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Monthly Archives: January 2012

No need to count the votes

Saturday, January 7, 2012

A little comfort food for Democrats sent to me by a friend today. The election is in the bag for Obama.   American University professor Allan Lichtman has issued his “sure fire” prediction for the outcome of the November 2012 election.   Lichtman is no crystal ball gazer. His predictions are based on a formula […]

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Friday Night Music, in which Randy Newman channels John McCain

Friday, January 6, 2012

I know I’ve put up a lot of Randy Newman, but hey, it’s my blog and the guy is great. I came up with this particular choice after watching this video on the TPM youtube channel: I wracked my own senescent brain for a song about someone who bemoans the fact that he or she […]

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Tax the Rich-it’s our moral obligation

Friday, January 6, 2012

I missed this post by Brad DeLong when it was first written, but came across it recently and just had to pass it along. He cites to the work of two economists, Emmanuel Saez, and Nobel laureate economist Peter Diamond, who prove that we should be taxing the rich at a 70% rate: It is […]

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New Hampshire Goes Full Crazy

Friday, January 6, 2012

New Hampshire has always been the Dixie of New England, and they’ve proved it in spades recently. The Tea Party dominated New Hampshire Legislature on Wednesday overrode the governor’s veto to enact a new law allowing parents to object to any part of the school curriculum. The state House voted 255-112 and Senate 17-5 to […]

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Thank Obama

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

I’ve been critical of Obama on many occasions, but when he does good, he deserves credit and our thanks. Today he made some recess appointments that have given the Republicans the vapors. Go to Kos and thank him here. Somewhere I saw that this might lead to a Republican push for impeachment. Wouldn’t that be […]

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Newt disobeys Reagan

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

There is one and only one unbreakable commandment in the Republican party: Thou shalt love Ronald Reagan as thou lovest Jesus. Indeed, thou shalt love him so much that thou shall refuse to believe that he did anything with which you purport to disagree, such as raising taxes, no matter that the facts are indisputable […]

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Republicans may have obliterated the enthusiasm gap

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A few days ago I noted that the big question in the election was which side was the most dispirited. I said I thought it would be the Republicans, and it looks like it may turn out that way. As Steve Benen notes total turnout for Republicans only slightly exceeded turnout in 2008, when they […]

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Iowa Caucuses

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Who cares?

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Reflections on 2012

Monday, January 2, 2012

  After much (well, some) reflection I’ve decided not to write a list of predictions this year, at least not like I did last year. I could easily just re-print my predictions from last year, except the one about the iPad, which I’d have to change from iPad 2 to iPad 3. Sure, that would […]

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God starts the New Year

Monday, January 2, 2012

The Catholic Church, always looking out for the main chance, is recruiting bigoted Episcopalians to swell the ranks of the priesthood.    Meanwhile in Israel the Orthodox Jews are proving they have something in common with the Catholics here and Muslims almost anywhere. Like the Catholics here they believe that their religious freedoms are infringed […]

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