Archives in Category: Politics

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Bush’s Bad Day

Posted on February 10, 2006

Last night’s network news seemed fraught with problems for President Bush. He went on television to describe, in much more detail than is usual for him, about how our security teams in the United States foiled an attack on the

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Medicare

Posted on December 1, 2005

Enrollment in the new Medicare prescription drug coverage plan began over two weeks ago, and I’m dragging my feet in studying it on Earl’s behalf. The President – I hesitate to say “Our President” – claims “this is the greatest

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Congressman Murtha

Posted on November 19, 2005

I had not heard of Pennsylvania’s Representative John Murtha until he openly criticized the Bush Administration’s current handling of the war in Iraq this week. Murtha, who was first elected to Congress in 1974, is the ranking Democrat on the

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President Bush

Posted on November 18, 2005

President Bush is somewhere in Asia getting ready to meet with the head of China. My lack of precise details shows how uninterested I really am. At the same time, I’ve heard smatterings of Bush’s remarks about the behavior of

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Harriet No More

Posted on October 28, 2005

Yesterday the media announced that Harriet Miers had written a letter to President Bush requesting that he withdraw her name from nomination as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Reluctantly, he did so.

Now President Bush is not someone

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Harriet

Posted on October 12, 2005

I’m confused about Harriet. As in Harriet Miers.

She is President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court to replace outgoing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. By many accounts, she is a fine lawyer; by equally many accounts there is little record

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Miss Saigon

Posted on October 5, 2005

Last weekend, Earl and I saw “Miss Saigon,” the blockbuster that played its way into the third longest running musical in Broadway history. (For the record, “Cats” is first.) I liked it better than Earl did. But I must admit

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Bill O’Reilly

Posted on September 24, 2005

A couple nights ago I caught a snippet of an interview between former talk show host Phil Donahue and current Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. The latter runs the Bill O’Reilly Show. Then last night, I saw the same O’Reilly

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Semantics

Posted on September 9, 2005

There are thousands of former residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Are they refugees or evacuees?

At first glance, what does it matter? After all, what’s most important in the here and now is to help them. Help them find

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Barbara Bush

Posted on September 8, 2005

There is a statement attributed to former First Lady Barbara Bush that is circling the airwaves. I quote it as it arrived in my email box. I have tried to ascertain its accuracy, but so far the only barometer I

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