Opinion Forum

Drunkblogging a Few Modest Proposals

October 5th, 2010

By Dan Miller Citizens of the world: It is time we make ourselves more equal! And perhaps relocate the UN to Somalia. The world is so screwed up that even our highly intelligent and resourceful President Obama can’t deal with its myriad complexities. Things need to be simplified and a drunk, a lunatic, or a […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: currency, DPRK, drunkblogging, Europe, Haiti, poverty, satire, Somalia, UN
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With Air Conditioning, It’s Time to Relocate the Capitol

August 20th, 2010

By Dan Miller AC made D.C. much too comfortable. I’d prefer someplace the congressmen can’t stand to be. * * * From the August 10 edition of Jonah Goldberg’s The Goldberg File: Washington, D.C., … we all know, is a pestilential swamp where the horseflies and water snakes have been replaced with congressmen and senators. […]

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Tags: AC, air conditioning, Haiti, satire, SOG, swamp, Washington DC
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The Tragedy of Haiti

January 18th, 2010

By Tom Carter Like most everyone else, I’m following the news out of Haiti pretty closely. The photos and videos are appalling. Estimates of the number of dead range from 50,000 to 200,000 or more, but no one knows the true number. Many more thousands of people are injured. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, living in the streets […]

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Tags: aid, corruption, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, reconstruction, violence
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How Much Is Too Much?

January 15th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Somewhere between health care reform and pay raises for politicians, I lost all track of the non-stop Obama tax machine. I’m surrendering myself to the reality that my descendants will have to pay for taxes imposed during my lifetime. The thought of such a hateful legacy is best ignored lest I go […]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: bailout, banks, Haiti, health care, stimulus, taxes
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