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A Flawed Idea Finally Escapes

One of the very few downsides of writing a weekly column in the Petoskey News-Review is that I don’t have the time I would like to write about things that probably aren’t suitable for the newspaper.  The question of “suitability” is basically decided by the editors, and I have developed a pretty good feel about […]

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Congress in Wonderland: The Testimony of Barack Obama

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the right wing media’s obsession with doing whatever harm they can to Barack Obama’s presidency, regardless of the truth of any the allegations. At the time I wrote that column, Cliven Bundy had not yet made the mind-numbing racist comments about African-Americans which caused most of his […]

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