[ Posted Friday, March 2nd, 2012 – 17:35 PST ]
Because of this momentous occasion, we are going to present a special column today which takes a look backwards at this column's history. Because of this, the normal weekly Friday Talking Points and the awards we normally hand out will all get pre-empted. So if you're looking for an update on what is going on in the political world, you'll have to wait until next week, sorry about that. And if this sort of retrospective doesn't appeal to you, well, there's a whole internet out there waiting, I'm sure there's something better for you to read, somewhere else.
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[ Posted Friday, February 24th, 2012 – 17:51 PST ]
"When the going gets weird," Hunter S. Thompson famously said, "the weird turn pro."
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[ Posted Friday, February 17th, 2012 – 17:21 PST ]
President Barack Obama certainly had an impressive week, getting from Congress exactly what he demanded in the State Of The Union message -- a payroll tax holiday extension for the rest of the year... with "no drama."
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[ Posted Friday, February 10th, 2012 – 17:02 PST ]
In other news, the Obama White House had rather a bad week... but again, we'll get to that in a moment.
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[ Posted Friday, February 3rd, 2012 – 17:10 PST ]
Mitt Romney, frontrunner for the Republican nomination, announced he wasn't too worried about poor people. Maybe it would be fun to see Romney debate Joe Biden, just because nobody would know what to expect from either of them. Heh.
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[ Posted Friday, January 20th, 2012 – 17:31 PST ]
OK, to be completely honest, we just felt like beating up on some Republicans today.
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[ Posted Friday, January 13th, 2012 – 16:50 PST ]
Not a whole lot has been happening in Washington, due to Congress being out on one of their countless month-long vacations. Not a whole lot of Democrats have been in the news, either, since the Republican primary season is sucking all the oxygen out of the political arena right now.
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[ Posted Friday, January 6th, 2012 – 15:56 PST ]
I have to say, while the Republicans have been having their three-ring primary circus, President Obama has been looking better and better. Both in comparison to the Republican field (of nightmares, so to speak), and also because Obama's been making progress on his own.
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[ Posted Friday, December 9th, 2011 – 17:01 PST ]
You know, it strikes me that this week may be one politics-watchers look back on when proving the thesis: "Anything can happen in politics, and usually does." I can picture seeing some wise pundit a few years down the road making the historical reference: "Yeah, but remember when Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul were leading the polls in the Iowa caucuses? Anything can happen... just anything..."
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[ Posted Friday, December 2nd, 2011 – 16:47 PST ]
So here's my proposal: Congress should pass a new schedule of fines. Each would be worded thusly: "the fine shall be $10 million, or 10 percent of the profits the company reported on its annual shareholders' report last year, whichever is larger." That'd be for a minor fine, of course, like a parking ticket. A bigger infraction would lead to, say, "50 percent," or "100 percent," or even higher.
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