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Catholic Bishops Can't Have it Both WaysThere's no constitutional right to public contracts and no one's forcing the church or its affiliates to accept them. But once they do they are obligated to observe the same rules that apply to any recipient of government funds.
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Most of the Boots Don't Come with StrapsDespite the Horatio Alger bootstrap mythology and 43 percent of the public believing you get rich by hard work, ambition or education, most of the wealthy come preassembled not do-it-yourself.
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Republican Ideology in a NutshellUnfettered profiteering for the few at the expense of the American standard of living for everyone else.
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Everybody Wants an Invite to the PartyTrue, apes' hygiene isn't all it could be, but they haven't cost stockholders trillions of dollars in default swaps; rejected a kid for kidney dialysis; or sued McDonald's for spilling hot coffee in their crotch.Also published on:
- Yahoo! US News
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Gingrich "invents" Another WhopperNow wherever you come down philosophically on the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum, asserting Palestinians are somehow unique in the world because they were "invented" – thereby implying their cause is without merit – is simply ludicrous.
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VA, Vouchers Bad; Education, Vouchers GoodThe idea that vouchers will undermine public education is nonsense. Kids will still be educated, mostly at public expense, just like before. It's not public education that vouchers jeopardize, it's underperforming public schools.
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Reagan and the Soviet Union MythReagan was in the right place at the right time and stumbled into the right outcome – his bluster, with a different Russian partner, just as easily could have led to nuclear conflagration as détente.Also published on:
- Yahoo! US News
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Keep Your Voucher Culture Off My VAI'm telling you, if Republicans could finagle a way to issue vouchers for breathing they would. Now Mitt Romney wants to replace Veterans Administration health care with vouchers.
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The Supercommittee; One More Super RuseTwelve members of Congress were selected by their respective leadership. That was the first mistake. Imagine the possibilities if the leadership had been required to make their selections from the opposite party.
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The Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac Big Lie!The most persistent and shameless aspect in the right-wing's narrative of the economic collapse is its insistence on pinning the whole shebang on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, of course along with those "deadbeat Americans who took on too much debt."
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Class Warfare? Bring it On!House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, among other Republicans, is accusing President Obama and Democrats of instigating class warfare. That's like claiming the town you've been shelling for 30 years started the war when it finally fired back.
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Breathe Easier, Your Government's at WorkRepublicans rail about the absolute necessity to abolish government regulations if we want to create one job in America ever again. But doing away with the regulations doesn't make the costs in social benefits go away.
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Jeesh! It's Not Armageddon; It's Only a ProtestHere's a group that pilfered an American iconic moment – an antiestablishment demonstration – to name their grouchy, mean-spirited claque, condemning an antiestablishment demonstration.
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In Praise of the "Small People"Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon's not the first arrogant, condescending SOB to show contempt for regular folks, and he sure won't be the last.
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Facts, Opinions and Tinfoil HatsIt's one thing to have an opinion. It's another to have your own set of facts. Sorry conservatives, you don't get to wiggle your nose or tune in your tinfoil hat and just make-up stuff you like better like.
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A Time to Be Born, and a Time to Die _Ecclesiastes 3:2If Alzheimer's, according to Pat Robertson, or any other fatal condition, is in effect death-like, then why do legal and religious proscriptions exist about assisted suicide in those circumstances if you're already like dead, or going to be like dead?
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The U.N. Must Recognize PalestineIf the world could carve out and recognize a Jewish state six decades ago, it surely has sufficient cause to recognize a Palestinian one now.
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The Republicans' Jobs and Growth Scam"Quiet please. Let's be sure everyone has this cock-and-bull story down pat. It's 'jobs-killing-regulations' and 'jobs-creating-tax-cuts.' 'Jobs' a verb and a noun. That's all you need to know."
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9/11 and the Millennium CrisisIf September 11, 2001, coming 72 years after 1929's Black Tuesday, was the instigating event of the Millennium Crisis, then consistent with Saecula theory, the country will take another decade to weather this period.
