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  • Daring to challenge St. Obama

    People who are unhappy with some of the moves, or failures to move, by President Obama are being told, in effect, to sit down and shut up.

    “Give the man a chance,” someone inevitably says when we complain that Obama's economic advisers are members of the same crowd' [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2009, 8:18am EDT
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  • Guns: Pimping for a dirty business

    You have to give America's increasingly extreme political right great credit in one area.

    Its propagandists, the ones it has right now, are the best at flaying facts and selling disinformation since things went belly up for Joseph Goebbels 1945.

    The best of the best –-' [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 5:50pm EDT
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  • Guns 2: The hidden business

    When Hillary Clinton declared in March that weapons are flowing from the United States to Mexico's drug cartels, you'd have thought she'd revealed that madwoman Ann Coulter is a drag queen, rather than stated a fact well known to law enforcement people and many others on both sides of the' [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 5:35pm EDT
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  • Guns 3: Dangerous people

    This country needs to take a really good look at its semi-underground gun culture.

    It probably needs two such investigations, one by some official organization, preferably under Congressional sponsorship, and one by a team, or several teams, of thorough and courageous journalists -– if such can still be found. [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
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  • Car companies: Save or not save?

    It's terrible to contemplate the lost jobs and the resulting suffering that the failures of the American auto industry have brought to our country.

    If you understand what has happened, it's also impossible not to be angry -– no, furious –- at the foolish, narrow-minded, short-sighted, greedy executives who [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 12:46pm EDT
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  • Senate race: Enough already

    Minnesotans are inclined to let the election process take its course, and so we've been patient beyond reason with the drawn out battle to determine a winner in the U.S. Senate race between right wing Republican Norm Coleman and Al Franken, whose position on the left-to-right scale is pretty much' [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 3:38pm EDT
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  • Management: The book not written

    For more than 30 years, I kept notes on the silliness, childish attitudes, wrong-headed assumptions, dishonesty, greed and frequent over-the-top stupidities of American business leadership.

    Oh, yes: I also took notes when I ran across a genuinely intelligent and able business leader, but the stack of those notes [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 11:09am EDT
    by James

  • A personal story; bankers are idiots

    You can hardly have a conversation these days that doesn't at some point include angry mention of bankers.

    The anger is about the taxpayer bailout of banks and the fact that the same dribbling idiots who brought the banks and our economy to ruin are still in charge' [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2009, 7:23pm EDT
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  • Execs err, employees are supposed to pay

    The publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Chris Harte, is outraged that the 116 members of the now flabby, right-leaning newspaper's pressman's union have thus far refused to agree to major cuts in pay and work rule changes that would significantly weaken their protections against overwork, forced overtime and similar [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2009, 9:39pm EST
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  • Bankers contrite? Not a chance

    It's almost impossible at times to keep from laughing out loud as people from Barack Obama to my neighborhood handyman complain about bank executives and other big shots who continue to pay themselves big bonuses and buy fancy private jets even as they suck up billions of dollars of tax' [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 10:54am EST
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  • A modest propsal for peace

    Obviously, I have been away from this blog for some time. It happens every year in December and January, and perhaps next year I'll just admit in advance that I can't keep up with holiday-time demands and continue to write frequently. At any rate, I hope to be back to [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 4:16pm EST
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  • Vote fraud hasn't disappeared

    Yes, I was wrong. Barack Obama was elected, and rather handily at that. And I'm happy for that, very pleased to have been wrong, very relieved that the neocons will be out of power come Jan. 20.

    There was a considerable period of time during which I was one' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 12:56pm EST
    by James

  • Republicans suppressing the vote

    With just a few days to go to the 2008 election, it looks like Democrat Barack Obama will get more votes than will John McCain, the floundering, panic-stricken Republican candidate for president.

    At least more Americans will try to vote for Obama than will vote for McCain.

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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 10:32am EDT
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  • Gas price electioneering

    Excited about the big drop in gasoline prices?

    Don't get too wound up.

    At the beginning of the July 4 holiday period in 2006, the average price of gasoline in the United States was $2.873. By the middle of October, as the mid-term elections neared, the national' [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 12:32pm EDT
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  • The truth: We are two Americas

    Over all, the United States of America has the government it deserves.

    Millions of us, and the rest of the world, deserve better, but there doesn't seem to be much of significance we can do about that at the moment. The ignorant rule. Or, rather, the plutocrats rule to' [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 11:24am EDT
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  • Observations on a small, conservative city

    It's beginning to seem that America's right wing nuts hate themselves almost as much as they despise everybody who isn't them –- which is to say white, dogmatically religious, and proudly ignorant of other places, other cultures and other points of view.

    How else explain the fact that supporters' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 12:50pm EDT
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  • Fraud on a grand scale

    “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” -- Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, 1922-43, creator of modern fascism.


    To be fair, it should be noted that Mussolini was talking about something more than business corporations when he spoke about [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 7:50pm EDT
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  • Unintended lessons of the bailout

    That the American people are going to be swindled again, or further swindled, to bail out the untouchable, unreachable rich seems inevitable.

