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Bulletin: Dissent no longer patriotic

Posted in Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments

Remember, not so long ago, when dissent was “patriotic”? Remember when Democrats who favored immediate withdrawal from Iraq - who hoped the U.S. would lose the war because it would make President Bush look bad - would throw tantrums if anybody called them on it, because, they said, this was an unfair questioning of their [...]

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Big Brother Deval

Posted in Pension Tidal Wave, State issues, Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments

I didn’t expect, for a moment, that Gov. Deval Patrick would bring anything resembling tax relief to Massachusetts. He never really promised to, anyway. If you listened to what he said during his campaign, it was that if the income tax was reduced to 5 percent after 18 years of a “temporary” surtax, then property [...]

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Politics of fear reloaded

Posted in Taylor Armerding on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments

How disgusting is it that President Bush is still trying to ram things through Congress with the same, tired old politics of fear? I mean, first it was the weapons of mass destruction, and now it’s that we’re going to sink into an irreversible depression if we don’t hand him $840 billion for some kind [...]

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