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Crystal Balling It

September 30, 2009

No, crystal balling it ain't as arousing or provocative as, say, Teabagging it…but crystal balling it is a bit more coherent and understandable than TeaBagging it…so there's that.
One year ago on October 13th, in a blog post entitled, The Upcoming Obama Presidency, The Reverend typed out these predictions….
".…..after having paid very close attention to what [...]

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Medina Schools Will Censor Obama

September 5, 2009

In a front page Beacon article today entitled, "Obama message optional in schools", staff writer John Higgins relates what Medina City Schools Superintendent, Randy Stepp, has decided to do about Tuesday's Obama speech to school kids. Censor it.
Superintendent Stepp says he has received "about 100 e-mails and calls" and they are "evenly split over the [...]

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Obama's Mistakes

August 28, 2009

I was an ardent supporter of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries of last year. Obama campaigned, correctly saying that he, alone, of all the candidates, could build a new coalition of voters in America by talking straight and confronting decades-old national problems. He promised a new kind of politics and he [...]

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Reviewing the "Rage"

August 12, 2009

The profound wisdom of Duncan Black, aka, Atrios….
"Nobody could've predicted that electing a black man president would drive this country completely f*cking insane."
The milder, less abrasive thoughtfulness of today's AB Journal editorialist….
"The furor at town-hall meetings has been revealing. It has exposed a disturbing depth of ignorance regarding the national structure of health care."
Are the [...]

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Wow….Sarah Palin Resigns Governorship

July 3, 2009

Updated below with Palin resignation speech
Updated again with FOX's response.
Updated Sunday morning with more from Palin.
KTUU. com, Alaska….
Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks [...]

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Laughing Matters

March 24, 2009

Immediately following Sunday night's appearance of President Obama on Sixty Minutes, I told the Mrs. that Obama's smiling would be the Villager story dominating Monday's "news" cycle.
Politico….
Even his awkward laughter highlighted an issue Obama has faced dating back to the campaign, a sense that he sometimes is too “cool” and detached to fully grasp the [...]

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Surveyed Republicans Want GOP To Be Like Palin

February 2, 2009

Fresh off the pollster presses are brand new numbers reflecting what Republicans are thinking right now about which conservative leader represents the way forward for the GOP. While the numbers aren't surprising, really…..they surely say something about the current Party of Lincoln.
From Rasmussen we find that…..
the plurality of GOP voters (43%) say their party [...]

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What Would Jesus Say?

January 31, 2009

Gallup has come out with a new poll-map, by state, showing the importance of religion in Americans' daily lives. It seems that, on average, 65% of Americans consider religion important in their daily lives while 35% do not. Ohio ranks 25th, with Ohioans considering religion to be important in their daily lives by 65%.
Now compare [...]

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Journalist Joe

January 11, 2009

Watch the first two minutes of this FOX clip from late October, 2008….

Joe. The. Plumber., embraced by American wingnuts as a representative of the 'average guy', and followed, puppy-like, by an American media who couldn't find their asses with both hands…..proudly and boldly told viewers that a vote for Barack Obama was a vote for [...]

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Great Sense of Humor

December 31, 2008

One characteristic of this year's presidential campaign was the non-stop attempt by McCain-Palin to rally the Republican base. John McCain, allegedly a "maverick" who often broke with his party, chose Sarah Palin as his running mate in order to excite GOP-base voters enough to come out and vote for the elephant ticket.
Even in the [...]

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