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Is Governor Romney an Edsel Republican?

February 1st, 2012

By Dan Miller Of course not! Remember the Ford Edsel? A really spiffy new car with a two-tone paint job, lots of chrome and an unfortunate distraction in front? The Edsel in no manner resembles either the Republican party of today or its favored candidate; perish all such heretical conservative thoughts lest you be deemed [...]

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Tags: advertising, Edsel, election, Ford, marketing, promotion, Romney, satire
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Murderers of the Fogel Family in Israel Are Heroes

January 29th, 2012

By Dan Miller U.S warmongers who urinate on dead Taliban heroes are war criminals. According to this article, Palestinian television aired an interview with the relatives of the Fogel family murderers earlier this month, praising the two cousins convicted with the brutal attack as “heroes.” The broadcast was aired as part of a weekly show [...]

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Tags: children, family, Fogel, Israel, murder, Palestinians, peace, satire, terrorism
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The Church and the Holocaust

January 29th, 2012

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, created in 2005 by a UN General Assembly resolution, coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. This is the third of a series of three articles being re-published to observe this solemn day of remembrance. By Tom Carter There has long been [...]

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Tags: Catholic, Church, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jews, Pius XII
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Auschwitz and the Holocaust

January 28th, 2012

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, created in 2005 by a UN General Assembly resolution, coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. This is the second of a series of three articles being re-published to observe this solemn day of remembrance. By Tom Carter The Auschwitz complex consisted [...]

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Tags: Auschwitz, death camp, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jews
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Remembering the Holocaust

January 27th, 2012

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, created in 2005 by a UN General Assembly resolution, coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. This is the first of a series of three articles being re-published to observe this solemn day of remembrance. By Tom Carter The Auschwitz concentration camp [...]

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Tags: Auschwitz, death camp, International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Confesssion: I Did Not Watch the SOTU Last Night

January 25th, 2012

By Dan Miller I had three good reasons: there wasn’t enough rum, it was past my bedtime and our dogs, fearing for what little remains of my sanity, wouldn’t let me. However, I have read much of the commentary and based on that will provide a post-partisan analysis in keeping with the spirit of the [...]

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Tags: campaign, dull, economy, election, Obama, partisan, satire, SOTU, taxes
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After the State of the Union: Who Can Defeat Obama?

January 25th, 2012

By Tom Carter As I watched the President’s State of the Union address last night, this question was rattling around in my mind: Who can defeat Obama? Based on performance quality in delivering a prepared speech, the answer is that none of the current Republican contenders is up to the task. That highlights a defining [...]

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Tags: candidates, election, facts, Gingrich, Obama, Republican, Romney, SOTU
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Let’s All Vote for President Obama

January 23rd, 2012

By Dan Miller There are excellent reasons! Trust me — Obama supporters told me and they must know. You people make me sad. Sadly, our appreciation of President and Mrs. Obama has not kept pace with reality and we have disappointed them.

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Tags: appreciation, election, jobs, Obama, satire, singing, spending, taxes
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Get Ready for Higher Gas Prices

January 22nd, 2012

By Dan Miller Why an oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands will shut down by mid-February. An oil refinery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, will shut down by mid-February. It is owned by Hovensa, a joint venture of U.S.-based Hess Corp. and Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). Losses at [...]

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Tags: environment, EPA, gas, oil refinery, prices, U.S. Virgin Islands, Venezuela
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We need a Reasonable Everything Board (REB)

January 20th, 2012

By Dan Miller Six reasonable Democrats in the House (please excuse the redundancy) want a Reasonable Profits Board (RPB) to impose additional taxes on sellers of oil and gas. Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a “Reasonable Profits Board” to control gas profits. The Democrats, worried about higher [...]

