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GOP Passing

A brief history of the GOP’s twilight years.

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Or don’t. There are better sources
The American public’s distaste for and mistrust of the New York Times is understandable. How else would Americans view a paper that would editorially welcome Republicans arriving in town for their 2004 convention with the suggestion they should embrace a policy of amnesty for illegal aliens in order […]

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The article I posted Thursday, Bill to improve health care…in Mexico!, was favorited at digg.com (thank you all who dugg it). An appearance on digg.com means many more readers, and that’s good. Voters really should have as many alternative news sources and hear as many differing opinions as possible.
Unfortunately, among the hundreds of comments […]

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Silence from Senator McCain’s office
Even though ProjectUSA is a pipsqueak organization too poor to buy a representative’s vote, let alone a senator’s, we’ve issued John McCain a public challenge.
We’ve named the stakes, and made the wager. The dispute in question is legitimate, and the public has an interest in the outcome. But every day, […]

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Recently, a reporter asked me what I think is the solution to the immigration problem. Only half joking, I told him we need to make bribery illegal.
Spend a few eye-opening hours sometime searching the lobbying disclosure records on the U.S. Senate’s web site, and you’ll see what I mean.
If you search the records for […]

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