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The value of our values.

August 13th 2010 00:29
Are we to jettison that which makes us great?

The essential issues: What is the essence of America? Are we are to surrender that which makes us a country worthy of our ideals in an effort to preserve the empty shell that remains? At the very birth of this country, Benjamin Franklin’s warning has meaning today, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety


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If you choose not to vote...

August 4th 2010 00:18


You’re going to vote, whether you want to or not


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Cynical Abuse of the legislative filibuster

July 17th 2010 13:29

First, a definition: A filibuster is a delaying tactic that is a part of the rules of the United States Senate. According to etymologists it is a word that comes from the Spanish filibustero meaning "freebooter” or "pirate." The origin seems to be that a person who filibusters is plundering the time and focus of a deliberative body, like a legislature. There is nothing in the Constitution authorizing or prohibiting a filibuster, other than the authority given to each of the two Legislative bodies to establish its rules of procedure.

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No. 1 issue: JOBS!

July 5th 2010 18:57
Americans have a plethora of concerns. None is as important as jobs.

Barack Obama became president in the midst of crises


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The Left's disappointment with the president

June 29th 2010 21:28
A while ago, speaking from the White House Oval Office, a locale reserved for the most important of addresses to the American public, President Obama spoke of the social and economic disaster that has been a consequence of the failure of BP’s Deepwater Horizon well. The investigations may continue beyond the eventual capping of the drilling rig, but regardless of the former’s duration, it is all but certain that the damages that have resulted may well continue and be felt for a generation or more.

In anticipation of the president’s address, I posted what I hoped he would state. I wanted President Obama to declare an all out determination to switch from the use of fossil fuels, primarily oil, within a ten year period just as John Kennedy set the goal of landing a man on the moon. I wanted him to explicitly demand that we develop alternative energy sources and cite chapter and verse on why we had to take this course and the costs of not doing so


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Charlie, where have you been?

June 25th 2010 03:16



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Mr. President, grab the chance to be great.

June 15th 2010 17:00
Our last several presidents, Democrat and Republican, have spoken about America’s “addiction to oil”. We use the stuff to fuel our inefficient gas guzzlers, buy military sized Hummers to drop the kids off at soccer practice or go to the supermarket to pick up a bottle of milk and complain when the price of gas increases and flirts with the $3 or $4 per gallon neighborhood.
Some 35 years ago, the United States had what we felt was a gas crisis. The oil producers (OPEC, remember them?) held the west, and the United States in particular, hostage. The producing countries turned the gas spigot off and on, at will, and we complained, and bitched; we did not, however, change our habits.

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The real problem with Helen Thomas

June 12th 2010 10:55
Helen Thomas has resigned, under fire, as a columnist for Hearst, under pressure for making a statement that is consistent with her well known anti-Jewish opinions. There are those who raise First Amendment rights that are being infringed but, of course, the Constitution’s guarantee of free speech only applies to governmental action; Hearst has every right to fire Ms Thomas and it acted correctly. Not because Ms Thomas doesn’t like Jewish people in general and Israelis in particular, but because she demonstrated an ignorance of history.

There is a saying that everyone has a right to his or her opinion; one does not have a right to his or her facts


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BP isn't the only one at fault

June 5th 2010 16:53
Perhaps BP is not “at fault” for the Gulf disaster.

There is a well-known fable about a scorpion and a frog. For any reader who is unfamiliar with the tale, this is from Wikipedia


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Tea Party goers are a mixed bag.

April 27th 2010 23:22
The Tea Party folks have our attention. Now what?
One of the more prolific writers on Orble, S.L. Braddish, has posted comments relating to a Tea Party:

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