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I'm generally in a more chipper mood today, so I thought I would focus on what the Democrats should do instead of what the Republicans are doing. In a past life I was an assistant debate coach. My duties pretty much were generally relegated to driving the bus and serving as an occasional judge, but I learned a thing or two about debate during those two years. Most people recognize two kinds of debate (Lincoln-Douglass...

Before I go too far, let it be known that this blog entry is meant for everyone and not in direct response to any blog entry here or anywhere. The rules here are stated very simply, "be nice or go home." It seems that society has lost that somewhere along the way. I can't count the number of times I've heard someone say that "Obama wants to destroy the economy" or something similar to those...

"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."-- Henry Louis MenckenToday, two bright and shining examples of the wisdom, insight, and prescience of Mr. Mencken; a poll taken by Public Policy Polling, and the latest inanities from that noted Constitutional scholar, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Yes, she's baaaaack.Related to the debate over health care,...

 Let me be perfectly clear: I support the 2nd amendment, and I will fight for your right to own a gun whether I agree with your politics or not. This blog is NOT a debate about the 2nd amendment or gun control. This blog is about common sense. (Hear that, Glenn Beck? REAL Common Sense!) As you've undoubtedly seen, protesters have taken to openly carry firearms to President Obama's town hall meetings. I'm shocked...

Hallelujah, they've seen the light. "Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority's cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans' purposely strident tone against health care legislation during this month's Congressional recess, as well...

Can we please put an end to this idealistic but unrealistic notion of bi-partisanship? How much clearer do the Republicans have to make it that they have no intention of supporting health care reform legislation, no matter what it contains or doesn't contain? And to follow up on last Thursday's post, how much longer until Democrats realize they can't expect reasonable debate with people who are clearly disconnected from reality?Two cases in point. It took...

My long time readers have heard parts of this story; so if you have, please indulge me this post.  It's extremely relevant to our national debate about healthcare that's mostly been drowned out by corporate interests, paid-off politicians, and ignoramuses who are stupidly engaged in an ideological battle against mythological foes using false arguments fomented by fear mongering, bigotry and big time budgets.  When I think of the fears and disease my family has faced...

Most critics and fans recognize Radio KAOS as the best of the Pink Floyd solo albums (Roger Waters). One of the songs on that album is titled "Who needs information?" He was talking about nuclear war and the desire not to know until something has happened. The song could be rewritten today to describe a lot of people in America. Unfortunately, this isn't a case of having no information, but having bad information. I talked about...

Okay, so some little taken-care-of-by-somebody-else, ("I don't know what our income is because my husband takes care of all the bills") late-to-the-game gal has decided she's up in arms over the current healthcare debate after not paying attention to the world around her for the past 35 years because she's self-centered. By all means, let's give her national exposure on 24-hour cable news because her opinion on Constitutional law, and everything else, is so relevant....

None of my colleagues has addressed this yet and I thought I would do it this way because I am supposed to be the education blogger and because when we criticize one of our own we get a little street cred. Unfortunately, that would assume that I didn't have an axe to grind when the truth is that I have never liked Sheila Jackson Lee. She seems a little too much on the self-promoter side...