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What Would Jefferson Think of the Government Shutdown?
WASHINGTON – It was a perfect post-Christmas day, as I watched tourists move in concentric circles around the Jefferson Memorial at the far edge of the National Mall. Jefferson’s famous exhortation about the nature of government, that “we might as w…
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Hospitals Guard Prices Like the CIA Guards Secrets
Way back in 2017, before we were on the road to Nuremberg With Donald Trump, the Washington Post was outraged that hospitals were trying to make a profit. Like most stories involving reporters, economics and healthcare it was both wildly inaccurate and…
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After Xmas Gift Wish List
Raging Moderate It’s way past time to congratulate the baby Jesus on the anniversary of his birth. While all those annoying unending ads for the Christmas sales have blessedly come to an end, they’ve been replaced by all those annoying unending ad…
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Son of Flake
What’s with Mitt Romney, the newly minted Republican senator from the great red state of Utah? Mitt hadn’t even been sworn in yet and he put his name on a New Year’s Day op-ed column in the Washington Post bearing the headline “Mitt Romney: The pres…
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Bingeing Makes an Unhealthy TV Diet
In 2019 I resolve to cutback on bingeing. Not at the dinner table – although that would be wise – but at the TV. I believe TV programmers and viewers will come to regret serving up a show’s entire season at once, enabling viewers to binge through i…
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Don’t Import Foreign Price Controls – Break Them
Americans are justifiably angry that we pay the highest prescription drugs prices in the world ,’ anger President Trump tapped into on the campaign trail.The disparity exists because other rich countries use price control schemes, forcing American cons…
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When Being Liberal Isn’t Liberal Enough
As the 116th Congress convenes in Washington this week, one of the more interesting spectacles to take place will be the seating of Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Much has been made of Ocasio-Cortez’s rhetoric and political philosoph…
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Stop Me Before I Demolish A Credit Card Machine
I knew it wasn’t just me! In recent weeks I’ve overheard multiple shoppers gripe about navigating the wildly dissimilar credit card setups at different establishments. Credit card machines have gotten just as confusing as the clothing and foo…
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A Dirty Dozen Trump Trivia Quiz
Phew, what a year it was! The one-trick phony in the White House lied an average of 15 times a day, all-Republican rule crashed and burned with a government shutdown, and Brett Kavanaugh really likes beer. But the biggest story of all was the multi…
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Resolutions Our Politicians Won’t Keep
Celebrating the holidays with friends and family the past few weeks was great, but I m tired, bloated and crabby. The New Year is upon us! What a great opportunity to start fresh and resolve to do great things in 2019. How about I share s…
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