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Stormy Monday, 4/8/13
Senate bills on immigration reform and gun control originally anticipated this week will likely be delayed. The former is being drafted by a “bipartisan” group of eight senators, who apparently have...
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How Come Big News Is Seldom About Big Ideas?
Have you noticed how we now log our tragedies by their dates? We have killed more of our own citizens with guns than have died in all the wars the US fought since the Revolution (212,000+). Robbing...
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Take Five (Iron Lady Down edition)
ONE: The 5.8-Percent Solution Who better to eulogize the execrable Margaret Thatcher than the abysmal Sarah Palin? And so she has, in 1,002 suspiciously articulate words that appeared under Palin’s...
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Stormy Monday, 4/15/13
After the President rolled out a 244-page budget last week that I’m told consists solely of the words “chained CPI,” I doubt the coming week will offer up comparable oddities, but I’ve been wrong...
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TSW #37
I don’t know what planet Peggy Noonan inhabits, but I’m quite certain its atmosphere is critically lacking in oxygen. There’s no other way to account for her periodic dispatches to Earth via the Wall...
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Stormy Monday, 5/6/13
Now that their nine-day recess is over, picture members of both houses of Congress returning to Washington refreshed, energetic, eager to tackle the nation’s woes, and ready to work in a genuinely...
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Stormy Monday, 5/13/13
Benghazi memo underwent multiple revisions by Jay-Z and William Ayers! IRS scrutiny was merely groundwork for tossing Teabaggers into secret FEMA concentration camps! They’re gonna confiscate and melt...
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Take Five (Talking Second Amendment Blues edition)
ONE: Apocalypse Whenever The Internet has really revolutionized insomnia. By 5:00 this morning I had already finished watching a Julian Lennon interview from 1999 and several videos of cats riding...
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Stormy Monday, 5/20/13
Increasingly pitiful Republican efforts to make a scandal – some scandal, any scandal – stick to the Obama Administration continue this week. Last Thursday, the chairs of the five House committees...
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Stormy Monday, 5/27/13
If this week brings some blessed relief from IRS-gate, AP-gate and Benghazi-gate, it will probably be because Salute-gate has crowded them out of the headlines. Republicans have presumably been...
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Stormy Monday, 6/3/13
Tuesday, more IRS crap hits the fan with the release of a watchdog’s report that fingers the agency for, among other things, spending $49 million on employee conferences over the past three years. Some...
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For Obama: One Great Final Step
Oklahoma is the 20th largest US state by population. Its 77 counties rank 17th in states by number of counties. Oklahoma is also the only state where President Barack Obama failed to carry a single...
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Stormy Monday, 6/24/13
This afternoon, the Senate will probably attempt a vote on an omnibus amendment to the comprehensive immigration bill, following last week’s agreement on inclusion of border security measures. If the...
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Take Five (The Anger Games edition)
ONE: Party Scooper? Sarah Palin has managed to turn feigned anger into a pretty damned lucrative pseudo-career. Now on her second stint with Fox News and coming off a headlining appearance at the Faith...
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So, WHAT Do Obamacare Opponents Want?
I’ve been seeing a barrage of articles critical of the ACA today, and – sensing blood in the water – the teabagging sharks are out in full force today as well, posting their bile against the law all...
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More Race and Sex
The humor in ancient wisdom and the folklore celebrated by hunters and gatherers who spent long-ago evenings and days together with family and friends found its source in paradox—that place in life and...
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We Don’t Need Another Hero?
It has been fascinating to read the discussions about Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden on political message boards over the past few months. What has been especially interesting is the fact that both...
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Stormy Monday, 8/5/13
With the House and Senate now shuttered until September, anyone seeking a quick fix of foolishness this week will have to look beyond the Beltway. Ames, Iowa would be an ideal place to start. On...
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Stormy Monday, 8/12/13
Well, it’s taken a full year, but finally something worthwhile is happening again in Washington. It’s DC Beer Week! This year’s list of events is long and varied; many will feature Solidarity Summer...
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ODS – Obama Derangement Syndrome
If you believe the following, you are probably suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS): If Obama said it, it’s a lie. When it’s proven to be the truth, he got lucky – because it’s just a crazy...
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