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OpEdNews - Article: NRA 'Charity' Ransacks 'Enlightened Self-interest'

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - May. 15 (Opinion) - Where else would the NRA look to justify its non-profit status but public service? And what higher American morality is their than Enlightened Self-interest? Who knew what a modern lobbyist must do to justify its existence on a higher plane?

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OpEdNews - Article: 'Rapture Politics' Harnesses Rightwing to Doomsday Horsemen

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - All in all, is it any wonder that Republican politics channel death trips out of Revelation, in fact heaven's invincible Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Are we shocked this foursome -- representing Conquest, War, Famine, and Death -- informs anti-life national platforms that elevate avarice above community and compassion? Beyond daffy Ayn Rand, neo-liberal economists, even much of Christianity, the GOP is rigidly fixated against forces of life, citizen safety and the general pursuit of happiness.

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OpEdNews - Article: Easter Spotlights the Core Church Muddle: 'Death Trips' Drive Eternal Life

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - To be a good Christian, one must take on faith a sequence of claims that defy commonsense. And some of the complexities are here explored, with no final answer, just questions. The Christian vision may be all true, and yet . . .

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OpEdNews - Article: Five Reasons To Stop Worrying & Love the Sequester

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - Only a brave contrarian defends a poison pill concoction conceived in cynicism and promoted with panic that staggers home with all the climax of a shotgun wedding. Once an orphan chick ostracized by all, fiscal sequestration has arrived, though only left-leaning curmudgeons take sufficient note.

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OpEdNews - Article: Deadline Looms To Fund Critical Ocean Plastic-Trash Film

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Mar. 17 (Investigative Report) - Want a simple, real-world project that needs $10K to save the world, well, do a study on the Sargasso Sea life and the devastation from the Atlantic Ocean plastic trash gyre? This is it. Join in, for the price of a latte.

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OpEdNews - Article: TP Regression To the Meanness Defies God, the Majority & Civilization

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Mar. 13 (Opinion) - Where's the court of public opinion when a 25% minority lords over majority rule? What about religious courts when Christians defile God's literal decrees to "replenish the earth"? What about Constitutional courts when the Tea Party violates the hallowed creed for the "General Welfare"? Is there retribution before the Final Judgment or what?

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OpEdNews - Article: The Politics of Self-Destruction: Is the 'Stupid Party' that Stupid?

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - Circular firing squads happen predictably after election fiascoes. But sustained and nasty salvos that define intramural GOP politics, on top of countless other blunders, augurs systemic change, perhaps a major party split. In any case, no minority beats a coherent majority over time. And that is stupid politics from the "stupid party."

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OpEdNews - Article: Backlash to NRA Rampage Reloads Gun Reform

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - What does it say about dinosaur gun makers that they hired, now cheer on what NRA's LaPierre is doing to their image? Talk about the "stupid party." Here, we have the "stupid industry" and I posit more buffoonery only adds to the rightwing GOP's woes. And more is coming.

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OpEdNews - Article: 5 Backfiring, Karl Rove Social Wedges Doom GOP 'Rebranding'

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - Yearning for that golden age when the Dubya Dunciad reigned, the right sanctifies Rove’s schemes of glory: “if we can only tweak his winning social wedges, national glory is ours again.” Thus conservatism embraces its minority status, doubling down on delusions of lost grandeur.

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OpEdNews - Article: Democrats Battling the War Against Government Conspicuous by Their Absence

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Nov. 27 (Opinion) - There's been a war going strong all right, except there's only been one combatant. In politics, with good enough propaganda, you can have a war without two sides. That must change or the GOP can still fabricate fake reasons to obstruct what it sees as evil, the federal government.

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OpEdNews - Article: 5 Contradictions Sinking the Right

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - Below the media noise covering the election results, there is a tectonic that merits attention: the range of rightwing contradictions that surfaced, then crashed and burned. I identify five, though there are probably more under some 6000 year old rock.

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OpEdNews - Article: Romney Unzipped, Blunt Talk to Bundlers

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - What does Mitt Romney say to his fat cat bundlers in the face of losing? Why, of course, he dissembles: "we haven't really lost when you consider the historic breakthroughs my plutocratic, religious candidacy achieved." The world is different now for super-rich politicians and Mitt isn't off-base in this regard. Or is he?

