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We are the Ordinary People of our Time

By Ramona on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 10:01pm |
t takes some bodacious, mendacious audacity to write in the Wall Street Journal about hubris or ". . .a bureaucratic elite [that] disposes of public policy with scant regard for the popular will" after those not-so-long-ago (but really, really long) Bush years, but if anybody can pull it off, it's the WSJ. Their audience has the most to lose if Obama wins his battles.
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Labor's Cries are Getting Weaker. Who is Going to Dig Them Out?

By Ramona on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 3:30pm |
We have a history of putting blinders on when things get tough, and we have a history of not learning from our own history. We're in the midst of another severe economic crisis, for all intents a repeat of our Great Depression, and still we hear the voices telling us it's not so bad--and we want to believe them.
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The SCOTUS Five: Just Asses

By Ramona on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 7:41pm |
Yesterday those five scamps saw another chance to give their corporate heroes the gift that keeps on giving--namely US on a platter--and made into law the right for "corporations, trade associations, unions and nonprofit groups" to spend any amount they wish from any old source, in order to bash, lash, eviscerate, decapitate, or otherwise destroy, any political candidate who might seriously get in their way. No holds barred anymore. None. Free at last, free at last. . .
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A Year of Obama: The Hope Still Lives

By Ramona on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 12:38pm |
A year ago today, as I sat watching the inauguration of Barack Obama, listening to our new president's call to duty, it suddenly occurred to me that it might be a good day to start a political blog.  I already...
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Robertson, Limbaugh and Why They Matter

By Ramona on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 8:54pm |
Hour by hour, day by day, we've been watching the devastation that is Haiti.  The plight of that sad, forgotten country is being forced on us in such a way that it is no longer possible to turn away from...
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Take Me to Our Leader

By Ramona on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 1:21pm |
For eight long Bushwhacked years, we moaned and groaned and predicted the predictable outcomes. And when they came, we got nothing for our troubles except to be able to utter a wholly unsatisfying "We told you so". Because for eight long Bushwhacked years we, the Liberals afraid to speak our own name, had no real leaders.
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'Tis the Season to be Liberal

By Ramona on Fri, 12/25/2009 - 3:38pm |
It's Christmas morning, early, and we're lucky enough to have been awakened by the grandkids at 6 AM to see what Santa brought.  This year Santa had to go easy, but the kids didn't seem to notice at all.  They're...
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In America: The Sick and Dying have to go Begging--in America

By Ramona on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 12:34am |
"Most of the people I met [at the Kansas City Free Health Clinic] were working people. Eighty-three percent of the people who come to these clinics are employed. But over and over and over, I heard about unaffordable junk...
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Peace in Our Time Here on Our Shores

By Ramona on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 5:54pm |
They go by many monikers -- plutocrats, Fat Cats, moguls, tycoons, Big Cheeses, Moneybags, Wheeler-dealers, Head Honchos. . .and those are just the nice terms. (Some of them used to be called "Captains of Industry" but since that ship has sailed, they don't answer to that anymore.)
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Another Requiem for Detroit

By Ramona on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 9:31pm |
Bob Herbert took a tour of Detroit's ruins and wrote an important piece about what he saw, but I hope he goes back sometime soon to take a look at the beauty of Detroit. There is still much to be said for that battered, bloodied but not totally bowed town.

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