By Wink The Libyan overthrow of Gadhafi is worth celebrating. Anytime a ruthless dictator is deposed the world has a chance to become a better place. A chance. It is better when a country overthrows its own dictator, like Libya did, than when an outside country does this, like the U.S. did in Iraq. Why [...]
By Wink The GOP talking-points machine is always well-oiled. Every Republican gets a regular memo, and dutifully spits out the same sh**, to magnify the ‘seriousness’ of some alleged problem. I call these YAPI – Yet Another Phony Issue. And what is today’s YAPI, you may ask? Vacation. Too much vacation. Barack Obama has been [...]
By Wink Is it cynical to think the GOP is happy about our ongoing recession? Are their actions based on total cluelessness, or is this intentional? What Americans need are jobs. The last thing the GOP seems to care about is jobs. Putting people to work would … Take them off unemployment (which saves money) [...]
By Wink In our July 28 column we discussed GOP efforts to eliminate voters on a nationwide basis. To pass laws restricting voters, they drummed up the following phony message: Fraud, fraud, fraud. So where is the fraud? Ohio is one of the states that passed a new, more restrictive law as to who can [...]
By Wink Dinking around, delaying raising the debt ceiling, has cost us money. The U.S. taxpayer is now on the hook for $1.7 billion that we never would have owed had we simply acted more timely to do something we were going to do anyway…. I told you so. Economists told you so. This [...]
