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Sticks Hicks Nix . . . ?

October 18th, 2011

By Dan Miller One of the country’s greatest headlines ever appeared in Variety back in 1935, when the good folks of New Rochelle (then out in the boonies but only forty-five minutes from Broadway) did not much care for a new motion picture. The headline was, “Sticks Nix Hick Pix.” On October 14th, “Massachusetts Senate [...]

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Tags: campaign, Elizabeth Warren, headline, hicks, satire, Senate, Variety
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Not Enough Yet, but House Bound to Cut More Spending

August 4th, 2011

By Dan Miller If the House behaves in the best interests of its majority, Uncle Sugar will have to diet lest they precipitate a new credit limit “crisis”. Both houses of the Congress have now approved the new debt limit bill, the text of which is available here. President Obama has signed it. It is [...]

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Tags: Constitution, credit downgrade, debt limit, House, legislation, Senate
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How the New Congress Can Roll Back Obama’s Agenda

November 6th, 2010

By Dan Miller Soon to be former Speaker Baghdad Bob’s Pelosi’s assessment on November 2 that the Democrats would hold the House of Representatives to the contrary notwithstanding, it will no longer be under “liberal” Democratic Party control come January. Perhaps she will not like the results when she sees them. The conservatives seem to [...]

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Tags: appropriations, Congress, election, House, revenue, Senate, spending, veto
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Winning Is the Only Thing

November 3rd, 2010

By Tom Carter “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” That famous quotation from American football legend has been attributed to Vince Lombardi, but it probably came first from UCLA coach Red Sanders. Whoever said it first, it applies to politics even more precisely than to football or other sports. Why is winning the only [...]

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Tags: Angle, conservatives, election, O'Donnell, Reid, Senate, Tea Party, winning
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Incompetent 111th Congress

October 8th, 2010

By Tom Carter The 111th Congress will, thankfully, pass into history on January 3, 2011. It’s been one of the most partisan, rancorous, and generally incompetent in our recent history. What it supposedly accomplished is highly unpopular with many people, and it failed to do some of the most important tasks of any Congress. Aside [...]

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Tags: budget, Congress, failure, House, incompetent, Senate, spending, taxes
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When Did the Senate Turn into Pre-school?

September 7th, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor I’ve become quite an authority on pre-schoolers these days. My eldest daughter just finished pre-school and my youngest daughter is in her second year. Plus, I’m writing my third parenting book tentatively titled, Parenting on Message: The 9 Essential Messages to Give Your Child a Great Start to Life (The Experiment [...]

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Tags: dysfunctional, ideology, partisanship, pre-school, Senate, toddlers
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What If the Republicans Win Control of Congress?

September 2nd, 2010

By Tom Carter As we approach the elections on November 2, more and more serious experts are predicting that the Republicans will win a majority in the House and possibly even in the Senate. One prediction published today comes from Larry Sabato, who is a professor at the University of Virginia and director of the [...]

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Tags: Democrat, election, House, prediction, Republican, Sabato, Senate
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Know What Obama Could Use? A Snake Oil Czar

July 4th, 2010

By Dan Miller President Obama is just one man. He clearly can’t sell all this snake oil himself. * * * We have a disastrously inadequate petroleum reserve; there is a crisis. “We consume more than 20 percent of the world’s oil but have less than 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves,” or so [...]

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Tags: czars, drilling, leadership, oil, President, reserves, satire, Senate, snake oil
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Kagan Can Be a Justice, Though Never a Judge?

May 10th, 2010

By Dan Miller President Obama has selected Elena Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States, as his nominee to replace the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. From her official bio: Kagan came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. While on the faculty, Kagan [...]

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Tags: confirmation, Elena Kagan, experience, nomination, Senate, Supreme Court
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Kagan for the Supreme Court

May 10th, 2010

By Tom Carter It’s reported that the President will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, replacing the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. While Kagan, 50, has no experience as a judge, she’s a well-educated lawyer and a former law professor, law school dean, clerk to a U.S. [...]

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Tags: confirmation, Elena Kagan, nomination, Senate, Stevens, Supreme Court
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