Rhetoric & Rhythm

• Texas Republicans caught with pants down on military contract deal

  Texas is losing a big military contract to Wisconsin and Republican politicians across the state are now left with egg on their face.
  
  The Pentagon's decision to shift the production of Army trucks from Texas to Wisconsin after 17 years caught Texas' elected officials by surprise, raising questions' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:49pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Religious Odyssey Part 1

  I've always considered myself to be a Christian. My mother's family was Southern Baptist and my father's family was Methodist. Early on we attended Baptist churches and my first memories of Sunday School are from a Baptist Church in Indiana. Later on when I was about junior high age we' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:08pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Republicans' history of getting it wrong

  Why would anyone believe Republicans when they predict doom and gloom resulting from the new health care reform bill?
  If history is any lesson, it should be clear based on their past track record that Republican predictions in these debates should be viewed with a high degree [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:39am EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Texas executes a man for robbery as Perry thumbs his nose at parole board

  The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is so stacked with rightwing death penalty supporters that it almost never recommends commuting a sentence. But it did so the other day for Robert Lee Thompson on account of the fact that he didn't kill anybody. He was party to a robbery' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:39pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Express-News promotes lone conservative dissenter; ignores liberal majority

  I'm still shaking my head over this article from the San Antonio Express-News on Wednesday.
  
  Texas students will feel ashamed of this country instead of proud and likely get a liberally biased view of U.S. history if new social studies curriculum standards are not changed, says' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:05pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Peep

  
  
  I've become hooked on a new kids show that I've been watching with my kids. PEEP and the Big Wide World features three main characters: Peep, a little yellow chick; Chirp, a little red bird; and Quack, a kind of blobby purple duck. The animation is very [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• RNC Hypocrites

  Hypocricy exposed at the RNC
  
  The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
  Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Obama at Fort Hood memorial

  

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:23pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Election results: Teabaggers lose

  I can’t really blame the Republicans for getting excited about last night’s election results. Lord knows they are desperate for some good news after getting their clocks cleaned in the last several elections.
  But one thing should be made clear about this election. While Republicans may have won two big [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Ayn Rand and the contradictions of the GOP

  
  New biographies are out about Ayn Rand just as her objectivist philosophy is becoming resurgent within the rapidly shrinking Republican Party.
  I first heard of Rand when I was in college working with a group of liberal, [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

• Republican implosion in NY 23rd

  Frank Rich's column in Sunday's NY Times is a must read this week.
  One can't help but wonder if we are witnessing the disintegration of the Republican Party.
  The wingnuts and the teabaggers who are taking over the Republican Party forced the Republican nominee in the race for' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:13pm EST
  by Mike Thomas