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Monthly Archives: September 2013

Preschools, not Prisons

It is too bad that I don’t have a category for “sanity in an insane world”. This story definitely qualifies. Los Angeles County Sheriff oversees the largest jail system in the nation, and yet he travelled to Washington to lobby the government to give him less money, and instead spend the money on preschools, saying: […]

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Health Obstruction

Washington Post published an editorial “Republicans should get out of the way of Obamacare“. Their argument is summed up by the last paragraph: Congress enacted the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court found most of its provisions to be constitutional. Republicans, having opposed the bill and supported the legal challenge to it, are entitled to […]

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Hedge Fund Terrorists

© David Horsey [Notes about the comic by David Horsey] When are America’s leaders going to step up and protect us from the most threatening terrorists, hedge fund managers? Sure, some Islamist nutcase might be able to set off a bomb on a bus or in a building, but, horrific as that may be, the […]

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Security

© Matt Wuerker “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its […]

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