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The GOP Budget Squeeze is Not about the Debt
If somebody told you that they wanted to lose weight, but they wouldn’t increase exercise or cut their caloric intake, would you believe they were being earnest? How about a friend who says he...
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Federal Budgets, the GOP Pot calls the White House Kettle Black
President Obama sent his budget proposal for 2012 to Congress yesterday, and before the ink was even dry, Republicans were swarming like piranha. According to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), “It would be...
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The War on Working Americans and the Battle of Wisconsin
Article first published as The War on Working Americans and the Battle of Wisconsin on Technorati.First they came for the factory jobs, but Americans didn’t speak out, because most didn’t work in...
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Fascism is Alive and Gaining Strength in America
“They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesman for monopoly and vested interest. Their final...
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A Nation Divided by Political Theater
Is there any political issue upon which all Americans agree? If there is, it’s certainly not defense spending, social programs, taxation, campaign finance, healthcare, or abortion, nor is it energy,...
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Progress is not a Dirty Word
First there was the New Deal, and then there came the Ordeal; now we need the Re-Deal.For more than four decades after the Great Depression struck, programs based on progressive principles worked to...
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Republican DeMockracy and the Government Shutdown
Do you think there are many great athletes amongst those who don’t care for sports? How about capable accountants who don’t like numbers? Surgeons who are turned off by blood or teachers by...
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"Budget Deficit" is Republicanese for Economic Opportunity
What do you call people who use their power to line their own pockets by taking from people who can’t protect themselves? “Bullies?” “Thieves?”What if they also lie about it and attempt...
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A Republican that Democrats can vote for?
On the eve of the Republican presidential debate, there was one GOP candidate who spent a good deal of time making the circuit on liberal political shows. His name is Buddy Roemer. A former...
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Terrorism and the Politics of Fear
September 11, 2001: Two airliners strike the World Trade Towers, and 2973 people die. The entire planet watches in horror . . . America weeps. It is the single most deadly attack ever, by a foreign...
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The GOP Prescription — Good Medicine or Economic Poison?
If your doctor gave you a prescription to improve your health, and it made you deathly ill, would you follow said doctor’s orders to take ever-increasing dosages?Of course you wouldn’t. You’d...
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Surviving the Glimmer Man
Once upon a time in a land not far away there lived a mighty people. Together they worked, and everyone shared in the fruits of their labor. Life in their nation wasn’t perfect; there was inequality...
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Lying for Dollars
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and stalwart champion of education for all Americans, made clear the need for a knowledgeable electorate. He warned us, that “If a nation...
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Bizarro Obama
Electoral politics is a game of contrasting values and ideas. It requires that a candidate present a compelling argument explaining why they’re the best person for the job. But what’s a person to do...
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Patriotism and the Public Good
Yesterday we celebrated the 236th anniversary of our independence from the tyranny of King George of Britain. I am grateful for what the Founders and all who have fought for the American ideal have...
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Spotlight on Obamacare
The Democratic National Convention kicked off yesterday in Charlotte, North Carolina, and if the opening night is any indication of what’s to come, all those millionaires financing the great GOP...
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Back to Kindergarten America
“When I was a child . . . I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” The words of the apostle Paul resonate as truth – they cannot...
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A Fair Day's Pay
“A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” do you subscribe to this ethic? I certainly do. I cannot envision another ethic more appropriate for the relationship between labor and capital. Originally...
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Divide and Conquer, the Sacking of America
Divide et impera (divide and conquer), a maxim made famous by Julius Caesar, has served as an effective strategy of tyrants and dictators for all of time. Whether utilized in the political arena, as a...
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Common nonSense
What a difference a few centuries makes!It was early 1776, when Thomas Paine penned one of the most important literary works of all time. Long held as the pamphlet that sparked the Revolutionary War,...
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