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"The Fourth Turning" and 9/11Will history record September 11, 2001 as a deadly aberration or, as with April 19, 1775, March 6, 1857 and October 29, 1929, the instigating event of a "Saeculum Crisis?"
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Cutting Noses; Spiting FacesPresident Obama has had, to put it mildly, a bad month. What I do expect, but should know better, is for Democrats to rally around their leader in a crisis. Instead they're braying like stuck hyenas. But then the left never ceases to dismay.
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Rick Perry. Big Hat; No CattleNow before y'all go gittin' yerself bamboozled by Rick Perry, y'all might wanna set a spell or two. Perry combines those attributes of cowboy capitalism, secessionist lunacy and cornpone religion so beloved by the rightwing.
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Keeping Up with the JonesesRecent e-mail cleverly applies U.S. revenue, budget, deficit, debt and recent debt reduction figures to the mythical Jones family' household budget. Problem with analogies is that you don't get to only use the part that makes your point.
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Is "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" the Answer?Rather than forcing American workers to compete with cheap third world workers to line the pockets of American executives, Germans develop and export high-end products that can't easily be duplicated in Asian sweatshops.
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No Billionaire Left BehindCapitalism has evolved into a kind of gonzo corporate mindset that enshrines entitlement, greed and ruthlessness with the same inviolability as free speech and suffrage.
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Atlantis is Back. Is that It?Uncle Sam has paved the way, set the standards and provided the science. Let commercial interests takeover driving the busses while NASA launches its next act, deep space travel.
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Tennis Anyone? or Do You Prefer Cage Fighting?The far right's absolutist positions on abortion, gay rights, public prayer, entitlements and now tax increases just don't cut it in a country that's essentially centrist. Republicans need to get back to playing tennis.
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Calling All Adults, Calling All AdultsRepublicans voted to raise the debt limit seven times between 2001 and 2008 and handed off a deficit of $1.2 trillion and a debt of $10.4 trillion to Obama. Suddenly now it's time stop raising the debt limit?
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Political Contributions Offer a Mixed PedigreeThe vast majority of union contributions is in the service of ensuring economic justice while corporate contributions to Republicans are overwhelmingly for the purpose of seeking special privileges. Ew!
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USA! USA! We're No. Ah, Um 98?The U.S. with a Gini coefficient of 45 means 97 countries have more egalitarian economies. Only 38 countries have greater economic inequity than the U.S...Countries with similar indices to ours include Rwanda, Jamaica, Uruguay and Cambodia.
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Conservative History 101Okay, okay, so it all began 6000 years ago when God created the Garden of Eden, a perfect world free of government, taxes, unions and environmental regulations...Then the broad screwed it up and God shut down Paradise.
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Pass the Kool-Aid; We're Talking Social SecurityDemocrats who deny Social Security is in jeopardy are drinking the Kool-Aid. And Republicans, who would wipeout social insurance for the 40 to 60 percent who will never make enough money to set-up voluntary retirement accounts, are pouring it.
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Democrats Need to Show Some Guts and HonestyIf people don't want to trade in Medicare for Medi-sham they must accept some tough measures like means testing, higher co-pays, altered eligibility, increased premiums and changes in certain medical procedures to save it.
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Food Stamp Facts; Something to Chew OnEvery economic indicator since Reaganomics took hold tells the same story: a declining middleclass, falling median income and increasing poverty and debt, but somehow, according to Gingrich, those 45 million people are all Obama's fault.
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One-person, One-vote. Not so FastUnder the guise of thwarting voting fraud, Republicans have passed legislation requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration and government-issued photo IDs to vote regardless of the fact that voting fraud is nearly nonexistent.
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Goodbye Birthers; Hello DeathersDid the use of torture provided any useful information. Those who know aren't talking, but it hasn't stopped people who don't know from running their mouths claiming vindication of Bush's enhanced interrogation practices.
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Government is Gov't and Business is BusinessEvery state and local government can do a better job. But the templates for distinctive achievement are found in the poli sci departments not the business schools.
