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    More Idiotic Propaganda From the GOP Lunatic Fringe

    March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Media, Politics

    The Republicans have lost the battle against health care for their supporters in the health insurance industry. With no more stalling options, they are trying to use propaganda to scare and distract Americans about the federal government. Most of it is just gibberish.
    Be assured of one thing. We are in no [...]

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    Torts, Filibusters, Health Care Reform and Disastrous Supreme Court Decisions

    March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, Health Care, Politics

    We are now well into this session of Congress. The Senate has already begun a pace of filibusters that will exceed that of the last session, which was already double the highest number ever. It is very clear. The Neoconservatives are committed not to the constituents who elected them but to large industrial corporations, [...]

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    We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.

    February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics

    Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations have taken all their chips and gone all-in with the Neoconservative Republicans. And the Neocons are now 100% for corporations. They are the arm of corporations in Congress.
    Take the Republican [...]

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    David Brooks and Neocon Advice to the Elderly

    February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, General, Politics

    “There you go again…” as a famous “B” movie actor once memorably said…memorable because he happened to be President at the time. Oh yes, we really did have an actor as President. But he was also a union president at one time. Granted, it was a union of actors, but he was elected.
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    The Don Seigelman Travesty: How Neocons Corrupted the Justice System

    January 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Courts and the Law, Politics

    I think anyone would agree that if a former Governor of a state, one who is running for a return to office and is ahead in the voting is falsely indicted by the local U.S. Attorney for the opposite political party, it is a very significant issue.
    If a governor can be indicted on false [...]

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    The Supreme Court: The Unthinkable May Have Happened.

    January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, General, Politics

    For decades, if not for a century or more, we in the United States have been proud to believe that our Supreme Court has made decisions, for the most part, without the influence of partisan politics, public pressure, or historical tradition. No political party, no group of protestors or no matter the number of years [...]

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    Nazis and Neoconservatives…Are There Valid Comparisons?

    January 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Politics, wars and militarism

    For some time now, we have seen comparisons between various groups, various individuals and the Nazis. The comparisons are almost always totally imperfect. First of all, Nazis were murderers. There are no murderers among contemporary politicians unless you consider it an act of murder to start a war on false premises, a war that kills [...]

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    The Myth of the American Political Center

    December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Because of the intensity of the debate on health care reform, and the Republican ideological war on the middle class, we are now hearing much talk about the “American Center,” the supposedly independent political middle. The fact is that there is no political middle, polls notwithstanding. The only poll that matters, politicians will tell you [...]

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    Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.

    December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]

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    Dick and Junior Go to War

    December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · International affairs, Politics

    This will be short. There is not much to say that is not obvious to anyone with a brain. In 2001 we were attacked by Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization headquartered in Afghanistan and supported by the tribes that encompass the Taliban, a severely strict and radical Muslim group that was in power in much [...]

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    Reality, Fantasy and Leadership

    November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Politics

    Since the latter part of the last decade of the 20th Century, the once-great United States of America has fallen into a trap. That trap is that we can continue to be great without paying the price for greatness.
    Everyone knows the price but no one is willing to pay it. The price is a higher [...]

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    What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party

    October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare,  something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our  expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]

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    Turncoat Lieberman, Bought By Health Insurance Companies

    October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics

    The clear message is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, like Duke Cunningham and others, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, has now taken his former respected status and sold his character and reputation to the highest bidder. In Lieberman’s case, his reputation was earned as a supporter in his early career of issues such as civil [...]

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    Why Republicans Are Terrified of ACORN.

    October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

    Do you think that the attacks on ACORN are some kind of recent phenomenon? Do you think that the successful Republican technique of sending in James O’Keefe, a film maker and a couple of scuzzies to pretend to be prostitutes looking for a place to set up was the best Republican effort? Yes, it did [...]

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    Blackwater, Xe, and Private, Right-Wing Armies in the U.S.

    October 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Culture, Media, Politics

    Blackwater, now known as Xe,  is a large, private army hired by the Administration of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.  It was founded by Eric Prince, an extremely wealthy, Right Wing, former Navy SEAL. He apparently attended the Naval Academy but graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan, an organization which the last several decades [...]

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