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March 13, 2007 09:22 AM EDT -- The 1960’s saw the birth of the Federal Minimum Wage and from then on the fight has been on. The Republicans see it as socialism run amok. Democrats see it as an unfortunately necessary step to try . . . more
February 19, 2009 08:30 PM EST -- It was like a scene from the old movie Network. You know, where the TV news guys says "I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore." Well, I think anyone who saw Santelli's . . . more
December 15, 2009 03:01 PM EST -- A more recent complaint coming from the Right is that uncertainty in Washington is a factor in unemployment. Their reasoning being that because employers and the financial entities that support them . . . more
February 23, 2009 02:43 PM EST -- One of the components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to assist the States with the ever increasing burden of paying unemployment benefits to the ever increasing ranks of the . . . more
March 17, 2009 03:58 PM EDT -- Recently House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank received a letter from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. In that letter Mr. Cuomo had the distasteful duty of informing Congressman . . . more
August 31, 2009 02:37 PM EDT -- This is the face of those who keep their hands in "OUR" pockets.         Over the past several hundred years of human development, 2 industries have established themselves . . . more
September 15, 2009 01:21 PM EDT -- It’s a word we hear quite often these days. Fear of terrorism. Fear of losing a job. Fear of losing one’s health insurance. Fear, fear, fear. But just how real is this fear of ours? Are . . . more
September 23, 2009 05:57 PM EDT -- President Obama’s speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations was moving and very hopeful. It was very clear, although Obama never mentioned his name, that he wanted to delineate his . . . more
April 13, 2007 04:06 PM EDT -- With glowing endorsements from the likes of David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin you’d think Bill Bradley was the new Democratic Gandhi. I personally found his book more effective than Ambien . . . more
July 25, 2007 05:18 PM EDT -- About ten years ago when I was an associate highway engineer for the Idaho Transportation Department, my cubicle was bordered by two Republican co-workers (which in and of itself was bizarre) and the political . . . more
August 02, 2007 02:36 PM EDT -- I’m going to start this article out by stating that I worked in the highway engineering and construction field at the county and state highway department levels for 22 years. So you could say I have . . . more
September 06, 2007 01:50 PM EDT -- How many times have you been watching the evening news about some corporation laying off hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of workers? Usually the reporter goes on about what the corporation . . . more
October 04, 2007 07:33 PM EDT -- One of the most common responses I’ve seen from Republicans any time a Democrat calls for government action is that it amounts to socialism. And there is no mystery as to why they do this. The word . . . more
November 19, 2007 06:38 PM EST -- It would be extremely difficult to find any reasonable political commentator that would disagree that the divide between the Republican and Democratic Parties has never been wider than it is today. And . . . more
December 10, 2007 09:48 PM EST -- President Bush has made six State of the Union speeches and mentioned what scientists unanimously agree is the single biggest threat to mankind that exists just once. That’s right folks; the leader . . . more
January 23, 2008 01:01 PM EST -- While President Bush and the congress ponder just what sort of stimulus package will be best, the Democratic presidential candidates are lining up with their own plans for fixing our faltering economy. . . . more
April 01, 2008 12:33 PM EDT -- To be fair I'm sure George W. Bush believes in his mind that his presidency was a successful one and has said that history will one day affirm that he is right. And I'm sure there are more than . . . more
April 09, 2008 01:26 PM EDT -- I swore I was finished writing about how bad a president I think Hillary Clinton would make. But the recent onslaught of mis-statements, made up stories and out and out lies could not be ignored. Between . . . more
August 20, 2008 03:45 PM EDT -- I doubt many Americans are unaware of the New Testament story where Jesus tells a rich man that it would be easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom . . . more
June 25, 2007 02:22 PM EDT -- What happened to the political party that can boast they were on the side of ending slavery? Can boast that Abraham Lincoln is counted among their alumni. Well, it might be interesting for you to know . . . more
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