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  • I wonder if the Right-Wing Swifites have figured a way to interfere with the signal, short of blowing-up the transmission towers because you know full well they don't want anybody to hear what the President has to say on this!!!

    Gibbs: In speech, Obama will spell out ideas for health-care bill 2009

  • But while McCain proposed eliminating the exclusion entirely, and thus blowing-up the employer market, Obama is proposing changes at the margin.

    Wonk Room » Options For Modifying The Exclusion Of Employer-Provided Health Coverage 2009

  • While all that bulldozing and blowing-up stuff is going on, another recipe for success from the pages of the David Petraeus Counter-Insurgency Cookbook is raising howls of protest from Afghanistan's semi-sovereign President Hamid Karzai.

    Nick Mills: COIN: A Smashing Success? Nick Mills 2010

  • The blowing-up of the mistimed announcement during the Biden visit is an indication of ill - will on the part of the Administration.

    Israel, Palestinians, U.S. 2010

  • While they had no trouble blowing-up the deficit and paying exorbitant fees (no questions asked) to independent contractors like Blackwater and Halliburton, these same elected officials do not want to spend money to provide affordable health care for all Americans.

    Denise Dennis: Health Care Reform: Why We Need a Public Option 2009

  • And yanno, space stations are pieces of equipment with lots of safety features and rules and whatnots to stop fires and other dangerous blowing-up type situations.

    call for readers mikandra 2009

  • Terrorists are literally blowing-up their victims to pieces and so with ultra liberals literally destroying the rational, moral and spiritual behavior of men and women around the world.

    Ultra liberals a Global Treat to Mankind Nomadicasian 2008

  • Of course I don't condone suicide bombings, indiscriminate rocket attacks, or any other atrocity (because that is what it they are), no more than I condone the use of cluster bombs, missiles, and the blowing-up of civilian homes while women and children weep.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Has any irascible reader — any reader who thoroughly enjoys the pleasure of being in a rage — encountered suddenly some grievance which, heavy as it may be, has been more than compensated by the privilege it has afforded of blowing-up the offender?

    Ayala's Angel 2004

  • The subject of one is the blowing-up of a steamer in the

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

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