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• E.Z. Million, Norman's Most Interesting (-ly Named) Politician, Dies

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  Oh, E.Z. Million, never could you manage to proclaim
  An electoral victory due to a football game.
  A single issue politician rarely gets to claim
  A democratic victory to carry him to fame.
  We'll all fondly remember every Fall when you'd exclaim
  That it was so unfair to go [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  by Steve

• Health Care Reform - It's Gonna Suck

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  …Health care has been moving target for republicans …. the Democrats will shift, thinking they have something that the Republicans will go for, and then the Republicans will shift further. And [the Republicans] make a big deal about something that distracts and frightens the voters like those so-called death panels, [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 11:53am EDT
  by Steve

• East Versus West: the Media Wars

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  "No one has the right to insult the president, and they did it. And this is a crime. The person who insulted the president should be punished, and the punishment is jail. ... Such insults and accusations against the government are a return to Hitler's methods, to repeat lies and" [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 4:59pm EDT
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• You Can Tell People Hate Democrats Because More Senators Are Becoming Democrats

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  From Oklahoma's senior Senator Jim Inhofe:
  
  There is no evidence more visible that the American people are already rebelling against the far-left agenda than Senator Arlen Specter switching parties to become a Democrat. He did this for one reason, and that is his advisers told him he couldn’t retain' [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2009, 1:25pm EDT
  by Steve

• The Oklahoma State Legislature is Filled with Morons! Aargh!

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  The Republican-dominated Oklahoma state legislature has accomplished the following tasks this legislative session:
  
  Hating on the Flaming Lips: the innocuous resolution declaring the Flaming Lips' song "Do You Realize??" as the official state song (based on an online poll) was not passed by' [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 2:06pm EDT
  by Steve

• Fox News: Defenders of Right Wing Extremism

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  Apparently conservatives are steaming mad at Janet Napolitano. The Homeland Security Secretary has not withdrawn the report on rightwing extremism released April 9th, nor did she disagree with its findings. The part of the report that most angers Fox News and talk radio personalities is the following footnote:
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 10:27am EDT
  by Steve

• The Most Profitable Banking Practice

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  While reading Eliot Spitzer's continuing effort to excoriate Goldman Sachs over their involvement in the AIG bailout, I came across a sentence that precisely sums up my feelings towards these bailouts that started with Henry Paulson and George W. Bush and is continuing with Tim Geithner and Barack Obama.[...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 4:33pm EDT
  by Steve

• AIG

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  I really hope this dies in the current news cycle, but there has been a lot of fury by members of Congress, UAW members and the general population over the bonuses paid out to top executives at AIG, which was bailed out by the Bush administration (which I only mention [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 8:09am EDT
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• On Presidents and Monkeys

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  Saw this AP article on how some people were up in arms about the racial connotations behind depicting the President of the United States as a chimpanzee being shot.
  
  Of course it's only racist because the current President is black. Depicting the former President' [...]
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  Posted: February 20, 2009, 10:03am EST
  by Steve

• GOP Governors Consider Turning Down Stimulus Money

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  If only the headline to this AP article was true. Or rather, if only it removed the word "consider". Then Oklahoma with its Democratic governor would get a larger slice of the pie and poor people in neighboring Texas would get fewer unemployment benefits, jobs and tax cuts, as [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 8:41pm EST
  by Steve

• Evolution Still Considered Scientific Truth in Oklahoma, but Just Barely

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  Oklahoma science teachers just barely dodged a bullet yesterday when the Senate Education Committee "narrowly defeated" the Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act (SB 320) 7-6. Thankfully this bill that would allow for treating intelligent design as a science subject was killed in committee.
  
  SB 320, [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 9:55am EST
  by Steve

• Private Insurance Makes Nick's Law More Expensive

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  Since the election in November, both the state House and state Senate of Oklahoma are now controlled by Republicans for the first time in roughly forever. And while the House and Senate have only been in session for one' [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 8:17am EST
  by Steve

• My Hero the Scandal-Plagued Former Governor

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  I can't possibly recommend Eliot Spitzer's columns at Slate.com any higher. [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 11:58am EST
  by Steve

• Bush Isn't Done Bringing his Allies Down

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  The Bush Effect claims another victim.

  My OU women's basketball team wins in Waco, 56-51, in an ugly game.
  

  ' [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 9:04pm EST
  by Steve

• Health Care Reform Article Number 142,857

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  With very few potatoes to quibble with recently and little time for thorough investigation of current political events, I'm just going to post a health care article that more clearly explains why our free market health care system does not produce better health.' [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  by Steve

• Hey, haters! The Inaugural Speech Didn't Suck!

