Author: Steven D

Deep Thought

Some days I get the feeling that the Israelis are replaying American 19th Century history, and no, not the part about the Civil War. The Israeli government has plans to build at least 73,000 new homes for Jews in the occupied...

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Deep Thought

After you torture and kill people and detain them indefinitely even after you discover most of them are innocent of any crime, you sort of lose the moral high ground.

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Ginsburg Lives!

Too bad for Senator “Moran” Bunning and all his friends at the NRA. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is not only still alive and kicking after surgery for pancreatic cancer, but she actually penned an...

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$150,000? For Bush?

I wouldn’t hire him for a speech if he was paying me that much to sit and listen to him: President George W. Bush may have left office with a historically bad 22% approval rating, but he’s still eager to impart his...

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He Gave a Good Speech, But …

This piece of journalmalism from the Associated Press about Obama’s speech to Congress last night was filled with comparisons to FDR. At a harrowing national moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt commandeered the young airwaves...

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