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    1/17/2008

    Joe for President!

    Yes, it's true.  I'm announcing my candidacy today.  My objectives during my tenure will be:
    • a more European-style social welfare system
    • universal health care for all Americans
    • incentives to keep blue collar jobs in the USA
    • higher fuel taxes to pay for more public transportation
    • maximum wage limits
    • higher minimum wages
    • SUV tax
    • legalize soft drugs
    9/29/2007

    The Madness of King George

    Paul Krugman had this brilliant opening to his column today in the "N. Y. Times"; Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it’s a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we’ve learned over the past few centuries about how to make a modern government work.

    6/29/2007

    Bush's Legacy

    Editorial from the New York Times

    Three Bad Rulings

    Published: June 26, 2007

    The Supreme Court hit the trifecta yesterday: Three cases involving the First Amendment. Three dismaying decisions by Chief Justice John Roberts’s new conservative majority.

    Chief Justice Roberts and the four others in his ascendant bloc used the next-to-last decision day of this term to reopen the political system to a new flood of special-interest money, to weaken protection of student expression and to make it harder for citizens to challenge government violations of the separation of church and state. In the process, the reconfigured court extended its noxious habit of casting aside precedents without acknowledging it — insincere judicial modesty scored by Justice Antonin Scalia in a concurring opinion.

    7/18/2006

    No More Lies!

       Watched an excellent movie today that I would like to recommend, "Why We Fight".
       This is the movie's URL; http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/
     
       Don't forget, Neil Young is streaming his latest CD for free from his web site.