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The Romney Triumph, Paving the Way for Plutocrats

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Robert S. Becker - Oct. 31 (Opinion) - Without even winning the White House, Mittens has scored a major breakthrough, giving creditability to other noxious plutocrats to run for office. Why should fat cats trust prima donna politicians when they can now run the show, that is, run government into the ground, as if a for-profit business? Oh, goody.

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: 55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Finances That Every American Voter Should Know

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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OpEdNews - Article: The Looming Menace of the Protestant Ethic

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Oct. 24 (Opinion) - The American obsession, now spreading, for hard work and material domination of nature, also known as the Protestant Ethic, is a great example of overdoing a good thing. Now too much folly about conquering nature will boomerang in our stricken faces. But there's evidence the tribe behind this code is fading.

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Tagg Romney Invested in Ohio Electronic Voting Machines

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Sheila Samples - Oct. 22 (News Report) - If the Romney's can't win legally, they'll take over Ohio's electronic voting machines through investments, a direct conflict of interest in a contentious state in this election. The new owners of Ohio's voting machines under the brand name HART Intercivic is none other than Tagg Romney the son of one of the candidates Mitt Romney.

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OpEdNews - Article: A Vulture Capitalist for a Vulture Culture

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - If Romney wins, he will not have to overcome his campaign's delusional belief systems but pitching his vulture brand of capitalism when CEOs and dreadful corporate players have ruined the image of American business leadership. Not just crooks like Madoff but BP's Tony Hayward or mining bosses responsible for fatalities, even Rupert Murdoch's astonishing saga. That group of disgraced CEO goons is headlined by the most damaging of all -- Wall Street Banksters, still less trusted than a greatly disliked Congress. So, a very rich guy is selling a dishonored pitch to get to be what we haven't since Herbert Hoover -- a big businessman in the White House.

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At OpEdNews: The Romney Debacle: A Comic Tour de Force

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - despair, the mother of invention It's fitting that our wholly dysfunctional politics should endure this season's high farce of a boob running atop one national party. But perhaps that's grist for today's mill and you can't say Romney isn't doing his best to mortify his campaign run. Oh, small blessings must be celebrated.

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OpEdNews - Diary: How Do 2 Planes Bring Down 3 Skyscrapers?

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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At OpEdNews: Defyin' the Ever-lovin' Lyin' Blitz

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - Beware: Ryan is smoother, slicker and more treacherous than the Palin Ninny, miscast starlet who never overcame (or realizes to this day) her appearance in the wrong movie.The mystery remains why an unpopular, distrusted campaign, with the base in tow and desperate to reach the information-averse undecideds, fired blank cartridges at party fanatics, not decisive November voters.

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OpEdNews - Article: Summer in the GOP Asylum: "Who are these guys?"

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - If it weren't so well funded, the GOP farce could be serious. As it is, Romney is trying hard to make his election run seem as amusing as Palin did for McCain. And the support comedy from other GOP sources plays on, to our delight. The parade follows logic, to that degree

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Why Are Things Crumbling Around Us and Could Easily Get Worse?

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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OpEdNews - Article: Ode to Trees, Fleas, and Phony Pleas

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 22 (Comedy News) - Before the GOP ticket goes over the cliff, time for some latter-day satire. Too many more gaffes and blunders, and we lose the farcical "race" underway, no matter how many billions Romney-Ryan spend. More's the pity.

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Ryan: A Stock Rightwing, V.P. Hitman

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - The reason Romney picked Ryan, after the smoke has cleared, is to make this a base vs. base election. In this regard, Romney followed entrenched GOP convention: run a perceived moderate on top, then add credibility with an radical, extremist V.P. In short, a stock party hitman, and this is Paul Ryan.

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OpEdNews - Article: Three Cheers for Mitt's Yankee Tax Shrewdness

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - I stand up to defend Mitt Romney's brilliant tax planning, the surest way to preserve capital. And since he had so much more money to preserve, of course he had to work harder at it. My defense rests on MItt honoring our most sacred secular commandments, based on self-interest and the keys to our exceptionalism.

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