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Inoculated

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Well, [according to the Beltway pundits](http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-villagers-will-not-be-ignored.html), Obama has himself three scandals. Amazingly enough, one of them, about which the Republicans will take the least umbrage, actually does involve an abuse of power by people for whose actions Obama is responsible. I refer to his Nixon like pursuit of information about members of the press. Charlie […]

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A little more on the IRS “scandal”

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

I’m beginning to feel like I’m cheating, as I’ve linked so often to Pam Martens and her excellent blog, Wall Street on Parade. Today she has another excellent piece, exposing the extent to which the Koch Brothers have funded the tea party movement for the sole purpose of influencing elections. Yesterday, I said this about […]

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The IRS “scandals”

Monday, May 13, 2013

The scandal de jour revolves around the fact that one office in the IRS, under a Bush appointed commissioner, used terms such as “tea party” and “9/12” to help pick and choose the 501©(4) applications to review. I don’t have much to add to what’s written here at the American Prospect. The real scandal, of […]

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A bullet dodged?

Monday, April 29, 2013

I am not a football fan, and I pay almost zero attention to the sport, even during the height of the season. Yet even I became aware of the threat to the future of our country posed by one Tim Tebow, an insufferable Christian. He was welcome to all the football success in the world […]

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Can’t make this stuff up

Sunday, February 24, 2013

A few days ago, while writing about a local proposal to allow non-resident taxpayers to vote in local referenda, I engaged in a bit of slippery slope argumentation, wondering among other things, if corporate taxpayers would also get to vote and wondering if perhaps votes should be weighted: the greater the property, the greater the […]

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My friend Rubio sends me an email

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

All of us, at least those of us that are politically engaged, from time to time wonder just how we got on a particular email list. So it was with me today, when, in very timely fashion, I got an email from the slurper touting his new proposal to destroy public schools. Of course, he […]

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Puzzling

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Obama is damned by the right wing for claiming to shoot skeet, something they absolutely refuse to believe he does, not that it matters. They accuse him of violating our liberties because he made an incremental change in the law that might enable more people to afford still overpriced health care. They would love to […]

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Shear those sheep!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

I’ve commented before on the fact that there’s a lot of grifting happening on the right hand side of the political spectrum. Some of it is laid out here, and it occurs to me that there’s not much difference between the secular scammers and those working the spiritual beat. Nor is there  much separating the […]

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If this is failure, give me some

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Dick Armey’s attempt to take control of FreedomWorks is being portrayed as a failed coup attempt, but, personally, if I could get someone to pay me $400,000.00 a year to just stay away, I’d consider myself a success. Still, we on the left can take some satisfaction in knowing that so much of that right […]

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A can’t miss prediction

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

There are some behind the scenes, “bi-partisan” negotiations about filibuster reform going on in the Senate, featuring the usual suspects: “I think we’re having hopeful discussions,” Sen. John McCain told TPM. “We’re doing everything we can, but I don’t know if we’ll succeed. … I can’t tell you the back and forth but we are […]

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