The Gettysburg Address 150 Years Ago And Now: Lincoln, Obama and The Great Task Remaining
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln’s Great Task remains uncompleted.
Articles by Michael A Maynard
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Senator Elizabeth Warren And The New Economic Populism
- Commentary, Democratic Party, Featured News, Issues, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House
Will Senator Elizabeth Warren’s political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?
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‘People With Conventional Views’: Welcome To The Real Modern Family, Washington Post.
The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen’s recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.
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They Were Born That Way: Is This John Boehner’s ENDA?
John Boehner’s reaction in not wanting to hold a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act legislation is still wrong.
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Are We Safe From Congress? Senator Orrin Hatch And The Politics Of Vitamins
- Commentary, Featured News, Issues, Media, Other News, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
The Senior Senator from Utah is endangering lives by putting his personal gain before the public’s health.
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Winners and Losers From Last Night’s Off-Off Year Elections
- Commentary, Democratic Party, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
There were many winners and losers (and one who won and lost) in last night’s elections, but the biggest winner was liberalism.
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The New Paranoid Style In American Politics: Have You No Decency, Sir?
Ted and Rafael Cruz are just two more in a long line of American political paranoiacs. The list of conspiracy theories is long and often peculiar
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The Affordable Care Act Ain’t Broke: So Let’s Fix Healthcare.gov (Quickly, Please)
The healthcare.gov website has been online for 2 weeks. It works, but must be improved. There has been an overload of political and media focus and furor about the problems of the Healthcare.Gov website.
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IT’S TEOTWAWKI REDUX, NOT! Obamacare And The Exploitation of Technology Fear.
The right-wing uses the people’s fear of new technology to try to stop “Obamacare”. Many experts said that Y2K would lead to TEOFTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it).
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The Body’s Impolitic (Again): Why Is Jesse Ventura Running For President?
Former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is back in the headlines. He plans to run for President in 2016, if Howard Stern would be his running mate.
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How The Tea Party and Republicans Continue to Blow Golden Opportunities
The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.
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The Unusual Suspect: The Surprising Koch Fueled Return of Edwin Meese
Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?
