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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Saturday, June 24, 2017

President Trump and the Tragedy of American Ingratitude

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by Nomad Gratitude-The Parent of all Virtues I 've been doing some thinking on the subject of gratitude. How grateful am I? Ho...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Dashed Hopes for Increase in Federal Minimum Wage May Be Just the Start of Hard Times

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by Nomad O n 29 November, some 40 people were arrested at a protest outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Detroit. They had gathered ...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Rejecting Stagnation: Why a Progressive Ideology is Really What America's All About

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by Nomad In a world impatient for change and for development, what's so wrong about a progressive superpower? C andidate JEB exp...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Eligibility: How Ted Cruz Got Totally Tripped up in his Tangle of Lies

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by Nomad If Ted Cruz is eligible, says one blogger, then he has been caught in yet another lie. Like Cruz, Obama's mother was Americ...
Monday, November 9, 2015

President Obama on Giving a Sense of Hope and Vision

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by Nomad Related articles Obama says a thing. Republican outrage. Pope Francis says a similar thing. Where's the outrage?
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Reflections on an Ungrateful Nation

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by Nomad In free countries, it is natural to complain about how the nation is being run. The public must hold high standards when it come...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Iraq War and The Fine Art of Republican Revisionism

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by Nomad No matter how intense the barrage of propaganda and how constant the lies, Americans owe it to the 4,486 U.S. soldiers that die...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Destiny in the Making: President Obama Made History 25 years Ago Today

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by Nomad A quarter of a century ago, one soft-spoken student with a sense of destiny took his first steps into the public spotlight. His ...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

How the Facts about Benghazi Bring an End to the Republican Lying Game

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by Nomad After two long years of investigating the Benghazi incident, the Republicans were forced to admit that all of the slanderous ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Tea Party's Ted Cruz Is Confident He Will Be The Answer

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by Nomad Apologies for the deceptive headline. I couldn't resist the temptation. In fact, this quote by Ted Cruz is probably more acc...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Obama vs. The Cheneys: A Question of American Values

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by Nomad When President Obama admitted that the CIA had, in the years after 9/11, committed torture, Liz Cheney, daughter of the former...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Cheney's Editorial: A Total Detachment from Responsibility and Reality

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by Nomad Minds were boggled this week as ex-vice president Dick Cheney managed to flip history on its head in order to escape his record ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Arming ISIS: The Danger of Listening to Warhawks

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by Nomad Two years ago, as the Syrian Civil War dragged on, Republican war hawks had the answers about what President ought to do in Sy...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

The Importance of Impeachment: How the Tea Party is Abusing Constitutional Procedure

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by Nomad Since the first presidential impeachment in 1868,  the procedure has proved to be a terribly imperfect tool. However, even when...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Sarah Palin vs. Albert Einstein

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by Nomad I saw Palin was criticizing Obama's dress sense the other day.   “People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles be...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Obama and EO 13036: New Tea Party Hysteria over Emergency Preparedness

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by Nomad When President Obama announced in no uncertain terms that he would use his executive powers to get around Congressional obstruct...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Recess Appointments and Partisan Obstructionism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

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by Nomad This week the Supreme Court is reviewing a lower court's decision which declared unconstitutional President Obama's use o...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Election Night, Cargo Bar- 2008

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by Nomad I t was exactly four years ago. Another election night with all of the apprehension and lip-biting that goes with the politic...
Saturday, November 3, 2012

The Small Town in Illinois that Bishop Jenky Forgot

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by Nomad Strange Remarks from a Bishop Back in April of this year, Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois began a rambling...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Brings an October Surprise

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by Nomad I n a rather surprising show of solidarity, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie , who has been bashing President Obama for the ...