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The Difference between George W. Bush and Jesus Christ

Okay, obviously this would provide enough for more than just one column, but i heard an interesting line in the Gospel yesterday that I thought was very interesting.

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GOP Hypocrisy Exposed in Church Yesterday

So I'm sitting in church yesterday, and I hear a reading that sounds like it came right out of a Michael Moore movie. James 5:1-6

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Mad at your Credit Card Company? DON'T CANCEL THAT CARD!

If you've actually opened and read your credit card bill recently, you may have seen something that really ticked you off. You may want to get on the horn that very minute and teach that bank a LESSON IT WON"T SOON FORGET! Okay, no more all-caps ranting, I promise.

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Want to Understand the Palin Gambit? Think 2016, not 2012

First of all, let me make something perfectly clear. I like women. A lot. I vote for three of them every chance I get, Representative Jackie Speier and Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.

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Palin thinks We're all as Stupid as....well....She is.

A few quick thoughts on the Sarah Palin announcement today.

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Let's Talk about "Moral Hazard" for a minute

"Moral Hazard" is a term that's thrown around a lot these days. It implies that one must pay some sort of penalty for a transgression committed; that you can't "game" the system and get away with it.

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Here's some Backlash on the Mortgage Backlash

Let's start with the disclaimers: I'm a mortgage broker I live in California

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McCain Says He Wants to Help, Here's What He can Do

John McCain made a great speech last night. It has been my opinion for months that if he had used that kind of tone while actually campaigning, this would have been a much closer race.

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Kennedy and Obama -- A possible parallel

Early in Barack Obama's ascendancy in American Politics, many observers notices similarities between the young State Senator from Illinois and the 35th President of the United State, John F. Kennedy.

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Why Won't Chuck Todd Give Credit Where it's Due?

First of all, let me say that I'm a fan of Chuck Todd, or at least, I have been. He has taught all of us a lot about how to look at political polls, strategy, and demographics.

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How the Palin/Biden Debate Failed America

The idea of a political debate is that you get to see how a candidate thinks under pressure, to see how they explain their positions on issues beyond stump speeches. We didn't get to see that last night. We saw two candidates trading talking points for 90 minutes.

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An Open Letter to Angry America

Hey, angry America, listen up! It seems like a whole lot of you think that by scaring the hell out of your congressmen and women and convincing them to vote against the rescue plan today you somehow scored a direct hit on Wall Street.

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It's Official: McCain Campaign thinks we're all Stupid

That's the only explanation I can come up with for the latest line of spin coming from the GOP talking heads after Friday Night's debate.

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GOP Arrogance Bubble ready to Pop?

I've had this strange feeling watching the McCain campaign lately, some kind of deja vu. Then it occurred to me that the GOP's behavior resembles that of stock market and real estate investors -- right before they crashed.

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We are all Troy Anthony Davis.

If you don't know who Troy Anthony Davis is, or why he is scheduled to die on Tuesday, or why you should care, the first thing you should do is go to troyanthonydavis.org, down to the middle of the page, and watch the Le Monde interview of Troy's little sister.

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Can We Put the "Liberal Media" Myth to Rest, Please?

It's been said so often that for many people it's a fact now, that the media "leans left." There are many reasons people say this, but the biggest is that it has been hammered home as a Republican talking point for so long that when you hear the word "liberal" you're almost surpr …

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Palin Pick is Desperate, but that doesn't doesn't mean it won't work

It's almost impossible to think that this was anything but a "Hail Mary," which for you non-football fans is when the quarterback, needing a touchdown to win on the game's final play, heaves the ball into the end zone in the hopes it will fall into a teammate's hands.

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Why is This Race so Close? Hillary Clinton, That's why.

I am among the many people who are dumbfounded every time a Gallup Poll comes out and shows McCain gaining on Obama. To watch the news events and the statements by both candidates would give you the impression that Obama is far ahead.

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At Least SOMEBODY Saw the Phil Gramm/UBS Disaster Coming

Phil Gramm's transition from the Senate to the Vice Chairmanship at UBS went largely unnoticed outside of financial media.

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The Left Needs to take a Chill Pill

I have been watching with disbelief over the past few weeks watching the left-most part of the Democratic Party expressing their frustration as Barack Obama goes about the difficult task of being the first black man elected President of the United States.

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Ickes Shows all his Class at Once

So Harold Ickes decides that he is so offended by the decision of the Rules and Bylaws Commitee that he has to use the word "a--" twice on live national TV.

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Racism a Much Tougher Opponent than Sexism

As we wait for the big event on Saturday, much of the pre-game conversation centers around the group of women who plant to protest the meeting based on the notion that this nomination is being withheld from Hillary Clinton because of her gender.

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How Can the MSM be so Dense?

I think I've heard every cable show mention Scott McClellan's comments regarding Richard Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies".

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What the Media Missed about the RFK Comment

There are two statements in her comments yesterday that trouble me as much or more as the RFK reference. One is that she said "People have been trying to push me out of the race since Iowa." This is an outright lie.

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Mortgage broker in San Francisco Bay Area; went to anti-war demonstrations as a child; Former radio and TV sportscaster in Phoenix, AZ.

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