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Manchin’s Game

Friday, July 29, 2022

So, when I first heard that Manchin had struck a deal with Schumer, my reaction was: How will Lucy pull the football away this time? Well, it looks like I’ve found the answer. You see, it seems that Joe really wants to eliminate what is truly a horrendous tax loophole that benefits very rich people, […]

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Some random thoughts

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

A month ago I speculated that Fox might be abandoning Trump. Since then both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post (both Murdoch properties) have decidedly distances themselves from the genius. As to Fox? Well, as the wicked witch noted while plotting to do in Dorothy, these things must be done slowly. But, […]

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Pick a lawyer that suits your needs

Monday, July 25, 2022

I didn’t practice criminal law, but I do have some insight into basic legal principles, so this left me somewhat puzzled. The excellent Marcy Wheeler notes here that the Trump appointed judge who presided over the Bannon trial opined that while he was bound by precedent to throw out Bannon’s advice of counsel defense, he […]

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Those who don’t learn from history…

Monday, July 25, 2022

Here’s a post over at Balloon Juice that once again makes you wonder how our elected representatives manage to continue to live in a fantasy world. The post is about the fact that we may need up to four new senators to rid ourselves of the filibuster, as there are a couple of others that […]

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There are 49 other Manchins we never hear about

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

This link should bring you to a number of Letters to the Editor at the New York Times, the first of which makes a point I’ve ranted at my wife about. The press is once again making Biden’s inability to deal with the climate crisis all about the loathsome Joe Manchin. As the letter writer […]

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A scam by any other name

Thursday, July 14, 2022

I’m fairly computer literate. When I got my first computer, a TI-99, I spent quite a few hours learning to program, and eventually, when I graduated to a PC, wrote programs I used at the office to actually do useful things, like auto dial my phone from an address book I wrote. But I confess […]

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A bit of speculation

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

I have to say that I like the January 6th committee’s pattern of having Liz Cheney drop a bombshell at the end of each hearing. Today we learned that the genius tried to tamper with a witness, who refused to take his call, notified his or her lawyer, who notified the committee, which notified the […]

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Sorry Adam, history is written by the winners

Sunday, July 10, 2022

I give Adam Kinzinger credit for sticking up for the democratic process, but I think there’s a good possibility he’s wrong about this: I think what’s most important is, again, what does history say in five or 10 years? Because I can guarantee — well, I can get about as close as I can to […]

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Reflections on the Fourth

Monday, July 4, 2022

I’ve been writing on this blog now for 17 years or so. When it all started there were a lot of us lefty bloggers here in Connecticut, and most of them have gone on to other things, but I’ve stuck to it, though the posts come daily no more. A lot has changed during all […]

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