Archive for the ‘bad news’ Category
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Reasonable, Unreasonable
Posted on July 14, 2011
It is altogether reasonable to have grave concerns about our national debt. It is unreasonable to have grave concerns about our debt, and then refuse to do anything about it....
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The McConnell Gambit
Posted on July 13, 2011
So what exactly is Mitch McConnell up to? McConnell offered a solution to the debt limit imbroglio that has been described as cynical, stupid, worthless, traitorous and worse. It may...
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Control-Freaks
Posted on June 28, 2011
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We...
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The Real Scandal
Posted on June 17, 2011
I heard Congressman Steve Israel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on television this morning talking about the real scandal. His point was that the real scandal wasn’t...
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Short Term, Long Term
Posted on June 8, 2011
In the short term, the economy might dip back into a recession, which means that our debt picture in the long term gets only worse. In the short term, it...
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