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All together now

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

A few days ago my wife put this on the Local Resist Facebook page:   At this point this should be fairly non-controversial on our side of the great divide. I’m no fan of Joe Biden or Seth Moulton, and their ilk, but I’ll vote for any one of them if it’s the only way […]

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Hey Joe, how about apologizing to the rest of us?

Friday, April 26, 2019

Joe Biden, rightly anticipating some folks remembering, thought it would be a good idea to call Anita Hilland express his regrets for what she went through so many years ago, but not what he put her through. Joe was merely chair of the committee, how could he possibly prevent what happened to her? She didn’t view it […]

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Thanks for thinking of us, Tim

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan is running for president. I know this because among other emails touting him, I got one from Mike Morley, someone who I’m sure is someone, who assures me that Tim has got what it takes: Failed leadership and broken promises from the White House have made things much worse for everyone […]

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Say it’s no go, Joe

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

It isn’t often that a pundit (Krugman aside) hits the nail on the head, but Michelle Goldberg column about Joe Biden hit a homer in this mornings Times. Biden has been the subject of a couple of recent accusations of inappropriate conduct toward women. Not exactly sexual harassment, more like the exact kind of conduct […]

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This guy’s pretty good

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Watch this video at Crooks and Liars of Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He’s obviously a long shot, but he’s quite impressive. It has been a pet peeve of mine for years that people in this country throw around the word “socialism” as if we all share a definition of that term, when in […]

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Random thoughts on 2020

Sunday, March 3, 2019

I don’t have a firm favorite for the 2020 Democratic nomination. I know who I don’t want to get it. That would be Kristin Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard, and Amy Klochubar. I also don’t want Sherrod Brown, but for a different reason than the other three. We can’t afford to lose that Ohio Senate seat. Putting […]

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Say it ain’t so, Joe

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Joe Biden sayshe’s the most qualified person in the country to be our next president. In my humble opinion, there are very few potential candidates that Trump could beat in 2020. Biden tops the list. Also, if there were a god, I’d be asking him (or her) to please preserve us from Hillary, who has been making […]

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Emails again

Friday, October 28, 2016

There is a tradition in this country. Don’t ask me why. It’s against the rules to have a Democratic Secretary of Defense, though sometimes that rule is observed in the breach. But it’s always against the rules to let a Democrat run the FBI, hence we have a Republican running the FBI at present, a […]

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The Great Debate, part 3

Sunday, October 23, 2016

For a number of reasons I won’t go into here, I watched last night’s debate, though I would have preferred to skip it. To a certain extent I’m not good at judging winners and losers, because I actually judge debates based on who makes more sense and who tells fewer lies, which is a criteria […]

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It’s the year 2000 all over again

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

It’s hardly a new observation to make, but it’s a fact that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Part of the problem, I suppose, is that those who live through history die off, and are replaced by people who think, for some reason, that things are now different. They […]

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