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Daniel TilsonNovember 18, 2013

It’s time for the outcry about the rocky rollout of the Affordable Care Act to get less frantic and more targeted. Despite corporate-conservative media personification of the law as “Obamacare,” we everyday folks need to disregard political spin and get savvy about what’s really going on. The long-term health of our families and national economy […]

Guest AuthorNovember 14, 2013

We are a little more than 11 months away from mid-term elections, but the presidential sweepstakes continue to heat up. Hillary Clinton seems to have the inside track for the Democratic nomination while Gov. Chris Christie seems to be gaining attention after his big reelection win in New Jersey on a pretty poor night for […]

Guest AuthorNovember 13, 2013

Somebody needs to grab Sen. Lindsey Graham by the scruff of the neck and give him a shake or two. In the ideal, it would be one of his Republican colleagues but that’s not likely, given the party’s weapon of choice — extortion. Last month the party nearly shut down the government and pushed the […]

Guest AuthorNovember 12, 2013

This is not talk by right-wing foes who have a list of Hillary jokes longer than their list of lawyer jokes. “What carries more baggage than a Delta Airlines ground crew? Ans. Hillary Clinton.” No, the knocks come from Democrats. She’s never been a particularly good campaigner, partly because she cannot fake sincerity like her […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 27, 2013

There exists somewhere, I strongly suspect, a school that trains politicians in the art of unctuous hypocrisy. Like a black hole in space, it can’t be seen. But its presence can be deduced from its unmistakable effects. The latest such manifestation is the Republican National Committee’s decision to blacklist CNN and NBC from broadcasting presidential […]

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