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August 19, 2009
Count de Monet: “It is said that the people are revolting.”
King Louis XVI: “You said it. They stink on ice.”
– “History of the World: Part I”
Out of the mouths of babes … and B-movie comedies come our words of wisdom. The people are indeed…
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August 4, 2009
What goes up must come down. Unless it goes down further, sideways or moves some other way that no one really predicted.
That’s the way economics really works and no matter how many talking heads – right, left and center – tell you otherwise, most…
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July 29, 2009
It’s the peak of summer – when sane people vacation and even Congress has recess. Last summer, it was also time for gas prices that peaked at stratospheric sums.
This summer not so much. While drivers might be thrilled, America’s media are unhappy…
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July 15, 2009
Say the words “just a bill” and our TV civics lesson takes hold. Without realizing it, millions of Americans would instantly start humming a Schoolhouse Rock song entitled “I’m Just a Bill.”
The song is cartoon version of how a bill becomes a law.…
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July 8, 2009
Nearly 200 years ago, emperor Napoleon came back from exile and re-conquered France without firing a shot. His conquest of Europe failed when Napoleon, in proper English terms, was soundly thrashed at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington.
Napoleon…
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July 1, 2009
Fire fighters are the solution to your problems. They put out fires, rescue children, and, in their spare time, help end injustice.
All in a day’s work for men and women who spend their careers running toward danger, not from it. But danger in a…
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June 24, 2009
With apologies to Janet Jackson, America’s rhythm nation is so 1989. Now it’s an Indoctri-nation. The mainstream media don’t tell us what’s going on; they tell us what to think. Today’s example is nationalized health care. It will be the topic…
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June 16, 2009
You’re a hater.
Face it. You wouldn’t even be reading this right-wing, reactionary claptrap if you weren’t. After all, I’m a hater as well. So are countless conservatives from Sean Hannity to Rush Limbaugh. Ann Coulter? Was that a question?…
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June 10, 2009
In “Fiddler on the Roof,” the hero Tevye sang of how he wished he were wealthy. “If I Were a Rich Man” became a Broadway and movie favorite as a catchy tune and even catchier sentiment. As the struggling Russian peasant explained, “It’s no shame to…
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May 27, 2009
When the Tax Day Tea Party protests happened on April 15, the idea of government spending us into bankruptcy seemed hard for some to grasp. A month-and-a-half later, they have a perfect example – California.
California is the Golden State no more.…
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