Category Archives: Issues

The Presidential Sickness: Overpromise, Underperform

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Norman Daniels

Is it a disease? Running presidential candidates talk ideals and dreams and make promises they can’t possibly keep. Do they do it out of naiveté or drive to win at all costs and think they’ll fix every lie later? The … Continue reading →

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Lies About The Alleged Budget Deal

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Norman Daniels

Man, he’s smart… as a politician. Which means he’s the kind of guy that’s lying if he opens his mouth. That’s Obama, of course. Any opportunity to get his lap-dog press out to capture His Celebrities’ every move. So he … Continue reading →

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White House moving to repair troubled relationship with Cabinet

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Norman Daniels

Barack Obama, elected on promises of bringing government together, stopping the bickering and helping each side of the aisle work with the other to bring harmony, apparently can’t work with his own cabinet. According to his friends at the Washington … Continue reading →

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Republicans Endorse Obama

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Norman Daniels

The current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls couldn’t be better friends of Barack Obama if they just came out and openly endorsed him. Huckabee, Romney, Palin, Gingrich, Pawlenty, etc, all bouncing around in a very hollow box will debate, preach, … Continue reading →

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Cairo and Madison Uprisings. Is Washington Next?

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Norman Daniels

…a system knit together by patronage, greased by bribes and guided by the principle that the governing party knows best… What country does that sound like? Could it be the U.S.? The line is taken from a NY times article … Continue reading →

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Mubarak or Muslim Brotherhood not Egypt’s only choice: Experts – Faith & Reason

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Norman Daniels

With talk of “an orderly transition” in Egypt, USA Today blogger Cathy Lynn Grossman posts an interesting piece on how a succession might go: Will the next government that emerges from the tumult in Egypt be Islamic or Islamist? There’s … Continue reading →

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Giffords shot because she’s Jewish?

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Norman Daniels

Could Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords have been targeted by a gunman because she’s Jewish? The alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, included Hitler’s Mein Kampf on his reading list. In a piece of YouTube junk he writes, yes writes (don’t expect any weird … Continue reading →

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Profiting from Divorce: Is It One of the Legal Crimes?

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Norman Daniels

Is it a service, or is it legal crime? Betting on the outcome of a divorce… and helping, for a share of the spoils, one side of the conflict. The New York Times reports on it: With some in the … Continue reading →

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The Mid-Term Elections: Good News and Bad News

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Grant Thomas

The mid-term elections are finally over!  I think everyone has seen and heard all of the political commercials we need to deal with for a while… thank goodness we finally get a break.  As the dust begins to settle and … Continue reading →

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Stewart and Colbert: Comedy in Washington. Same Old Story, Sadly.

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Norman Daniels

Part circus, part satire, part holiday parade, the crowds that flooded the National Mall for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” on Saturday made it a political event like no other. It was a Democratic … Continue reading →

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