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God Save the Queen! I Sure Wouldn'tWhat's with these people? No, not the royals. I already know they're aloof, affected and patronizing with that cloying goofiness. I mean the millions of Americans who actually give a shepherd's pie what they do and to whom they do it with.
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The Path to PerditionI'd be more impressed that Paul Ryan's "The Path to Prosperity" actually gave a damn about grandchildren if the whole thing didn't hinge so disproportionately on saving oodles of cash for Republicans' wealthy overseers.
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Government?We Don't Need No Stinkin' Gov't!Of course we've got a budget crisis! We don't tax ourselves enough. Here are countries with top tax rates of 25 percent: Bangladesh, Botswana, El Salvador and Malaysia. That's what Ryan wants? An America with a comparable tax rate to Bangladesh!
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Elections Have ConsequencesIf Democrat Michael Dukakis had been elected president in 1988 instead of George H. W. Bush, Clarence Thomas would not have been sitting on the Supreme Court in 2000 to join four other Republican appointees in handing the presidency to George W. Bush.
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Hypocrisy on Libya is Mind BogglingTwo weeks ago Newt "look at me! look at me!" Gingrich and other Grand Old Panderers were savaging Obama for dithering. Now that he's acted, it's an abomination! Even Lindsey Graham expressed little patience with fellow Republicans' hypocrisy.
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Adult Conversations or Food FightsBack at Chuck E. Cheese's, Boehner's brood are acting out, smashing programs that have little impact on our long range fiscal crisis and Pelosi's rugrats are holding their breath clinging to every tattered entitlement bankie.
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It's Raining, It's Pouring, Deniers Are Snoring!Republican congressmen and Fox News pundits, as well as the equally qualified bozo invariably sitting on a barstool adjacent to mine, insist global warming is a fraud because it's snowing hard!
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Get Big Brother Out of Marriage -- for Heaven's Sake!The brouhaha over the Obama administration's decision to stop defending DOMA misses the point. Since marriage predates governments, and for that matter formalized religion, what business do the feds and church-ies have "defending" it to start with?
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The Gilded Age, Deja Vu All Over AgainWe're not in a financial jam because we spend too much. We're in a financial jam because for 30 years we've been taxing the rich too little! The current 35 percent top rate, except for a tax bracket anomaly from 1988 to 1992, is the lowest in 70 years.
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If You Have Sat. Off Thank a UnionEvidently it's okay for corporations to negotiate out of self interest over all manner of contract overruns, tax compliance issues or earmarks but let a bunch of statehouse janitors try it and they're labeled shameless, greedy thugs.
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Obama Played the Egypt Card DeftlyThis was, and remains, a game of Risk with real stakes. The administration needed to assert pressure on Mubarak yet reassure regional allies and protect our strategic interests; to press for democracy without ending up with anarchy.
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Mister Corporate Big Shot, the Brute!Oh America, he used to love you when you were young and naive. When he could get his hands on your bountiful natural resources in the backseat; before you got all prickly about product safety and living wages before you'd let him get to first base.
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America Inc.: The Real Deficit CulpritWithin months of Wall Street "banksters" demolishing the nation's economy Republicans convinced goodly numbers of voters it's not Big Business to blame for the dire straights in which we find ourselves. It's Washington!
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Surprise! Where Did Those 65 Years Just Vanish?Yikes! the first of the huge, 78 million strong Baby Boomers are about to turn 65 and start collecting Medicare. This is a pig that's been passing through the python for six decades yet we seem to be astonished at every turn.
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The Pen is Mightier Than the GlockWhatever atrocious delusions can be conjured up, they're going to be out there. What's better, trying to ignore or suppress them or give them expression and in so doing bleed-off the built-up rancor?
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Politicizing the Constitution for Fun and ProfitLast week's Constitution Theater was naked politics. If Republicans can show they are the Constitution's true defenders then Democrats must be the socialist, anti-American outliers they claim.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: DeregulationPeople love the idea of deregulation until some corporation hoodwinks, maims, poisons, suffocates or kills them or a loved one. When Americans are offered specific examples of cost-benefit, time after time they choose regulation.
