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One turkey that won’t get pardoned

I’m a staunch liberal. I believe that anybody who isn’t one is always wrong.I take that back. I’d like to apologize for making that statement. I apologize if I offended anybody by it. ThatĢƵ what you’d call a “non-apology apology.”“Non-apology apologies” are the current ...

Can Dems reconnect with roots?

Following the mid-term drubbing which saw two seats in the state legislature lost to Republicans, Fayette County Democrats — Rep. Tim Mahoney was one — were quoted as saying that the ship could be righted by local tweaks of policy and politics.Historically, that is not the way things work, ...

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 ...

Democratic Party needs to go back to its roots

Out late at night with nothing special to do? Mosey over to Wal-Mart and look around, not at the merchandise but at the men and women stocking the shelves.Around midnight you’ll notice pallets halfway blocking the aisles as an assortment of individuals cut open crates of goods, bend down, ...

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 ...