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HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION - Dirty Tricks by a GOP Operative

“How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative.” In it, he paints a picture of the corruption of modern politics that should leave no doubt about the creativity and cynicism of operatives like Mr. Raymond or the need for tough new election-reform legislation.  Read more
01/01/2008

Who I'm for and why

Casting a ballot is not about making some statement, it’s about which philosophy is going to run the government and thereby affect the lives of us all. Following along the “art of the possible” model, pulling the lever or blackening the bubble adjacent a candidate who has no real chance of winning is foolhardy. What it does is weaken the likelihood an acceptable, yet more electable candidate will actually be nominated, then elected.  Read more
12/25/2007

So Hoover would have jailed me, huh?

A dictator and a tyrant are dictators and tyrants, regardless of the country in which they dwell; exactly as are all in the Bush administration who would suspend for a second any provision that keeps us from their clawing talons reach.  Read more
12/23/2007

Merry Christmas -- Whatever

Merry Christmas, except the one I enjoyed in 1968 was so much merrier, not just for me, but for almost everyone in America.  Read more
12/22/2007

The Politics and Excreta of Ann Coulter Mirror What the Right is All About

Why does Ann Coulter keep getting asked back? She sells cars, and a lot of the other crap so many Americans want.  Read more
12/20/2007

Essential Questions & Points to Ponder

Rather a mess, no? Yes it is, and it’s absolutely, unequivocally a Republican/GOP deregulate everything/monitor nothing (What, you thought the sub-prime fiasco would be consequence free?), dive-head-first into the shallow pool of “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter” policies of trillion-dollar preemptive wars.  Read more
12/17/2007

GOP Debaters & The Wizard of Oz

Why the younger generation doesn’t hold their parents and grandparents in utter contempt escapes me. We have borrowed heavily, as in HEAVILY!!!, from China, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Great Britain, and Mexico, and it’s the kids who will come behind us who will be forced to somehow pay the horribly obscene tab for their parents’ and grandparents’ irresponsible profligacy. Read more
10/10/2007

Charge it to My Kids!

Every so often a quote comes out of the Bush administration that leaves you asking: Am I crazy or are they? I had one of those moments last week when Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, was asked about a proposal by some Congressional Democrats to levy a surtax to pay for the Iraq war, and she responded, “We’ve always known that Democrats seem to revert to type, and they are willing to raise taxes on just about anything.”  Read more
10/07/2007

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