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    Consistency is the …

    December 12, 2017

    Well, at least I am being consistent. Whether that’s being a good thing or not I will leave to you to figure out. David Brooks set me off on a rant a few days ago, and he’s doing it again. I have to stop reading his columns. Last time it was about the rotting Republican […]

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    Republican Rot?

    December 8, 2017

    This is going to sound parochial to those of you not steeped in America’s current internal conversation. Poor David Brooks, his column in today’s New York Times is entitled “The G.O.P. Is Rotting”. He is correct. His column is a long lament about his sense of loss. The problem is that the thing[s] he thinks […]

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    Real Tax Reform?

    December 6, 2017

    OK, let’s all calm down. The Republican tax plan is now in its last stages of design. The two versions that exist need to be stitched together and then the compromise version passed in both houses of Congress. The law as we currently know it is a classic piece of plutocratic largesse. It will fail […]

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