Today I imported all of the posts and comments from my old political rant site “Blues From The Red Side Of Life” into this blog and shut down the old Blogger site.
It seemed the thing to do since I haven’t posted over there in about a year and I don’t have any problem with posting [...]

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March 27, 2006I have decided that trying to keep up with multiple blogs requires more time than I want to devote. So I am now keeping my political musing on my main blog. If you wish to wander over you can follow this link…Political MusesYou will have to read through other musings to find the [...]

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There is a firestorm brewing in Washington DC. It is a storm fueled by scandal…Scandals based on the perception of dishonesty. At this moment, it is only the perception of dishonesty that is fueling this firestorm of scandals. But each days news cycle brings more reports of lost documents, lost memories, lost morality…Since nobody can [...]

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 Leave it to the Senator to put his finger on the “New” policy for Iraq.
One innovation of the new strategy is closing markets to vehicles, thereby precluding car bombs that kill so many and garner so much media attention. Petraeus understandably wanted us to see this development.
How far back into the middle ages do we [...]

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On Easter Sunday the Iraq prognosis could be better.
A political breakthrough in Washington already happened, Hamre (John J. Hamre, a former deputy defense secretary) said, when November’s elections turned into a referendum on the war. “The American people have been waiting to hear how we were going to win in Iraq, and they never heard [...]

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1992 was the year I became a Democrat. That was the year I got the opportunity to attend every session of the Republican National Convention. I was in the building before the delegates and I left each evening after they went off to their parties. The thing that turned me from my proud Independent affiliation [...]

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 You know, either politicians are getting really stupid or they think we are. It really doesn’t matter a whole lot if they are being paid off any more, the appearance that they are being paid off is something they should have avoided.
The smell of this mandate by the Gov was so high from the [...]

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