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Not So Home Cookin’
In basketball if you won a close game at home and it appeared the officials may have helped the cause with a favorable call or two it was called home cookin’. Our tax codes have provisions which favor large, multi-national … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, capital gains tax, carried interest, Congress, Coprorate Income tax, David Kocieniewski, George W. Bush, income tax, Mitt Romney, money in elections, money in politics, New York Times, politics, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, tax amnesty, tax breaks, tax code, tax loopholes, tax rate, tax reform, taxes, Timothy Cook, Timothy D. Cook, Willard Mitt Romney
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What If Plan B?
The other day I was thinking about what really holds the Tea Party/Republican coalition together. The conventional political wisdom is that they need each other. The true Republicans standing alone are simply too few and too regional to have any … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960 election, 2008 election, 2012 election, 2016 election, 2016 Presidential Primary, Andrew Cuomo, Connecticut, Dan Malloy, Democrats, George W. Bush, H.U.D., Hillary Clinton, Housing and Urban Development, HUD, Mario Cuomo, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Mitt Romney, New York, Obama, politics, Republicans, Sandy Hook, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Tea Party, Willard Mitt Romney
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If The Private Sector Ran Like The Public Sector
Using the last few days as an example, if corporate America displayed the same degree of responsibility that Obama’s Executive Branch displayed we would have much less corporate malfeasance. News of the IRS “scandal” broke on Friday, May 10th and … Continue reading
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Tagged 501(c)4, Douglas Shulman, George W. Bush, Grover Norquist, House Ways and Means Committee, I.R.S., Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Jack Lew, Lois Lerner, Mitt Romney, Obama, politics, Republicans, scandal, Steven T. Miller, Tea Party, Willard Mitt Romney
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An Attempt At Further Abdication
While the conservatives claim to be the defenders of the Constitution in practice it is the progressives who are. We may not play dress-up and wear three cornered hats, but when rhetoric gives way to reality it is the political … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Arizona, Bob Corker, Carl Levin, conservative, Constitution, Dick Durbin, executive branch, FAA patch, George W. Bush, Illinois, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Michigan, Obama, politico, politics, progressive, Senate Armed Services Committee, South Carolina, Tennessee, United States Constitution, war powers
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Better Off Without Max
One of the best pieces of news this week is that Democratic Senator Max Baucus of Montana announced he will retire at the end of this term and not seek reelection in 2014. No, I haven’t gone over to the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 election, 2016 Presidential Primary, Affordable Health Care Act, Brian Schweitzer, Bush Tax Cuts, conservative, David Camp, Democrats, environment, George W. Bush, Great Recession, gun control, gun legislation, gun lobby, gun regulation, gun violence, guns, health care, House, House of Representatives, Joe Manchin, Manchin-Toomey Amendment, Massachusetts, Max Baucus, Michigan, Montana, Obama, Obamacare, Oregon, Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania, politics, progressive, public option, Republicans, Ron Wyden, Scott Brown, Senate, Senate Finance Committee, single payer, Ted Kennedy, West Virginia
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I’m The Senator And Don’t You Forget It
It must be terrible to live life feeling very insecure; desperately wanting to be famous yet dwelling in obscurity. What other excuse could Republican North Carolina State Senator Tommy Tucker have for some of his recent actions? Last week he … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Observer, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Dorothea Dix Lease, George W. Bush, Goldsboro News-Argus, Hal Tanner, Huffington Post, internet access, John Celock, North Carolina, North Carolina Constitution, North Carolina General Assembly, North Carolina legislature, North Carolina Senate, North Carolina State Senate, Obama, Pat McCrory, politics, Raleigh, Raleigh News and Observer, Raleigh North Carolina, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Tommy Tucker, Waxhaw North Carolina
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Mortgage Or Maui
As frustrating as it may be, sometimes it is necessary to discuss policy with Tea Party/Republicans within the misconceptions that are their viewpoints. One of their “common sense” arguments about the deficit is that you have to run the federal … Continue reading
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Tagged 1937, 2014 election, deficit, Democrats, economy, education, Franklin Roosevelt, George W. Bush, government spending, Great Depression, Great Recession, Hawaii, infrastructure, Maui, oil industry, politics, pump priming, Republicans, sequester, tax breaks, tax code, Tea Party, voter turnout
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Problem Peninsula
Technically the Korean War started slightly before I was born and has continued my entire lifetime. It began in June of 1950 and subsided with a July 1953 truce – officially it has never ended. It has always been a … Continue reading
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Tagged B-2, China, F-22, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Iran, Japan, Kim Jung Un, Korea, Korean War, North Korea, nuclear arms, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Park Geun-hye, politics, South Korea, stealth, Texas, United States
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