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Government

• Politely Accepting Failure in Education ♦
• Government vs. The Bullies
• Corny Economics
• Language Defines Our Lives
• Losing the War in a Quiet Room
• Pondering the Meaning of $40
• Seeing Less Luxury is NOT Bearing More Burden
• Enough ♦
• Sociopaths by Proxy
• Just a Gut Feeling I Have ♦
• Prenatal Murder and Unjustified Miscarriages ♦
• Taking Charge of the Debt ♦
• Curse of the Zombie Weiner
• Oh, the Hypocrisy
• The Recent Move toward Criminalizing Birth Control ♦
• A Quickie about Weinergate
• To Serve Our Citizens ♦
• A Secret Interpretation of the Patriot Act?
• The Soft Language of Rape
• Beware Too-Efficient Government
• Our National Priorities
• Using Real Names has Real Consequences
• Fighting for their Political Lives
• On the Privacy of Political Campaign Contributions
• Afghanistan, through the Looking Glass
• Finding an Antidote to Hopelessness
• The Cost ♦
• Original Intent 2.0
• Pondering Stronger Oil Drilling Regulations
• FBI—Why?
• When Bullies Rule
• Breeding Discontent: Embracing Marriage’s Original Intent
• Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged
• Busting up the Filibuster
• What’s the Word on the Recession
• Seeing Roe v. Wade as a Political Compromise
• A Day of Difficulty in Remembering
• Challenging the Abortion Exclusion
• My Slice of the Pie (Again)
• Military Leaders: Grow Up and Let Them Tell ♦
• United We Starve
• Why on Earth Would I Want to Switch to Paperless?
• The Freedom to Hear
• George
• Trials and Tribe Relations
• Disobedience, Civil and Not-So-Civil ♦
• Hypocrisy and High-Collar Crimes
• Where Conscience is Borne
• Rule of Law
• Organ Donation: Flip the Default to Opt-Out
• The Trademarking of Truth
• Preparing for Evidence-Based Medicine
• My Slice of the Pie ♦
• Abiding in Tolerance ♦
• Did the Supreme Court cause our Economic Woes?
• Toward a Fair and Balanced Supreme Court
• Agreeing to Disagree The World Over ♦
• The Second-Class Amendment
• Whatever Should Be, Should Be
• Diss Proportional Salaries
• Diplomatic Immunity for our own Presidents?
• Guantánamo, US Pardons, and the International Court ♦
• Office of Impeachment
• Limiting Term Frequency
• Civilian-In-Chief
• Redistributing Burden
• The "Two Unprincipled Parties" System
• What Is a Right?
• A Real Act in Defense of Marriage ♦
• Is Democracy Dead?
• Public Engagement in Policymaking
• Of Presidents and Kings

Trends, Polls, and Politics of the Moment

• Outrageous Verdict
• Restore the Talking Filibuster
• Legalized Murder ♦
• What Really Disqualifies Ron Paul
• A Wager of No Consequence
• A Perfect Matching Gift
• Occupational Hazards ♦
• Thoughts on the Courage of our Convictions
• My Rep Says He Understands and Shares my Concerns
• A Real Show of Humanity
• An Open Letter to the Capitulator-in-Chief ♦
• Write Your Rep
• The Risky Business of the Greedy Old Party
• Compromising Government
• Prenatal Murder and Unjustified Miscarriages ♦
• Taking Charge of the Debt ♦
• Curse of the Zombie Weiner
• Oh, the Hypocrisy
• The Recent Move toward Criminalizing Birth Control ♦
• A Quickie about Weinergate
• To Serve Our Citizens ♦
• A Secret Interpretation of the Patriot Act?
• Dead Certainty ♦
• House votes to cut NPR funding
• Was the recent Wisconsin Senate action really Illegal? ♦
• Facing the Truth (with bonus comic)
• Memo to the White House about the Bush Tax Cuts
• The Entitlement Class
• Political Fumbling
• Boardwalk Empire 2.0
• Obama Needs to Fish or Cut Bait
• Unchallenged Bias and Propaganda
• Honesty in our Spending Priorities
• Paying for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
• Thinking Aloud about Pay for Federal Workers
• Real Patriots Dont Whine About Paying Taxes ♦
• MSNBC Ethical Theatre 2010
• The Fix is In: Rand Paul
• Remember to Vote
• A Pledge, by Any Other Name, Would It Smell as Sweet?
• The Stakes
• Deficit Attention Disorder ♦
• Burning Desires
• McCain Bill Enables US Citizen Imprisonment Without Trial ♦
• BP quakes in its boots as Obama issues “demands”
• Renouncing My Status as a Republican Wannabe ♦
• The Spoils of Libertarianism
• The Makings of a Supreme Blunder?
• Haiti: A Dry Run for Climate Change’s Agony
• Open Letter to Keith Olbermann
• Supreme Debacle
• What’s The Word on Civil Union?
• Silver Linings in Massachusetts
• Point of No Return
• Filling George Tiller's Shoes
• Afghanistan, According to Script
• When the Bow Brakes
• Who Will Be Sarah Palin's Darth Vader?
• A Day of Difficulty in Remembering
• Who Will Be Sarah Palin's Darth Vader?
• Lame Duck Season’s Coming Early ♦
• Super-Heated Thoughts about Rio 2016
• No fair! Democrats are behaving like meanie Republicans
• Bill Moyers interviews ex-head of communications for Cigna
• The "Palin Doctrine" ♦
• My Secret Shame: Confessions of a Republican Wannabe
• PBS call for public input: What are your information needs?
• Draft Krugman
    and its follow-up bailout@home
• As ye sow, so shall ye reap ♦
• Injecting Hope into Stem Cell Research
• Obama Lifts "Global Gag Rule"
• Daring to Do the Wright Thing ♦
• The New Warren Court
• Petition for Open Transition and Open Government
• Government Transparency
• Pardon me, too
• Over-Full Disclosure
• Would you like a receipt with that?
• Pondering Mandate
• Heroes, Past and Present
• First they came yelling...
• On Notice
• Election Stratego
    and its follow-up Who Will Be Sarah Palin's Darth Vader?
• An Inconvenient Hate
    and its follow-up Hate On The March
• Calling Palin's Bluff
• Stop the Cycle of Republican Ideological Bulimia
• Should McCain Yield to Romney?
    (not an endorsement of either of them)
• Seconds to Spare: Let the VP's Fill In!
• Shifting The Focus