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The Gingrich Who Stole Childhoods
Author: BobR    Date: 12/09/2011 13:35:40

In a campaign year full of surprises, perhaps one of the biggest surprises is the resurgence of Newt Gingrich. While it's true he hadn't peaked yet like the other candidates that have risen to the top, only to fall again, he was all but written off months ago. Now that he's the new darling, he is getting a lot more "face time" with the press. Of course, this means he also has been given more opportunities to stick his foot in it, and boy has he.

It's not like he came into this untainted. He was run out of the House for ethics violations. He's had two affairs (that we know of) and three wives. He has a bad habit of shifting money from his non-profits into his own pockets.
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94 comments (Latest Comment: 12/10/2011 00:36:21 by Will in Chicago)

Imagine
Author: Raine    Date: 12/08/2011 13:39:57


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30 comments (Latest Comment: 12/09/2011 01:56:33 by Raine)

And then there were Four...
Author: BobR    Date: 12/07/2011 14:04:20

With the recent "suspension" of Cain's campaign (translation: I'll still take donations, and if everyone else melts down, I may step back in), there are 4 candidates left that have not peaked and then cratered. Despite being written off months ago as a non-entity in the race, he is now considered the front runner, thanks to the "anybody but Romney" mindset of the Republican primary voters. If past history is any indication, he too will experience a spiral into the abyss within a week or two.
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69 comments (Latest Comment: 12/08/2011 00:18:17 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 12/06/2011 11:26:24

Good Morning.

Today is our 3,184th day in Iraq, and our 3,712th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualties from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4483
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4344
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3624
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 255
Since Operation New Dawn: 55

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 319
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,848
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 975
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 287, 862, 850, 000 .00

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30 comments (Latest Comment: 12/06/2011 21:14:24 by Mondobubba)

How to Occupy or Not?
Author: Raine    Date: 12/05/2011 14:20:12

As I mentioned in yesterdays blog comments, there was a bit of a kerfluffle at Occupy DC yesterday. Apparently those at the McPherson square encampment decided in the wee hours of Sunday morning to build what they called a People's Pavilion:

http://img3.wpdigital.net/rf/image_480x270/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/12/04/Local/Videos/12042011-5v/12042011-5v.jpg

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63 comments (Latest Comment: 12/06/2011 02:48:37 by Raine)

News you Need
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 12/04/2011 14:54:50

After much speculation about how much damage Ginger White would do to the Herman Cain Train, we waited with baited breath for him to appear from behind the shoddily hung black curtain in front of his beautiful new campaign HQ in Atlanta. Many people came out to speak about how wonderful Herman is as well as to make sure the audience was appropriately patriotic. Mr. Cain emerged from a bus that had a picture his overly large head plastered on to it; a bus that he may be using in his near future to either hit the Senior circuit RV parks with, or, to sleep in his driveway in. His wife, Gloria, was with him at his side. She is either subtly pulling the strings or she is as dumb as a turnip. The music was over the top; some original song that combined God and America and Freedom and Herman Cain all into one large lump of doughy, overly sweet, nutty cupcake.

Once he got to the podium and once the stoned sound tech got around to killing the song, Herman addressed the crowd which was about the size drawn at a used car lot that had a Saturday tent sale and featured a clown.
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13 comments (Latest Comment: 12/04/2011 23:20:16 by Raine)

What's in a name?
Author: TriSec    Date: 12/03/2011 13:01:20

Greetings from that area of the United States named after Wampanoag Chief Massasoit!

We're going to take a look at some weird and wonderful names around our neck of the woods today. Here's another one for you...has anyone heard of the somewhat obscure Anglican abbot Botwulf of Thorney? He is, after all, the patron saint of travelers and farming. After he was canonized, he became "Saint Botolph", and maybe you've heard of the town named after him. (St. Botolph's Town....say it fast enough and you'll see.)
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9 comments (Latest Comment: 12/04/2011 16:23:38 by BobR)

The Muddle East
Author: BobR    Date: 12/02/2011 13:40:28

Eight years, eight months, and 14 days ago, then President George W. Bush initiated a war against the soveriegn nation of Iraq. Ostensibly in the interest of preventing more terrorist attacks, it was more of a whim, rationalized via ginned up "evidence". Hundreds of billions of dollars later (not to mention thousands of lives), this dark chapter in our nation's history is coming to an end.
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68 comments (Latest Comment: 12/02/2011 21:15:38 by Mondobubba)


The Cain Affair
Author: BobR    Date: 11/30/2011 13:51:40

It must be difficult to be a political candidate, especially on a national level. You have hopes and ideals, but you're also only human. You get up in front of everyone and try to make your points, but all those skeletons in your closet keep opening the door and stepping out into the harsh light of the media cameras, and before you know it, everyone is digging for dirt, seeing just what else is there.

For political parties, there is a process called "vetting", where they ask the candidate to come clean and then try to come up with explanations ahead of time (should the dirt go public), or advise the candidate that they have a poor chance. With the latest allegation against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, one has to really wonder how forthcoming he was during that process.
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