Month: November 2005

Mean Jean Just Can’t Win

cross-posted from dembloggers and my blog Well, it didn’t take long for newly (and barely) elected Jean Schmidt to go from this: “I pledge to walk in the shoes of my colleagues and refrain from name-calling or the...

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Federal jury joins US descent into barbarism

There is really not much to compare this to.  I would like to joke, like Monty Python, and say that no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.  Except that in America in the fall of 2005 it is not a joke at all.  It...

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Medicare FOR ALL OPEN THREAD

Matt Santos favors Medicare for all U.S. citizens! (Santos is the West Wing Democratic presidential candidate. Check out the Boston Globe’s “Debate was fictional, issues were real”: “Democratic...

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