38 days ago by Desperado

Hallelujah! At long last, some backbone. Following his recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday, President Obama announced 3 appointments to the National Labor Relations Board: "The move, which is arguably as important as the Cordray app ...

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38 days ago by Longshot

LMAO First Casualty…Her Tea Party mixed too many hallucinogenics in their tea, THEN THEY FINALLY CAME DOWN. LOL Yes You Is Walking & Walking and now have walked your way OUT. Bye Bye and now you can enjoy … Continue reading →

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38 days ago by Dr. J.

As if right on cue, our esteemed Royal Mathematician writes in regarding Dr. J.'s post yesterday: A most happy New Year to all Gormogons whose calendar-origin-of-choice has recently passed, and general seasonally-appropriate greetings to the others: A quick word about the cutting-plane method of sol ...

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38 days ago by Truman

Like most Americans, I was shocked at the results of the Iowa caucuses. How, I wondered, could Rick Santorum rise to the top of the Republican presidential contest? Santorum is among the most ideologically extreme leaders in the GOP. Searching for insight, I found one explanation for Santorum’s succ ...

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38 days ago by MB Snow

The complaint that Iowa is not a typical American state is true but trivial because there is no such state. Can you name one whose political culture, closely considered, is more like than unlike any other state’s? Anyway, someplace has to go first, and it should be somewhere the natives are receptiv ...

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38 days ago by MB Snow

Can Rick Santorum give Republicans what they want — a conservative alternative to the frontrunner? Is it good for Mitt Romney? That was the question that preoccupied many pundits as the Iowa caucuses became a tight three-way race, concluding with a photo finish between Romney and Rick Santorum. Make ...

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38 days ago by Alex Kearns

My computer has been engaged in a prolonged snit: re-start tantrums, spontaneous self-cleansing, voracious file consumption and an odd, slightly operatic, noise. Due to this, I’ve been without access to email, Facebook, blogs, news stories and the other dubious offerings of the Internet for several ...

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38 days ago by Bob Russell

As we start a new year some thoughts come to me from something my pastor’s wife said Sunday morning, January 1, 2012. She recently did a study on the number 12 and its significance in Scripture. It reminded me of the deep importance of God in the development of our nation and the importance of [...]

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38 days ago by Ted McLaughlin

President Obama is not a fighter by nature. He would much rather handle things on a bipartisan basis, by letting all sides present their case and then work out a compromise that can be acceptable to all parties. This proclivity of the president's became very clear in the first couple of years of his ...

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38 days ago by Ted McLaughlin

The above quote from Senator Bernie Sanders is the truth. Social Security is not in immediate trouble, and the problems that might pop up 25 years down the road could be easily fixed for generations by simply having the rich pay the same percentage in FICA taxes that working and middle class people ...

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