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Time To Tell Republicans: Let’s You And Him Fight

There are times when anyone involved in politics should be more concerned with governance than crass political advantage. After all there is always the peoples work to for any Congress or other...

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What Are Your Goals For 2011? Time To Evaluate And Commit!

It is a blizzard day on the East Coast and the end of another year. This is traditionally a time to be thinking about New Years Resolutions. Resolutions are often belittled, and with good reason....

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Blasphemy And Assassination – The Cost Of A State Religion

Yesterday the Governor of Punjab province was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards. The reason given by the assassin was that Salman Taseer was killed for the fact that he spoke out against...

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Water Cooler – No Matter What, Threats Of Political Violence Are Unacceptable

Threat level update by opacity, on Flickr There have been some troubling events in the last couple of days and I feel compelled to talk about them because they relate to issues that I have covered in...

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Will Cantor And Republicans “Save” The U.S. By Destroying It?

Burning Man 2009 by JahFae, on Flickr There is an apocryphal quote from the Vietnam War “We had to destroy the village to save it”. I call it apocryphal because its attribution is murky and it has been...

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Water Cooler – Is Patraeus To DCI The Path To The White House? Probably Not

The White House by ktylerconk, on Flickr Wendy Davis had a very good post today about what it might mean for Gen. David Petraeus being given the DCI slot as the current Director of Central Intelligence...

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Should We Care About Politicians Marriages? Or Spouses?

Shrug by Auntie P, on Flickr   I am a policy guy, first, last and always. The whole point of politics is to govern the polity well. There is a lot of argument over what the values of “well” are and...

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Palin Bus Fueled By PAC Donations

Wheeled School Bus - Right Front by Bill Ward's Brickpile There are a lot of people who don’t like politicians. Or they say they don’t like them, since it seems that a lot of the population of our...

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The McConnell Plan; Evil Genius or Political Capitulation

Mitch McConnell, Filibuster King by DonkeyHotey Yesterday Minority Leader Mitch “The Box Turtle” McConnell offered up a new plan for dealing with the debt ceiling. There has been a lot of talk back and...

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Water Cooler – Head of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party May Be Evicted

Jimmy McMillan Blue 2 2011 Shankbone by david_shankbone   One of the joys of politics is that it attracts some really colorful people. One of those really burst into the national consciousness (at...

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