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  Look out, America, Barack Obama's at the wheel now!
  
  Unlike a lot of commentators, I thought it was a great inaugural speech. Maybe they were expecting the best speech of their lives, perhaps a speech that would make sweet, sweet love' [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 11:45am EST
  by Steve

• Our Long National Nightmare is Over

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  It was 12:04 pm after I had started my car to go home for lunch when I first heard this phrase while listening to NPR's news bulletin: "Former President George W. Bush".
  
  It's all smiles today! [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  by Steve

• In George W. Bush's Final Press Conference, a Parting Jab at the Elites in Europe

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  A very interesting question from Monday's press conference with outgoing president George W. Bush:
  
  One of the major objectives that the incoming administration has talked frequently about is restoring America's moral standing in the world. And many of the allies of the new President -- I believe that [...]
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  Posted: January 13, 2009, 7:39pm EST
  by Steve

• The Media's Racial Quota Obsession

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  Happy Epiphany!
  
  Did you know that there are currently no black U.S. senators since Barack Obama got a promotion? I feel this is really important for everyone to know, and a fact that almost certainly is being buried by the media. I mean, think about [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2009, 2:36pm EST
  by Steve

• America's New Sacred Rite: Purchasing a Gun

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  There are a couple more weeks before the new Oklahoma state legislature will convene for the first time with Republicans in control of both chambers, and many legislators have indicated several bills they intend to submit. There are at least two sales tax bills of interest. One bill from state [...]
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  Posted: December 23, 2008, 2:14pm EST
  by Steve

• Bush's Interior Department: Completely Corrupt by Design

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  It's hard for a lame duck president in his final days in office to make the big headlines he used to get, and short of an assassination attempt or a random shoe-throwing attack abroad, the president is typically treated with quiet disinterest by the media.' [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2008, 9:36am EST
  by Steve

• Bailout Hypocrisy from Oklahoma's Congressional Delegation

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  I'm against bailouts. I don't like the fact that public taxpayer-funded money could go to private companies if said private companies are huge, dying and poorly managed. But I'm warming to the auto industry bailout precisely because the final version of the bill will be dispensing loan money with tight' [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2008, 4:53pm EST
  by Steve

• Why Automaker Bailouts are Bad, Except for Maybe the One I Propose in this Post

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  Allow me to be the 80 millionth person to put in my two cents against the proposed U.S. automaker bailout. This is one of those issues where I strip off all my Democratic/Socialist clothes and swim in Ron Paul's kool-aid. But I'm completely in agreement with all the most curmudgeonly [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2008, 2:09pm EST
  by Steve

• The College Football Superleague

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  Recently Barack Obama showed that one of the first elements of our nation in need of his brand of change is the way we decide a national champion in college football. Barack Obama, reheating the annual stew of sportswriters and jock-talkers, has come out in favor of an 8-team [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2008, 9:48pm EST
  by Steve

• The Geography of the 2008 Election

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  I've been thinking about the election a lot (of course) and which states can now be considered blue states, red states or purple states. It's a little bit more difficult than just looking at the 2008 election and seeing which states went for Barack Obama and which states went for [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2008, 9:03am EST
  by Steve

• My Votes

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  I was thinking about Alyson's post about how for the first time she voted with the majority (or, I guess, the majority voted with her), so I thought about which candidates I've voted for in my 5 national elections.
  
  2000
  President - Al Gore (D) - Lost (but won [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2008, 11:26am EST
  by Steve

• 2008 Electoral Vote Map

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  Posted: November 05, 2008, 3:36pm EST
  by Steve

• Most Conservative State in the Nation Award

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  There were six states that went for John McCain by a "filibuster-proof" 60% majority of the populace: Alabama, Utah, Wyoming, Alaska, Idaho and Oklahoma. Here are McCain's totals in those states in ascending order:
  
  Alabama - 60.5%
  Idaho - 61.5%
  Alaska - 61.5% (with 99% reporting)
  Utah - 62.9%[...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2008, 9:52am EST
  by Steve

• Election Night Livish Blog

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  5:54 Coming to you from La Casa de Steve, its the Quibbling Potatoes "live blog"! This isn't exactly a "live blog" attempt, but it will be a "running diary". Also, the "quotation marks" will hopefully decrease from "this" point on. Also joining me are Zeke and Copper, dog analysts, as' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 6:05pm EST
  by Steve

• When the Polls Close

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  Happy November!
  
