Showing posts with label thought process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thought process. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2016

Caring to the bitter end

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I just realized something that seems obvious in retrospect. I already knew that I was more tenacious in arguments than many. I also knew t...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Blaming the talkers, not the shooters

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Is Harry Reid right when he blames the murders and shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Republican politicians? There a...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Rubio scores with rhetoric and (gasp) truth

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I'm very impressed with part of Rubio's performance in the recent debate. He took down criticism of a local paper, the debate modera...
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Saturday, September 26, 2015

What I have in common with Donald Trump

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I have almost nothing in common with Donald Trump. I haven't been divorced, haven't done deals or written books, don't have a te...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Resilience

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An American remembering 9/11 : ...I was in an office five blocks from the Capitol on 9/11, and after watching the second plane hit the Tra...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Nothing much to say about that

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My interest in political observation has finally dropped. It's been over two weeks since my last post, and I'm not finding much to t...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

My bias regarding police

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I tend to be biased toward believing a police officer's account in a controversy. However that doesn't mean my bias is rigid--I abso...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Why don't we have a travel ban?

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The Ebola issue is much more political than it should be. Of course, many politicians can't restrain themselves from engaging in bashing...
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Try this experiment with Google

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I was thinking about our country after looking at a photo of a scene in Ferguson , Missouri, which was the site of a police shooting and sub...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Ayn Rand is Nietzsche

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Nietzsche is commonly credited with offering an alternative morality, where the supermen didn't have to follow the same rules as the she...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Painful realization: Honesty is less important

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My   review of the Benghazi incident spurred me to reevaluate the role of lies in a political campaign. I've rather unhappily discovere...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Tsunami of memories: Anita Hill

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Just as in Remembrance of Things Past, memories sometimes wash over me with their power undiminished by time. Today, it was because of this ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Deconstructing claims about the mortgage crisis

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Yet again I'm fighting with GOP partisans about what caused the mortgage crisis. The GOP partisans will say something like this : [click...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

One thing I learned: a case against ACA

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I'm not as open to different ideas as I would like to be. It seems to me that most people who are firmly against ACA fell into one of mo...
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Sunday, October 27, 2013

GOP stands up to the Tea Party Part 2

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So many thoughts. Not so many complete sentences. GOP standing up to Tea Party. Orrin Hatch blasts Heritage . Corporate backers stick with...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Short: Debt Default 101 ... before it's moot

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The talking point on the right is that US doesn't have to default on its bonds, or SS payments, or anything that could bring a shitstorm...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Short: Why I love Plain Blog

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The matchlight flares up blindingly. Suddenly I see so clearly why I like (love?) the Plain Blog about Politics . Here it is: It's ...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

The future of the Senate

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I was going to write about how the Dems were doomed when it came to holding the Senate ( not for the first time either). It stands to reaso...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Sigh--I voted for the hack

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Yesterday was the special election to fill the senate seat left vacant when John Kerry became Secretary of State. I voted for the hackish De...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Against dogmatism

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I'm not a religious person, but I'm quite familiar with religion.  I grew up with fairly devout parents, several siblings are devout...