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Mystery Author LB Cobb Website Texas Fiction Blog Blogs, Blawgs, Opinions, NewsA Little Something To Annoy You - A Little Something to Make You Think
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Elections 2008 Fun OnionNews Election Results OnionNews Candidates Profile
2008 Presidential Candidates
Food for Political Thought "Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." - Lily Tomlin
Legal Opinions
On Immigration "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -- Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (Written in 1883 "in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund," Lazarus' sonnet was engraved on a plaque and placed in the pedestal as a memorial in 1903. While France had provided the statue itself, American fundraising efforts paid for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.)
Food for Thought “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” - Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
Small World "An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before." - Mark Twain
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Your Elected Officials "Throw the bums out! Join the Nationwide Term Limits Rally!" -- Box Thinker
US Government "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
Political Parties "You're really no one in this town until you haven't met me." - Jack Abramoff
News/Magazines "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain
World View
US View
Political Satire
911 History/Analysis "Hitler and Mussolini each came to power through democracy" - Robert Kaplan
"Think" Tanks "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand and without examination." -- Mark Twain
Institute for Policy Innovation Mackinac Center for Public Policy National Center f/Policy Analysis National Center for Public Policy
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The Legal Basis for a USA "This land is your land, this land is my land; From California to the New York Island; From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters; This land was made for you and me." -- Woodie Guthrie, 1944
Are We Safer Yet? "Where have all the flowers gone? Gone to soldiers every one. When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?" - Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson folk song
Political Partisan Blogs The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald American Civil Rights Institute Bill of Rights Defense Committee Citizens f/Constitutional Govern. Federation f/Immigration Reform National Organization for Women
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Mystery Author LB Cobb Website Texas Fiction Blog A link from this site to another site does not imply endorsement of any point of view stated therein, just an observation that all sorts of people have all sorts of viewpoints and some of them are interesting. No representation is made that material on the website or any link from this website is appropriate or available at locations outside of the United States. As always, you are responsible for compliance with all laws applicable to Internet use. Any copyrighted material on these pages is used in "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). If you think we've overlooked an interesting point of view out in cyberspace or have any other comment, email lbcobb@lbcobb.com. Copyright L.B. Cobb. All Rights Reserved
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