Some Democrats are crowing about the fiscal cliff outcome, and criticizing Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner for not having control of his party. Yesterday, many bloggers and political pundits cast President Obama as the clear winner in the fiscal cliff showdown. But as Obama signed the new tax bill into law yesterday morning, […]
Social Security
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Caring for caregivers
Some of my favorite childhood memories involve hiking in the Genesee River bed near Mt. Morris with my mother. We would spend hours looking for arrowheads, studying rock formations, or tracking deer. I still get a chuckle when I’m reminded of how unconventional she was compared to my friends’ mothers. Now much of my time […]
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America, America…
We’ll work it all out, one of these days, and the country will seem like the one we say we want. Maybe we’ll even resurrect civil discourse. But not, I’m afraid, before we regress dangerously into the past, to a time when myth held sway over science, abortions were available only through back-alley practitioners, workers’ […]
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Reader feedback 5.25.05
Grading the D&C, reforming the county budget, defending Bush
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Social security: lies, lies, and damn lies
Adolf Hitler wrote in Mien Kampf “The people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” The key is to keep repeating it over and over. For the second time in three years, the Bush administration is using the Big Lie Technique to advance its agenda. The first Big […]
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Reader feedback 3.2.05
Social Security’s ‘crisis,’ Pittsford’s rural
character
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How smart are you?
After the presidential election, a lot of Democrats insisted that the red-blue divide was really an intelligence gap: that no well-educated person could have voted for Bush. Balderdash; plenty of smart people voted for him. Plenty of smart people support the war in Iraq. Plenty of smart people agree with Bush on tort reform. But […]
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Reader Feedback 8.28.02
The county budget, the Jazz Festival, Democrats in disarray,
moms in playland
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Bushites continue their pension attack
Sheriff Bush put on his holster after Wall Street failed to heed Preacher Bush’s sermonettes. The new disguise worked momentarily, and market indicators went up. Townsfolk cheered as three bad guys — Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and sons — were arrested and booked for “one of the most extensive financial frauds ever to take […]
