Attempting to categorize conservatism in the 21st century runs the risk of plunging into the briar patch of academic labeling or the fever swamp of left-wing vitriol. In the first category, one finds such designations as conservatism, neo-conservatism and paleo-conservatism, while those things liberals say about conservatives may be relegated to the realm of overheated
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As I watched the 9/11 anniversaries, and remember how this country united after the evil, monstrous attack by our enemy, I can’t help but now think what happened?  When we look back at the last four years, many of our leaders and citizens, have acted like spoiled arrogant, selfish jerks.  Just a few examples include
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It’s a safe bet that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is still tea partiers’ top pick for the Republican presidential nomination. But he took a pounding during Monday night’s CNN/tea party debate in Tampa, backed down on a couple of issues, and was actually booed when talk turned to immigration. That was significant. Tea party activists
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At one of last month’s Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored “job fairs,” Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: “This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this tea party movement
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 Vice President Joe Biden made the news again this week. Three weeks ago, Biden was in the news because of reports he had denounced Tea Party members as “terrorists,” a claim Biden was in the news because he did not denounce the communist Chinese for their vicious one-child policy, a claim his spokespeople have attempted
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It might be that the split between the Texas Panhandle’s two members of Congress illustrates well the chasm that divides politicians these days. Republican Mac Thornberry of Clarendon voted “yes” recently to the deal that ends the nation’s current debt crisis, while fellow Republican Randy Neugebauer of Lubbock voted “no.”What’s striking is that these two
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Well as President and CEO of the United States Obama should of seen this one coming and I am sure he did. Obama’s treasury secretary Timothy Geithner giving him advice on the current financial status of the United States and told Obama this past April that the United States Credit rating would remain AAA+ and
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Well as President and CEO of the United States Obama should of seen this one coming and I am sure he did. Obama’s treasury secretary Timothy Geithner giving him advice on the current financial status of the United States and told Obama this past April that the United States Credit rating would remain AAA+ and
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The Tea Party is playing Russian roulette with the U.S. and world economies. This is not a game. And the rhetoric and sound bites the far right continues to employ remind me that they understand all Lenin’s axiom: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” One of the right wing’s favorite lies has always
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Our Congress has failed us again. I am 85 years old and have been following politics since I was 25.  That’s 60 years.  And I would guess I have seen 60 attempts to change Congress.  It can’t be done. You and I cannot change the career Democrats. You and I cannot change the career Republicans.
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