politics

Get our cash out of the classroom

February 19, 2012

You can’t say Rick Santorum doesn’t have some stones. Coming out against public education is a bold strategy at a time when the U.S. is steadily sinking in the global education rankings. Once at the top, we’re now in the lower middle. Clearly it’s time we quit spending state and federal money trying to teach [...]

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Why didn’t anybody think of this before?

February 18, 2012

U.S. employment and the U.S. economy both appear to be rising. But so are gas prices. Guess which one gives GOP presidential candidates more joy? Yep, in an election year — and really, don’t these all seem like election years? — what is good for the country is bad for the party not currently occupying [...]

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Thoroughly moderate Mitt

February 16, 2012

Just when you’re convinced Mitt Romney is nothing but a suit stuffed with cash, you find reasons to like the guy. Here’s a New York Times piece about how conservative pundits are having trouble getting Romney to listen to them. People like Ann Coulter, Joe Scarborough and Rush Limbaugh are complaining that Romney seems distant [...]

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It’s not about contraception

February 10, 2012

I'm kind of late weighing in on this dispute over contraceptives. As usual, it’s because I don’t fully understand it. It seems to me that since nearly all Catholic women already use birth control at some time or another, those Catholic bishops might be most concerned with their own ineffective preaching. If you’re beating a dead [...]

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It’s all about hope — that you’ll buy more stuff

February 8, 2012

Personally, I thought Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad kind of disingenuous and manipulative. I can understand why most Democrats liked it, since it appeared to express optimism at a time when a Democrat is in the White House. I can see why a horse’s ass like Karl Rove would hate it, since anything that veers from [...]

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Mrs. Palin will be right back

February 5, 2012

OK, now Romney rules in Nevada too. I guess we saw that coming. But one thing that’s puzzled me about the GOP race is this: Whatever happened to Sarah Palin? I realize she long ago ruled out a run for president — a simple scheduling conflict — but I considered her incapable of keeping her [...]

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When smart people get stupid

February 3, 2012

You’d think somebody with Mitt Romney’s bankroll could have paid Donald Trump enough to endorse his opponent. You’d think an organization like the Susan G. Komen foundation would employ someone smart enough to put the kibosh on an enormous political gamble that offered zero political gain. But these things confirm what I’ve long suspected. The [...]

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Whole lotta lyin’ goin’ on

January 31, 2012

So I guess Mitt Romney will finally manage to win one in Florida. But he’s had to do it the hard way: With several million dollars worth of ads comparing Newt Gingrich unfavorably to Lord Voldemort. Gingrich has been doing the same thing to Romney, of course, but then had the misfortune to appear mildly [...]

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This is rich

January 26, 2012

Newt Gingrich appears to be worth at least $7 million. Mitt Romney is worth around $150 million. My question is this: If both men are millionaires many times over, does the poorer one get to call the richer one “elitist”? That’s the mood here in north Florida, apparently. CNN has this story about how Gingrich, [...]

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Obama, Al Green and the fat man

January 21, 2012

So we’ve got the president channeling Al Green and Newt Gingrich looking like he can win in South Carolina. Two guys defying my cynical and uninformed expectations. There is a reason I don’t get paid to analyze politics. How about that Obama? This is going to make the Tea Party types hate him all the [...]

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