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transcript and word cloud: President Obama’s remarks on health care reform
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is the full text and word cloud of Obama’s remarks to the joint session of Congress about health care reform on September 9, 2009. It’s kind of funny that the official transcript from the White House actually includes the text of Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst (“You lie!”) in-line. THE PRESIDENT: Madam Speaker, Vice President…
terror mail: the Eid Stamp
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Aziz Poonawalla
The Mayor of Clarksville, Tennessee sent out an email recently, urging “all patriotic Americans” to protest that singular threat to Western civilization, the Eid Stamp: Mayor Johnny Piper did not add any comments of his own to the e-mail, The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle reported. The e-mail calls the stamp “a slap in the face” to…
the Afghanistan strategy – not enough civilians?
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Aziz Poonawalla
The 34-page McChrystal report detailing the Afghanistan strategy has been released to the public and can be viewed online. The broad, specific goals for the Afghanistan campaign are listed as: The U.S. broad strategic goal in Afghanistan is to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat Al-Qaeda (AQ), its allies and its safe havens in Pakistan, and…
Israel: the one-state solution
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Aziz Poonawalla
As I’ve argued before, the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will entail only two of Democracy, Greater Israel, and Jewishness. In terms of the settlements policy, it seems that Israel has essentially picked the first two. President Obama’s insistence that Israel freeze all settlements is in fact Israel’s only chance to preserve its identity as…
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