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Lately I’ve been thinking that getting an invoice back after you pay your taxes would be awesome- like what you have bought/funded with your money.  I know this would be difficult and take time but I would LOVE to see; this would be the ultimate in accountability.  I am a big believer in higher taxes […]

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The political process is this venerated, admired and even envied here in the US.  The democratic bragging rights are always ours somehow, and we’ve used them to start wars, rebuild nations, get what we want, and intimidate.
But I thought about it, and I feel like George Bush Jr has been president my whole life.  Not […]

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Hillary Clinton might possibly be the next secretary of state, which would be interesting since she has already been denied both the position of president and vice president, alternately by the people of America and by other people who actually get to decide things.  I have been hoping (since Biden was nominated VEEP) that Clinton […]

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In the new political age known as the “Bush almost isn’t President anymore” we have a chance to change the political and social climate for good- and when the next political age dawns, “the Democrats are in control of Congress, watch out” we’ll have even more of a chance.  I’m not talking about passing laws […]

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Sarah Palin is famous now.  Much like Mike Huckabee, her candidacy has not only invigorated the religious right, it has also made a character out of the candidate.  On youtube, someone is always watching something about Palin, whether it’s comedic or from a news source.  And I think her existence is responsible for giving SNL […]

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So there’s a lot of news about “economic collapse” and “federal bailouts” but the terminology, chronology and methodology of these stories is really confusing; laymen like us don’t really understand.  You’d have to have about three degrees to get it and explain it and the people writing the articles aren’t doing a good job- not […]

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While watching the RNC last week it struck me that republicans and democrats have neglected a demographic.  They’ve mocked, harangued, claimed and divided the demographic/geographies of “Small Towns” and “Cosmopolitan Cities”.  The republicans have decided to run with the whole small town values thing, and I guess the democrats have had the city thing down […]

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I watched the RNC last night.  I had to stop watching the RNC last night.  Granted, I stopped after Sarah Palin’s speech, and the brief remarks from Senator Mccain.  And while there have been rumors floating around the past few days about Palin’s experience, family life and even her selection as Mccain’s possible future Vice President, […]

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It looks like a political figure has once again been caught (or appears to have been caught) in a scandalous situation.  This scandal is bigger than the Spitzer scandal in the scandal matrix, because Edwards has not only been unfaithful to his wife, who is battling breast cancer, but he also has fathered a love […]

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Now that Obama is the general election candidate, the media has been focusing on a McCain vs Obama deathmatch; the Huffington Post is featuring “FearWatch ‘08″ and the Washington Post just published this op-ed, calling Obama an “opportunist”.  So the knife is definitely sharp on both sides, as they say.  It is funny, to me, […]

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