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Republican Skullduggery on START was DespicableRepublican weren't alarmed about treaty provisions. Nothing was going to change in six more months or 18 more hearings. They had one thing in mind. Don't let Obama succeed. Even at the risk to national security! Pathetic!
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Why Settle for One Santa when GOP Offers Two?Jude Wanniski urged Republicans to cut revenue yet spend like drunken elves -- the last three Republican presidents racked-up $9.5 trillion of debt -- and then wail like banshees about deficits to make it impossible for Democrats to govern effectively.
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Office Politics at the North Pole"Good evening gentle-beasts. And I use the phrase advisedly. I thought we'd be rid of you after you dragged Santa down that nuclear cooling tower Rudolph thought was a chimney. The chief should have canned you along with that shiny-nosed freak."
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Welcome to the Grovel, Er, Global Economy"Free" trade was a scam from the start. But it's all worked perfectly for the corporate elites who use the cover of free trade to amass excessive profits and avoid responsible stewardship all the while undermining middle class prosperity.
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Don't Tread on Their MythsConservative like to fancy themselves as kindred spirits of America's revolutionaries but had they been around during the Revolution there's a pretty fair chance most of them would have been on the other side, loyal to King George.
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I'll Show You Mine, You Show Me YoursHow about if the TSA agent/voyeur is also rendered virtually naked and you get to see him or her too. Now it's more like a gym locker room. We've all done that. I think that's a reasonable compromise.
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Time for Liberals to Get RealThe lesson lefties took away, mistakenly, was they lost because Obama wasn't liberal enough. This fits nicely into liberal myth that their vision is the "will of the people" if only it weren't for Corporate Money, Fox News, Right-wing Subterfuge, et al.
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Gridlock is Just Not Going to Cut ItThe vast middle still doesn't have the government it longs for; one in which levelheaded grown-ups address America's huge, structural problems instead of politicians savaging each other for political advantage.
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A Few Observations from the Silly SeasonThere'll be plenty of spin over the next several weeks as pundits digest the election results. For now here're some shards out of the flotsam we call democracy in action.
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"And Now for Something Completely Different."This is completely different; a straight-up recitation, without snarky commentary, of positions Republicans say they will implement. Exclusively for the viewing pleasure of those who adore slash and burn governing. OK nothing snarky starting now!
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Property Rights Vs. Human RightsConservatives refuse to acknowledge the founding documents also embody concepts like social contract and popular sovereignty...(But) nowhere do they guarantee any right to accumulate obscene amounts of property at the expense of the common good.
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Religion and AmericaResults of the recent survey conducted by the highly regarded Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life demonstrated Americans achingly dismal acquaintance with religion in general but also a shocking ignorance of even the precepts of their own faith.
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A Civics Test for America: Snyder V. PhelpsSnyder v. Phelps may be one of the most important First Amendment cases in decades. The case pits Albert Snyder, father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder who died in Iraq, against Rev. Fred Phelps, pastor of Westboro Baptist Church.
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Fixing the Budget Starts with Telling the TruthWhat a great venue for House Republicans to stage their "Pledge to America." A hardware store and lumber yard. They had to feel right at home what with all the nuts, cranks, cement blocks and loose screws and hinges.
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Be Afraid. Be Very AfraidSee how it works. Mix a smidgen of truth with three parts guile, stir in a cup of irrationality, garnish with religious intolerance and xenophobia and serve with scalding rhetoric. Mmmm. Yummy! Republican gumbo.
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Let's Give Trickle-up Economics a Shot!"Demand" economics holds that getting money, in the form of good paying jobs and middle-class subsidies like education, health care and Social Security, into the hands of consumers creates demand.
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Fact and Fiction in the War on TerrorismIt's nine years since that newest day of infamy but Americans aren't any closer to grasping what this is all about than they were then, buying into this preposterous notion the reason Islamic terrorists hate us is because of our freedom.
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On Common Sense, Political Correctness and IntoleranceLiberals, as opposed to conservatives, are burdened with the historical perspective that at some point in the future language, behavior and ideas that are insulting, inappropriate or just plain inane will be universally rejected as wrong headed.
