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Beyond Bunning: Still Glimmers of Hope in Senate

by A.B. ArkawyMarch 3, 2010

That short national nightmare known as the ‘Bunning filibuster’ is finally over. The tone deaf lame duck GOP senator from Kentucky finally freed jobless benefits and other entitlement extensions from the grips of his political grandstanding last night. The new bill–which will extend unemployment and C.O.B.R.A. as well as fund some construction projects–passed the Senate by [...]

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Battle of Media Titans: Huffington vs. Ailes Rattles Walters on ABC’s ‘Week’

by A.B. ArkawyFebruary 1, 2010

It could have been the WWE Smack down of Sunday talk. Arianna Huffington, the liberal queen of the blogosphere took on Roger Ailes, the Fox News conservative king maker on ABC’s This Week. And political junkies and media mavens did get some end-of-weekend red meat to gnaw on. But what a feast it could have [...]

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Ignoring the Elephant in the Room: Dems Give Reid a Pass

by A.B. ArkawyJanuary 11, 2010

The elephant is still in the middle of the room. Only this time, the Democrats are walking on peanut shells to avoid it. The elephant, of course is race, and it’s snarling again thanks to a year old comment credited to Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid.
In their forthcoming gossipy book about the 2008 election, Game [...]

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Cheney Family Values

by A.B. ArkawyJanuary 7, 2010

                                                                                    
The Cheney family business has become unpatriotic fright wing propaganda. And business is bustling. When dad Dick gets weary of sending President Obama missives via POLITICO, he sends in daughter Liz for the heavy lifting. And any day now, Dick’s wife Lynn will come out with an anti-Obama children’s book.
Last week, Dick Cheney–dripping with [...]

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And Snowe It Goes: But without a Public Option Will it be Real Reform?

by A.B. ArkawyOctober 15, 2009

Okay, so after wooing her for months, the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee finally got Republican Olympia Snowe to sign onto the Baucus Health Reform Bill. The Maine moderate and lone GOP member to vote with the thirteen Democrats helped the historic measure pass 14-9 last Tuesday. But Snowe said, “my vote today is my [...]

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The Sorry Truth

by A.B. ArkawyOctober 1, 2009

Democrats–who have been wishing and hoping for a hero in the health scare debate–may have finally found their guy. Not that he’s perfect. But, hey, who is? Freshman Florida Congressman Alan Grayson laid out the Republican health reform with succinct sarcasm late Tuesday night. It’s his Wednesday follow-up that raised eyebrows on both sides of [...]

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Gadhafi Finally Folds his Tent… & Stops Talking!

by A.B. ArkawySeptember 24, 2009

Moammar Gadhafi’s debut speech before the United Nations’ General Assembly Tuesday wasn’t the longest in that esteemed body’s history; that dubious record is held by Fidel Castro who clocked in at over four hours back in 1960. Still, the Libyan dictator’s disjointed dirge was long enough restless delegates could have easily slipped out for a [...]

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The Storm Before Reform

by A.B. ArkawySeptember 10, 2009

Sean Hannity must have been listening to an old Glenn Beck show in one ear as he watched President Obama’s Health Care Reform speech before a joint session of Congress last night. His post speech wrap up was peppered with what seemed like pre-programmed partisan pot shots.
What I heard was an eloquent and loquacious ( [...]

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School Daze

by A.B. ArkawySeptember 7, 2009
President Obama teaching kids in the classroom via the internet

Barack Obama is up to his audaciously hopeful tricks again. First, he has the unmitigated gaul to seek affordable health care for all Americans. And now–get this–the guy wants to give the nation’s schoolchildren a televised pep talk. His plan to urge kids to stay in school, study hard and do their homework has gotten [...]

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Outrageous “Compassion”

by A.B. ArkawyAugust 25, 2009

Go ahead kick me out of the Bleeding Heart Liberal Collective. I can take it. What’s hard to take is the so-called “compassionate release” of Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988. Allegedly suffering from terminal prostate cancer, with three months to live, [...]

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Mad Rush

by A.B. ArkawyAugust 19, 2009

Maybe it’s the diet pills that’s got Rush Limbaugh dishing out a combustible stew of red meat propaganda, fear mongering and Nazi nicknames. The blowhard radio host, who claims to have dropped eighty plus pounds in mere months, keeps drawing ridiculous comparisons between President Obama and Adolph Hitler. I’ve only dipped into his show a [...]

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