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Conflict of Visions: #Ukrainefail and the Smart Set

March 4th, 2014 · No Comments · Politics

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Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch

November 27th, 2013 · No Comments · Politics

A little less than a month ago, my pal Steve engaged in a little triumphalism via posts documenting the decline in Republican favorability: It’s Working: Pubs’ Polls Plummeting Congressional Republicans’ Approval Ratings in Freefall. Dems Hold Steady I’d be remiss to not update him with the latest headiness and charts, and adapt one of his […]

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Twitter Data Reveals: Colonoscopies Better Liked than FATCA

August 13th, 2013 · No Comments · Politics

There’s been a lot of negativity of late surrounding the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. The core issue according to The Hill is: “Now, the U.S. Treasury expects banks in every country worldwide to report funds held by “U.S. persons” (not all are U.S. citizens) beginning in 2015. If they do not, foreign financial institutions […]

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Piling On: Bowdoin College and ROI

April 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Politics

The blogosphere has been roiling of late over a report titled What Does Bowdoin Teach? The 360-page document profiled in the WSJ makes the case that the Brunswick college has abandoned its historical “commitment to Western Civilization” and instead has focused on “reshaping America in the image of progressive politics.” In my mind, a school […]

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Gallup: “Americans Say Reagan Is the Greatest U.S. President”

August 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Politics

Details here. One major reason IMHO that many Americans get all tingly over the Gipper is not generally discussed. Those on the left certainly won’t bring it up. It has nothing to do with the skyrocketing employment or the plummeting inflation numbers he presided over. It has to do with our survival. Youngsters (and old […]

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Intrade: Odds of Obama re-election fall below 50% for the first time

August 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Politics

Update: Love Carpe Diem Blog. You can catch Perry’s retake on this 2 days after I posted it. Remember, you heard it here first. : ) Latest odds here:

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Brace for the “Crossing of the Streams”: Reagan Poised to Eclipse Obama

April 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Politics

Apologies to Harold Ramis. I’ve written in the past about how Obama and Reagan’s approval ratings have compared at the same point in their presidencies. At the beginning of the year I showed how Obama had a comfortable lead, and I asked who wanted to bet me that Reagan would pass him. No takers. I […]

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Incentives not Motives, or Why I Sympathize with Those Who Might Discriminate Against Me

April 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Politics

Let me open by saying I am an “old” (52) white guy, and if you live in a state that rigidly enforces age discrimination laws you probably think twice about hiring my ilk, and I don’t blame you. Thanks to the legislation put in place the incentives are stacked against me. One of the essential […]

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The Duke of Wellington on “Mobility Apartheid”

April 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Politics

Most of my friends have patiently endured through my ongoing diatribes where I express dissent with the local politicians and misc. authoritarians who cheerfully embrace fees, taxes, and polices that all conspire to force the less financially fortunate from their cars. “Mobility Apartheid” has been my catch-phrase in these dialogs. I didn’t realize how the […]

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“The Job of the Government is to Take Care of the People!”

April 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Politics

I know a real, live, person who used to enthusiastically offer up this jaw-dropping statement. (Really.) It came to mind immediately when I watched this high-I.Q., Harvard-educated scribbler essentially make the same (tearful) assertion in the clip below. Scroll to about 15 seconds from the end to see what I mean. While I believe that […]

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