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Jul.16.2011
Run for the hills, everybody! Armageddon is imminent! The sky is beyond falling; it's anvil-plummeting onto our heads so fast that the clouds are whistling the love theme from the movie "2012." The U.S. economy is about to melt down like a popsicle left on a Palm Springs picnic table...
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Jun.27.2011
There has been a lot said about the enthusiasm and passion of the Tea Party Movement. It has been stoked as the “people’s movement” consisting of conservatives, democrats and independents. All of whom are acting out of nothing else but “genuine” concern for the country and its direction. However...
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Jun.14.2011
Much has been said about a billboard that projected an image of former President George W. Bush with the words "Do you miss me yet?" Many progressives and liberals would readily respond, "No, it is like you never left!" After all, the Bush tax cuts have been extended,...
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May.26.2011
Once upon a time, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, there came a great famine. Many families went hungry, many lost their homes, and even the rich put out the begging bowl.
Feed us, said the fat to the thin, for without us the land shall surely die. And the frightened...
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Apr.11.2011
I’m back in New York City with my son. Tomorrow a play he’s written the music to will be produced at NYU as part of his MFA work. He was able to find us tickets to the play The Book of Mormon.
The high-concept play, one of the hottest tickets in recent years, was written by the guys who...
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Apr.07.2011
Do you feel like tucking your head under your wing and letting the world go by? You are not alone. When political discourse—such as the current combat over the federal budget—is this frighteningly unhinged from on-the-ground reality, a raw will to power is in play.
Never mind all the spin, the...
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Mar.30.2011
See, I am in a sort of confused state of mind. When I glanced at a report about Donald trump discussing birth certificates, I thought he wanted to know where Christopher Columbus was born. Then I figured out it was something about birthers and images of village elders who help women in...
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Feb.23.2011
What manner of fresh hell will the Republicans think of next? First the Republican Governors adapted Karl Rove's lockstepping, bootjacking game plan to quickly ram measures through their legislatures to decimate public employee unions, i.e. those traitors who did not support their elections. ...
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Feb.18.2011
After three hours of mind-numbing debate, and on the eve of a holiday weekend, the House passed an amendment sponsored by an Indiana Republican congressman, Mike Pence, which effectively cuts off all federal funding to Planned Parenthood. As Politico reports, the measure won by a comfortable margin...
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Feb.18.2011
After three hours of mind-numbing debate, and on the eve of a holiday weekend, the House passed an amendment sponsored by an Indiana Republican congressman, Mike Pence, which effectively cuts off all federal funding to Planned Parenthood. As Politico reports, the measure won by a comfortable margin...
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