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Mosque Debate is a Study in BigotryThere are simply no logical grounds on which to object to building an Islamic center within some magical number of blocks from Ground Zero unless you also maintain that all Muslims are evil.
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Let the Rich "eat Cake" for OnceI'd feel real bad about ending Bush's tax break for the wealthiest Americans except for one thing: they've made out like bandits for 30 years. Here're a few statistics that will make you want to break into a few choruses of "The Internationale."
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A Christian Nation? Well Sort OfIn fact, if the Constitution were divinely inspired than God must have made 27 mistakes -- corrected by Amendments -- evidently deciding later that maybe slavery and depriving women of the vote weren't such good ideas after all.
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NAACP, Tea Partiers, Lefties Can Find Common GroundThe corporate and political establishment, in order to give cover to its rancidness, likes nothing better than to watch the left and right flailing at each other over whom the Founding Fathers would love the most.
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John Boehner's Fantasy WorldIn an interview, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) opines Democrats are "snuffing out the America (he) grew up in." Well, let's look at that America.
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Suck it Up, LeftiesHey! Lefties. Get over it! There was no "realignment." Independents simply were fed up with George Bush. Unfortunately the "people" are a lot more in tune with Sarah Palin's America than Dennis Kucinich's America.
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Our Greek Moment?Nothing will change while Republicans pretend they weren't responsible for adding $10 trillion dollars to the debt mostly through tax cuts and Democrats insist every federal program is sacrosanct.
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Do Cry for Me, ArizonaAround the globe nations protect their borders, distinguish among citizens, foreign nationals and illegals and fine, jail and expel those without proper documentation.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman Have HolesI have a severe disconnect between the historical Jesus of Nazareth (and the average priests and nuns who follow in His footsteps) and the Byzantine pageantry of Vatican City.
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GOP Hypocrisy is Mind BogglingYou can admire or deplore administration policy but com'on, at least make a pass at honesty. This is not simply partisan opposition in the American tradition but a strategy of intentional gridlock to sabotage majority rule
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Counterinsurgency is the Wrong StrategyThe nation is war weary, the military exhausted, the treasury depleted, allies disengaged, Afghans skeptical. What is Obama to do? To begin he needs to stop listening to David Petraeus.
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God: "I Should 'a Quit Friday Afternoon!""Say Boss, I like what Peter's done with the new titanium gates, Those pearly ones were so last millennium. 'Sa matter? You look glum."
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Finance Reform: Now or Never!Republican leaders are in a quandary over Wall Street reforms; how to shill for an industry even more reviled than Congress while still pandering to their tea party base.
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National Crackpot Day -- April 19Monday is the 235th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, marking the start of the Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775. Regrettably, the date has become the nexus for right-wing nutcases who seek to launch a second American Revolution.
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Arrughh! Make Them StopI don't know which is more painful, watching images of oil and gas spewing out of that devil vent in the Gulf or listening to the knuckleheads who haven't a clue about deep sea drilling and even less what to do about a wellhead blowout.
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Main St. Vs. Wall St. -- the Lost DecadeTime was when a rising tide lifted all the boats and not just the ones in the high end marinas. The current economic mess is further proof that making the big bucks has been decoupled from the shared prosperity that once sustained a healthy middleclass.
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The Best "free Speech" Money Can Buy!Why in the world would corporations have rights to free speech in the first place? Why is ExxonMobil considered an "artificial person" but one of it's gas pumps is not? Neither is a human being.
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Radical is as Radical DoesFringe players inhabit both parties. But while the far left fringe may have their noses under the Democratic tent, the far right fringe are holding up the Republican tent poles.
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Economic Libertarianism is Pure ClaptrapEconomic libertarianism is one of those ideas like Marxism, the Kama Sutra or NBC replacing Jay Leno that looks better on paper than in practice. It smacks suspiciously of greed in search of philosophical validation.
