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Time for Warren Buffett to walk his talk
In yesterday’s New York Times, the oracle of Omaha wrote a plea for Congress to “Stop coddling the...
AA status for a third world country
Standard & Poor’s is extracting an ounce of payback on the United States after they were ridiculed and had...
Congress walks off job- still gets paid?
When you hire children to do adult work, you get the kind of results we’ve gotten from Congress. With no...
Time to spank the petty politicians: raid their campaign kittys
The two-party system is broken. The standstill in Washington over the debt ceiling is proof that petty politicians...
Can politicians say no to anything?
Recently, the State House started to clear the way for Video Slots at racetracks. Local news cuts to Nan Whaley, where...
The intentions of the public
If you had a powerful service, that could improve everyone’s living conditions, and was 100% free, and only took...
Early voting vs honest voting
So far, other than the newspaper- no one has told me how to vote yet. The party machinery, so used to working a...
When business and politics don’t mix
It didn’t take long before I got an email suggesting NOT to shop at the following businesses because of their...
The costs of campaigns
I’ll let you in on a little secret, the real reason we don’t have campaign finance reform is not because...
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