Senator Kennedy (1932-2009)

Monday, 31 August 2009, 5:00 | Category : Authors, Cessna, Politics
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By Cessna Ladies and gentlemen, the Senator has left the building. He is finally at peace, hopefully. He fought his entire life for real change, real progress. And through countless family–and personal–tragedies he continued to fight. For equality, for minimum wage, and his final battle, health care. Ted Kennedy stood up for those too weak [...]

Cheney’s Tortured Logic

Friday, 28 August 2009, 7:27 | Category : Authors, Cheney, Politics, Wink
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By Wink Peter King, a New York Republican congressman with senatorial aspirations, has decided to make headlines by ripping the Obama administration’s decision to investigate Bush-era CIA interrogations. The always classy congressman said… “It’s bullsh*t. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on.” He is further proof that the average IQ in the House of [...]

Been to D.C.?

Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 9:55 | Category : Authors, Politics, Wink
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By Wink Do you love your country? (I bet you said yes.) Is your country America? Yes? Then find a way to get to Washington D.C.. It turns out that this is the capital of the good old U. S. of A. (all 52 states). What a well-kept secret! After a couple of visits I [...]

Presidential Purpose

Monday, 24 August 2009, 6:00 | Category : Authors, Bush, Cessna, Obama, Politics
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By Cessna “Liberals” have pretty much been on the right side of every major issue in the history of this country. Ending slavery. Medicare. Social Security. Voting rights. Every one fiercely opposed by conservatives. Those soft-hearted liberals were against going to war in Vietnam and Iraq. Those ventures both went well, didn’t they? Now liberals [...]

Campers & Whiners

Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 7:32 | Category : Authors, Sports, Wink
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By Wink We survived our recent camping adventure. A number of years ago a few of my friends and I just did this as a lark. We knew of a great place to canoe, and two or three of us took the seven hour drive on up there. It was such a good time that [...]

Of Health and Health Care

Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:00 | Category : Authors, Congress, Kasson, Politics
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by Kasson To few surprises, the national debate has moved past Obama’a birth certificate, and the Gates incident. To where it probably belongs, health care. Since our politicians spend all of their time arguing debating, they might as well do it on something worth while. My problem with the debate is that it is not [...]

Kayaking & Perseids

Friday, 7 August 2009, 14:12 | Category : Authors, Wink
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By Wink I suppose, like all guys, my friends and I like to think of ourselves as the ‘outdoorsy’ type. We are not, but we DO make an effort every year to prove our manhood. So we head off to the great wilderness. Once we get there we will camp for several days and kayak. [...]

Birth, the Constitution and Matt’s Motivation

Monday, 3 August 2009, 8:29 | Category : Authors, Hypocrisy, Obama, Politics, Wink
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By Wink Sometimes I am really naïve. I thought my July 22 article about Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship would not be controversial. Let me synopsize: 1) Obama is a U.S. citizen 2) Anyone who says he isn’t is an idiot Some of the responses were fun, but not Matt’s. Matt is a very serious person, [...]