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An "Old Army Vet" and liberal, qua liberal, with a passion for open inquiry in a neverending quest for truth unpoisoned by religious superstitions. Per Voltaire: "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Don't let Republican games turn into Republican gains!
How do Republicans propose setting the fiscal house more to order? By gutting Social Security, Medicare, and by adding a 2 percent sales tax that the least among us pay on food, not by closing a single loop hole the wealthy and the corporations enjoy.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 22, 2010 The 'CRITICAL' difference between private and public in public services
They're there to make money and any way they can cut corners means they make more money." "In the public sector, the security of the prison is job one," he added. "This kind of security breach, that would just be a serious, major breakdown. That's not always the case with private companies.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 15, 2010 You can thank a liberal for your freedom
There are "Angels in America". They're called liberals, and conservatives owe them a salute, and a debt of gratitude that can never be paid.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 14, 2010 My first run-ins with the damning illogic of the Right
NOTICE: Rough sledding ahead. The effort is to be as honest as I can be, which for many may be a ride to tough to handle; language and verbal images employed accordingly.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 13, 2010 I'm looking for a word
why the presumption the model is somehow by necessity, in every instance, that which ought to prevail? What should we call those who are blind to the all too obvious evidence there is no validity to the presumption the private, for-profit model is by necessity, in every instance superior to what the government can do?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 7, 2010 How wealthy we must be, to toss our kids into the pit
". . . the U.S., once the world's leader in percentage of young people with college degrees, has fallen to 12th among 36 developed nations."
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 5, 2010 While you were looking elsewhere, your church and the corporations were setting you up
This past April, a highly conservative federal appeals court ruled against the Federal Communications Commission's right and authority to regulate Internet rates and practices. (Retrace to the beginning of the preceding sentence, and ponder as you proceed how your relatives' and neighbors' Republican leanings and votes will, not may, cost you money and the freedom to use the Internet!
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 1, 2010 I need some help here. Actually, we all do.
"Opponents say that it could prevent smaller American companies from drilling offshore at all due to concerns about the cost of an accident."
Let's pretend for a moment that we're all adults here.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Telling the facts isn't always the same as telling the truth.
However this may seem as though it's about Shirley Sherrod, until a few days ago, the National Director for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and how she happened to be fired from that post, this is actually about us, and the way we use facts and how we respond to stories that include them. The watchword is "beware."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 18, 2010 Senator McConnell -- Ernie Kovacs' Percy Dovetonsils lives
For a few years now I've had this recurring bout of deja vu: Where, just where have I seen Senate Minority Leader, Kentucky US Senator Mitch McConnell before?
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 15, 2010 Bet you don't know: the cost of a gallon of gas in your area
'm fully prepared to wager that you don't know, not even if you just returned from filling your tank this morning. Currently I'm in the Sacramento area where the per gallon prices range from $2.97.9 to above $3.15.9.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 6, 2010 I found out why we're neck deep in doo-doo
In addition to the report of one person in the Detroit area perishing from hyperthermia, I learned that the Free Press stories that on July 5 garnered the most readership were, from No. 10 to the champion Numero Uno:
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 29, 2010 An important speech by Sen Franken to Constitutionalist Soc, PLEASE listen
In his Al Franken manner, tersely outlines what has gone wrong, how justice is being -- as it has been -- hijacked by conservatives to serve ill ends. Franken's points are made with his typical droll, sometimes sarcastic humor. But the points are made.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 3, 2010 The "spill" . . . We've none but our friends to blame
Absent voter support of the conservative tenets that have culminated in the wholly avoidable disasters we've witnessed, it is probable none would have occurred.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 1, 2010 The gift
Every Republican ad airing in the state is an effort to outdo his or her challenger on the basis by being "the true conservative," and not some "liberal," with "liberal" being employed as the most tawdry epithet in the English language.
(117 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 30, 2010 A few things have just got to be said.
There exists no record that even one illegal alien ever took a job that belonged to an American. You can be the registered owner of your car. You can hold title to your house. No one owns a job.
SHARE Thursday, May 27, 2010 Breathing Republican fumes
The Republican argument against raising the cap hinges on the incomprehensible proposal that by insisting a company bear full liability for damages it causes, it will squeeze out of the drilling business smaller companies that would not be able to pay for the damages they caused.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 10, 2010 The Mother Lode in the Upper Big Branch Mine
Massey's Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine tragedy brings the core question conservatives ask us to ignore front and center: What role has government to play in the regulation of a society's otherwise private affairs?