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 Robinson
Robinson is a character on the Sesame Street, the father of regular character Gordon Robinson.
Peter Robinson (politician) Peter David Robinson is a Belfast, and was first elected as such in the 1979 elections.
Robinson, Texas Robinson is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 7,845.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/robinson.html   (1725 words)

  
 Peter Robinson (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter David Robinson (born December 29, 1948) is a Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament for East Belfast.
Robinson is the longest serving Member of Parliament for any Belfast constituency since the Act of Union in 1800.
On August 7, 1986, in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement, Robinson led an "invasion party" of 500 loyalists into the village of Clontibret, County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Robinson_(politician)   (617 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Peter Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Peter Robinson (1785-1838) was born in New Brunswick, the eldest son of Christopher Robinson (an officer of the Queens Rangers) and Esther Sayre (daughter of Rev....
Peter Robinson (born 1953) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire.
Robinson spent six years in the White House, serving from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush and from 1983 to 1988 as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Peter-Robinson   (624 words)

  
 A CRITICAL DISTANCE: Literature and Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Peter Robinson: Havel, in an address to the United States Congress, quote, "Intellectuals cannot go on forever avoiding their share of responsibility for the world and hiding their distaste for politics under an alleged need to be independent." Garton Ash said he--he implied to Garton Ash.
Peter Robinson: Wh--wh--what would you do with Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which is not a--a--a work of great intellectual prowess, you wouldn't put it up there against The Analysis and Exhortation of Frederick Douglas, and yet it was a tremendously powerful book, speaking of creating moral space.
Peter Robinson: You both subscribe to this quotation from Immanuel Kant, "The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason." Now, I'll grant that that may be the ordinary course, but I'd like to suggest that perhaps that it isn't always the case that that's a bit of an overstatement from Kant.
www.uncommonknowledge.org /01-02/616.html   (4036 words)

  
 Corrupt government, conspiracy, new world order, no future.
Peter Robinson: So there are just too many baby boomers to go on being supported by their own children and grandchildren at the levels at which Social Security promises.
Peter Robinson: The President's Commission on Social Security has advanced three different ways of fixing Social Security but the centerpiece, as I read it, of each is a private account, an individually controlled retirement account.
Peter Robinson: Is it possible to pay for some of those transition costs just by lengthening the period before you can start collecting Social Security benefits--what I've seen is if you lengthen that period just very modestly...
www.pushhamburger.com /selling_hot_air.htm   (4043 words)

  
 Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
Peter broke into Westminster politics in 1979 when he took advantage of sitting MP, Bill Craig's neglect of the seat and overconfidence to steal a seat everyone else thought was unwinnable.
Should Iris Robinson triumph she and Peter would be the first Irish married couple to sit in the House of Commons at the same time and the only husband and wife team at national level politics in Ireland, North or South.
The Robinsons' eldest son, Jonathan (28) is a full-time researcher for his father and wants to become an elected politician as well.
www.nuzhound.com /articles/moloney2001/mal21-4.htm   (1190 words)

  
 Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson (only known image of Robinson, left), the son of Loyalists and elder brother of Upper Canada’s powerful Attorney General, John Beverley Robinson, was asked to manage this emigration scheme in 1822.
Before the second wave of settlers was to leave for Canada, Robinson traveled to the Peterborough area himself to explore conditions, establish a safe travel route and inspect land.
Included are: original ships lists, ship surgeon reports, Robinson's correspondence, embarkation certificates, applications and letters of recommendation for all 1825 settlers, account books listing all provisions supplied to the settlers, broadside posters advertising the emigration of 1825 and more.
www.kennytree.com /links/peter_robinson.htm   (823 words)

  
 COMMANDING HEIGHTS: American Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Peter Robinson: You're agreeing with all of this?
Peter Robinson: Let me tell you why I don't think so--because if the impulse to expand is there from the beginning, it's quite understandable that it takes its form expanding into the continent as long as the continent exists.
Peter Robinson: Ivan sees a pure republican period in American history which is later corrupted as we become imperial.
www.uncommonknowledge.org /900/920.html   (4532 words)

  
 Reagan on Life
Robinson: I had a brother but no sisters, attended Dartmouth at a time when men still outnumbered women four to one, and went to a college at Oxford that was still entirely male.
Robinson: I was raised in a home in which religious belief was taken for granted, and I’d never felt any inclination to rebel against it — it always seemed obvious to me that Somebody was in charge.
Robinson: “When history is taught at all nowadays,” George F. Will wrote not long ago, “often it is taught as the unfolding of inevitabilities — of vast, impersonal forces.
www.papillonsartpalace.com /reaganon.htm   (1542 words)

