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 The Ultimate Democratic Party (United States) Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world.
Defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey's electoral votes came mainly from the Northern states, marking a dramatic shift from the 1948 election 20 years earlier, when the losing Republican candidate's electoral votes were mainly concentrated in the Northern states.
The New Democrats are a grouping of centrists, formally organized as the Democratic Leadership Council.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/United_States_Democratic_Party   (4009 words)

  
 Democratic Party (United States)
The political platform of the Democratic Party is usually described as left-wing, as the platform of the Republican Party has generally and especially recently been characterized as right-wing.
In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle.
Democrats in the Northern states opposed this new trend, and at the 1860 nominating convention the Party split and nominated two candidates (see U.S. presidential election, 1860).
encycl.opentopia.com /term/United_States_Democratic_Party   (2933 words)

  
 Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 24 September 2005, 25 Hong Kong pro-democracy Legco members, some of whom were previously labelled as traitors by Beijing after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and barred from entering the mainland, crossed the border into the southern province of Guangdong, following an unprecedented invitation by the PRC
The invitation was generally regarded as one of the greatest goodwill gestures from the PRC to the Hong Kong democrats since the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign was launched in 1972 and organized by the Urban Council, with the aim of generating public concern for the environment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hong_Kong   (6875 words)

  
 Jewish History 1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Was organized in the United States by Russian Jews to serve as counselors, interpreters, attorneys, and an employment service, as well as to help them find their relatives.
Maxim Vinaver, a renowned lawyer and one of the founders of the "Constitutional Democratic Party" (Cadets), was elected its chairman.
A Palestinian Jewish self-defense organization was formed to protect the settlements in Sejera (the lower Galilee area) from raiders.
www.davidsconsultants.com /jewishhistory/history.php?startyear=1900&en...   (3989 words)

  
 ProfessorBainbridge.com: April 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Democrats and Republicans alike have behaved disgracefully--and the generals are the only ones who can limit the damage.
It remains up to them, no matter what, or how well grounded, their dismay about civilian leaders, to grit their teeth and maintain an honorable and discreet silence, leaving it to those responsibility it is--the president, the Congress and ultimately the voters--to decide whether and when a secretary of defense to leave his office.
Let there be a more or less pacifist, anti-business, protectionist Democratic Party on the left, and an anti-science, Christianist, unapologetically greedy Republican Party on the right—and a robust new independent party of passionately practical progressives in the middle.
www.professorbainbridge.com /2006/04/index.html   (9692 words)

  
 PHR2004 - Hong Kong (The Special Administrative Region of)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In commenting on the initial proposal, the Privacy Commissioner expressed concerns over the danger of identity theft and the secondary use of the personal information that will be stored on the card.
[50] Sin Chung-kai, a Democratic Party legislator, who led the debate on the ID card issue, stated: "We're not opposed to people having to carry ID cards.
[80] In 1999, an unofficial report estimated that the SAR government intercepted more than 100 conversations of private individuals a day.
www.privacyinternational.org /article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-83793   (5580 words)

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