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Yesterday and Today

November 4th was an incredible day.  To call it a history-making day doesn’t seem to give it the props it deserves.
I saw a country, no, a world, rejoice because so many people united around a man with deep-reaching ideas that could change lives of everyone alive today.
President-elect Barack Hussein Obama.  Today was indeed a new day.  [...]

The elephant in the room

As my readers may have noticed, I have been silent on a lot of issues, including the big two issues facing America today: our upcoming presidential election and the economy.  As a economy neophyte, I am still trying to wrap my head around the enormity, scope and meaning of the economic morass that is gripping [...]

“Obama Nation” has a Cleveland connection

…and why doesn’t this surprise me?
Jerome Corsi seems to fancy himself to be in the vein of Woodward and Bernstein when he’s really Karl Rove: a divisive force who panders to the lowest common denominator to achieve their goals singularly and without regard for, well, much of anything. 
Corsi is the same guy who wrote Unfit [...]

Single Payer Health Care

But the fact of the matter is, is until we move to a single-payer system and get rid of the profit motive in financing of health care, we will not be able to fix the problems that we have. They will be impossible to fix.

Which candidate said this? Clinton? Obama? McCain?
No, no and [...]

Barack and small-town America Part II

Well, well, not every one believes that line that the right and Hillary is riding.
I still can’t believe that Hillary…Wellesley/Yale graduate from the ‘burbs Hillary is calling Barack elitist.  Wow…if that’s not the pot calling the kettle black, I don’t know what is.
But, at least much of PA isn’t focused on the craziness of the [...]

 

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