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The Reward Of No Government

March 2, 2013 – 9:48 pm

The GOP pushed the country over the edge of the fiscal cliff and forced Barack Obama to sign a budget sequester trim $85 billion in government spending for the present fiscal year. Anarchy is not the end of the world. In November 1995 a GOP-controlled Congress shut down the Federal government by refusing to finance [...]

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An Apathetic Apocalypse

March 2, 2013 – 8:39 pm

Two years the GOP forced the White House to accept a $85 billion sequester from the US federal budget. Barack Obama has attempted many compromises with the Republican austerity hawks. The countdown ticked to zero at midnight. The forced cuts will swiftly effect the US economy, especially the military. The newly appointed Defense Secretary Chuck [...]

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The New GOP

January 27, 2013 – 2:12 pm

After the GOP’s defeat in the presidential and senatorial election Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal criticized his party for promoting a platform based on stupidity and not electability. “It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that,” Jindal told Politico. “It’s not [...]

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In The Face Of The Enemy

January 13, 2013 – 9:51 pm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=chuck+hagel+quote+israel&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.dmQ&biw=1213&bih=627&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qG7zUPOaA4680AGZ24HwCg On January 7, 2013, President Barack Obama announced his choice of former Senator Chuck Hagel to replace ex-Spook Leo Panetta as Secretary of Defense. While a top GOP leader during his years in the Senate, conservatives were quick to attack Hagel for his statement, “”Let me clear something up here, if there’s any doubt [...]

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Steve, You Suck

January 7, 2013 – 6:27 pm

Last autumn I sat in the Fort Greene Observatory and thought that the hurricane season had been very kind to the Eastern Seaboard, then in late-October a Category 1 storm traveled up the Gulf Stream to smote New Jersey with a lunar-intensified tidal surge. The coast was devastated by the water and wind. Governors sought [...]

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