Time magazine a few weeks ago did a cover on the idea that the only heaven that counts is the one here on Earth, which should be established by high-minded, benevolent, educated people for the good of us in the unwashed, ignorant mob. In fact, the anonymous editorialist proc …
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Since Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton successfully reformed welfare entitlements trickling down from the federal level to the states in the late 1990's, the race has been on to find new and creative ways to undo those reforms. The aim has not been to …
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Forget the huge red herring/manufactured distraction about contraception.
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The Democrat Party today embraces the intellectually lazy (and economically disastrous) habit of lumping the rich and the super-rich into the same category and treating them interchangeably, especially for cheap demagogic demonization purposes. &n …
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Sometimes political opinion leaks over into the dangerous realms of commercial advertising.
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Sometimes called the father of string theory and the solver of Hawking's paradox (via creating the Holographic Principle), Leonard Susskind is back on the Dish networks Science channel with a new series entitled WHAT IS REALITY? Just a few years back Susskind stirred the intellec …
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I have bored Newsviners with tales of the recently-retired lifestyle of two former public employees (the wife and I) and my many complaints that our lifetime of thrift, shrewd investment, and steady service may result in the Obama administration and allied Democrats upg …
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I am retired now but when I wasn't a master's degree in educational counseling guided me into a tour as a drug and alcohol counselor in Native American villages and on a reservation, and later into a much better paid position in a large West Coast city. While in the sch …
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Liberals with long memories are very fond of recounting the story of how, once upon a time, there was a land where individual income tax rates were as high as 90% in the top bracket but life in that land overflowed with serenity, justice, and milk and honey. The proposition that …
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The first thing you have to understand about the current deficit crisis is the concept of baseline budgeting (BB), which our nation has practiced since 1974.
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It is the nature of terrorism, even lone wolf terrorism, that the aggressors prefer to attack large groups who have no weapons or security available and no easy way to flee. It therefore seems incomprehensible that youngsters and adults are all well schooled in wha …
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The conflict between pragmatism and principle is an old one in the relatively short history of the United States of America. People of a pragmatic bent are absolutely essential to keeping most of the world's civilized and prosperous nations humming along.
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Start with accurately portraying the socio-economic classes in America and their political affiliations.
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We are all Keynesians now, said some idiot a few decades ago. It doesn't matter who he was.
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This week America's most self-important weekly news magazine has a clever cover titled Baracketology, which pictures potential Republican challengers to the president in a sports type playoff bracket with insiders on the left and outsiders on the rig …
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Syndicated columnist Froma Harrop (only one of her shows up when googled!) this week published a piece on the Food and Drug Administration considering the removal of the drug Avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer treatment. The issue about Avastin is that an FDA advis …
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This article is prompted by a piece this week in Newsweek magazine.
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The challenge to the continued existence of Israel posed by the Obama administration's proposal to return to the boundaries of Israel in 1967 harbors many implicit assumptions and many more unforeseeable ramifications. O …
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In late August, 2012, a type of vehicle not seen on American streets since 1942 made its appearance. Looking like an automobile being humped by a huge hot dog lashed to their roofs, the vehicles emit a foul smell as they chug around slowly.
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I have really bad teeth, the kind that periodically erupt into week-long spasms of tortuous pain that the over-the-counter analgesics just can't touch.
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Recent computer updating of Hawaiian birth register records from 1947 has revealed that a certificate of life birth has been located for one Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger.
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The lackluster resistance that Republican leaders exhibited in the recent budget fight has ignited a rhetoric firestorm among us right-wingers.
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Presidential aspirant Donald Trump has amazed many followers of politics by bringing up the unmentionable (in some sophisticated quarters) failure of President Obama to allow the long form of his Hawaiian birth certificate to become public.
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I have a friend who drove down to Olympia to our state capitol in 1974 to turn in his last requirement to get his teaching certificate. He finally found the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the building of another state bureaucracy.
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When Muamar Qadhafi's forces were raiding into Benghazi a little over a week ago even as Qadhafi threatened genocide and tribal cleansing against the beleaguered rebels, many in the West thought, Wow, this has to be stopped immediately.
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I love The View with one exception. That exception is Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
In the 1970’s, the Gaia hypothesis was born. Initially, the hypothesis was met with great skepticism but since then it has gained a lot of traction in the scientific community. Basically, the theory states that the Earth and everything on it, act as a sort of self-regulati …
Reince Priebus says the official position of the Republican Party is that gays and lesbians should not be allowed to marry, they do not see it as a civil rights issue, and what’s more, they want a constitutional amendment to enshrine their bigotry as the law of the land, …
It’s happening in Buenos Aires. It’s happening in Paris and in Athens. It’s even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that prevailed for the last three decades. Europeans are rejecting austerity. …
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.
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