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1. Congress There's a tendency among Americans to pay attention to presidential politics to the exclusion of what's going on in the United States Congress. The drama of the presidency is easy to follow. After all, it centers on one person. The Congress, on the o...
2. Stop Government Health Care Take Over Respect The Right Of Free Individuals To Make Personal Health Care Decisions! We must, Democrats and Republicans alike, let our "leaders" know that this plan is unacceptable. There has to be a better way than a government takeover! If the Government...
3. John Adams John Adams succeeded George Washington to become the second president of the United States. Adams was the first president to live in the White House, and he was the first chief executive whose son also was elected president.
4. Condoleezza Rice Rice became the first female national security adviser in 2001, after she was named to the post by President George W. Bush. At the start of his second term in 2005, Rice became the first female African American secretary of state. Read on to discove...
5. Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 16th vice-president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln. Upon Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, Johnson became the 17th U.S. president.
6. Congressional Progressive Caucus Learn about the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the single largest partisan caucus in the United States House of Representatives, which works together to advance progressive issues and causes.
7. NY Congressional Districts  The State of New York is divided into 29 Congressional Districts.  This lens brings together a list of lenses related to each district.  Let me know if you are interested in taking ownership of any of the lenses.  
8. George Bush, 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected on November 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2005. Prior to his Presidency, President Bush served for 6 years as...
9. How to Become President of the United States To be President you have to be 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the U.S. (boo!), and a resident of the U.S. for 14 years. Are you qualified? Then why not give it a shot? And if you're too young, or too foreign-born, then maybe you have a frien...
10. Senator Tim Johnson Senator Tim Johnson has proven a disappointment to Democrats who care about freedom. This isn't abstract, flag-waving freedom we're talking about here, but real freedom, the kind that is guaranteed to us by the Bill of Rights. When Senator...
11. Gun Rights Gun Rights are the cornerstone of the United States of America.  The 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution - without worthy argument - extends gun rights to the citizens of this great Country! If it weren't for guns - there would...
12. Hillary Clinton Biography Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 at Edgewater Hospital - Chicago - Illinois. She was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois. During the 1992 presidential campaign, she observed : "Our lives are a mixture of different...
13. Barack Obama and the FISA Amendments Act In 2007 and early 2008, Barack Obama said that he was against the the Protect America Act and the FISA Amendments Act. He said he would filibuster against the FISA Amendments Act. Then, in June 2008, after winning the Democratic primary contests, Oba...
14. Presidential Election Slogans Every 4 years Americans vote in nationwide elections to elect the USA's President. The person chosen by the voters serves 4 years in the office of President of the United States (POTUS) as the nation's Commander in Chief, the highest government offic...
15. Pete Stark in Congress Recently Representative Pete Stark voluntarily revealed himself as the first openly non-theist member of Congress in history. However, Pete Stark's history of integrity goes far beyond just his stand for religious liberty. In 2006 Irregular News gave...
16. Black Monday I got to wonder about THE Black Monday of the Wall Street Crash fame, and when researching it, found 13 Black Mondays listed between Easter Monday 1209 and September 29, 2008. It is definitely an unlucky day of the week. Here are the stories of those...
17. Politics: First Woman To ... The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has raised the role of women in politics back into the spotlight. While there hasn’t been a woman to hold the highest office in the United States before, women have held the top position in other cou...
18. Meet Michele Bachmann Elected in 2006, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. In only her first term, Congresswoman Bachmann developed a reputation as a "principled reformer" who stay...
19. The GI Bill - Education Benefits for Our Veterans The GI Bill, which is officially known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, PL346, 58 Statutes at Large 284, afforded many US veterans the chance to further their education. This page is about this excellent benefit to our veterans.
20. Max Baucus Senator Max Baucus is a Democrat in name, but in the United States Senate, he has acted more like a Republican, supporting the worst ideas of the failing Republican Party rather than embracing the reasonable ideas that the Democrats have to offer. Thi...