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Tags: board, Democrats, gas, oil, profits, reasonable, REB, RPB, satire, taxes
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Enlightened Self-interest and International Relations

January 18th, 2012

By Dan Miller In theory, it may beat commonly praised alternatives. But to what extent can we rely on it in practice? Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British mathematician and philosopher. He wrote prolifically in both disciplines and also wrote a few mediocre short stories. He stood three times, [...]

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Tags: Bertrand Russell, foreign policy, Islam, North Korea, self-interest, Somalia
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The Republican Marathon Is Distracting and Dangerous

January 17th, 2012

By Tom Carter The seemingly never-ending Republican primary season drones on, sucking the oxygen out of the national discourse and obscuring things that really are more important. With hundreds lots of debates behind us and more to come, with some candidates behaving like fools and hurling ridiculous charges at other candidates, the mainstream media is [...]

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Tags: candidates, debates, election, primaries, Republican, Romney, viable
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Should Politics and Foreign Policy Affect Our Military Justice System?

January 16th, 2012

By Dan Miller The military justice system demands justice for our troops, not revenge upon them to curry favor with others. The video of U.S. Marines who apparently urinated on Taliban corpses has gone viral and not only the Islamic world is watching.

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Tags: foreign policy, justice, Marines, punishment, Taliban, trial, UCMJ, urinate
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Fact and Opinion in the News

January 14th, 2012

By Dan Miller All the news and opinions that fit. Letters from Art Brisbane, the New York Times’ public editor, on the subject of “liberal” bias in opinion pieces, are excerpted here. A problem is that the line between fact and opinion, to the extent that one is a recognizable, can often be unclear. If [...]

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Tags: bias, Costa Concordia, Iran, liberal, New York Times, News, torpedo
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Italian Cruise Ship “runs aground”

January 14th, 2012

By Dan Miller It has been widely reported that the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia “slammed into shallow water off Italy’s western coast.” Authorities are looking at why the ship didn’t hail a mayday during the accident near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, officials said. “At the moment we can’t exclude that [...]

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Tags: aground, Costa Concordia, Giglio, Greece, Iran, Russia, submarine, torpedo
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Might President Obama Morph into an el Presidente Chávez?

January 12th, 2012

By Dan Miller President Obama ain’t no el Presidente Chávez. Yet. But what if he gets another four years in office and a compliant Congress? When el Presidente Chávez took office in 1999, he began only slowly to implement his “reforms.” To a casual observer, few changes were apparent in Venezuela between 1997 when my [...]

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Tags: Chavez, Congress, Constitution, election, Obama, Obamacare, poverty
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Ron Paul and Double Standards

January 12th, 2012

By Seth Forman Now that Ron Paul has achieved electoral respectability in the Republican primaries, the media is in high dudgeon over his extremism. Paul, according to the procurators of good taste at the New York Times, “long ago disqualified himself for the presidency” by, among other things, “peddling claptrap proposals” such as “cutting a third [...]

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Tags: double standard, extremism, newsletters, Obama, pastors, race, Ron Paul
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Should We Change the Republican Candidate Debates?

January 11th, 2012

By Dan Miller An article about debates among candidates for election as Venezuela’s president made me wonder whether this is a good idea: This week Globovision started a new series of shows, with a real debate that is not a debate. In short: they taped on the same day the 6 candidates with more or [...]

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Tags: candidates, debates, election, Republican, U.S., Venezuela
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How Sincere Was the Grief Shown at the Death of Kim Jong-il?

January 11th, 2012

By Dan Miller Some of it probably came not from the heart.

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Tags: bears, birds, death, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, mourning, punishment, satire
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Supreme Court, EPA and Overreach

January 10th, 2012

By Dan Miller Oral arguments were heard at the Supreme Court today in Sackett, et al., v. EPA, challenging actions by the Environmental Protection Agency to keep Michael and Chantell Sackett from building their home on land belatedly declared damp by the agency. Construction screeched to a halt upon the order of three agents of [...]

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Tags: Clean Water Act, EPA, home, property, Sackett, Supreme Court, wetland
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