Category: Random
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Let Mitt be Mitt
And look where it gets him. The Uptown Daily Worker has this: A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign Yes, debt is a huge problem, but 11 million is chump change to a man with a car elevator. David Brooks calls you Thurston Howell. Yeah, that’s gonna leave a mark-ouchie Struggles to Steady… nice alliteration…
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Doubling Down
On stupid. Seriously Mitt, I’m beginning to wonder if Sarah Palin isn’t your foreign policy advisor. Are the old folks from the Dole campaign in charge of voter engagement? “Hair Force One” Really, really? Which Swiss Banker is your domestic economic advisor? No, Willard, the American “middle class” doesn’t make between $200,000-$250,000 a year. If…
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Photos from Libya
As Libyans continue to fight a corrupt government and religious extremists within their communities, it’s helpful to remember that those forces do not represent all Libyans. Obvious? Yes. But, sadly, not to all.
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Sen. Balfour Under GBI Investigation
Sen. Don Balfour (R-Show me the money) is being investigated by the GBI for possibly misusing state funds. Could this be the start of something big? Erick Erickson likens this to 2006 for the national Republicans. If he is found to have violated state law I’m not so sure it will lead to widespread voter…
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11 Years Later
Writing on a Georgia blog to primarily a Georgia audience, I am probably one of the few that was near the site of the attacks on 9/11. My school, Eastern Middle School, was less than a mile from the DC border, and about 10 from The Pentagon. My grandfather lived in Manhattan, mere blocks from…
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Today is a today of reflection and remembrance.
Today makes me sad. Reading about loved ones lost and lives shattered. 11 years ago today many of us were trying to wrap our heads around what had just occurred. We became a changed nation. There really isn’t anything that I can write here that hasn’t been said already by folks a lot better at…