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"Judicial Activism" Vs. "original Intent"One in seven Americans knows John Roberts is chief justice of the Supreme Court but two-thirds can name at least one judge on "American Idol." I think before anyone is allowed to comment on Elena Kagan, he should be tested.
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Smoke, Mirrors and Republican MessagingAccording to Newt Gingrich, "This is the most radical administration in American history." Really? Barack Obama is more radical than say Abraham Lincoln who declared war on half the nation...
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Legislators, Teachers Need to Think of Kids FirstProgressives berate Republicans for being pawns of special interests. And rightly so. But they damage their credibility by not being just as tough on Democrats for kowtowing to teachers' unions.
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Gams, God and Fakery: "Sarah Palin, the Comic Book"We all know people in so far over their head they can't see the top of the hole. That's Sarah! As one McCain staffer put it, she doesn't even know what she doesn't know. Palin gives new meaning to the adage that connects "ignorance" to "bliss."
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Booooo! Don't Let the Cons Scare You into Sacrificing American ValuesQuick, hide under your desk. Wait, that was the Cold War. Oh yeah, duct tape the doors and report unattended packages. Get a grip, folks. The "24" scenarios of terrorists schlepping nukes in panel trucks or releasing biotoxins...
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A Pile of Feng ShuiThe relentlessly hip's insatiable search to be "au courant" with pretentions like feng shui and doga...as if bondage to the latest fads and their nerdy cousins, electronic gadgets, was somehow worthy of emulation.
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Secessionists! Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass!32 states get more in fed. aid than they pay in inc. taxes; 21 of them the very states where the babble about socialism and secession is playing out. Let 'em secede! See how they'd fair without the evil federal government subsidizing their butts.
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Middle East Solution: Bomb Israeli SettlementsIf our beef with Iran is that it destabilizes the region, stokes Islamic radicalism and produces recurring violence, how is Israel's aggressive policy of encroaching upon UN-mandated Palestinian territory any less so?
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USA! USA! We're #...Umm, 92!!!The essential ability of an advanced civilization is exploiting its wealth to enrich people's lives instead of remaining mired in 18th century mercantilism that rewards only the rich and powerful.
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Cries of "Reverse Discrimination" and Anti-immigration Fervor Are the New RacismFor reasons of legal or political coercion or simply social stigma, cons and the white working class dolts who listen to themcan no longer spew actual racial bigotry so they've invented this nonsense called "reverse discrimination."
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The Right to DieThe brewing controversy over the assisted suicides pits religious thugs, law enforcement and healthcare muckity-mucks against seniors, families and the terminally ill for whom the right to die is a real issue and not merely theological rigmarole.
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A Pound of Prevention is Worth an Ounce of CureOne can never be too safe. Time was that not playing with sharp sticks or diving into strange bodies of water and avoiding old men with candy pretty much took care of our safety requirements. But today, it's become a full time job.
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Interpreting Health Insurance Industry Speak"Health plans agree that providing access to health care coverage to all Americans should be our nation's number one domestic priority... " If you will, let's peek behind the curtain for a moment to find out what the fuck Karen Ignagni is talking about.
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It's the Fourth of July: Let's Hear it for REAL PatriotismSpeaking out against injustices shouldn't bring an invitation to "love it or leave it." Speaking out -- and peacefully demonstrating -- may just be among the most loving and patriotic things any of us can do.
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Reading Between the Lines in the Personal AdsWelcome to the Luuuve Master. This week's topic deciphering all those oblique codes on Internet dating sites. Female: "Desires man who enjoys quality time at home and is open to new experiences." CODE: I have five children and can't leave
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"It Could Have Been Worse!"This decade's all-purpose emolument for screw-ups. Has there been a infrastructure failure, product recall, campus massacre, natural disasters, recession, crime statistic or public policy failure for which that phrase is not applied?
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Why Are Conservatives So, Ah, Err, Conservative?Psychologically damaged goods, they have a pathological reliance on hierarchy, authority, nostalgia, intolerance of change and ambiguity. Before they were pro-life, born-again, anti-immigrant uber-pats, they were hardwired to be cantankerous.
