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Republicans Fighting for the Heart of the Republican Party 21 Jan 2012 | 08:03 pm
Santorum won the Iowa caucus after all, despite some alleged last minute shenanigans by the Romney supporters. But Romney clearly won New Hampshire, which is basically in his backyard. And, surprise, ...
A Contrarian Post on the Keystone XL Pipeline 20 Jan 2012 | 03:00 pm
I'm going to say some things in this post about the Keystone XL Pipeline that are likely to irritate liberals and conservatives. So let me begin with some premises about what's going on in the world. ...
The Sociopaths on Wall Street 9 Jan 2012 | 11:42 am
The ideal corporation through most of the 20th century was one that pursued profits while being reasonably responsible toward workers, the community, and consumers. Since about the 1960s, corporations...
The Republican Establishment Is Weighing In 4 Jan 2012 | 10:08 pm
It looks like the Republican establishment—the bankers, the Wall Street people, the billionaires, multinaires and the privileged—are going to nail the nomination down for Romney. Or least try. These a...
Bizarre Comment By Mitt Romney 30 Dec 2011 | 03:56 pm
Some politicians are tone deaf. I came across an item in Talking Points Memo that Romney made a bizarre comment in Iowa today at a campaign event: ...Mitt Romney took on President Obama for saying th...
The Three Words That Define 2012: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs 12 Dec 2011 | 09:24 pm
At the end of the day, in most years, Americans are pragmatists. I say most years because it's not always certain that pragmatists win the day. For example, one definition of a pragmatist is that if s...
Circus Atmosphere Among Top Republicans: Donald Trump to Host Presidential Debate 3 Dec 2011 | 09:59 pm
The Republicans running for president are so bad that a phrase left over from the George W. Bush era comes to mind: shock and awe. Hey, it's a circus with lots of stunts, much swinging back and forth ...
Gingrich Advocates Third World Status for the United States 25 Nov 2011 | 08:27 pm
Newt Gingrich lives in a strange universe. Unfortunately, it's the same universe other Republican politicians have been occupying lately, such as Bachmann, Perry and Palin. Before I go further, let's ...
Republican Newt Gingrich: A Grand Poohbah of the 1% 20 Nov 2011 | 12:11 pm
He's back. Sometime presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has flown in from his vacation in Greece, Switzerland or Hawaii to assert himself in one of the weakest lineups of Republicans in years. Newt ...
Fossilized Leaders Mislead Americans About Fossil Fuels 10 Nov 2011 | 09:46 pm
Most Republican leaders and a few wayward Democrats fail to recognize several straightforward facts: 1. Fossil fuels are no longer cheap. 2. Besides fossil fuels no longer being cheap, if we take aw...
