Far East Cynic

Important safety tip

If you are going to be a darling of the Teabagger nation charged with defending the Constitution. You might want to actually read it: WILMINGTON, Del. — Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of Delaware on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Constitution calls for a separation of church and state, appearing

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That dog won’t hunt……

It is not often I agree with The Hill-so skewed and un-objective are most of their pieces;  but even a broken clock is right twice a day: “I think attacking the outside money, and specifically attacking the Chamber, is of very limited value to the White House,” said former Rep.

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Sometimes the truth hurts-but it needs to be heard.

The problem with a trip like this last one is that with “social” dinners thrown in-it leaves little time for booming or blogging. I opted for booming and let my blogging slide. I’m home for the weekend now and catching up. A whole group of people are up in arms

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The numbers game

I pointed this out before-one of the key elements of Teabag strategy, if it can be called that, is based on a numbers game. Getting all of their folks out-who really don’t represent a majority of Americans-and keeping the rest of us at home.  America has one of the most miserable

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A rejoinder

Commentator AA stopped by to criticize my thought that the Tea Party is really not ready to do anything when and if they win control of Congress. In calling me “pathetic” ( a term I refuse to accept)-he has raised a good point. Why are they not really ready to

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Winding up

Well the day I  have been looking forward to-is getting closer. With luck I will be back across the Atlantic ocean this weekend. Romania has been nice-but ten weeks is about six weeks two much. I’ve seen the city pretty much through and through, driven around southern Romania and up

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The new Jacobins

One might think that my skirmish with the state of Alabama as noted below might have me changing my thoughts about government. Not really-clearly this represents what is a pretty obvious trend, the state is so short of money that they will do every thing they can to avoid paying

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Guess which is which….

Quote of the day-most appropriate for April Fools Day: — There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted,

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Speaking of irony……

It would appear the concept is lost on the founder of the Tea Party movement as well. I am so very not suprised. “The small-government conservative movement, which includes people who call themselves the tea party patriots and so forth, is about the principles of liberty as embodied in the

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All or nothing…..

I have little patience these days for the rantings of so-called “Constitutionalists”-those folks who insist that every thing the government does these days is somehow in violation of the Constitution or “contrary to the intentions of the founding fathers”. For the most part they are wrong-and where they may actually

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