Tag: us politics
member name: John M.
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November 15, 2006 09:36 AM EST --
For twelve long years the Democratic Party has been relegated to a backwater societal role equivalent to the "Ungodly Unwashed" of premodern India. The recent tumultuous election rinsed all of . . . more
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November 26, 2006 04:36 PM EST --
I disagree with all the conservative pundits who say that the Democrats have no mandate from the voting public. But then again, I also disagree with old line liberals who assert that now is the time to . . . more
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October 28, 2006 11:07 AM EDT --
It's raining heavily this Saturday in Connecticut and the winds are gusting at 25 to 40 mph. Folks are home for the weekend and happy not to have to go out and shatter the pervasive stillness with . . . more
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October 23, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
This is a discussion that was buried under a number of comments in my previous blog but helps me further clarify the term Centrist.
I have a problem with "centrist" viewpoints: what the h*ll . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:58 AM EST --
I just finished reading Paul Krugman's article in today's New York Times. He is positively giddy and couldn't help "flashing" a long past article of his having predicted this outcome. . . . more
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November 17, 2006 08:35 AM EST --
Most of the scuttle but around the Democratic Majority Leader position centered on the role played by Nancy Pelosi. Why was this so important to her that she would risk almost certain defeat on this, her . . . more
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January 08, 2007 11:16 AM EST --
Yesterday on "Meet the Press" Joe Biden debated Lindsay Graham about the Presidents, not yet fully revealed plan for a troop surge in Iraq. The widely respected Lindsay, who never once interrupted . . . more
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October 26, 2006 11:02 AM EDT --
One bad choice begets a rash of others. The disparate cacophony of reported facts about the current circumstances in and around Iraq indicate to me that, there are no good choices open to us, none. That . . . more
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November 18, 2006 09:25 AM EST --
We have grown terribly cynical about the possibility that people (some politicians are people ) who have done some questionable things in the past can ever be trusted again. We assume that if similar temptations . . . more
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December 11, 2006 04:11 PM EST --
Over the past four years the foundation upon which the whole Iraq enterprise has been built has been coming apart brick by brick. From the original rationale for the war, to our repeated failures to achieve . . . more
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December 14, 2006 11:00 AM EST --
Why do all our Presidential candidates have to be Governors or Senators or Lawyers? I am unhappy with being limited to those choices alone. Where is it written that only those with political experience . . . more
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February 22, 2007 12:39 PM EST --
Yesterdays imbroglio between Hillary and Barack was ignited surprisingly early in the campaign and as it unfolded proved to be quite revealing about the leading candidate. Hillary Clinton has just demonstrated . . . more
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January 16, 2007 10:04 AM EST --
What is to be done about below average academic performance in our schools? Any serious attempt to address this question has to consider the major causes. Some of the culprits identified and targeted by . . . more
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February 08, 2007 10:44 PM EST --
Hillary Clinton has everything she needs to be elected President of the United States, and then some. Her campaign will raise much more money than any Democratic candidate has ever accumulated and will . . . more
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February 28, 2007 10:27 AM EST --
This upcoming presidential election shows promise of upending, to the delight of most Americans, the present odds on favorites from both parties. The campaigns have started so terribly early that they . . . more
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November 08, 2006 10:05 AM EST --
Rx for losers: What will happen to every ones failed predictions? There is a guaranteed prescription for every such errant prognostication. For those eligible for Medicare, prescription drugs, the painful . . . more
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January 29, 2007 08:48 AM EST --
There is a growing separation taking place between George Bush and the American Presidency. The irony is that for six years the administration has striven with initial success to erect a bubble of protective . . . more
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January 25, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
In todays edition of the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger assesses the the national mood as fatalistic. "The United States is talking itself into defeat in Iraq. Its political culture is now . . . more
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February 07, 2007 10:29 AM EST --
In today's Washington Post David Ignacius advises that we should begin immediately preparing for the worst in Iraq. If it's true, as many have come to believe, that Iraq is coming apart and there . . . more
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February 08, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
In today's Wall Street Journal, James Taranto in an article makes the point that it is far better to have someone with resolve who is steadfast in the White House even when he or she is wrong than . . . more
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