Lurker coming out

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Mon, 09-15-2008 - 10:55am

Hey ladies!!! I am nick I've been on ivillage longer than I want to admit to. lol!! I have a question. I'm not starting anything, it's just something that's been floating around.

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Mon, 09-15-2008 - 9:56pm

I agree with you 100%. That is why I can't for the life of me wonder how the Mccain camp thinks that the Hilary fence sitters would come to his side. Most feel like we do and a vote for McCain/Palin isn't a vote for women's rights.

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 9:31am
The Conservatives are SOOOOOOOOO against Social Programs. They live in their own little selfish dream world, the self rightious, the phony Christians.
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In reply to: jbnick
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 10:18am

Thank you for your post.

MONTANA MOM !

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 5:54pm

Conservatives and "religious" conservatives in particular give more of their earnings voluntarily as in "charitable contributions" than any other group! They believe it is their personal responsibility.

You obviously don't much about them.

I'm not a religious conservative myself but I know a lot about them and they have my utmost respect.

That hate of yours is really misplaced.

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Registered: 10-26-2003
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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 6:50pm

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Your allegations need to be referenced not just you said it happened. Please provide these facts to go along with your claims.

Bea

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In reply to: jbnick
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 6:53pm

I keep hearing this as well and all of a sudden I wondered if donations to a church are counted as "charitable donations."

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 8:26pm

What I'd like to know is if "charitable contributions" mean church tithing in addition to donations to charities.

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 8:27pm

that's the best you can do? two conservative commentators and one review of a single source?

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1164012942.shtml

it seems that the writer changed the significance levels thus reported statistically significant differences in giving where none exist. even your own link admits "Brooks says he started the book as an academic treatise, then tightened the documentation and punched up the prose when his colleagues and editor convinced him it would sell better and generate more discussion if he did. To make his point forcefully, Brooks admits he cut out a lot of qualifying information."

Bea

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 8:37pm

and the author is the incoming president of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), a conservative think tank.

"AEI has emerged as one of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy. More than twenty AEI alumni and current visiting scholars and fellows have served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute

just read the list of officers, trustees and fellows. can you produce an unbiased source?

Bea