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How Greed in the Financial Sector Tramples on Human Rights (Il Sole 24 Ore,...
What is at the root of what’s wrong with our economy and our civil society? Weaving the issue of the U.S. death penalty into the global financial crisis, columnist Guido Rossi of Italy’s Il Sole 24...
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Snowe Goes
Another centrist bites the dust. Olympia Snowe is retiring. What happened to the big tent of the Republican Party? There was a time when New England Republican was a badge of honor indicating a...
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Super PAC Tuesday
It’s called Super Tuesday because of the large number of delegates for the presidential nominating convention up for grabs in the Republican primaries. 437 delegates were at stake today in ten states...
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The Laurens County Purity Pledge
Before anyone gets too self righteous, partisan or seriously philosophical about this, please understand that I am laughing with every word I write. Of course, it’s only funny because it’s true. The...
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TALK RADIO BOMB: 98 Advertisers Tell Premiere Networks to Avoid Shock Jocks
WASHINGTON – Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” and “prostitute” smears have officially become The Talk Radio Tipping Point. He and his right-wing talker spawn have finally been hoisted on their own poison...
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No Moderates Need Apply
Juan Williams does a nice piece today at The Hill on the diminishing number of moderates in Congress. Moderates like Olympia Snowe are retiring from elective office out of frustration while others are...
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Romney’s Southern Exposure- Did He Get Burned?
Though the big loser in today’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi was Newt Gingrich, Tuesday the 13th wasn’t particularly lucky for Mitt Romney. Santorum was projected as the winner in both Alabama...
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Dumb Congressman Of The Week: Joe Pitts (R-PA)
It seems he thinks peace in the Middle East relies on a dead man and a man in a coma. With the global war against terrorism, it is now incumbent on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian...
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It’s Mitt
In the least surprising news of the week, Mitt Romney has officially clinched the Republican Nomination for President. CNN, Fox and MSNBC have all made their projections. This of course will not have...
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Former Congressman Artur Davis Switches Parties
Former Alabama Congressman and unsuccessful 2010 candidate for Governor Artur Davis has announced that he is switching parties and may run for Congress from Virginia, where he now resides. Davis was a...
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Under The Radar Races In Wisconsin
Of course most of the ink (and electrons) being spilled today are over the recall of Governor Walker, a race that most experts expect him to win. But there is another story that could be the silver...
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Networks Call Race For Walker, State Senate Still Pending
UPDATE 10:30 PM PST We have 75% of the vote in and the race continues to tighten, now at 53-47%, with Republican Van Wanggaard leading Democrat John Lehman leading by about 2,900 votes. If you compare...
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It’s the Daddy Warbucks and Baby Scrooge ticket!
Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan for his VP choice. Paul Ryan, really? The kick the old and the poor to the ground and step on their faces in his rush to give more money to the rich Paul Ryan? Well, if...
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A prediction
I just know it. If Romney and Ryan get elected they’re going to Thelma and Louise the economy. When everything totally falls apart as it does every time their sort of strategies are tried, they’ll...
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Akin Vows To Remain In Senate Race
In a move that pretty much insures the re-election of Senator Claire McCaskill (D) , GOP Congressman Todd Akin announced today he will remain in the US Senate race despite his idiotic comments on rape...
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On The Road To Our Own Handmaid’s Tale?
Ages ago I read Margaret Atwood’s brilliant dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, about patriarchal religion gone nuts. Now in 2012 I just can’t help thinking that with the world sprouting nutty...
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R and R (Romney and Ryan)’s Vision For America
When I was in the Army in Vietnam during the war, we used to look forward to R and R, a period of Rest and Relaxation, either in or out of the country. R and R now, Romney and Ryan, will provide...
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A Test In Real Time In Pennsylvania Of The Ryan Budget
Pennsylvania is in the midst of a real time test of Republican vice presidential candidate and U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget, a budget the right loves so very much and plan on instituting...
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Facts? We Don’t Need No Stinking Facts
Republicans are apparently not even pretending anymore that they’re telling the truth. The Big Lie seems to have unabashedly become their Official Policy. One Republican campaign pollster, Neil...
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A Declaration of RINOhood
I have been branded with the epithet “RINO” by most of the internet right — at least, those who view themselves as true blue, or “real” conservatives. But “RINO” may be a misnomer. I have never been a...
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