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Why Bachmann Is More Dangerous than Al Qaeda or the Taliban

August 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Populism

What is it about current Republican Presidential candidates? Can’t they find another Reagan? Maybe something simple like an actor is not a bad idea. What about Bruce Willis? How about Jon Voight? Why do we need kooks whom no one but the craziest of the crazies will vote for? An actor would be a suitable, [...]

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The Palin Ascendency

July 18th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Media, Politics, wars and militarism

When Sarah Palin was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate in 2008 to run with John McCain, she seemed a nice, relatively simple woman with a family and at least the minimal amount of intelligence necessary to run a small community–not an insignificant thing. She had been mayor of a small community, Wasilla, Alaska. She [...]

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What Republicans Will Do If Elected

October 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media, Politics, Populism

We now know what the Republicans want. Not the Tea Party members. They are merely dupes. Yes, dupes. If you are concerned about government spending you don’t rail at the Party that cut spending for 8 years, even going so far as to take hit after hit in the Congressional elections. So many House of [...]

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Ric Scott Strikes Again.

August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics

Ric Scott is the Republican nominee for Governor of the state of Florida. We have had times in this country when governors of states were some of the most reprehensible people one could imagine. We have had people like Orville Faubus of Arkansas who said that black children would go to school with white children [...]

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