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Today’s Liberal Beef? Enough With the “Obama-gates” Comparisons to Watergate

May 17, 2013
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Today’s liberal beef? The GOP is so desperate to find something to hang on President Obama– in the hopes of somehow, someway tarnishing his Presidency– that virtually anything that happens in any agency, in any capacity, no matter how minor, becomes worthy of a “gate” designation; as in Watergate. Now, for the record, let me reiterate a few of the major disappointments of my own with this current President. I desperately wanted to see an orange-clad perp-walk of Wall Street banksters after the 2008 crash. Didn’t happen. Not one. They got bonuses for pete’s sake! Obama is the worst negotiator is history! Thank gawd he didn’t negotiate the Louisiana Purchase or we’d be part of France….and I like my deodorant…

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Why Do Americans Continue to Believe GOP Bullshit?

May 12, 2013
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Today’s Liberal Beef? Why do Americans continue to believe such bullshit from their GOP politicians? It appears that the Reinhart-Rogoff battles over their faulty data about government debt have flamed out. Even the inventors of the 90% debt cliff are now anxious to portray themselves of cautious supporters of…

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Student Debt Not National Debt is Crushing The Recovery

May 6, 2013
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For all the talk from the GOP about their fear that our national debt will crush the younger generation under the weight of our American “credit card” debt, the truth is–and has been since the crash during the waning George W. Bush’s disastrous Presidency– the lack…

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The Reason You Feel Like You’re Making Less Income? You Are

May 4, 2013
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If you’re like me and it feels like you’re working harder and making less these days, there’s a very good reason for that. You are. Wages of working Americans– just…

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Is the Sun Setting On the U.S. Middle-Class?

April 27, 2013
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You have to hand it to Americans; despite inexorable proof to the contrary, a surprisingly large number of them refuse to admit that the sun is setting on the middle…

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Panic Must Be Rampant Among Gold Worshiping Paulites

April 20, 2013
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I’m 100% positive that the ongoing precipitous fall in gold’s lustrous shine will not sway the belief of loyal, but simple-minded Paulites that the Gold Standard is still preferable to…

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What Congress Does Best-Nothing

April 6, 2013
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Despite widespread fears that dramatic budget changes would wreck an already fragile recovery, Congress unsurprisingly decided not to stray from their recent modus operandi and do what they do best–…

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The Sequestor is an Economy-Killing Python

March 30, 2013
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The greatest single crisis ever of capitalism, the Great Depression of the 1930s, did not have the benefit of the mountains of evidence that we have now…that The Sequestor is…

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Don’t Get Too Excited About February’s Unemployment Drop

March 24, 2013
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More than five years after George W. Bush’s economic crash, it apparently doesn’t take much to get people excited about the state of unemployment. The Labor Department’s February employment report showing…

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Same Mistakes Being Made Now That Caused The Great Depression

March 23, 2013
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By embracing the gratuitous anti-government rhetoric and archaic economic theorizing that passes for policy analysis in much of today’s G.O.P., Congress and the White House might be making the same…

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Why the GOP Congress Doesn’t Care What You Think

March 19, 2013
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Embracing the gratuitous anti-government rhetoric and archaic economic theorizing that passes for policy analysis in much of today’s G.O.P., Congress and the White House might be making the same mistake…

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No Drama Obama Should Keep Earning That Nickname

March 11, 2013
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With Wall Street hitting new records,(which really aren’t records at all) as Washington manufactures its latest fiscal crisis—the ubiquitous budget sequestration–Obama could do much worse than to simply continue the laid-back style…

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The GOP Bankrupted the Postal Service On Purpose

March 7, 2013
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Not surprisingly, the GOP with their ever-larger bag of dirty tricks, is the reason The United States Postal Service recently announced that it is cutting Saturday delivery starting in August, moving to…

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Confederates & Republicans 1776-2013

March 4, 2013
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The Confederate Republicans have never stopped believing “they was robbed”, and I don’t mean the Confederates from the 1860s; I think it’s worth remembering that the failure of the Articles of Confederation,…

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THE 2008 ECONOMIC COLLAPSE: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AND WHY

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By: Dr. Richard Paul, D.D.     The economy seemed great. Everything was moving forward and only a few economists were screaming something major was…

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