Tag archive for ‘Experiences’
Is that your FINAL answer? Congression debate to include Polygraph?
Two challengers for an Indiana congressional seat have agreed to be hooked up to lie detectors during an upcomming debate. While it is unlikely to happen - it demonstrates the sillyness that the 2008 campaign season seems to be turning into.
Ninth District Republican Party Chairman Larry Shickles on proposed the political polygraphs for Democratic Rep. [...]
The Sting: Now that the bail out is law - will it work?
Yesterday, the President signed into law HR 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act, also known as “the bailout bill.” With the stroke of the President’s pen, Uncle Sam entered the financial market with 700 billion dollars in cash and a mandate to buy the crappiest investments that Wall Street can muster. The hope of the politicians who passed the measure is that the massive injection of money by the Treasury will stabilize the mortgage market, stop the free fall in the value of equities, and most importantly, keep the entire fabric of western capitalism from unravelling. We should all be cheering, right?
Patriotism, Service to the Nation, POWs, and Torture
I have been thinking all day today about Gen. Wes Clark (Ret.) argument against Sen. McCain that he lacks “command experience” because his military career is essentially one of dropping bombs on innocent civilians and getting captured and tortured.
Sen. McCain’s service to his country in Vietnam was honorable. That story is a difficult one to [...]
Marginal sins of taxation
Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama have put forth their tax plans, with specifics falling in line with party ideology. As election season progresses, we’ve also seen an infusion of religion—Obama’s firebrand pastor, McCain’s issues with far right evangelicals and an anti-Clinton priest who would be right at home alongside the fruitcake on your Christmas [...]
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