Why Going Green May Be Good For Your Health The Democratic party is the party of the people…Labor had but one friend in politics and this is the Democratic Party…Today we are now the defenders of …democracy and of equal opportunity, the haven of the ordinary people of the land and not of the favored […]
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To Debate or Not… How Political Elites Have Corrupted the Debate Process and Are Cheating Voters “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful… to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (George Orwell “Politics and the English Language, 1946) Ever wonder why recent presidential debates fail to live up to their pre-broadcast […]
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Why Democrats Need to Get Off the Blame Nader Kick Before the Republicans Blow Their House Down Again Drum roll, please. The orchestra is tuning up and soon we’ll be on Memory Lane humming the chorus of that unforgettable golden-oldie “The Ralph Nader Blues” (AKA ”I Promise Never to Vote My Conscience Again.”) A funny […]
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What’s Cooking in the September Issue? Welcome to our September issue! It’s the silly season in both politics and sports and SA is here to provide some color commentary on both. First, a view from our political perch where we spy the duopoly’s two candidates hot footing up Pennsylvania Avenue. rhetorical basket of goodies in […]
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Celebrating a Non-Event As Hillary does her victory lap around the Clinton-friendly major media touting her “historic achievement on behalf of all of us women” (or sentiments to that effect), we, who like to think of ourselves as gatekeepers of reason and sanity, call for a time-out. In the piece below we look at the […]
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I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils…I understand…that the big thing this year [1972] is beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing twelve years ago in 1960 — and as far as I […]
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Short Takes From time to time SA will become self-indulgent and trot out our favorite posturings and perfidies spoken by our leaders in tones that ring hollow even to the committed —calculated to soothe the savage beast (us) with promises of rainbows and lollipops in the future that never comes. One of the more recent […]
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Short Take 1 While the World Watches, the Children of Flint Michigan Are Being Poisoned. On September 30, 2015, two years after the fact, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder took note of the poisoned water being supplied to Flint residents in a brief unapologetic announcement, “we found there are probably things that weren’t as fully understood […]
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Short Take 2 In Memoriam—Captain Humayun Khan “Let me ask you [Donald Trump]–Have you ever read the US constitution? …In this document look for the words ‘liberty’ and ‘protection of law’ … Look at the graves of those who died defending America… We are stronger together. And we will keep getting stronger when Hillary Clinton […]
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Short Take 3 The Olympic Spirit on a Luxury Liner The mission of Olympic Spirit is “to build a peaceful and better world in the Olympic Spirit which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play – Olympic Spirit strives to inspire and motivate the youth of the world to be […]
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