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Herewith, fevered thoughts from a fevered mind supposedly rested by a weekend break: In the first place, one subversive thought remains in my mind from prior to the weekend. On Friday, the Post-Gazette had a front-page picture of the finishing touches being made to the key-hole shaped opening in the...
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So, President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Good intentions have apparently fallen victim of inflation, seeing that a couple of nice speeches don't really amount to accomplishment. That said, this is great. Anything that starches the shorts of arch conservatives is a wonderful...
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So, I write a blog about the Steelers game (last posting) and then the crowd responds by personally insulting each other. I know this was in part a continuation of the previous conversation, but how did we get there from the Steelers game? And you folks are probably not even from Cleveland or Baltimore...
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The banks are making a profit again! Hallelujah! So why don't I feel better? Maybe because they were the problem to begin with and now we are just back to where we started: them getting rich and the rest of us struggling. I'm not really this cynical. Most days I'm a lot worse. Here is today's...
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CIA torture meets town hall meeting. With all the fuss over the investigation into the CIA interrogation techniques, I tried to picture the worst kind of torture imagin able. For some reason I kept picturing those town hall meetings. What would happen to the war on terror if the CIA had a weapon like...
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It's not too often that I agree with Wall Street Journal editorials but I think they had a point this morning when they took President Obama to task for apparently opening the way to prosecution of Bush lawyers or others who came up with the legal justification for harsh interrogation techniques...
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Tom Waseleski President Obama has done a good job so far of bringing change to the White House. One of the most dramatic turnarounds was his announcement yesterday repudiating the Bush ban on federal dollars for stem-cell research . More broadly, Obama said he, unlike his predecessor, would not let ideology...
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Tony Norman There's no denying that our president is a little on the wonky side. Correction: President Obama is a lot on the wonky side. If his first primetime press conference last night is any indication of how he intends to talk to the American people about the issues of the day, then we're...
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Wolf Wolfman Obama "took/got" $165,000 from Fannie Mae. Politicians return money all the time. Why not demand that Obama return the money? He lives high on the hog in $20,000 per day hotels, Michelle eats lavish meals, and he took in $700 million in his campaign. He had $700,000 to give to...
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John McCain, Yesterday's Man for Tomorrow's Problems [TM], made a nice speech on the last night of the Republican National Convention. He was one the few speakers at the convention to say something nice about Barack Obama and sound genuinely sincere - a sign, I think, of his fundamental decency...