Category: Politics
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Tea Party Litmus Test
I’m going to set my agnosticism and rationality on the shelf for a moment and assume the mantle of a Christian Tea Party Republican. I will assume that my problem with President Obama is that he is a Muslim in the White House, that he needs to stop bowing to Allah, and needs to put…
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RIP GOP
Specter’s move to the Democratic party seems to me to be the nail in the coffin of the Republican Party.
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The Great Lies
I have grown tired of the carping about capital, or nonprotectionist, or deregulated, or free-market, or laissez faire economies from congressional Republicans. Or trickle down or Reaganomics. They are all shams. They rely on fundamentally flawed premises: The market does not require regulation Tax breaks stimulate economic activity The market will correct itself This is…
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Now We Are an Obama Nation … in the Good Way
I’m pleased to see that Virginia is going for Obama, even if it doesn’t matter at this point. The icing on the cake would be if Colorado goes to him too. All hail the great and mighty U.S. voter. I don’t have to disbelieve in the … WOOHOO! They just called Colorado on MSNBC. Now…
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E Con Nomics
Just curious: Which is giving $700 billion to the people who ran the economy into the ground most like? Letting the people who messed up Vietnam run a war in Iraq; Stocking regulatory boards with people from the industry being regulated; Giving tax breaks to corporations to move jobs overseas and keep the savings; Paying…
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How Sarah Palin is More of the Same
The Republicans do not get to control the debate this time around by shifting attention from relevant facts to emotional wedges. Here’s the simple math on Sarah Palin, who would be just one remove from the office of president. Sarah Palin is under investigation for abuse of power. Abuse of power is the hallmark of…
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LootingLobbying Our Way out of Recession
Who stands to benefit from economic stimulus? The unwashed masses (um, I mean “taxpayer”)? The beneficiaries of George WPE Bush’s tax breaks? Or maybe the credit industry, the construction industry, the tourism industry? Draw your own conclusions from this Washington Post article. Here are some highlights, though, in case you’re a lazy American: The R&D…
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What’s an Independent to do?
I recently read that Fred Thompson really thinks he can woo independents back to his party. Yeah, you know the party that is unraveling at the seams, just like the Whigs over the Civil War. The party that is prolife: except for hundreds of thousands of civilians in a desert, or in a marshland protected…
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I Must Have Flunked Math
So – I just got through many of the lowlights of the criticism of Al Gore’s naming of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, along with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The gist of all the “bloviating” was the relative merits of the prize, the selection process, who is doing the selecting, and all…
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Only Now is Iraq Like Vietnam?
First, still tweaking the site and learning WP styles. Second, I will say this. I did not listen to the Chief Executive’s speech today in which he apparently about-faced and finally started comparing Iraq to Vietnam, mainly because hearing him speak offends my ears as an editor of the English language. But, if he really…
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