"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." "Government is the problem." "A people free to choose will always choose peace."
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Obama showed his penchant to take care of the wealthy early in his campaign when he defined middle class as those who made up to $250,000 a year.
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The classic sports analogy is to the player who is caught because she hits the other player in retaliation. The first one is to blame, but the referees do not see that one. Only the second.
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Our government still rejects universal public health care, something every other modern industrial country has in place. We instead embrace something uniquely American: the claim that we have competition when the truth is as far from real competition as it can get.
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For some time, we have lamented the decision to bail out GM. A small thing in the scheme of this President's efforts to right the US ship soon after becoming its Captain. But a huge thing in the minds of many.
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I know. You think that the Obama Presidency is really action packed liberal dogma. Health care "reform." Huge deficits. Economy on the brink. Olympics. Terrorism. Yes, this President is certainly out there with tons of speeches. His war on Fox News.
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If any of you have not experienced why our health care is in such a mess, look no further than a call about 18:00 on any night about something you are not sure is a medical emergency.
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The Wall Street Journal ("WSJ") cannot blame its right wing tendencies on Rupert Murdock.
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We have drones in Afghanistan piloted from the United States. We have bombs used in Iraq that can hit locations inside of feet, and that can penetrate buildings and other matter before exploding. We have spy technologies more advanced than the world has ever seen.
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Let's leave aside the hopelessly political implications of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Others have been equally stupid, without as much visibility.
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Yes, Representative Grayson said some things on the House floor that many (read Republicans) want to have him withdraw.
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Fox News concentrates on one sentence in the 60 Minutes Sunday piece on General Stanley McChrystal where McChrystal says President Obama has talked with him once in the seventy days he has been in Afghanistan.
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The Pittsburgh Group of 20 summit was orchestrated from the Obama statement to the UN to the last day of the summit. Many quibble with Obama's UN speech. It was designed merely as a frontispiece to his Pittsburgh speech, from peace to war in a few event-filled days.
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Anna Nicole Smith joined Michael Jackson today as another who may have been killed by physicians. There was no apparent overdose of marijuana or heroine. Just plain unadulterated drug company overdoses and mixed doses sufficient to make someone sleep, happy or both.
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"Change" became small change when Senator Baucus, the weak legislator from a state that should go Democrat again next fall, brought his own bill before the public.
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Last night in one of the ugliest moments in recorded tennis history, Serena Williams lost in the semifinals of the US Open to Kim Clijsters because of a foot fault. The ugliness was not the foot fault itself, or the call. It emanated solely from Williams.
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Scenes from the shame of America.
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McEnroe and Shriver. Imagine that tennis would include these two former players as principal commentators for tennis majors only ten years ago and you would have been stunned.
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Orson Wells acted in and directed some of the greatest movies of all time. In this, another movie in which he starred and directed Charlton Heston (playing a Mexican-American) and Janet Leigh, he explored some issues that plague our country today.
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We are brought golf largely by Englishmen and Aussies and tennis by Aussies and John McEnroe. Why? What is lacking in the many decent US stars who could easily replace these so-called pundits?
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"Euthanasia" is best defined as "mercy killing" or "assisted suicide" by methods that ease the pain of death.
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This column has even recently made statements regarding Olberman and Maddow that are adverse to them and their shows. It is time to confess that I was wrong. I watch MSNBC much more these days. For good reason.
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Imagine, if you will, you are starting to build an entire network that is essential to a new connected network in the United States.
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During the presidential campaign, two factors were of utmost importance to many votes. Dedication to cleaning up Washington, including getting rid of special interest effects on Congressional voting and pork. And dedication to the poor.
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I am forced to concede that my own tendencies favor universal healthcare. The fact that the Republicans base their opposition on false claims is also part of the reason I will vote another Democratic straight ticket this Fall and for the foreseeable future.
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