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Krugman, wishful thinking, and the fall of the House of Cantor

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

I don't normally take issue with Paul Krugman, and I heartily wish I could buy into his take on the Cantor defeat, but I don't think the evidence is there: In other words, being a hard line conservative, which to be fair involved some career risks back in the 60s and into the 70s, became […]

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Things look up in Kentucky

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Seems Mitch McConnell has a little problem; one many of us have seen coming for some time. The Kentucky version of Obamacare has been a huge and popular success there, so Mitch has to pass through the eye of a needle so small it would daunt the tiniest camel. He has chosen to do so […]

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GOP to Nation: Harry Reid is picking on us

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

It's been a while since I've had a “good news” post, so I'm paying a debt here. It truly does look like a bit of panic is setting in amongst the Republicans with regard to their prospects of taking over the U.S. Senate. I don't think I've written about the upcoming election before, so I […]

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Why would anyone think businessmen make good politicians

Monday, April 14, 2014

Down in Georgia the Republicans are having an intraparty hate fest. One candidate, a fellow named David Perdue, showed the world how little good a college education can do by attacking his opponent for not having a college education. In Georgia of all places, home of the dumb. But the purpose of this post is […]

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Make it simple

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The explanations for things are often not simple, though our politicians of a red hue often claim that they are. On the other hand, it is often the case that the best remedy for stuff that ails us is the simplest solution, a fact which politicians of both parties seem to do their best to […]

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Stick a fork in him

Thursday, March 27, 2014

(As Lou Reed would have said, we're he still with us, “he's done”.) If Chris Christie still has thoughts of becoming president he should, perhaps, think twice after the reception his “investigation” into himself has gotten from the media. See the headlines collected here. Before Christie's fall from grace there was a widespread meme to […]

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What do the CIA and the lowliest bureaucrats have in common?

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

This morning I perused this post at Rolling Stone, highlighting 11 “Jaw-Dropping” lines from the recent speech by the loathsome Dianne Feinstein. You know the speech; the one in which she condemned CIA spying in the strongest terms, those terms operative only when they are spying on her. As for the rest of us, her […]

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Time to ditch the constitution (or large parts of it)

Thursday, January 16, 2014

It is sometimes amazing how, in the most unlikely places, we find a tendency in our government to find ways to shovel money to those least in need. Latest case in point, at least latest case to come to my attention: Greg Noll, a senior at Columbia University, balances his engineering major with a federally […]

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Another major surprise: Government works!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

I'm currently making my way through Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest, The Bully Pulpit, a sort of dual political biography of Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Without getting explicit, she's making a lot of points about our current situation. Among other things, she claims, and I think I agree, that one of Teddy's greatest accomplishments […]

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If the election were held today, and if wishes were horses

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

It occurs to me that it's been a while since I posted some good news, which I obligated myself to do weekly awhile back. It seems I just can't stop slipping into my pessimistic mode. So here's some good news, though it has to be taken with a pillar of salt. If the election were […]

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