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The Bloviator — er, the Trump-eter in Chief
Donald Trump At an appearance by Donald Trump this week, all of the veterans present supported him, MSNBC reported, showing one man...
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Jul 16, 20153 min read
Singularly Simple
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders This week, two persons on either end of the political spectrum called for a radical change in the nation’s...
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Jul 12, 20154 min read
Technological Overload: Tell Avivah
New York Stock Exchange United Airlines plane A single day last week told the story of what’s become of life on planet Earth. On...
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Jul 5, 20153 min read
Godly Warming
Republican Catholics are in a quandary. Do they adhere to their political ideology on climate change, or do they follow their spiritual...
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Jun 7, 20153 min read
Done deal: Florida Republicans reject $78 billion for Medicaid
Fellow Floridians, have you read the newspapers today? Tax cuts that you would have received aren’t going to happen. Florida Gov. Rick...
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May 31, 20153 min read
Florida Leaders Play Politics, Sacrifice People
It looks like the bad guys in the Florida Legislature and the governor are going to win the battle over whether to grant health care to...
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May 25, 20153 min read
Scott’s politicking fleeces Floridians
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli are hell-bent on plunging the state into a fiscal and environmental morass....
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May 2, 20153 min read
Extremism in the pursuit of pragmatism is no vice.
Barry Goldwater Notwithstanding Barry Goldwater’s mantra “Extremism in the cause of liberty is no vice,” it has dire consequences. Look...
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Apr 25, 20153 min read
The Scott scam
It wasn’t a prominently placed story in the Palm Beach Post – an inside page, three-column headline: “Scott, ACLU end fight over state...
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Apr 19, 20153 min read
Estate Tax Tiff
Once again, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are showing their true colors – and they ain’t pretty. They long have railed...
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Apr 5, 20153 min read
Feeling so gay in a melancholy way
Sen. Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief...
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Mar 15, 20154 min read
Due for a Bash-ing
CNN’s Dana Bash Dana Bash, a likable correspondent for cable channel CNN, did anything but live up to her name Sunday in quizzing Senate...
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Mar 8, 20153 min read
Bombs Away!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The hawks in Congress and the media have been jumping all over President Obama for the...
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Feb 8, 20153 min read
Rabid GOP Attacks ACA Again
The fanatical anti-Obama faction of the GOP – which is almost the entire Republican Party – is at it again. They voted once more, in the...
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Jan 25, 20152 min read
It Hurts So Good!
Florida’s Republican Legislature and governor, Rick Scott, are in a pickle. The people whose boneheaded obeisance to an idiotic ideology...
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Jan 10, 20152 min read
Stonewalling the Keystone
The White House indicated that President Obama will veto the Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed last week by the House and due for a vote...
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Dec 20, 20142 min read
Sneak Preview
Ex-Senator Barney Frank We just got a preview of what’s going to happen to the country under the new Congress, with both the House and...
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Nov 9, 20143 min read
Playing it safe
The Democratic Party lost the 2014 midterm elections last week to the Republicans, and the Miami Dolphins lost its ninth game of the...
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Nov 3, 20143 min read
Baby, it’s cold inside!
Cruise ship Outside my stateroom window, the big, heavy tub is churning the Caribbean into a frothy white that is absorbed by the inky...
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Sep 26, 20143 min read
Vote for yourself, not the rich.
Chris Matthews Less than six weeks before the general election (Nov. 4), American voters would do well to consider a few facts...
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