Education reform is the main plank in my platform. The one policy that all others will flow from. It is the most important thing to me. So, how do we begin? A good question. This will be the first controversy in my campaign.
In asserting that the House rules supreme and supersedes the Senate, Eric's either patently ignorant or pandering patently.
But they didn't, did they? Some succumbed to Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy; others became Reagan Democrats. Most watch Fox News now. Why?
In an online conversation this past weekend, someone reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in years - the Reagan Presidential campaign of 1980. Some of the most effective campaign commercials used by the Reagan team during that...
Too often when surfing the internet and visiting various blogs and other meeting sites, I read comments from ALL sides of the political divide, that disparage President Obama's leadership and or the leadership of other politicians and or powerful...
Smedley Butler
Crusader, Contrarian, Curmudgeon
I see a lot of people laying the blame for the events in Wisconsin at the feet of the voters whose low turnout at the polls is said to have brought Scott Walker and his...
Five hours ahead and one day behind, I went to bed last night, having just watched Rachel Maddow begin her Tuesday broadcast by roundly proclaiming that the people of Wisconsin had won the battle of wills against their governor's intransigence.
Now...
Here is a little ammunition and something to think about the next time you hear that raising taxes on "business" will stop them from hiring or squash their ability or willingness to invest or to upgrade their equipment or infrastructure.
The wealthy have been engaged in open class warfare against the American People for 30 years. The war is at a turning point and what could be lost may never be regained. It's time for us to step up to confront and defeat this very real threat to the American way of life and our democracy.
That word doesn't mean what you think it means. But that's okay, it can't be offended by you, because it's dead.
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