If you sell your soul for a nickel, you might get back change.

Mr. Obama, You'd better be packin'...

Ok, I voted for Obama and now, halfway through his first term, I’m beginning to see what kind of person I voted for. I won’t call it buyer’s remorse just yet, but he’s moving me closer and closer in that direction.

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The perfect GOP candidate for President

  Before you try to add any of your own qualities to this list, I suggest you take a hard look at my qualities and see if they don’t match precisely  MY perfect candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination.

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For Scott Walker - Words have Consequences

What we are witnessing here and around the world is the classic divide and conquer tactic that's worked so well for the rich throughout history.

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So you took back your Country eh?

So you took back your country eh? Well whom do you think will get it now - your kids? Think again. And by the way, enjoy the cuts in services, social security and most retirement funds. But that's OK, you voted against Obama and his progressive, stalinist, fake American elitists.

The Addiction of Partisan Politics - We're ALL Hooked

It's interesting how both sides in our political discussion use so many mind numbing statistics to try to validate their point.

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Obama's Ground hogs

Were you in hiding for the last couple of months? Politically I mean. I was. As a full-fledged Obama supporter, I was beginning to wonder what my guy was really made of. I even started to take small sips of Fox News ‘coffee’.

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JFK Tower, PATCO and MY Kids

Last week a controller was suspended for allowing his children to talk to airplanes at Kennedy Tower. As a former air traffic controller who was fired by Ronald Reagan in the PATCO strike, I can sympathize.

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If I had known then...

When my brother Val and I were around 9 and 10 respectively, and before my other brother and sister were born, our mom used to take us to church every Sunday.

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Mirror, Mirror, on the wall. Whose the candidate this fall?

Keep in mind there are still nearly THREE YEARS before we know who the Presidential standard bearer for the GOP will be. In the meantime would anyone care to speculate on who WON'T be on the ticket? The problem I see for the GOP is they haven't looked in the mirror lately.

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Revision of History: Talking Points from the Old Vets?

I was sitting in a V.A. hospital the other day listening to other Vets discuss their view of the world. After so many hours waiting for health care, these grizzled old people usually let down their hair when they think they are around like-minded individuals.

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The Fading Art of Storytelling

When my girls were around ten or eleven, I used to let them host a sleep-over with some of their girlfriends in the neighborhood. As a single dad raising three girls, I tried whatever I could to make their lives special and secure.

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Return of the Antiwar Right

So, Palin and Gingrich thought Obama's speech was very good.

Palin vs. Reagan - Not Gore

Does it seem odd to anyone else that Sarah Palin is giving her opinion about everything these days, and taking on everyone who dares to take her "bait"? Part of the latest flap with Al Gore over Global Warming has many in the G.O.P. comparing Mrs.

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Watching the G.O.P. Twist in The Wind

When I was a little kid, my brother and I would find ourselves in trouble that we couldn't explain our way out of. That usually resulted in punishment imposed by that all important judge, jury AND executioner – our dad.

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Reagan's "rules of the road" for politicians

As a current and former resident of California, I am very well acquainted with the comings and goings of Ronald Reagan. More on that in another post.

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I Bow to your logic...

It's very interesting how culture gets into everything. In America we see people in the Midwest waving to others they pass on country roads and when stopped at traffic lights. People in New York City would ignore you or worse yet, call a cop.

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The race for the shrinking pie.

I've been hearing the "chatter" about lost revenues for Fox and AM talk radio for some time now. While I think it's an important trend in the right direction, I'm concerned that some major damage has already been done to the heart of this country.

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Are we afraid of the best "man" winning?

I see there were Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey this week. Well good for them. From what I've read and seen of their Democratic challengers, the voters elected the right person.

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Solidarity and polarization

The other day I was listening to talk radio to get a sense of what the talk radio folks were saying and why they were so angry. One fellow said that it was important that like minded people not "make nice with the other side".

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The view from the middle?

The other day I was standing in line at Costco waiting for a hot dog and I overheard a woman in front of me telling another woman: "…the more I see of Obama, the more I don't like. And I voted for him." It got me to wondering; what exactly did she not like?

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What price is the truth?

Sometime ago, a man was falsely accused of professional wrong doing. He held an important position which made him a focal point in the small community in which he lived.

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The real family values - mommy (and daddy) dearest

I read an article recently that spoke to the problem of how to deal with toxic parents (When Parents Are Too Toxic to Tolerate, RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, New York Times, October 19, 2009). Very topical, at least for me and my family.

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Amnesia anyone?

You know it's really very interesting to read the various blogs written by those on the right these days. It seems we are not supposed to remember what happened to all of us in this country in the last decade.

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Fearless

When does fear become silly? I guess it depends on what you are afraid of. If falling off of a high place is fearful, that probably will never enter the realm of silliness.

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