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Paul Ryan: Pseudologia fantastica
What to make of VP candidate Paul Ryan, who seems to be displaying symptoms he has Pseudologia fantastica, living in a world in which he runs sub-three hour marathons, a world in which his voting...
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Marching Off the Fiscal Cliff
Lost in the fog of neocon distortions about the impending sequestrations is the bigger issue of the fiscal cliff towards which Congress is blissfully marching. It’s more than the $1.2 trillion...
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Cleaning Out the In-Box: Pre-Hallowe’en Edition
A lot of email piled up while WC was photographing birds. Without much enthusiasm, WC will sort through the missives from the digital illiterati, wing-nuts and assorted True Believers. There were three...
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The Commerce Clause and Fungal Meningitis
The ongoing tragedy of death and severe illness from fungal meningitis dramatically illustrates the danger of Neocons’ narrow view of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. It’s a perfect...
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Confetti and Tears: Sore Losers
In a sick sort of way, it is interesting watching the Republicans and their right wing hangers-on react to the re-election of President Obama. Paul Ryan blamed “urban voters,” as if it was somehow...
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The Proof Is in Paul Ryan
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its...
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How to Protract a Deficit Crisis. But why?
Yes, geology and economics in the same week. No, it’s not something WC would do in the deep of winter. Cold AND dark AND economics would be too cruel. But it’s bright and sunny, and if it isn’t spring...
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Paul Ryan Sells His Soul; Doesn’t Get Much for It
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Any lingering respect you might have had for Rep. Paul Ryan (R, Unprincipled) has been tossed in the dumpster....
View ArticleThis Is What Corruption Looks Like
Thirteen days after Congress enacted the new tax law, the Koch Brothers paid almost half a million bucks to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R, Koch). That tax law, with its huge tax cuts for the very rich,...
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