    The volume of commentary on the banker bailout is huge, and most of it should go directly to the “junk” folder or a recycling plant. I'm' [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2008, 8:59pm EDT
    by James

  • Contact your reps in Congress now

    There are at least three urgent reasons to contact your senators and representatives in Congress now. This week. No later than Wednesday.

    First, we taxpayers -- as opposed to the rich, who pay very little in taxes -- are about to bail out giant financial institutions throughout the country [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2008, 12:47pm EDT
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  • The rich grow more powerful as we suffer

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    As you watch your assets bleed away this week and into the future, take time to recognize two facts thus far not mentioned much, if at all, by the panting reporters and sweating pundits:

    What is happening now was easily preventable, but it perfectly suits the goals of the [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 3:46pm EDT
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  • McCain, Keating and Willy Loman

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    The Oct. 9, 1999, edition of the Phoenix newspaper, the Arizona Republic, the state's largest newspaper, carried a column by Bill Muller, setting out in somewhat more than ordinary detail the long and mutually helpful association of John McCain with Charles Keating.

    Keating was the savings and loan' [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 3:46pm EDT
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  • Speaking with forked tongue

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    Sarah Palin, the extreme right's favorite vicious babe, on Wednesday (Sept. 17) offered a revealing little sidelight to the financial and economic horrors that were developing through the day. In a single speech, Palin allowed that a McCain/Palin presidency would bring a return to strong regulation of business and, a' [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 3:46pm EDT
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  • Reach your own conclusions

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    For the record: I have predicted in this space more than once since the middle of last year that we were headed for some level of economic crisis. One brief mention is in the Nov. 23, 2007, posting.

    There is, I admit, a certain small satisfaction in being [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 3:46pm EDT
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  • 'Straight talk' now straight lies

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    In 2000, after being chased out of the hunt for the Republican presidential nomination by the Bush slime machine, John McCain said in a television interview that he had said and done some things during his campaign that he did not believe and of which he was ashamed.

    A [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2008, 12:07am EDT
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  • Personal story: My last peace march

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    That's it, I think.

    No more peace marches, antiwar marches, any kind of marches for me.

    The experience of Monday, Sept. 1, in St. Paul has persuaded me that such demonstrations now are worse than useless. They are counterproductive.

    Monday I wore a T-shirt given to me' [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 6:25pm EDT
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  • Following up on Georgia

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    Democrats were upset when Karl Rove ignored a congressional subpoena in early July.

    He was called before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about his meddling – excuse me, alleged meddling – in Justice Department prosecutions, but in essence told Congress to get stuffed.

    Republicans didn't seem' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 10:36am EDT
    by James

  • Georgia (sadly) On My Mind

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    We have been neo-conned again, big time.

    While those who try to follow the machinations of the Bushcheney crowd were keeping an eye on the maneuvering and threats against Iran, the shrewd madmen of Cheney's wrecking crew slipped Georgia in on us. I don't know of anybody who saw [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2008, 9:28pm EDT
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  • If the media are America , we're dead

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    Early in April of this year, a reader sent me a note which included the observation that most of the people he knows seem to think the corporate media, collectively, “is America.”

    That is, he explained, they believe “nobody cares about this” or “everybody's talking about that” based' [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 10:19am EDT
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  • Hey, let's drop stuff on dark-skinned people

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    Let's have some fun today.

    Let's all telephone and write the White House and tell Dick Cheney to bomb Myanmar and Zimbabwe.

    If we can pull it off, it will be the biggest -- maybe the only -- win-win deal of the Bushcheney years.

    I'm betting' [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2008, 12:41pm EDT
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  • Another Big Lie campaign

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    In case you missed the two or three 12-second reports on the news: Shaul Mofaz, deputy prime minister of Israel, said Friday that an attack on Iran's nuclear sites is “unavoidable” if Tehran refuses to halt it's alleged nuclear weapons program.

    He didn't say “alleged,” however. That's my [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2008, 12:26pm EDT
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  • A little prayer, of sorts, for Obama

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    To whom it may concern:

    Please, do not let Barack Obama be pressured or suckered into accepting Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

    If you have any warm feelings at all for humanity, please do not even let him be conned into accepting her into his cabinet, should [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 11:43pm EDT
    by James

  • Memorial Day pride: Not so much

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    Memorial Day 2008 has come and gone. Some folks tended graves of their families' dead, politicians gave speeches that mostly insulted the intelligence of Americans who have some sense of reality and knowledge of facts about the state of the country and its wars.

    Many people, though perhaps [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 11:20pm EDT
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  • Lebanon through the looking glass

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    Hello? Red Queen? Hatter? Rabbit? Alice? Anyone?

    Reading about the recent hostilities in Lebanon and growing ever sadder, it suddenly hit me like a two-by-four to the head that all of the reporting and all the pundit blathering on the situation, at least in this country, has a [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2008, 8:51pm EDT
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  • Oh, what a tangled web...

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    It's shameful, I know, but I enjoy the stories of “family-values,” law-n-order rich-guy politicians who get caught with their pants down – the more so if it's pretty much literally true.

    Generally speaking, I believe in cutting people much slack for human failings, and I strongly believe that the [...]
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    Posted: May 10, 2008, 11:47am EDT
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  • Economic stimulus or just another con job?

