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Is the Baucus Proposal a Good Starting point?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

President Obama failed to get the health care reform measure passed by the August recess as he hoped, and the full-throttle approach that the administration took in getting the legislation passed had some surprising and unintended consequences.  For one, it resulted in the emergence of an opposing grass-roots movement that the conservative movement has not [...]

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Don’t Kick Dirt on 9/11

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Obama administration proposes a change to the way that we celebrate the attacks of 9/11.
Americans planned beach cleanups, packages for soldiers and save-the-tree fundraisers along with familiar remembrances in three cities to mark eight years since the attacks of Sept. 11, the first time the anniversary was named a national day of service.
“Instead of [...]

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The Health Care Debate and the Politics of Kindergartners

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The administration and the media are either tone-deaf, ignorant or are on the offensive again.  The narrative in the press is that Republicans are willfully blocking reform for political gain, and the uninsured are going to be suffering as a result.  In other words, conservatives are heartless monsters that would through the underclass into the fiery [...]

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An Army of Leni Riefenstahls

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

“Fear” is a very powerful word and a hard word to use  when we talking about temporal entities, like the government, without coming off sounding like a nutcase.  “This administration scares me,” may very well be true, but how can you relay this in polite conversation without coming of sounding like somebody suffering from a [...]

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Obama Promises Managed Oil Prices

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Barack Obama, in a speech that harkens back to Robert Reich’s and Felix Rohatyn’s calls for a national industrial policy during the early 1980’s, promises that the federal government will use its regulatory authority and the Strategic National Reserve to lower oil prices and shield US consumers from the big oil companies. 
Democrat Barack Obama would [...]

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