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Myth Busting: “In Search Of…” 1970’s “Global Cooling” hype.

While Washington D.C. and the surrounding area attempts to dig itself out from under “The Snow-pocolypse”, Global Warming deniers are back at it again, pointing to it and the unusually blizzardly (pardon the new word) Winter we’ve been having… mixed in with last Falls “leaked Climate-Gate emails” as PROOF that “Global Warming” is actually a [...]

GOP: The Party of Lawlessness. Four Decades of Criminal Behavior.

I‘m probably not telling you anything that hasn’t crossed your mind already, but sometimes we just need to say things out loud for them to sink in: For all their talk about “patriots” and “love of America”, the GOP really HAS become a party with a total lack of respect for the law (apologies to [...]

The True Lesson of the Brown Win: the voters want a KISS

E=MC2: Energy equals Mass times the Speed of Light squared; the mathematical equation at the heart of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. One of the most complex mathematical theorems ever devised, reduced to an equation so simple that even Sarah Palin’s probably heard of it. And it is BECAUSE it is so simple that it’s lauded [...]

Might Coakley’s Loss Become a Democratic Victory?

January 20th. A Democratic win with the inauguration of President Obama, and one year later, the loss of a key Democratic seat in the Senate. Arguably, two victories for frustrated Democrats.
Liberals like myself have been frustrated by President Obama’s inexplicable need to court Conservatives to pass health care reform with 60 votes in the Senate. [...]

When did “Republican” become this nations fall-back position?

It’s 2010, an “election year”, and as the Sunday News Shows were “eager” to point out, “two prominent Democratic Senators are retiring, Chris Dodd (CT) and Byron Dorgan (ND)”. Suddenly, the Democrats “Super-Majority” is in question. Really? As DNC Chairman Tim Kaine pointed out on several shows Sunday morning, while two Democratic Senators are retiring, [...]

Stating the Obvious: Terrorist Activity Has Risen in Sync with Troop Increases in Afghanistan

Sometimes, someone just needs to point out the obvious: As the number of troops in Afghanistan has gone up, so has terrorism.
The past two weeks, we’ve seen a marked increase in the amount of terrorist activity focused on the U.S.. There was of course the Underwear bomber on Christmas Day on a plane from Amsterdam [...]

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 year. [...]

The Senate Healthcare Compromise: First Impressions (not good)

Last week, the Senate “proudly” announced a late-night healthcare “breakthrough” that abandoned the “Public Option” in exchange for “privately run non-profit” healthcare “exchanges” (read: “co-ops”) and expansion of Medicare and Medicaid. Now, all the details are still coming in, so this will have to be brief.
The highlight of this compromise is that it “expands Medicare” [...]

Buyers remorse. “Seller’s” Remorse.

In 1959, the late great comedic actor Peter Sellers starred in “The Mouse that Roared”, a quirky comedy about a tiny bankrupt nation that decided to declare war on America for the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds they hoped to receive following their crushing defeat (ala The Marshal Plan). Comedy ensues when Sellers and [...]

1.2.3. What are We Fightin’ For? Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan.

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Country Joe & The Fish said it best in their famed anti-Vietnam War song: “1.2.3. What are We Fightin’ For?” A question I’ve been asking myself since President Obama took office.
 

 
Last night, President Obama addressed the nation from the West Point Military Academy to tell us he was sending another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan [...]

Thoughts on the Afghan War Prior to Obama’s Speech

This will be a short commentary preceding President Obama’s address to the nation Tuesday night regarding sending additional troops to Afghanistan.
It is expected that President Obama will announce plans to send between 32 and 35 thousand additional troops to Afghanistan, slightly less than the 40,000 General Stanley McChrystal reportedly asked for last September. What conditions [...]

Debunking 8 Ridiculous Myths Against Healthcare Reform.

Saturday, the Senate passed its own healthcare reform bill, which will now go to Committee for melding with the House Bill into a single healthcare reform bill to be voted on by both houses of Congress. Just getting this far was a monumental task. It was passed in the House with only a single Republican [...]