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Really? – 6/6/12 – Scott Walker is still Governor of Wisconsin; The dismal science; The Paycheck Fairness Act Fails; The Systemic Risk Council

June 7, 2012

SCOTT WALKER SURVIVES HIS RECALL The voters of Wisconsin chose to keep their Governor. He had been the third Governor subject to recall (based on his unilateral anti-public union measures) and the first to keep the office. Perhaps cutting back on the income and benefits of public sector workers will cause an explosion of job-creation [...]

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Really? – 6/5/12 – The Vatican doubles down; The Pope’s butler; The American Family Association equates gays with cannibals; School prayer; A good idea on pot.

June 6, 2012

THE VATICAN SPANKS ANOTHER NUN Not satisfied with its rebuke on the “Leadership Conference of Women Religious” – the umbrella group representing most American nuns – for focusing too much on acts of charity and not enough on sexual orthodoxy, the Catholic Church has now attacked one of its leading female thinkers. Sister Margaret Farley – past professor of [...]

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Really? 6/2/12 – The Catholic Church addresses pedophile priests. Conservative Jews address gay marriage. Who wins the moral high ground?

June 2, 2012

CARDINAL DOLAN TOOK CARE OF HIS EMPLOYEES, IGNORED HIS CUSTOMERS Cardinal Dolan, when Archbishop of Milwaukee, authorized payments of $20,000 to pedophile priests leaving the priesthood. He vehemently denied that the payments were a “payoff”, telling the Milwaukee Sentinel in 2006: “For anyone to assert that this money was a ‘payoff’ or occurred in exchange for Becker [one of [...]

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Amercia the Beautiful; God bless Amercia; Coming to Amercia and Made in Amercia

May 30, 2012

  MITT ROMNEY’S iPHONE APP

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Really? – 5/26/12 – Guns, Gas and Romney

May 27, 2012

IT IS A POOR STRATEGY TO FIGHT TERRORISM BY SELLING TERRORISTS GUNS. We are fighting international terrorism. It would behoove us to restrict their ability to buy guns. But right now there are no international treaties or laws addressing conventional weapons. That may change. In July the global community is gathering in NYC to hammer out [...]

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Really? – 5/17/12 – Religion

May 18, 2012

PRIESTS GONE WILD (AGAIN) Churches spend much of their time telling other people how to live - it would be nice if they started at home. The latest – but guaranteed not the last – religious scandal, involves yet another Catholic group, the “Legion of Christ”. Its public face, Rev Thomas Williams – who wrote a [...]

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Really – 5/12/12 – The Republicans renege on a deal; Lying; Medical insurers give money back

May 13, 2012

WHEN A DEAL IS NOT A DEAL The Republicans have long characterized the deficit as a moral crisis – caused by a “spending problem” not a “revenue problem”. I would like to take them at their word but their actions make that impossible. What do I mean? Last summer, both sides agreed to the Budget [...]

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Really – 5/10/12 – Election 2012 – Bully boy Romney; Rush on Marriage; Gay Conservatives and the Tea Party

May 10, 2012

In the campaign Mitt Romney has displayed a stunning lack of empathy and a cruel streak – saying he likes to fire people who work for him; referring to his wife’s “couple of Cadillacs”; celebrating the financial distress of a political opponent; and having good friends who are sports team owners – now it turns [...]

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Really? – 5/9/12 – God, Gays and the Bible.

May 10, 2012

PRESIDENT OBAMA COMES OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE Recent polls show that the majority of Americans now support gay marriage. The president has just announced that he now supports gay marriage. Coincidence? Chris Barron, conservative gay activist at GOProud, pithily pointed out: “It is good to see that after intense political pressure that President Obama has [...]

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