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How the Electoral College Works and Live 2008 Election Results

The Electoral College consists of 538 popularly elected representatives who formally select the President and Vice President of the United States. In 2008, it will make this selection on December 15.
Rather than directly voting for the President and Vice President, United States citizens cast votes for electors. Electors are technically free to vote for anyone [...]

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Army Tells Army National Guard to Stop Recruiting

The following is from NGAUS Notes dated June13, 2008 titled “No Room in the Army Guard: Service Turns Off Recruiting”:
After growing its ranks by nearly 30,000 troops in three years, the Army National Guard’s recruiting effort for May fell short. But there’s more to it than meets the eye, a National Guard Bureau official said [...]

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Do You Undervalue Your Creative Work?

It really surprises and irritates me how some people/organizations devalue the work of others. Just because one creates a product with their hands or a computer and markets and sells their products or services themselves does not make it of any less value than a mass produced product or a service offered by a [...]

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The Real Story about Iraq

I’ve often heard that the reason that most news organizations tend to show more bad news than good is because bad news draws a bigger audience. There are many theories as to why this is, but that’s a topic for another day. My frustration is with news organizations that bad mouth our own country in [...]

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