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Obama following Reagan’s footsetps

Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a tyrant?On Jan. 1, 1863, with one swipe of his imperial pen, he issued an executive order that proclaimed that three to four million slaves would no longer be considered property.What a crazy idea.Smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, the President of the ...

A Journalistic Lynch Mob

Sometimes the news just makes itself.Breitbart.com, which has been known to spread fact-bereft, right-wing nonsense all over the Internet, just made news, while it thought it was reporting it.“ObamaĢƵ attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch represented Clintons during Whitewater,” said ...

When a shellacking doesn’t last

<em>“We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people; change course; and to commit to making choices that they are demanding,” said Speaker of the House John Boehner.</em>Boehner didn’t say that last week. ThatĢƵ what he said on the night the ...

LetĢƵ quarantine politicians

I don’t have Ebola.I’m fairly certain you don’t either.But, because all of the 24-hour news channels have gone all out with their Ebola coverage, I’m afraid it’ll jump right off my TV and right down my throat.Am I wrong?So far, thereĢƵ been a grand total of one Ebola death in the ...

Cigarettes could be hazardous to profits

I’m a heavy smoker.I’m also fully aware of the dangers of that particular addiction.According to the “SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING” on my current pack of MarlboroĢƵ, “Smoking By Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth, And Low Birth Weight.”I have a few concerns ...

A lesson about white privilege

If you’d like to start an argument, use the words “white privilege” in a sentence.Or thatĢƵ how it seemed last Wednesday night, when I saw a verbal donnybrook between two of the nationĢƵ television icons.Bill O’Reilly doesn’t believe thereĢƵ any real white privilege. Jon Stewart ...