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    Obama’s Pointless Budget.

    April 10, 2013

    What, exactly, is the point of the Obama budget released today? We all know that, in the context of the American political process, it has very little – make that zero – chance of being enacted. People more astute than I tell me that it is a political statement. A matter of positioning. It is […]

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    Reagan: An Antidote To Hero Worship

    April 9, 2013

    Now that Margaret Thatcher is being lifted to iconic status alongside Ronald Reagan in the right wing community, and with the news that Reagan would pummel Obama in a head to head election, I thought a few facts are in order. So here goes: Reagan would have cut or privatized Social Security. No. Not at […]

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    Margaret Thatcher

    April 8, 2013

    Margaret Thatcher died today. I have no love for the lady. None. But there are two things I need to say: One, she was the reason I left the UK. Her diagnosis of what ailed the UK back ion the 1970’s was, I still think, in error. Her persistent anti-social rhetoric laid the groundwork, as […]

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