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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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A Morning Gift; An Old Lesson
What to write about is seldom a problem for me. The opposite is true with good stories often waiting a day or more to be published. Tuesday morning was a great example. At 8:33am my Blackberry buzzed with a blurb … Continue reading
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Tagged Benghazi, Blackwater, C.I.A., Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, jobs, Mitt Romney, Obama, politics, Republicans, State Department, Tea Party, Washington Post, Willard Mitt Romney
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Bye, Bye Benghazi
It is Wednesday morning as I pen this article and one of the big anticipated news items of the day is the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing on Benghazi. If the events of September 11, 2012 didn’t include … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 election, 2016 Presidential Primary, C.I.A., Darrell Issa, David Petraeus, Democrats, Fox News, Government regulations, Great Recession, Hillary Clinton, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Obama, politics, Republicans, right wing, State Department, unemployment, Willard Mitt Romney
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The Endorsement Of Ed Markey
2013 doesn’t promise to be a big year for endorsements; there simply are not that many elections that are going to be held and I don’t endorse for every election. With Tuesday night’s primaries in Massachusetts history, the choice for … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013 election, Boston College, BP, BP oil spill, Brian Schweitzer, Democrats, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, environment, Gabriel Gomez, Gulf Oil Spill, Harvard, House, House of Representatives, John Kerry, labor, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, Montana, politics, post office, postal service, Republicans, Scott Brown, Senate, special elections, Stephen Lynch, Tea Party, Ted Kennedy, U.S.P.S., unions, USPS, Willard Mitt Romney
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Left, Right, Center?
Anyone who reads me on a regular basis knows I am not a Chris Christie fan. However, in recent months the Republican Governor of New Jersey seems to have canned the bully act and instead has been acting with interests … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013 election, 2016 election, 2016 Presidential Primary, Angus King, Chris Christie, Democrats, gun control, gun legislation, gun regulation, gun violence, guns, Jeb Bush, Maine, Mitt Romney, New Jersey, Obama, Olympia Snowe, politics, radical right, Republicans, right wing, Sandy, Superstorm Sandy, Willard Mitt Romney
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A Day At The State Capitol
Wednesday the North Carolina House of Representatives held a public hearing on proposed voter ID legislation. Since I had strong, informed opinions on the topic and live about an hour from the Legislative Buildings I took a ride to Raleigh. … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, Mitt Romney, North Carolina, North Carolina House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, politics, racism, Raleigh, Raleigh North Carolina, Ryan budget, Tea Party, voter fraud, voter ID, voter registration, Voter suppression, voter turnout, Willard Mitt Romney
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Let The Insanity Continue
Last week the circus, a/k/a CPAC, was in Washington; well, National Harbor, Maryland to be specific. CPAC’s annual gathering is supposed to be the thinking seminar for the conservative base of the Republican Party. After the results of the 2012 … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 elections, 2012 election, 2014 election, 2016 election, Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr, Ashley Judd, bigotry, Bowie Kuhn, budget, budget deficit, C.I.A., CIA, CIA Director, CPAC, CPAC 2013, deficit, Democrats, Donald Trump, education, Eric Cantor, Florida, Fox News, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, House, House Budget CommitteeKentucky, immigration, Jeb Bush, Jerry Springer Show, John Brennan, Kentucky, Lullaby, Marco Rubio, Maryland, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, national debt, National Harbor Maryland, New Jersey, Obama, Paul Ryan, politics, racism, Rafael Edward Cruz, Rand Paul, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Rush Holt, Ryan Plan, Ryan Plan 3.0, Sarah Palin, Senate, Shawn Mullins, social mobility, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, Willard Mitt Romney, Wisconsin
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The Unseen American
Wow! Like millions of other progressives I tuned into the Ed Show on MSNBC on Wednesday night. I tend to be a bit cynical and anticipated that the hype would exceed reality; that the show would be, to put it … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 election, 47%, China, Ed Schultz, Ed Show, greed, labor, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, Obama, politics, right wing, Scott Prouty, social safety net, Willard Mitt Romney
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