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A Dime’s Worth of Balanced Thoughts on SOTU
3 comments on A Dime’s Worth of Balanced Thoughts on SOTUThe national debt has increased by 58 trillion dimes since Obama took office.
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What National Election? Electoral College Is the Only Tally That Counts
For better or worse, we don’t have national elections in America. We have 51 state elections. Occasionally this matters a lot — just ask President Gore about his half-million-vote “national victory” in 2000.
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Seaman Recruit Harry Kirk Petersen, United States Navy
The other day I sat in a restaurant and watched my son become a man. Harry recently bailed out of college. He was in the third year of a five-year construction management program at Drexel…
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Purple Finger Majesties
The Web Goddess and I got up early this morning to perform our solemn civic duty of canceling each other out at the election booth. The polls in New Jersey nominally open at 6 a.m.,…
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The Corner vs. the Messiahmercial
The Web Goddess and I watched the Obamavision special via DVR while snuggling together on the couch. We’re a red-and-blue couple, but in the spirit of bipartisanship, I wore a purple shirt. I started checking…
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A Surprise: Hitchens Endorses Obama
Christopher Hitchens, by far the biggest Iraq War hawk on the nominal Left, has endorsed Obama for President. I have to say I was stunned to see it. Three weeks ago, Hitch’s Slate column was…
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His & Her Candidates
My lovely wife, the self-taught Web Goddess, supports Obama (as does almost everybody we know in our blue-town/blue-state of Maplewood, New Jersey). I support McCain, primarily on the basis of the Iraq war issue. As…
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So THAT’S Why He Picked Her – What a Speaker!
I take back everything I said or hinted or even thought about Sarah Palin being a drag on the ticket. She did several things she had to do in her speech tonight: She established that…