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The Wrath Of The GOP

June 13, 2014 – 2:08 pm

This week the GOP’s congressional majority leader Eric Cantor was defeated by a Tea Party candidate by 7000 votes in a Republican tune-out of 65,000. Cantor had blown millions on his campaign; more money on steakhouses than his opponent spend on his victory. Pollsters had the incumbent ahead by 34%. They were dead wrong and […]

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The Polling Of The Right

October 29, 2011 – 5:56 am

RealClearPolitics was founded by a Wall Street trader an an ad flack to combat what the duo perceived as anti-conservative and anti-fundalmentalist bias in the mainstream press. They are backed by the pro-business Forbes Magazine, which is well-known for its annual release of the 400 richest people in the world. It comes as no surprise […]

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The Big Heart of the Top 1%

March 1, 2011 – 9:45 pm

“A unionized employee, a Tea Party member & a corporate CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches out & takes 11 of the cookies, then says to the Tea Party member, ‘look out for that union guy, he wants a piece […]

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We The People

October 3, 2010 – 1:14 pm

Those three simple words opened the preamble the US Constitution. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this […]

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Missouri Says No

August 4, 2010 – 7:03 am

Voters in the SHOW ME state rejected the Health Care provision demanding US citizens buy health insurance. I’m not a fan of the government forcing laws on the public and I haven’t had medical coverage for over 35 years. $4000/year is beyond my means. My beer budget is more important, however the Missouri plebiscite was […]

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