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Something to Brag About?
If you’re sick, do you try to choose the smartest doctor or the dumbest? When you want an accountant, do you want to feel confidence in the ability of that man/woman to add, subtract, multiply and...
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Who Wants My Money Now?
Sometime last year I started getting emails from the Washington Times. For those of you not currently or previously drowning in politics (lucky you!), the Washington Times is a right wing rag — Fox...
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My Candidate for President — 2016
I have a pretty good track record in choosing Presidents. Sometimes, I’m way ahead of the game. I decided in 2004 that I wanted Obama for President. Sadly, I didn’t notice him on the ballot for a...
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There IS a Difference
Periodically, I take some heat here at FiftyFourAndAHalf for being one sided in my political commentary. For not saying nice things about the GOP. There is some validity to those charges. My bad....
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It’s Not US, It’s THEM!
You probably can’t tell from my blog posts, but I love words. I love the sound of them, the feel of them in my mouth and at my fingertips. How changing just one word can transform a sentence from...
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Reality Doesn’t Make It Onto the Nightly News — or into State Legislatures
Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez schooled the House Republicans on the Oversight Committee a few weeks ago when they held a hearing on Planned Parenthood. Naturally, this dose of reality didn’t make it...
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Let Me Be the 4,894,307th Person to Remind You: VOTE!
Yes, I’m sick of the reminders, too. Sick of the candidates’ signs. Sick of the damn phone ringing with robo-calls and folks who can’t pronounce my name calling during dinner. Still, it is important....
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How To Get Gun Control Legislation Enacted
It was a Sunday night in, I think, 1982, and I arrived home from my late night walk with Goliath at the U.S. Capitol grounds. We’d had a lovely walk, on the always safe grounds. When I got home, …...
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The NY Times — Right on Target
On the front page of today’s New York Times is an editorial I could easily have written. If I could write that well. If I worked for the NYTimes. If I had millions of readers who’d nod and say “Right...
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Hillary’s Chicken
Yesterday, I braved the grocery store to come up with an edible antidote to 2015. I found myself pacing the aisles of the local Giant Foods, and well, I heard voices. Or a voice. If I were a...
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My Choice
Tomorrow morning, I will leave for work not completely accessorized. Not being much of a fashionista, that’s not normally a problem. But tomorrow I will stop to make sure I have the perfect...
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I Will Register
This election depends on me. But it also depends on you. My most important job this year is to vote. Yours too. Will you be able to? Are you registered to vote? Or will you feel as foolish as Donald...
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Which White House?
You will be surprised to know that I am on Trump’s mailing list. But I am, and I have been for ages. I’m always curious what they are up to, what they’re telling their folks, and what sort of...
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The Difference and Hillary’s Chicken
As if we needed reminders. As if you couldn’t imagine this sort of thing happen. In case you need to show the difference in the two parties. Show ’em this. J.J. Holmes has severe cerebral palsy. He...
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Do yourself a favor and watch this campaign ad. You know you want to.
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