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Who Is The Predator?
Today the subject matter of this column will be new. It is also disturbing; in fact it will cross from my usual PG rating into R territory. I have never discussed this topic here before because my feelings are so … Continue reading
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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Live By The Sword
There is an old adage of biblical origin that says, “Live by the sword, die by the sword”. Hopefully the next to learn that is Virginia Republican Gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli gamed the system in Virginia to ensure his … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 election, 2013 election, 2016 Presidential Primary, Bill Bolling, E. W. Jackson, extreme right, gay rights, gays in the military, greed, hate, hate speech, Ken Cuccinelli, Kentucky, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Mark Obershain, New Black Panther Party, Obama, Planned Parenthood, politics, radical right, Rand Paul, Republicans, Virginia, Virginia Republican Party, voter turnout, war on women, women's health issues, women's issues, women's rights
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An Open Letter To 98 Senators
May 21, 2013 Dear Non-Oklahoma Members of the United States Senate:
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Tagged James Inhofe, Jim Inhofe, Moore Oklahoma, New Jersey, New York, New York Times, Oklahoma, politics, Republicans, Sandy, Sandy aid, Senate, Superstorm Sandy, Tom Coburn
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Protection?
Lately I often write about North Carolina. While Tea Party/Republican insanity exists in every state, in 2013 North Carolina appears to be the epicenter. The examples are literally too plentiful to all be chronicled in this space. Today I want … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Ford, Chris Whitmire, Constitution, First Amendment, Foreign Laws/Protect Constitution Act, George Cleveland, Great Recession, H 494, H 695, Harry Warren, Jacqueline Schaffer, Larry Pittman, Michele Bachmann, Michele Presnell, North Carolina, North Carolina General Assembly, politics, religion, religious discrimination, religious freedom, Republicans, Rowan County Defense of Religion Act, secession, Sharia Law, Tea Party, Tenth Amendmant, United States Constitution
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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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Sticking Power
To say it was a bad week for the Obama White House is an understatement – Benghazi, the IRS and the AP, just to name the top three “scandals”. While the President will never have to run for elected office … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 election, A.P., AP, Associated Press, Benghazi, Democrats, Harry Truman, House, House of Representatives, hypocrisy, I.R.S., Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Joe Biden, Obama, Obamacare, politics, Republicans, scandal
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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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Ed’s Back – Really
In mid-March when it was abruptly announced that Ed Schultz was leaving his 8pm weeknights timeslot for a weekend gig many feared that MSNBC was effectively putting him out to pasture. This weekend our fears were confirmed. What was originally … Continue reading
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Tagged 60 Minutes, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, CBS, Chris Christie, Chris Matthews, CNN, Ed Schultz, Fox News, Howard University, Karen Finey, Leo Gerard, Mark Sanford, Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC, New Jersey, NFL, Paul Ryan, politics, Rachel Maddow, Steve Kornacki, television, The Ed Show, United Steel Workers, Up with Steve Kornacki, Vermont, Voter suppression
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