The possibility of victory can be a heavy millstone around the neck of any political candidate who might prefer, in his heart, to spend his main energies on a series of terrifying, whiplash assaults on everything the voters hold dear. There … [Read more...]
Please, Mr. President, don’t learn the wrong lesson
Pardon me, but WTF is this? [A]s the president returned home on Sunday to face an even more rigidly divided capital city, Mr. Obama went even further: he blamed himself for the failure to do what he had repeatedly promised: to change the … [Read more...]
Rule of Law awaits better political climate
Glenn Greenwald reminds us of the Right-wing wailing and Left-wing accolades that greeted AG Holder's announcement a year ago that KSM and four other Guantanamo inmates would face criminal trials. Greenwald questions the depth of Democrats' … [Read more...]
Social Security: They Want To Cut, We Plan To Fight
He is always plotting and carrying out great enterprises, which have always kept his subjects bewildered and astonished, waiting to see what their outcome would be. And his deeds have followed one another so closely that he has never left … [Read more...]
Social Security: The War Begins Tuesday, And You Better Say Oh, No!
BIG MISTAKE MANY MAKE RELY ON HORN INSTEAD OF BRAKE BURMA SHAVE --Actual "Burma Shave" Message, 1945, from "Verse By The Side of the Road", Frank Rowsome, Jr. So here's the dish: a limited partnership corporation called The Blackstone … [Read more...]
On Asking Experts, Part One, Or, Do Democrats Really Understand Their LBGT Problem?
"We were liberated not only empty-handed but left in the power of a people who resented our emancipation as an act of unjust punishment to them. They were therefore armed with a motive for doing everything in their power to render our … [Read more...]
The president, “Robo Signing,” and you. Why Obama should not sign H.R.3808.
Although the coverage in the press is presented in the context of the ongoing home foreclosure crisis, the practice of "robosigning" is also prevalent in the universe of consumer credit and debt litigation. That is my experience, so that is … [Read more...]
On Fence-Straddling, Or, And Now, A Few Words From Blanche Lincoln
And there is still this most difficult question of all: If we are eventually fortunate enough to find truth, who among us will know how to make good use of it? --Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" So here's the … [Read more...]
Obama shows… liberalism!
The same week his press secretary laces into the "professional Left," President Obama 1) unambiguously defends religious freedom re the location of a community center & mosque planned near the 9/11 site and 2) delivers a staunchly … [Read more...]
On Saving 319,000 Jobs, Or, Legislation Keeps Teachers Teaching
So across my desk have come documents that report how many jobs will be saved by the House coming back into session to vote out H.R. 1586 and send it to the President for his signature. Long story short, after all the commemorative pens … [Read more...]
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