Republicans Today and Tomorrow

Anybody but BUSH!Anybody but BUSH! Joshua Bunton August 30, 2004 Yesterday in New York thousands of protestors marched down seventh avenue. And, of course, C-SPAN is covering it like a big news event. I took the time to watch some of the coverage. I expected to find protestors marching for one cause and one cause only to get George W Bush out of the White House. What did I find instead? What I found was a mixture of people protesting topics from around the globe. According to the 'United for Peace website' ...
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Business Lessons From Presidential PoliticsThe most influential CEO in the world (George W. Bush) is facing mandatory retirement in 16 months and already there are 20 men and women vying for the job - very publicly. They are talking about how they will do things differently if they are chosen, and they are doing everything they can to prove how all the other candidates are wrong for the job. When President Bush leaves office, many across the country will be thankful when the 24+ month campaign cycle has ended. But before you write this ...
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Why I Miss Mike Royko by Mark Rhoads The legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko died in 1997. Over his career, he worked for three different Chicago newspapers. I often miss his take on topics in the news today, but most of all in recent weeks because I think only Royko could have maximized the real entertainment value of the Blagojevich trial in a way that would do justice to the characters. For example, many decades ago Mike ran his own contest to design a new city seal for Chicago. The ...
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Bush, Kerry and Electability I pity English students these days. I pity them very much. Or, I should not have pity for them. Who sent them to study something like syntax in the first place. Or semantics. By Jupiter, space scientists like Stephen Hawkings, the briefest astronomer in the universe, would damn it. But I pity lexicographers the more. They, like the grammar students are doomed to the same fate. Like Achilles who was destined to die in battle. May the grammarians not perish by their heels. Because they are ...
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The Politics of FreedomThe war on terror should not be a political war. It should not be a war pitting Republican against Democrat or Christian against Muslim. The war on terror is a war on evil. There have been countless wars in our world that to some extent have protected against some level of evil. But this evil we fight today is an evil more bitter, more deadly, than anything you or I have ever lived to see. It is an evil so deeply rooted in hatred that it will take a very long time, if ever, to defeat. I am ...
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Whole lotta gaffes goin’ on! by Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc. A word to the wise ain't necessary ' it's the stupid ones that need the advice.- Bill Cosby Bill Cosby practices tough love. Hundreds, probably thousands of people who have descended on Washington recently may need a little tough love, too. Many perceive that Washington is the new financial and media capital of the United States, maybe the world. They must be here to protect their clients' interests and their own. But many newcomers are not doing well. ...
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Democrats Can't Win The only chance they had from the beginning of this campaign to win the 2004 presidential election has been to advance their best candidate and hope that the President beat himself. This is a fifty- fifty bet at any given time. Instead, they chose an anybody but Bush strategy that proclaims they don't care how qualified their candidate is, or how capable. They want to win a popularity contest. They want to nominate a candidate they hope will take votes from the President. This cockeyed ...
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Can a Worm Teach a Politician Anything? By Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.- Charles Darwin on the earthworm Christopher Lloyd of Cambridge University has written an interesting book about the contributions of different species to today's life on earth. He ranks earthworms as most important. Algae is second. Homo sapiens come sixth. Lloyd's analysis took me back to an ...
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Democrats and the Tea Party By Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc. Democrats seem to think that candidates nominated in Republican primaries with the help of the Tea Parties will be easier to defeat in November. Many of those candidates hold extreme views, out of the GOP mainstream and divorced from the prevailing views of the electorate. The Democrats need to take another look at those candidates. They are doing better than expected in the polls. In response to that, many Democrats say that when the voters learn how extreme ...
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The Politics of TortureWhen the now-infamous photographs of Iraqi prisoners being sexually humiliated at the hands of U.S. military police were made public, reaction was nearly unanimous: disgust and outrage that the U.S. military were abusing prisoners at the same prison Saddam Hussein used to torture Iraqis. President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and others in the Bush administration quickly condemned the photographs, with Bush promising an investigation. In his May 15 radio address, ...
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