If the House, Senate, and President can’t all agree on a budget by early March, we’ve been told, we’ll face another government shutdown like we had a few times in the 1990s with a Republican Congress and Bill Clinton in the White House. Back then, Clinton effectively painted the Republicans as unreasonable, and their popularity […]
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Dear Reader: If you read this recently you might have noticed that some distracting words in blue were added to the text. I was hacked. Moving on… President Obama had some interesting things to say during his State of the Union Address. I like the themes of cleaner energy, improved education, and more jobs. Though
When I heard that a politician, Gabrielle Giffords, and others had been shot at a political event in Arizona, one of the things I wondered about was her party affiliation. And I wondered if it was politics that prompted the shooting. But I didn’t say anything because it was just a thought–not something that had
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A couple of foreign policy issues have made lots of news recently. President Barack Obama really wants the Senate to ratify the new nuclear arms treaty (called “START”) between the USA and Russia. Meanwhile, North Korea shelled South Korean territory, prompting joint military exercises involving South Korea and the US, which makes North Korea mad.
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The story that most quickly comes to mind when people talk politics and the upcoming elections is that the economy is still in rough shape. Is it too late for Democrats to change that story? Yes and no. It is definitely too late for congressional Democrats. Most people would say that Democrats have had two
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