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You Might Be a Turkeyneck If.I'm afraid you're a Turkeyneck if the tattoo on your bicep of an eagle riding a Harley now looks like a pregnant duck sitting on a futon with wheels.
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Obama Names Sotomayor to Court; Prepare for the Conservative HowlingPresident Obama's selection of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is bound to bring howls from conservatives. But then Obama couldn't have chosen anyone left of Attila the Hun who wouldn't have evoked the same partisan outrage.
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Rachel Maddow is Soooooo Wrong on Prisoner DetentionWhile most Guantanamo prisoners will receive civilian or military trials or be repatriated or released, some who remain a danger to the U.S. will be detained indefinitely. Rachel is aghast. Aghast!
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It's a Nice Day for a White WeddingWeddings have the potential to be the most painful of family rituals.(However, the vote from baby Jewish boys is not in.) At christenings, everyone's just so relieved the mother is married, no one dredges up hard feelings. During funerals...
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Boo!!!! the Sham Debate Over Guantanamo DetaineesOoooooooo! Obama to release terrorists where they'll get jobs in munitions factories, grade schools or as BABYSITTERS!!! Quick, hide under your desk. Wait, that was the last war. Oh yeah, duct tape the windows and report unattended packages.
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Oh No, Not the 60s!Yep. It's here! The 40th anniversary of Woodstock! Who would have thought those bearded or braless, long-haired, tie-dyed, doped-up 20-something hippies would one day be collecting Social Security and living in 55+ retirement condos in Florida?
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Costa Rica -- a Man's Dream Come True!Costa Rica! Great marlin fishing; gorgeous scenery; active volcanoes; rain forest canopy tours. Yada, yada, yada. You want to learn more ask a travel agent. Let's face it, what you really want to know about working girls.
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Could the Cons Be Right?Rush Limbaugh is right. Conservatives need Obama to fail miserably if they are to reimpose their malevolent corporate oligarchy based on ravishing the country's resources, exploiting the powerless and living high by strangling the commons of tax revenue.
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Real Stuff: A "Conversation" with Bill GatesWeb Statistics reports that each month the average surfer spends 25 hours visiting 59 domains and viewing 1,050 pages, allocating 45 seconds for each page. Each session lasts 51 minutes.
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Men and Their Cars: A Life Long Love AffairPress a guy and he might come up with a name for the girl he took to the senior prom, although he sure won't know the color of her dress. But I'll bet he can describe the car he drove, down to its furry steering wheel cover. -
The Cosmic Baker's Sense of HumorOverdone individuals tend to be super organized, punctual and generally kind of futsy. Underdones are creative, laidback and a little batty. A world of only underdones would be chaotic; a world of only overdones would be boring. -
How Long Will America Tolerate Israel's Arrogance, Mendacity and Viciousness?With new illegal settlements blossoming in Efrat and Maskiot and the right-wing Netanyahu-Lieberman government announcing even more incursions into Palestinian Territory, will the Obama administration have the guts to say "Enough!"
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Get Government Out of the Marriage Business for Heaven's SakeLet's reserve "marriage" for a truly spiritual setting, and get Big Brother out of the marriage business altogether. He does it poorly, with no emotion and no real concern for the outcome. That's the venue for contract lawyers not priests. -
A Baker's Dozen Rules of HolesEveryone knows the first Rule of Holes: Once you're in one, stop digging. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't know there are 12 other Rules of Holes to live by. -
No Billionaire Left Behind!The five percent of Americans who will be taxed to help pay for the Obama initiatives to get America back on track are simply paying for the decades of government favoritism that allowed them to pillage our country in the first place. And it's about time!
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Compactness: The Latest Fad for Liberal DilettantesThe latest lib-fad to add to their hair shirt wardrobe is "Compactness," a movement to fight "a rampant disposable consumer culture wreaking global ecological and socioeconomic havoc."
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Voting Rights for Great Apes?Will a change in apes' legal status require a third bathroom in public facilities, something with stumps and leaves? Or how about public schools? Imagine that flap over bilingual education. Urh. Urh. Cheee. Arrraugh!