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The Amazing Mugsy’s Predictions for 2010.
Okay, maybe calling myself “The Amazing Mugsy” is a bit of a stretch. So sue me. It’s the final Monday of the first decade of the new millennium (though technically, 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century). Every year at this time, I like to pause to make my predictions for the coming [...]
A Dickens of a Mistake: Plot hole in “A Christmas Carol”?
Ebenezer Scrooge never knew the son of his sole employee, Bob Cratchit, was seriously ill. It wasn’t until Scrooge learned that Tiny Tim might actually die unless he did something to help, that he was actually willing to forego some of his personal wealth to help save the life of a sick child. When Charles Dickens [...]
Fox wants to make it harder to fact-check them. Plus video: Bush on trying terrorists
About a month ago, the Obama Administration admitted what we all knew: that Fox News was a mouth-piece for the Republican Party. Fox “News” was SHOCKED, SHOCKED I SAY that the White House might think they were anything but “fair & balanced”. But dutiful bloggers like myself, with the most cursory of online digging (a [...]
Wilson’s “Lie” reveals GOP wants untenable Citizenship test for healthcare.
Everyone has heard by now “the heckle heard round the world”: Rep. Joe Wilson’s astoundingly disrespectful outburst calling the President of the United States a liar before a televised joint session of Congress Wednesday. But that incident is only half the story. What Wilson was referring to is the other. While there are five draft [...]
Global Warming will mean FEWER mid-Summer hurricanes, not more.
(It appears I need to forewarn new readers that the purpose of this weeks column is to highlight the potential for great damage to the environmental message by arguing a misconception as “fact”, and then having to listen to Conservatives use that assumption against you when it doesn’t come true. To be forewarned is to [...]
Overlooked Savings from Single-Payer Healthcare
Ask any Republican, “If you could pass a tax cut that saved the average American $10-$30,000 a year and the average corporation millions of dollars a year, would you do it?” What do you think their answer would be? It’s harder to argue against a “Single-Payer” healthcare system when you phrase it in those terms, [...]
Quick update.
Hello all. Often, I wish I could update this blog a dozen times a day like “Think Progress”, “DailyKOS” or “Crooks & Liars”, ad infinitum. But those sites all have a staff of writers and contributors providing content that I just don’t have. So I must be satisfied with weekly Op/Ed’s (if holidays don’t get in the [...]
Petition: Censure Senator Inhofe (UPDATED)
I‘m sure you’ve noticed that Republican hate-speech has become more and more strident in recent weeks. Here is a sampling of just the past few weeks: o Former Vice President Dick Cheney claimed “Obama policies make U.S. less safe“. o Newt Gingrich: “I think people should be afraid” (regarding Obama’s policies and the closure [...]
April 15th: Give the “Tea Partiers” What they Want. Revoke their tax cut. (UPDATED)
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Delay
Apologies to everyone for the lack of updates recently. My PC crashed and is in the process of being restored. I hope to return to my regular posting duties later this week. – Mugsy.
Ever Have One of Those Days? My holiday gift to you.
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