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"We're going to stomp Obama now." 16 Aug 2013 | 04:21 am
A generation or two ago, if somebody threatened harm, even in jest, to a sitting President, they'd be branded as radicals What's changed? Republicans have been setting this kind of example for far to...
July Sees More Jobs, Unemployment Drops Again 2 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
BLS reported that total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July. This was the 41st straight month of private sector job growth worth 7.3 million jobs. Unemployment ticked down to 7.4%....
Necessary Conditions 30 Jul 2013 | 08:57 pm
Without a gun, you don't have a shooting. School District Officials are going to make sure that more than a score of their teachers and staff will have guns. They will claim this will make students sa...
Thanks for Nothing? 24 Jul 2013 | 01:13 pm
The hard truth about the GOP Majority in the House is that they're in it more for their benefit than yours. The trouble is, there's more than one reason to need an active congress. How do you repeal ...
The Dog Catches the Car 15 Jul 2013 | 05:51 pm
The aftermath of the verdict is going to get a whole bunch of attention, to be sure, but I think a point needs to be made: even if Zimmerman was completely correct, and his story wasn't full of holes,...
The Worst Leader in the Senate is Not Harry Reid. 11 Jul 2013 | 11:05 pm
You should have faced this reckoning a long time ago. You've been lucky enough that your opponent has been dedicated to preserving civility in the Senate that you've long made sure had departed. But e...
If Right to Keep It Right, If Wrong to Set It Right. 8 Jul 2013 | 08:50 pm
The quote from Carl Schurz goes like this: "The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the grea...
Job Growth Stronger In June, April and May Revised Upward 5 Jul 2013 | 02:28 pm
BLS reports 195,000 new payroll jobs in June. April and May were revised up to 199,000 and 195,000 respectively. The average of job growth this year so far is 202,000 per month and 182,000 over the la...
Supreme Court rules in crucial cases regarding homosexual marriage 28 Jun 2013 | 12:57 am
Edith WIndsor can now receive the inheritance bequeathed by her late wife, Thea Spyer, without the molestation of estate taxes due to the lawfulness of their marriage recognized by the State of New Yo...
The Hastert Rule 21 Jun 2013 | 05:48 pm
Somebody posted something about the "Haskert Rule" [sic] on the Red column, implying that what the party really needed was to push this rule, make it hard and fast. For those not familiar, it's basica...