  
 Peter Robinson - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
For the member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada who oversaw emigration schemes, see Peter Robinson (1785-1838)
For the English poet born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1953, see Peter Robinson (poet)
For the musician born Peter Robinson, see Marilyn (musician)
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Peter_Robinson   (164 words)

  
 Debates: Peter Robinson vs. Hugh Hewitt on California on National Review Online
If you wrote out of American history every politician who staged a dramatic, last-minute surge or overcame enormous odds — indeed, who was written off by the journalistic and political establishments of his day — then you'd have to excise one hero after another, including the Gipper and Abe Lincoln.
Robinson is a frequent contributor to NRO's weblog, "The Corner."
Peter was in the White House with Chris Cox and of course scribbled away side-by-side with Dana.
www.nationalreview.com /debates/debates091603.asp   (916 words)

  
 Corks 96fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Peter Robinson is a name that means much to many in Northern Ireland.
Well-plotted, evenly-paced and laced with as much humour as horror, the relevantly recent rise of Robinson to public prominence is deserved.
Thankfully Robinson was as down-to-earth, honest and engaging as his fictional creation.
www.96fm.ie /reviews.asp?type=&rid=999   (226 words)

  
 CrimeSceneBooks: New Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A young woman called Jennifer Clewes has been found dead in her car, and in the back pocket of her jeans, written on a slip of paper, police discover Inspector Banks's name and address.
"Peter Robinson, creator of the excellent Inspector Alan Banks series, is also one of the genre's most talented short fiction authors.
Overview: A successful politician sips his water before a speech at a picnic on a sweltering August afternoon and drops dead.
www.mcclelland.com /crimescene/releases_new.html   (296 words)

  
 Irish Aires News: 03/13/2005 - 03/19/2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
None of those politicians could ever be accused of running ahead of popular opinion and so their attacks on Adams and his colleagues were an intriguing barometer of congressional sentiment.
Mark Robinson (22) the father of a small baby was also involved in a pub fight with another notorious Derry IRA man. A IRA gang armed with scaffolding poles and a butcher's knife pounced on him near his home in the Galliagh area on April 30, 2001 and stabbed and beat him to death.
Peter Cory, a Canadian judge appointed by the British and Irish governments to investigate Finucane's murder and five other contentious killings during the Troubles, said he found evidence of possible British government collusion in Finucane's killing, and recommended the establishment of a public inquiry.
irishaires.blogspot.com /2005_03_13_irishaires_archive.html   (17039 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Final Witness : A Novel: Books: Simon Tolkien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sir Peter's fatal flaw is that he neglects his wife and young son, Thomas, while focusing on his job and his personal assistant.
I was intrigued by the murder of Lady Anne and the subsequent accusations by her son that Sir Peter's assistant/future lover was responsible.
Tom Robinson, son of cabinet minister Sir Peter Robinson, is smitten with his father's new assistant, Greta.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375508821?v=glance   (1626 words)

  
 CaliforniaRepublic.org
In their minds, a political structure is in chaos anytime they are not in charge of it or they are in danger of losing power.
In the book, Robinson talks about 10 important lessons that he learned from President Reagan and shows how he was able to use these lessons in his own life.
Robinson served as a speechwriter during the Reagan administration and is best known for writing Reagan’s famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in April of 1987.
www.theonerepublic.com /archives/FrontPageArchive/2003wk8-9to8-15.html   (3379 words)

  
 SAOIRSE32 :: Peter Robinson :: April :: 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Despite his stranglehold, however, the DUP’s 56-year-old Peter Robinson doesn’t quite have an overall majority – which, in itself, indicates the diverse nature of the area.
Speaking yesterday Mr Robinson said his electoral objective is about focusing “on the threat to democracy” posed by Sinn Féin.
However, his 3,000 votes are unlikely to swing the outcome away from Peter Robinson.
saoirse32.blogsome.com /2005/04/16/peter-robinson   (587 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP by Peter Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In it, Robinson shows just what the GOP has got going for it-and how its most triumphant years are yet to come. Along with Robinson's personal, and sometimes hilarious, lifelong relationship with Republicanism, IT'S MY PARTY takes us through history and geography to trace the party's roots.
Robinson gives the reader a lively idea of what is going on in the Republican part of America and hints indiscreetly at a renewal of an affair.
"Peter Robinson, protégé to Buckley, kid brother to O'Rourke, shoots himself in his ideological foot, which is exactly where he aimed, on this safari in search of the Republican soul.
www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook3636.htm   (1224 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | VOTE2001 | NORTHERN IRELAND | Women MPs sweep to power
Mrs Robinson, a 51-year-old grandmother, is already a high-profile politician.
She is married to the deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Peter Robinson, who was returned as MP for East Belfast.
Peter was born a politician, but I have grown into it."
news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/northern_ireland/newsid_1379000/1379050.stm   (672 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - New Tolkien has ring of truth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Final Witness is a courtroom drama that centers on the murder of Lady Anne Robinson, wife of Britain's Minister of Defense Sir Peter Robinson.
Sir Peter is a typical politician who has no time for his family.
Anne and Peter's teenage son, Thomas, takes after his sensitive mother, and he has a strained relationship with his mostly absent father.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2003-01-06-witness_x.htm   (526 words)

