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Kinky and Political Theater
Wed Nov 4, 2009 11:05 AM EST
The most delicious political news is that Kinky Friedman is running for governor of Texas again! He'll be running in the Democratic primary, and he's convinced that he can beat either incumbent Governor Rick Perry or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, depending on which of them wins …
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Obama the Incrementalist
Sun Nov 1, 2009 4:30 PM EST
Obama the incrementalist is the headline of a column written by Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post a few days ago.
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Politics and the Public Option
Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:01 AM EDT
There hasn't been a lot of clarity in the sturm und drang over the so-called public option in current health care reform schemes. The best discussion of the public option I've read is in a column by Robert J. Samuelson in The Washington Post.
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The Faux Golden Boy
Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:05 AM EDT
I've watched President Obama through the campaign and during his first nine months in office. I've read and watched the mostly adoring press coverage.
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The Answer for Africa
Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:38 AM EDT
People dying from hunger. The victims of genocide and war dying at the hands of murderous militias or their own governments. Huge numbers of people dying from curable diseases, including the inexorable AIDS epidemic.
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The Travails of Air Travel
Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:50 AM EDT
I'm sitting in the Munich, Germany airport writing this, en route from the U.S. to Serbia. This trip, like every trip to one degree or another, leaves me with less than a positive attitude toward airlines.
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Afghanistan - Vietnam Redux?
Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:47 AM EDT
I made the point in Vietnam and Afghanistan that we're in danger of repeating the mistake we made in regard to the Vietnam War -- sending more and more troops into a war we were inevitably doomed to lose.
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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
Fri Oct 9, 2009 4:55 PM EDT
When I heard the report that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, my reaction was two questions: "Huh?" and "What for?" I suspect that many millions of other people had the same reaction.
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The Transparency Conundrum
Tue Oct 6, 2009 2:19 PM EDT
Seems there's a lot of opposition among Democrats in Congress over the idea of posting bills online for 72 hours before they're voted on.
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Generals and Politics
Sat Oct 3, 2009 1:45 PM EDT
When President Obama was in Copenhagen, unwisely risking the prestige of the presidency on Chicago's Olympics bid, he managed a hasty 25-minute meeting with General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
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Parasites and Health Care
Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:48 PM EDT
The parasites in question are trial lawyers, particularly those who specialize in medical malpractice lawsuits.
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The Church and the Holocaust
Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:54 AM EDT
There has been a lot of speculation about the actions of the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII in regard to the Holocaust during World War II.
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Vietnam and Afghanistan
Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:25 PM EDT
In late 1965, I was in Kontum, Vietnam as a pilot in a helicopter crew sent there for a few days to support U.S. Special Forces operations. I was quartered in a Vietnamese Army compound, a fairly nice facility left over from French military days.
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Obama's Speech to Students
Tue Sep 8, 2009 3:05 AM EDT
I just read the full text of President Obama's planned speech today to students in schools all over America. It's obvious that the conservatives and Republicans who generated so much controversy about this speech should have read it before they complained.
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Would JFK Be a Democrat Today?
Sat Sep 5, 2009 7:58 AM EDT
I've always considered myself a Democrat in terms of party preference. I came to that position in the context of the ideas and policies of people like John F. Kennedy and other liberals and Democrats of that era (such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan).
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Interrogation Success
Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:39 AM EDT
In How a Detainee Became An Asset, The Washington Post provided objective information on the success achieved using enhanced interrogation techniques in the case of Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
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The Legacy of Ted Kennedy
Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:01 AM EDT
The death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy is a sad event. It should make us all reflect on the reality that no matter how far we go in life, no matter what we may accomplish, in the end we all face the same fate.
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Madonna in Belgrade
Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:22 AM EDT
Madonna brought her "Sticky and Sweet" tour to Belgrade, Serbia on August 24. According to local press reports (here and here), there were about 30,000 people in attendance. I was there, too, along with a friend who's also a close friend of Cat, my domestic guardian.
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Beating a Woman in Malaysia
Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:59 AM EDT
Anyone following the news lately has heard of the case of Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a young woman in Malaysia who has been sentenced under Sharia law to be "caned" for having a beer. This is a young woman, 32 years old, with two young children.
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Politics and Packin' Heat
Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:23 PM EDT
Just about 10 percent of our presidents have been assassinated while in office. Of those four, three were shot with handguns and one with a rifle (or rifles, depending on which conspiracy theory you prefer).
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Health Care Debate Debacle
Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:57 PM EDT
As I watch the continuing health care reform debate, I have to wonder if the nation has lost its collective mind.
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The Collider That Doesn't
Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:33 PM EDT
From a report in The New York Times, Giant Particle Collider Fizzles: The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.
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Pioneer of Color Photography
Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:45 PM EDT
Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian photographer who began a remarkable project in 1909. His goal was to record the huge, sprawling Russian empire in full color photographs.
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Partisan Confirmation
Thu Aug 6, 2009 6:12 PM EDT
Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by the Senate today. The vote was 68 to 31. Senator Ted Kennedy was not present to vote because he suffers from brain cancer and was too ill to attend.
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No Triumph on Health Care
Sun Aug 2, 2009 11:20 AM EDT
H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, was reported out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the most important of five committees that considered the bill, on July 31.
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I’m a retired U.S. Army Colonel currently residing in Austin, Texas and Belgrade, Serbia.
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