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This week, puppet-at-the-podium George Bush did some of the RNC’s bidding by jawing off some scripted nonsense, the intent of which is to enliven the Republican base...
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Most peoples’ number one investment is their house. The wave of foreclosures sweeping the nation is submerging folks’ finances, metaphorically speaking. Now the floods...
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New York, New York
This past week, the The Senate Intelligence Committee finally released its Phase II Report regarding Iraq intelligence failures and misuse.
Phase II. Yes, Virginia,...
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New York, New York
Seems we had the President all wrong. He's actually a genteel, diplomatically-minded person, not the jingoistic unilateralist his own comments have branded him.
In the...
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Forty years ago this morning, Bobby Kennedy died from wounds he received the previous day. He left behind a loving family and a legacy of public service.
One cannot...
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New York, New York
Come this Fall, it’ll be 146 years since the Emancipation Proclamation. For the first time in our history, we have an African-American candidate for President of the...
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New York, New York
Legend has it that Albert Einstein, scientific genius that he was, stared for hours on end at a ‘dippy bird’, and couldn’t figure out the simple hydrodynamic principle...
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New York, New York
Obama has his Wright problem, McCain his double whammy of Hagee and Parsley. Wright was Obama’s long-time pastor, while McCain ‘only’ sought after his duo’s evangelical...
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New York, New York
The lobbyists are dropping like flies from the McCain campaign. For a candidate that’s made his name on eschewing pay for play and pork barrel spending, his organization...
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New York, New York
Look! Up in the sky! Another primary.
Hillary Clinton trounced Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary last night, by a 2 to 1 margin. As expected.
She vows to fight...
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Devastation has many names. Two of them are Nargis and Than Shwe.
The first is the name of the cyclone that has devastated Myanmar (Burma), killing, by some estimates,...
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New York, New York
Quick post.
Barack Obama handily beat Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, while she took Indiana by the slimmest of margins.
She promises to soldier on, even as party...
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New York, New York
And John Kenneth Galbraith rolls over in his grave.
George Bush has talked a little about the US economy. And I do mean little. Trying to quell recession fears (he...
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New York, New York
This week we were treated to a vulgar, self-absorbed and disgraceful performance by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the NAACP. Quite the show. Watch it in its entirety if...
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New York, New York
Someone forgot to remind our President, George W. that there are pressing matters to attend to. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an energy crisis, a housing crisis, a food...
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