My “day job” (now there’s a laugh!) is that I’m a criminal defense attorney.  This morning while in court, I received a phone call from the family of one of my clients, who was supposed to be there with me in court.  He wasn’t coming. Now I’ve represented this kid off and on for some […]

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Senator Joe Lieberman says that he doesn’t care if he wins the Democratic nomination or not, he’s still going to run for President. I am very loyal to the Democratic Party, but I have a loyalty higher than that to my party. That is to my state and my country. — Dana Bash, “Lieberman to […]

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I’m hardly even sure how to classify this one… First, we had former First Lady Barbara Bush saying that the devastation of New Orleans — all the flooding, dead bodies in the street, families and homes destroyed — was “working very well for them.” “Them,” of course, were poor, underprivileged, African-Americans. No doubt Ms. Bush […]

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I’ve mentioned before that one reason I blog is that it helps me to learn. It would be more fun if there were more people commenting, so that a dialogue might develop, but I learn something about myself just from writing — and sometimes from re-reading — my blog entries, even if no one else […]

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Although today’s column talks a lot about Tom Delay, I’m really writing to ask why it has taken so long for something to be done. Why have my Republican friends expressed the opinion that I’m full of [excrement deleted] for having complained to them for over a year now that if the Republican Party was […]

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I thought about trying to come up with some creative title for this article, but there’s been enough “creativity” surrounding the case of this poor woman from Florida, Terri Schiavo. This case is a reminder — as if one were necessary — that life, like politics, is not always a happy affair.

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You know, when it comes down to it, you really have to hand it to the Republicans. They really know how to tweak the religious wing of their party. Running around spouting passages (even if they don’t get it quite right) from the Bible and all that. Not everyone who saith such things has the […]

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No time for blogging myself this morning. I’m working downtown these days for a criminal defense attorney and I’m already late! 😉 In my “absence,” check out Fact-esque, which today brings a collection of links on tort reform and the Social Security lie (seems the Bush Administration is publishing all kinds of false stories these […]

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I now have proof that I’m closer to the political Center than the Left, something I’ve periodically maintained. Moreover, I show up in virtual the exact middle on the Pragmatism scale. A different political survey, measuring on slightly different axes, puts me in the middle of the liberal quadrant and the middle of the libertarian […]

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You do not have to believe that voting machines were rigged, ballots were not counted, or minority voters were intimidated to understand that George W. Bush won the United States election by fraud.

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