Posted in economy, election, government, politics, tagged Clinton, democrat, election, Green, Libertarian, McCain, Obama, politics, pundit, Republican on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Hillary Clinton’s victory in West Virginia has anchored her resolve to stay in the presidential race. Yet, as far as the presidential nomination, she is a woman without a hope. There is not a clear legal path with her nomination for president in the Democratic Party. She has been putting a large amount of her [...]
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Posted in business, economy, energy, government, politics, tagged airline fare, barrel, big oil, congress, election, election08, energy, federal government, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, fuel, gallon, gas, gas price, gasoline, heavy crude, high prices, Interior Department, jet fuel, Minerals Management, oil barrel, oil speculation, oil subterfuge, politician, politics, price gouging, price manipulation, sour crude, sweet crude, tax, taxes on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
As part of an energy bill passed in December 2007, Congress gave the Federal Trade Commission the expanded authority to pursue price manipulation in the oil markets in addition to prohibiting the disclosure of false information to federal agencies about oil prices.
In the news, the Federal Trade Commission said that the agency hoped to complete [...]
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Posted in commentary, economy, election, government, politics, tagged behavior, corruption, distortion, emotion, fear, manipulation, politics, psychology, rhetoric, selfishness, silence, snipe, wilderness on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Rhetoric was known as the “art of speaking” among the ancient Greeks and Romans. Without question, there is more than a little rhetoric that is cast about in election debates and in political circles. The best speakers speak with a human voice of depth and are unafraid to show healthy doses of emotion. The best [...]
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Posted in economy, government, politics, tagged Bush, civil liberty, Clinton, democrat, economy, election, fear, Independent, Iraq, liberty, McCain, Obama, politics, Republican, Ron Paul, terrorism, threat, vote, voter, war on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A reasonable case can be made that many Americans, including voters at the booths, feel overwhelmed, shell-shocked and mystified by the past that stands out in recent memory. The Bush Administration has sold war and now that the nation wearies of war, the Democrats have stepped up to promise a change from the status quo; [...]
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Posted in economy, government, politics, tagged bitter, Brunei, Clinton, government, guns, honesty, Kuwait, Middle East, Obama, politics, Qatar, racism, religion, saudi, Taiwan, working class, xenophobia on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Barack Obama made a problematic statement in his effort to fully explain the reality of the working class. Some folks took his talk as strictly negative as he discussed guns, religion and hard feelings.
“Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten [...]
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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is the latest in a series of serious breaches of conduct. We seem to have a character problem with some our elected officials. Could this problem simply be human nature? What do you say?
Happily, the same problems do not seem to exist with the Lieutenant Governors that replace the Governors. [...]
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Posted in civil rights, election, human rights, politics, video, tagged amendment, bradley, Bradley Amendment, child, child support, civil rights, Clinton, court law, election, hillary, human rights, politics on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
the federal Bradley Amendment for child support is unconstitutional:
1. violation of due process under the 4th and 5th Amendments
2. deprival of equal protection under the law
3. violation of state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment
4. violation of natural human rights under the 9th Amendment
Write your Congress and Senate to repeal Bradley!
and more details at http://bradleyamendment.wordpress.com
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Posted in civil rights, commentary, election, government, politics, tagged candidate, Clinton, debate, democrat, election, Obama, politics, president on February 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you have watched television this weekend, you have likely seen at least a few minutes of the democratic candidates discussing their ideas for a better America. If you really listened to what each had to say, you probably learned quite a bit about the character of both candidates. What each candidate didn’t say spoke [...]
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Posted in banking, business, commentary, economy, government, jobs, tagged bank, bond, confidence, credit, fear, federal reserve, finance, government, hysteria, insure, invest, investment, money, politics, psychology, subprime, us-news on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
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“Busted: Bankers and the Digital Economy”
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Posted in civil rights, government, politics, tagged civil, Clinton, election, finance, health, hillary, income, medical, medicine, paycheck, plan, politics, privacy, rights on February 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hillary Clinton: Impeach Resident Evil?
Hillary Clinton has flown perhaps the largest trial balloon of her electoral career. Ms. Clinton recently stated that she was “willing to have workers’ wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans”.Ms. Clinton had not been forthcoming with the enforcement measures she recommends, but [...]
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