  Here are my predictions for the election night score:

  7:01 - VT - Obama
  7:01 - KY - McCain
  7:31 - WV - McCain
  7:50 - SC - McCain
  8:01 - ME, MA, CT, NJ, DE, MD, DC, IL - Obama
  8:01 - [...]

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  Posted: November 01, 2008, 10:14am EDT
  by Steve

• Running diary of the Big Prime Time Barack Obama Election Extravaganza!

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  He just lost votes in Philadelphia by delaying the World Series game even more.
  
  7:01 "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message." I feel more inspired already.
  
  7:02 Hey, this isn't in hi-def! Maybe it can be interpreted as a dig against McCain, champion of hi-def conversion. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 7:45pm EDT
  by Steve

• Four Things I Learned Today

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  1. U.S. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell is married to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao!
  
  2. Senator John Sununu from New Hampshire is not the same John Sununu from New Hampshire that was George Bush 41's chief of staff! (He's his son.)
  
  3. There's another Marion Berry, and' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 2:54pm EDT
  by Steve

• The Failed Policies of George W. Bush

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  According to almost every news source in America, the Democratic Party will win big on November 4. Presidential candidate Barack Obama is far from the only Democrat who will ride into Washington on the coattails of bad feelings for President George W. Bush. Almost every Democratic candidate for office in [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2008, 3:17pm EDT
  by Steve

• Electoral Vote Map

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  Click here for a downloadable pdf so's you can color along with me on November 4th!. [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2008, 11:09am EDT
  by Steve

• No Go for Ho from FoCo, Yo!

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  Word this morning is that the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC) is cutting off funding for ads and such in three house races because they view them as losses. One of those is Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado's district 4 (Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Greeley, and many small towns [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2008, 7:32am EDT
  by Steve

• Another Election Breakdown! Because Maps are Fun!

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  Analysis of the November 4th election? Why, I don't think anyone else has predicted and analyzed the upcoming election yet.
  
  Okay, so, if you live in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2008, 8:44am EDT
  by Steve

• In Lieu of Flowers...

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  Yeah, and you thought Barack Obama's fundraising totals were high for September? Wait until he releases his fundraising totals for October, after everyone in America gives him $10 'cause of his grandma. [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2008, 10:36pm EDT
  by Steve

• Red State Debate

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  The big debate occurred last night. No, not that "town hall" debate from Memphis we sat through between two guys hammering talking points on a round stage with extraordinarily crimson carpet. I'm talking about the one and only debate between two-and-a-third term U.S. senator and biblical literalist Jim Inhofe and [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2008, 8:05am EDT
  by Steve

• What's That Stuff Trickling Down Again?

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  I read this on a comment on a Freakonomics blog post at the NY Times:
  
  

  Maybe people would be more inclined to believe that Wall Street failure would trickle down to Main Street if Wall Street success had trickled down to Main Street as well.
  
  — [...]

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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 11:10am EDT
  by Steve

• Let's Not Bailout Capitalism!

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  Wow, and just when I was coming around on the whole bailout plan, the House of Representatives defeated Bailout, plan B, just a couple days after minority leader John Boehner torched Bailout, plan A. I think I've finally got my head around the whole short-term credit market and the commercial [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 11:07am EDT
  by Steve

• Let's Bailout Capitalism!

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  Over the weekend the treasury department put forth a bill now winding its way through the U.S. Congress that would allow the U.S. government to buy bad debt from several Wall Street firms in order to allow those Wall Street firms to continue to function. The number put out by [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
  by Steve

• The Federal Gas Tax and How It's Ruining My Livelihood

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  We as a nation received some pretty harsh financial news in a statement from a secretary of Bush's cabinet to the media released over the weekend (when bad economic news is always released) that will drastically affect our already-slumping economy. I'm not talking about the government's takeover of Fannie Mae [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2008, 11:32am EDT
  by Steve

• Some Thoughts on Russia - Georgia

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  Nearly 3 weeks after Russia first rolled tanks and soldiers into the territory of Georgia, we have a nearly daily stream of news reports detailing the many ways that Russia is violating the cease-fire agreement, which you almost never hear mentioned in the Western media without Sarkozy's name attached to [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2008, 9:31am EDT
  by Steve

• Biden Knows Toasted

  Don't know for sure if it's going to be Joe Biden yet, but I created this side-by-side comparison of the senator from Delaware versus the Ritz chips pitchman and the gay blade himself George Hamilton, just in case.
  
  
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  Posted: August 23, 2008, 11:29pm EDT
  by Steve