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"You have learned well, President Grasshopper." Emphasis added Last week, Obama signed a bill letting him detain U.S. citizens in military custody without convicting them of anything — not for a month or a year, but potentially forever. Obama pledges he will never use that power to hold an American. But Sen. Carl Levin, [...] Politico, perhaps a bit snarkily, details how liberals bloggers hailed Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as bold, daring, and – biff bang pow – letting the Republicans have it both barrels. Huh? Presidents since George Washington have made recess appointments. Quite predictably the other party then [...] From the 1960′s, still relevant. From his intro, liberals “are 10 degrees to the left of center in good times and 10 degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.” “Once I was young and impulsive I wore every conceivable pin Even went to the socialist meetings Learned all the old [...] gunandgame.com In a move sure to be controversial and which has already received national attention, Arizona legislators have redrafted legislation to allow guns to be carried at public colleges and universities. Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a previous attempt, not because she was particularly opposed to the idea, but because it was unclear and murky. [...] Willard Romney, the one-percenter Mormon, won the Iowa Republican Caucus over Christian Fascist Rick Santorum last night by a whooping eight votes… with six votes less than he received there four years ago. Iowa, a state that has in seven of the past nine presidential elections voted democrat. Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky issued an interesting [...] In the streets of Manhattan, during a weekend in late September, the faces of steel and concrete behemoths staring down at me, I quickly weaved my way through stopped cars. I moved with several thousand others. A collective elation filled the air, surrounding us as we sped forward. Cars honked in support, cab drivers [...] Ambrose Bierce wrote in his Devil’s Dictionarythat “Radicalism is the Conservativism of tomorrow, injected into the affairs of today.” One of the joys of aging is to have been a radical in one’s youth, to continue to be a radical, and to be proven right (or in my case, be proven left?) about past ideas [...] My commentary relates to this article which is running in the Los Angeles Weekly: http://www.laweekly.com/2011-12-22/news/eric-bauman-l-a-democratic-party-kingmaker/#disqus_thread The accusation that Eric Bauman is “Macchiavellian” is based on the unstated premise that Macchiavelli wrote in The Prince that “The ends justify the means.” Macchiavelli never wrote that phrase and if Eric is Macchiavellian, it is because his long [...] Many thanks to my old friend, comrade and compatriot Bob Morris for inviting me to blog here. Bob was interested in my take on the ongoing turmoil between Mike Feinstein and Nativo Lopez. I blogged extensively on that subject some time ago, A plague on both your houses. The information that I impart will however, [...] |  | ||||
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