Month: January 2013

Life or Death

WARNING: Really long Blog Post! This a meditation, if you will. A few ideas offered for your consideration, regarding what I believe to be most essential in these turbulent times. My meditation bears on the meaning of life and...

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Netanyahu Gets Shellacking

It’s the middle of the night in Israel and election results are still being tallied but it appears than Benjamin Netanyahu has collapsed as much as he could collapse and still survive. Right now, it looks like the...

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Whence the Filibuster

I can’t suss out Harry Reid’s game plan on filibuster reform. He understandably would like to work out a deal with Mitch McConnell to streamline Senate procedure without having to use the so-called nuclear option of...

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Michael Gerson: Concern Troll

Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson didn’t care for the tone of President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address: Those who oppose this agenda, in Obama’s view, are not a very admirable lot. They evidently don’t want...

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Team Mentality

When it comes to polls, I am the most skeptical about them when they measure public opinion on issues rather than candidates. We will probably never have an election to decide whether or not to overturn Roe v. Wade, so...

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