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    Most of us haven't yet received our tax rebates -- our shares of the bipartisan boondoggle designed to make us believe that Congress and the White House are doing something about the gawdawful economic mess they've created for us.

    Same old, same old.

    The money will come [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2008, 4:56pm EDT
    by James

  • A novel idea for our future

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    Let's play a little intellectual game – not too difficult, mind you, and sure to be lots of fun.

    We'll each pretend to be an author planning to use a number of established facts, real-life facts, as the basis for constructing a novel. Let's see how many of us [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2008, 11:29am EDT
    by James

  • Cable business nooz; feminism or ogling?

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    Something that never occurred to me until I began paying a little attention again to cable nooz business programs a couple of months ago:

    Only physically very attractive women in the 30s are qualified to anchor shows covering economics and the equities and commodities markets. In fact, very [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2008, 3:28pm EDT
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  • Avoiding thought, dodging reality

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    “Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.”

    --Eric Fromm, psychotherapist, author, refugee from Nazi Germany, who described three ways people escape from freedom: 1. Accepting authoritarianism. 2. Destructiveness against all who oppose or disagree. 3. “Automaton conformity.”


    It was obvious we were going [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2008, 11:05am EDT
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  • The story untold, the issue unexamined

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    The degree to which the corporate news outfits control public discourse in this country truly is appalling.

    Even people who rail daily at the unbalanced coverage, corporate cheerleading and outright lies of cable and network news and daily newspapers are sucked in. We allow CNN and Fox and the [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2008, 11:35am EDT
    by James

  • Where "Mission Accomplished" came from

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    Sometimes, the Bush White House's habit of borrowing intimidation and propaganda techniques used by earlier...ahem...authoritarian regimes sets some of us to rooting in our memories.

    Since May 1, 2003, I have been annoyed by repeated thoughts of George W. Bush, in flight suit, landing on the carrier USS [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2008, 3:50pm EDT
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  • One nation, under surveillance

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    More than a year ago, my wife gave me a tee shirt that shows a pair of obviously hostile eyes over a line of type that says, “One Nation Under Surveillance.”

    I wear it now and then in hot weather, and inevitably it draws looks and a rather [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2008, 3:32pm EDT
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  • A few quick comments

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    Geraldine Ferarro is a confidante and committed supporter of Hillary Clinton, and until Wednesday a member of the Clinton campaign hierarchy.

    Well, it may be that like Karl Rove, she isn't really going away, but in any case...

    Ferarro made a comment she knew would be picked [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 6:59pm EDT
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  • Five uneasy pieces

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    A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were hit with a nasty pulmonary bug that's making the rounds. She got better, my ailment transformed smoothly, almost gracefully, into pneumonia. I took some new antibiotic, and I got better. Then I got worse again. Unpleasant, not dangerous, but it [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 10:42am EDT
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  • Piece 1: Pawlenty; pretty but poisonous

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    Beware America.

    As bizarre as it seems to a reasonably informed citizen of the state, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty still is being considered as a running mate for John McCain. Should he be chosen, there's a very good chance he'll be in the hunt for the presidency in 2012.
    [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 10:29am EDT
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  • Piece 2: Facing harsh reality

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    The real question is not who among the present trio of preowned candidates will make the better president, but can the American electoral system be restored in time to revive the country's Constitution-based form of government before it is permanently replaced by corporate rule?

    The step to permanent rule [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 11:40am EDT
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  • Piece 3: Here comes the right wing filth

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    The engines of the radical right's slime machines are just beginning to cough into life.

    Their operators and funders, shadowy at best, with identities often completely hidden beneath layer over layer of organizational fictions, have just begun the tune-ups and tinkering that precede an all-out campaign effort.

    [...]
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    Posted: March 07, 2008, 11:29am EST
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  • Piece 4: The real reason Nader shouldn't run

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    It is a bit of a shame that Ralph Nader has declared again for the presidency of the United States.

    That is true, I think, not for any of the reasons corporate liberals and reliable members and backers of the Democratic National Committee are bleating about, but for another [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2008, 3:11pm EST
    by James

  • Bush bungling in Pakistan

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    It is an established fact that George W. Bush makes instantaneous decisions about individuals he meets on “gut feelings” and rarely thereafter allows fact to alter his opinion.

    He fell immediately in love with Vladimir Putin, said good ol' Vlad was “my kinda guy,” and has yet to deny [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 3:13pm EST
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  • U.S. policy on Cuba: Stupidity and cowardice

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    So, have you heard the bold statements from Democrats about making efforts now to drop our senseless attitude –- one can hardly call it a policy in any real sense -– and reconcile with Cuba?

    Oh? You haven't.

    Of course not.

    The Dems are exactly [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2008, 11:06am EST
    by James

  • A puzzle for you...or maybe not

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    What follows is a report of facts, gathered from several sources, without comment from me, other than, perhaps, an occasional shot at some blatant absurdity. I make no proposal of meaning.

    On Feb. 7, 2008, The Progressive magazine published -- with a somewhat breathless claim for exclusiveness -- an [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2008, 11:46am EST
    by James
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