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The Week it Happened

By Barth on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 8:02pm |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is when did it change? Didn't the Republican Party just tear the President apart for a year, saying no to everything but yet making...
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Fighting Back

By Barth on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 8:55pm |
Yes. Frank Rich has it right, of course. Rachel Maddow has explained how to do it. Frankly, I thought I had something to add but not many people seemed to agree. Still, it is easier to come up with this...
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The First 365 Days

By Barth on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 4:48pm |
It was not a good week to celebrate the first anniversary of President Obama's inauguration. There was, of course, the absurd return to the political thought that the candidate who most seems to be "regular" should get elected and a...
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This is not really a post

By Barth on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 11:25am |
I have no time.  But I did find this item I wrote shortly before the 2008 election about what would happen in President Obama won.I was right, but more importantly, it puts what happened in my beloved home state, my...
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Vote for the Kennedy of Your Choice, but Vote

By Barth on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 6:41pm |
Your weekly correspondent is unable to do any of general complaining what with this and that---personal, business and the like---getting in the way, so we are reduced to quotations from the old First Family Record.  (It begins at 7:33of the...
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Republicans or Americans?

By Barth on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 4:21pm |
We resist, and rightly so, accusing people of being disloyal to their country simply because they criticize the President or oppose his policies. There comes a time, though, when one has to wonder about the motives of those who cannot...
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Leadership

By Barth on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 12:51am |
President Bush debates Sen Kerry, 10/8/04BUSH: Hi, Linda.GRABEL: President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made...
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The TVs try to rape us

By Barth on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 1:50pm |
This was the week where the nearly unthinkable took place: David Brooks not only wrote a column about something very important, he said exactly the right thing. That is not to single out Brooks as generally a purveyor of the...
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The New Year and the new decade

By Barth on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 3:09pm |
Let's get this new decade thing out of the way first.  I am one of those cranks who insist, as everyone recognized in 1900 and 1901, that a century, and hence, millennium commences in a year ending with 1, since...
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Do We Feel Better Now?

By Barth on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 7:34pm |
Our daddy has spoken to us.  He cannot tell us everything will be all right---since nobody can and unlike his predecessor he has decided that pretending to have the ability to cloud men's minds (or whatever other fictional character...

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