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Thank you, Canada 

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Or, more accurately, thank you TransCanada: TransCanada has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration and plans to file a claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement over the U.S. government’s rejection of the company’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The company said Wednesday it has filed a notice of intent to initiate the NAFTA claim on […]

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A Blogger’s Lament

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Regular readers have no doubt been pleased to see a decrease in blogging activity from this quarter. A decent respect for the opinions of mankind impels me to explain the latest stretch of inactivity. I’ve been doing this, if memory serves, for 11 years. When I started, there were meaty issues being debated, some of […]

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The road ahead 

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Listen my reader(s), you’ll eventually hear All my predictions for the coming New Year Open a bottle of your strongest of stuff You better get plenty, though it won’t be enough The future I’ll serve you like holiday dishes Sorry, I doubt I can fill all your wishes There’s reason to hope, but far more […]

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Perks of Office

Monday, December 28, 2015

This guy makes John Rowland look like a piker: As storms once again battered the state of Alabama over Christmas, Republican Gov. Robert Bentley moved to divert funding from the 2010 BP oil spill recovery effort to finance the renovation of a second Governor’s mansion on the Gulf Coast. Yet that beachside mansion, which Alabama […]

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Another corporate wizard wreaks destruction 

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

There is a myth, widely although not universally believed, that we don’t need politicians running this country, we need businessmen and business women. It matters not that successful businessmen (or women) rarely make good politicians, and have never made a great one. In fact, it appears to be universally true that if you have an […]

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Deja vu all over again

Monday, December 14, 2015

Last week we saw shades of 2007 with both a hedge fund and junk bond mutual fund halting the ability of investors to withdraw funds. An additional credit hedge fund announced it is shutting down. The problem this time around is a dearth of liquidity (read buyers’ strike) for junk bonds. In 2007 the problem […]

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Bernie should count his blessings

Friday, December 11, 2015

An analysis of network television news coverage reveals what supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders have long suspected; the three broadcast television networks are intentionally ignoring the Sanders campaign. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has the revealing details: So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it’s been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 […]

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Debate Wrapup

Friday, August 7, 2015

First, let me say that I didn’t watch the “debate”. Now, you may think that, given that admission, I have no right to express an opinion about the goings on in Cleveland. But this is America, a place where everyone has the right to express their opinion, regardless of their state of ignorance. In fact, […]

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Free speech for me, but not for thee

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

If you spend much time at left leaning blogs you have no doubt read more than one comment about the tendencies of right wingers to express rather strange ideas about rights. For example, it is a common argument on their part that gay marriage somehow tramples on their right to religious freedom, inasmuch as they […]

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The road that will not be taken

Sunday, November 9, 2014

So, I'm beginning to decompress from Tuesday's disaster. Overall, I think I agree with the analysis here. In a nutshell, we lost because the national party has sold its soul to Wall Street and corporate interests, but it is still not as satisfactory to those interests as the Republican Party, which is a wholly owned […]

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