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This result is a rebuke to Barack Obama, but it is a rebuke as well—a stinging one, perhaps more stinging—to Senator Charles Schumer. He represented much of this district for 18 years and the now disgraced Anthony Weiner was his staffer and pretty obviously Schumer’s chosen successor as congressman when he ran successfully for the Senate in 1998. In addition, Schumer has made it his special project to win back white middle class voters in places like metro New York for the Democratic party. In January 2007, just in time for the new Democratic majority in Congress, he published a...

First off my sympathies go out to anyone affected by base closingsIn the wake of to day's announcements by the Brak commission (I know its BRAC) that some bases would be closed, there was also an announcement that Hanscom Air force base in Massachusetts would be expanded.Here is Teddy's conundrum: Several years ago a small airline opened there.The planes were very quiet (I took a couple of flights), the local flaming yuppy liberals in Lexington in fear that their property values may drop were complaining that they were "Worried about our beloved national heritage".These are the same people who...

In today's world there is a major battle between relegions!! There are so many different types of relegions that some people probably just don't know which one to choose!! Now I've been brought up in a very tight, christian home. And I've been drilled to the max of what's right and wrong!! But lately, I've noticed, that everyone is always going to have a different idea of what they think our pupose is on earth!! Now I'm not saying that I don't like christianity, because i do believe that way, I'm just saying that I'm sick of people not respecting...