  
 Peter Robinson on Ronald Reagan on National Review Online
Peter Robinson, research fellow at the Hoover Institution and host of Uncommon Knowledge on PBS, is author, most recently, of How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life.
Robinson: Instead of writing the script myself, I’d have found whoever wrote the portrait of Churchill that appeared on PBS not long ago, then hired him.
The Churchill script made it clear that although Churchill had his faults — notably, like Reagan, a remoteness from his children — he was a man of remarkable talent and high ideals, doing his best to change the course of history.
www.nationalreview.com /interrogatory/robinson200312230101.asp   (1675 words)

  
 Chapter Excerpt: It's My Party by Peter Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I was born to Republican parents and raised in a Republican neighborhood.
Studying at Oxford for a couple of years after graduating, I infuriated my dons by revealing an enthusiasm for Margaret Thatcher?cheering for Tories is what Republicans do when they find themselves in England?and when I returned home I became in effect a professional Republican, taking a job in the Reagan White House.
A lot of Americans found it difficult to feel comfortable with a politician from such a patrician background.
www.twbookmark.com /books/2/0446526657/chapter_excerpt9883.html   (2384 words)

  
 Stone: Simple Truths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Peter Robinson, whose too-verbous draft was simplified by Reagan to "Mr.
One day in 1977 Ronald Reagan asked Richard Allen, who would become his first national security adviser, if Mr.
Having hung around the Ivy halls (grateful for that and so much else this country has given me) and performed well on the credentials that are so important to the academe and so useless otherwise, I have some experience with the difference between leaders and intellectuals.
www.cenedella.com /stone/archives/001217.html   (197 words)

  
 CBC News: Sunday - Viewer Feedback
Politicians who have been infected with the lust for power do not and will not ever understand this basic need by Canadians.
We all know the government hides big business pollutants and has managed to lay all blame on the smoker because politicians will not jeopardize the huge donations they get from the corporate giants.
It shows he is knowledgeable in many areas and does not "hide" as the politicians do.
www.cbc.ca /sunday/feedback_oct31_04.html   (13497 words)

  
 The Corner on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Peter: If that is a fair specimen of Tom Bethell's arguments, I'll pass on the book.
Peter Beinart has a very good column on the topic (which is not to say that I agree with all of it, especially the bit about "illiberalism at home" and "an even more profound illiberalism abroad.")
Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked at a Pentagon news conference to comment on remarks by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a Marine Corps veteran who has become a leading voice in Congress advocating an early withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
corner.nationalreview.com /06_01_01_corner-archive.asp   (12888 words)

  
 BookPage Fiction Review: Title
Final Witness involves a manor house, an influential politician, a secret room, an unlocked door and missing jewels, all of which give this mystery a distinctly British air.
Lady Greta Grahame Robinson, the one-time personal assistant and current wife of Sir Peter Robinson, is on trial for the murder of Robinson's first wife.
Her accuser is Thomas Robinson, the embittered teenage son of the murdered woman, who claims he was a terrified witness to the crime from within a hidden room.
www.bookpage.com /0301bp/fiction/final_witness.html   (309 words)

  
 The Corner on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Peter, I read that story from Dartmouth with astonishment, and then the comments from Dartblog with relief.
Pork is the poster child for government bloat, and it needs to highlighted, project by project, by project, and the politicians who push it should be made to defend each project again and again.
It would be churlish at this point to mention that as a student politician, Clarke invited Oswald Moseley, leader of the British fascists, to speak to Cambridge students twice.
corner.nationalreview.com /05_09_18_corner-archive.asp   (12573 words)

  
 CAIN: Issues: Politics: Peter Robinson, Speech to DUP annual conference, 8 May 2004
Peter Robinson, then Deputy Leader of the DUP, Speech to Annual Conference, 8 May 2004
He is far more than a politician, he is and always will be a crucial part of the history of Northern Ireland and the cause of the Union.
His time in Europe may be coming to an end but happily his work for this party and for Ulster continues.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/docs/dup/robinson080504.htm   (4413 words)

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