Archive for February, 2013

Sequestration Zzzzzzz

February 24, 2013
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In late-2011, when House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell threatened not to raise the debt ceiling (a political tactic never before used by Congress that affected the nation’s credit rating) the novelty of it had some pull. But when they followed up immediately with the “fiscal cliff” maneuver there was...

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Kerry and Hagel, Vietnam and Iraq

February 19, 2013
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It’s a welcome step to see President Obama appoint two Vietnam veterans to serve as Secretaries of State and Defense. John Kerry and Chuck Hagel are two people who have experienced war directly and have voiced publicly their deep ambivalence about war. Too bad in 2002 neither of them were willing to risk their...

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Desiline Victor and Black History Month

February 13, 2013
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In his State of the Union address when President Barack Obama paid tribute to Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old African-American woman from North Miami who was forced to wait for hours to cast her ballot last November, he was highlighting not only the Florida Republican Party’s voter suppression efforts but the tortured history of race...

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