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Entries in Washington (9)

Friday
Aug242012

The Table: Lost Rembrandt, US Postal over Money, and the (Arm)Strong Earthquake 

Look in your mail for a lost Rembrandt and Lance Armstrong's pride if the US Postal Service is still delivering. We remember the Earthquake of 2011.

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Saturday
Feb252012

Ignoring the Signs: The Impact of the Delaware County Oil Refineries Closings

The Oil Leak creating a bad smell was a leak of a local refinery last week, but it is also a great metaphor of the stink that Sunoco is leaving behind as they shutter their long-standing relationship with the region.

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Wednesday
Jan252012

Is Romney Too Rich to Be President?  

Are Romney's tax returns so heinous that I would refuse my vote, even though he broke no US law or did any wrong to any American citizen, other than being super rich?

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Friday
Oct072011

The Wall Street Protest: 3 Demands to Effective Change

The Occupy Wall Street movement needs strong leadership and clear objectives with wide populist appeal to create change.

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Saturday
Jun182011

Thinking Big 2: Fixing the Housing Crisis

We must correct the housing market by re-establishing new, realistic values and providing new low interest loans based on them.

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Monday
Sep272010

Report From the Front Lines

What followed was an explosion of red meat conservatives rising in applause as speaker after speaker bellowed out the mantra " Reinforcements are coming, help is on the way"

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Thursday
Sep092010

Health Care Fix: Lawyer Insurance

Instead of raising the premiums or getting Congress to pass a sweeping healthcare overhaul in 2018 or 2081, this reporter wants to reveal a solution to the article Why is health care so expensive?. If you get sick, forget the doctor and get your laywer on the phone.

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Wednesday
Nov112009

The America the DC Sniper Created

The State of Virginia executed John Muhammad at 9:03 on November 10, 2009. I was aware of the execution about three days before the event, but I did not want to write about it before I knew he was gone. It has been seven years since he went on his rampage that took the life of ten unsuspecting victims, and perhaps more. His death is not one to celebrate or make political. No matter where you stand on the death penalty, John Muhammad is dead, but as the article states above, β€œhe died a lot more peacefully than his victims.”

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Thursday
Feb262009

The New 2012 Stimulus Bill

Just out of Washington: There is news coming out of Washington of a secret meeting with President Obama and his advisers and the new bipartisan congenial Congress to adapt a new, new , new economic stimulus plan that now will calculate the end of the world year as foretold by the Mayan calendar in 2012. "We really need to act prudently with these new numbers, because they could predict total doom for the automobile industry and send the already ailing banking industry into a further tailspin. It is with the hopes of all hope, even more important than all the other hopes the President has talked about before, we act with resolve and courage with the end of world being so close", said White House chief correspondent Jeffrey Heinz.

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