Archives in Category: Politics

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677 Days to Go

Posted on March 16, 2007

For Christmas, I received “The Out of Office Countdown 2007 Calendar.” It’s not only a calendar but also a compendium of unintentionally witty statements our president has made during his years in office. It will keep me laughing until George

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Campaign Crazies

Posted on February 20, 2007

Last week the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, became the latest candidate to announce he’s running for president. It drove me crazy. Not because he’s unqualified. That remains to be seen. Not because he’s an African American. That’s irrelevant

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Missing Molly

Posted on February 12, 2007

Molly Ivins, the syndicated liberal columnist who heralded from the same state as our current President, died about ten days ago after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was my age, sixty-two.

It was a surprise, not only because

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Hiroshima Day

Posted on August 6, 2006

Today is Hiroshima Day, the sixty-first anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in the world’s history. The United States holds the dubious distinction of having been the country that dropped it. And since then politicians, political scientists,

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Number One

Posted on May 15, 2006

Maybe I have my head in the sand when it comes to the topic of illegal immigration. I understand the problem is complex and so, by default, must be the solution. What I don’t understand is how some politicians —

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Lincoln

Posted on April 14, 2006

One hundred forty-one years ago today, Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States of America, succumbed to an assassin’s bullet. There is nobody alive now who remembers that ignominious event. Yet, historians still recall the drama of it. Book

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Solution

Posted on April 5, 2006

I recently read an article by Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, which makes complete sense to me. It offers a logical solution for ending the same-sex marriage debate between conservatives and liberals. At

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Port Purchase

Posted on February 23, 2006

I’m confused.

For the past five years President Bush has said, time and again, that our national security is of the utmost importance. He has pledged troops to battle on that account; he has limited some of our freedoms too.

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Cartoon Politics

Posted on February 16, 2006

Last night’s news broadcasts reported that Vice President Richard Cheney finally assumed personal responsibility for his negligence last week regarding the hunting incident where his friend was injured. I could certainly find more grist for my blog with this turn

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Cheney

Posted on February 15, 2006

Vice President Cheney has been silent so far about his accidentally spraying his friend, attorney Harry Whittington, with buckshot during an afternoon while the two buddies were hunting.

If I were Whittington, I’m not sure I would still call Cheney

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