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Just how socialist is Barack Obama?
Notes from the Heartland In Denver tomorrow, the first presidential debate will see the candidates discuss the role of government in the economy. Some Republican commentators argue that Barack Obama’s...
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Rational irrationality in US politics
Notes from the Heartland I’m in Springfield, Missouri, the second stop on my tour through the American heartland. Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the headquarters of the local Republican party,...
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Gutterball blues: Obama centrists deflated by debate
Notes from the Heartland A crunch of an onion ring breaks the silence of the Democratic debate night party at the Diamond Bowl in Independence, Missouri. On each of the four big television screens...
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Republicans see home truths in Afghan book
Notes from the Heartland In a colonial-style house in Mission Hills, Kansas, a group of Republicans eat Oklahoma barbecue, discuss a book by an old Etonian and debate the future of Afghanistan. Kansas...
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Marketing the word of the Lord
Notes from the Heartland My atheist feet are doing all they can to stop tapping along to the power chords of the Westside Family Church house band. Westside is a megachurch in Lenaxa, Kansas, home of...
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In his latest Note from the Heartland, John McDermott meets Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, a strident campaigner against illegal immigration. Read more
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In his latest dispatch from the US, John McDermott tells of an unfortunate automobile accident - and a fortunate meeting. Read more
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In the cornfields of Nebraska
Notes from the Heartland Dennis Bute is a noun guy. Riding shotgun in his pick-up, cornfields melting into liquid gold, I listen to the 64 year-old farmer itemise West Point, his home town in western...
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Oil, toil and and a litany of trouble
Notes from the Heartland, in Williston, North Dakota On state highway 85, trucks loaded with the means of the North Dakotan oil boom roll over the bloody headless carcasses of dogs, elk and racoons....
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