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No-holds-barred commentary on the political arena.

This is Interesting
Barbara Kaye “University of Tennessee” and Tom Johnson, “Texas Tech” are doing a followup survey to an earlier one fr...

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The Equal Rights Amendment lives!
This feels a bit time-warpish, but Congress may try to re-pass (and then urge the states to ratify) the Equal Rights Amendment. Oh, joy. I always get excited at the prospect of ...

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Help Is On the Way. :-P
I’m in the midst of writing another book now, called The Broken American Male. It’s about how the family rut is primarily due to...

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Ex-president Bush
With negotiations — and protests — underway over Bush’s presidential library, and analysts trying to predict what his legacy will be, I’ve been musing abo...

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Discuss
Which will win, the tiger or the meat? You know what to do… ...

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Party switchers?
There’s a lot of talk about whether Joe Lieberman or Bernie Sanders will switch from independent to one of the other parties. Sanders co...

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Blue sky thoughts
I’ve come up with a couple of out-there ideas — one on the minimum wage, the other on campaign contributions. I don’t pretend th...

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Rumsfeld resigning?
I just heard NPR refer to an AP report that Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. A White House announcement is expected later today. More as it dev...

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Who Is This?
Don’t click on the link. Instead, create a link in the comments section to a news story or blog post about them. And only label your li...

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Is luck genetic?
I don’t really think so, but after what happened to my family this weekend, I’m beginning to wonder. ...

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The Scouts get their wish
Be careful what you ask for, because you might not like what you get. Six years ago, the Supreme Court ruled — correctly — that a private organiz...

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