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Posts Tagged ‘politics’


The Death of the Internet – For Real

I’ve written a couple of times about how the “Death of the Internet” seemed to be just over the horizon. These were technical issues, and they were overcome by technical fixes. But congress is about to make changes that will not only usher in an age of censorship on the US part of the Internet, but [...]

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A Couple of Rude People Aren’t the Whole Hall

If you didn’t hear about it last night you’re going to wake to news stories about Republicans at the debate in Florida booing a gay American service man last night. It’s likely that this will be represented as the sentiment of the whole hall, and used by assorted talking heads to smear Republicans, the Tea [...]

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Giving the Post Office CPR

The US Postal Service is in trouble, and we are facing a bailout that will make the auto makers’ bailout seem small by comparison. The post office lost $8.5 billion last year. This year they probably will only ( ! ) lose $8.3 billion. And they’re running out of money. It would be bad enough [...]

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Presidential Inheritance

Barack Obama discusses what he inherited with some of his predecessors shortly after Standard and Poor’s downgraded the US debt.  

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A Debt Deal?

Around 8:30 Eastern tonight Harry Reid took to the floor of the Senate to announce that we had a framework for a deal on the spending limit, followed by Mitch McConnell. A few minutes later President Obama made a brief statement, saying that the leaders of both parties in both houses had agreed on the [...]

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Republican Lawmakers on Twitter

If you were watching Twitter on Friday you saw President Obama try to muster pressure on Republican legislators to compromise their principles. @BarackObama tweeted for hours, urging people to contact their legislators, one state at a time, losing tens of thousands of followers in the process. At the end of it, a tweet pointed to [...]

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Balance the Budget: Now is the Time

A new video from Representative Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA,) Co-Chair of the Republican New Media Caucus. Since President Obama has been claiming the mantle of Reagan, it’s particularly appropriate to look at what President Reagan actually said when he spoke to the nation about a Balanced Budget Amendment.

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Brave Sir Obama

It’s been reported that President Obama walked out of budget negotiations today. All I could think of was “Brave Sir Robin” from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” So herewith my small alteration:   Bravely bold Sir Obama Rode forth to spend a lot. He was not afraid to lie, Oh brave Sir Obama. He [...]

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RNC Chairman Priebus Talks to the New Media

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus held a call for new media people on Tuesday afternoon, June 7.  To those accustomed to long delays while waiting for the President to speak, the beginning was refreshing. The call started at 5 pm Eastern, and we were being welcomed by a representative of the RNC at 5:02. There [...]

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Banning Guns by Changing Definitions, Part 2

Unable to get legislation passed, the administration seeks to master us with their mastery of words. In this case the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is seeking to master the definition of the term “sporting use” to “traditional” sports, things similar to what might have been found in 1934 when the Treasury Department first began regulating firearms.

One major problem (aside from the constitution) is that many of the features the ATF study group settled on make a shotgun particularly useful for self defense, especially home defense.

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