to alleviate depression in Canada.

In 1935 the Liberals used the slogan "King or Chaos" to win a landslide. Promosing a much-desired trade treaty with the U.S., the Mackenzie King government passed the 1935 Reciprocal Trade Agreement. It marked the turning point in Canadian-American economic relations, reversing the disastrous trade war of 1930-31, lowing tariffs, and yielding a dramatic increase in trade; more subtly, it revealed to the prime minister and the president that they could work together well.<ref> Marc T. Boucher, "The Politics of Economic Depression: Canadian-American Relations in the Mid-1930s." ''International Journal'' 1985-1986 41(1): 3-36. Issn: 0020-7020; H. Blair Neatby, ''William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939'' (1976) pp 143-48.</ref> After 1936 the prime minister lost patience when westerners preferred radical alternatives such as the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and Social Credit to his middle-of-the-road liberalism. Indeed, he came close to writing off the region with his comment that the prairie dust bowl was "part of the U.S. desert area. I doubt if it will be of any real use again."<ref> Robert A. Wardhaugh, ''Mackenzie King and the Prairie West'' (2000)</ref> Instead he paid more attention to the industrial regions and the needs of Ontario and Quebec regarding the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway project with the United States. As for the unemployed, he was hostile to federal relief and reluctantly accepted a Keynesian solution that involved federal deficit spending, tax cuts and subsidies to the housing market.<ref>H. Blair Neatby, ''The Politics of Chaos: Canada in the Thirties ''(1972) p. 84-6. </ref>

Mackenzie King returned as prime minister, serving until his retirement in 1948. During all but the last two years he was also secretary of state for external affairs, taking personal charge of foreign policy.

===Second World War===
Mackenzie King's last 12 years in office were about the preparation for, the fighting of, and the aftermath of [[World War II, Homefront|the Second World War]]. Not alarmed by the rise of Hitler, Mackenzie King supported the policies of British Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] with concessions to appease [[Adolf Hitler]] in the hope he would stop threatening his neighbours. Hitler met with Mackenzie King in Berlin in 1937, with mesmerizing effect as the prime minister's spiritualism affected his views of Hitler. Possessing a religious yearning for direct insight into the hidden mysteries of life and the universe, and strongly influenced by the operas of [[Richard Wagner]], Mackenzie King decided Hitler was a akin to mythical Wagnerian heroes within whom good and evil were struggling. He thought that good would eventually triumph and Hitler would redeem his people and lead them to a harmonious, uplifting future. These spiritual attitudes not only guided Canada's relations with Hitler but gave the prime minister the comforting sense of a higher mission, that of helping to lead Hitler to peace.<ref>Robert H. Keyserlingk, "Mackenzie King's Spiritualism and His View of Hitler in 1939." ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 1985-1986 20(4): 26-44. Issn: 0021-9495; also C. P. Stacey, "The Divine Mission: Mackenzie King and Hitler." ''Canadian Historical Review'' 1980 61(4): 502-512. Issn: 0008-3755 </ref>

To rearm Canada he built the Royal Canadian Air Force as a viable military power, while at the same time keeping it separate from Britain's Royal Air Force. He was instrumental in obtaining the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan Agreement, which was signed in Ottawa in December, 1939, binding Canada, Britain, New Zealand, and Australia to a program that eventually trained half their airmen in the Second World War.

Canada voluntarily entered the war, after waiting a few days to display its independence, but Mackenzie King--and Canada--were largely ignored by [[Winston Churchill]], despite Canada's major role in supplying food, raw materials, munitions and money to the hard-pressed British economy, training airmen for the Commonwealth, guarding the western half of the North Atlantic against German u-boats, and providing combat troops for the invasions of Italy, France and Germany in 1943-45. Mackenzie King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing a private agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York, in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces. The Americans virtually took control of the Yukon and Newfoundland. Mackenzie King proved high successful in mobilizing the economy for war, with impressive results in industrial and agricultural output. The depression ended and prosperity returned. On the political side, Mackenzie King rejected any notion of a government of national unity.

He raised a million men (and some women) for the military but faced intense resistance in Quebec against conscription for service overseas. He stalled because he did not need conscripted troops until the fighting became heavy in late 1944. By the time he agreed to send a limited number of conscripted men overseas to fight beside the volunteers, the war was ending. He thus avoided the enormous political upheaval of the First World War on the same issue. Meanwhile the army faced with the government's policy of conscripting manpower only for home defense and given their own need for overseas volunteers, used conscripts raised under the National Resources Mobilization Act to meet both purposes.<ref>Daniel Byers, "Mobilising Canada: the National Resources Mobilization Act, the Department of National Defence, and Compulsory Military Service in Canada, 1940-1945." ''Journal of the Canadian Historical Association'' 1996 7: 175-203. Issn: 0847-4478 [http://www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/1996/v7/n1/031107ar.pdf online edition] </ref>

Canada accepted only 5,000 Jewish refugees from Nazism during 1933-48, while Britain took in 70,000, and the United States 200,000. Mackenzie King always sought compromise, and supported restrictive immigration policies. Opposition to immigration was strongest in Quebec, as was anti-Semitism, and King needed the Liberal Party support of that province.<ref> Irving Abella and Harold Troper, ''None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948'' (1982)</ref>

==Postwar==
In his two years of office following the war, Mackenzie King vigorously supported the formation of the [[United Nations]] and downplayed the emerging [[Cold War]]. In domestic policy his government tried to boost the economy with fiscal and monetary measures. In terms of creating the welfare state, his government passed social measures, including unemployment insurance, collective bargaining, and mothers' allowances. Aging rapidly, in late 1948 he turned over the Liberal Party and the prime ministership to [[Louis St. Laurent]], his foreign minister and chief supporter in Quebec. He died in his country house at Kingsmere, near Ottawa, on July 22, 1950.

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===Primary sources===
* ''The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs'' (annual, 1901-1938), [http://books.google.com/books?id=OzMhdbbnG2wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:The+intitle:Canadian+intitle:Annual+intitle:Review&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1 full text for 1920 online and downloadable]
* Mackenzie King, W. L. ''Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Under-Lying Industrial Reconstruction'' (1918) [http://www.questia.com/read/3886991?title=Industry%20and%20Humanity%3a%20A%20Study%20in%20the%20Principles%20Under-Lying%20Industrial%20Reconstruction online edition]; also [http://books.google.com/books?id=RUUAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:mackenzie+inauthor:king&lr=&num=30&as_brr=3 full text online and downloadable]
* [http://king.collectionscanada.ca/ ''The diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King''], 50,000 pages, typescript; fully searchable
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* Riddell, Walter A. ed; ''Documents on Canadian Foreign Policy, 1917-1939'' Oxford University Press, 1962 806 pages of documents

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