Kyle Bell

The Republican Party is moving far to the right, as was expected following the exit of independent voters in 2006 and 2008. The Tea Party wing of the party is clearly winning out. Two polls confirm the radical thinking of the few remaining members. The polling firm PPP asked respondents whether Barack Obama won last [...]

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The latest uproar across the country and on cable news is that President Obama will be delivering an address to schoolchildren encouraging them to make good grades, stay in school and do their homework. Seems innocent enough, right? Conservative talk shows and Republican politicians won’t have any of it. They claim that the president of [...]

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As the townhall protests extend through August, many of the protesters are aiming their anger at a man that had nothing to do with the economic woes that the country now faces today. The policies of the Bush administration got us to the point where we have nearly 10% unemployment, an over trillion dollar deficit [...]

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The conspiracy driven “birther” movement surrounding President Obama’s birth certificate has been well covered lately on the news. Many Republicans do not feel that the current president is legitimate, despite his overwhelming victory in November. In their racist desperation, they have latched on to this idea that Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii, [...]

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Several years ago while he was still president, George W. Bush declared vehemently that the “United States does not torture.” Many observers, including this one, knew better than that. Evidence has been leaking from the administration for some time whether it be renditions in foreign countries where we hand over terrorist suspects to governments that [...]

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I thought I would share a couple of political cartoons that I ran across today.

This first one is by Mike Keefe of The Denver Post. As the cartoon points out, the so-called “Country First” Republican Party is now rooting for our president to fail. What a reversal!

This second cartoon is from Pat Bagley of The [...]

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Today may go down in the history books as the start of the next Great Depression. The Dow Jones dropped over 500 points on Monday, September 15, 2008, marking the biggest drop since the 9/11 attacks. Over the weekend it was revealed that the investment bank Lehman Brothers would file for bankruptcy. Most people (including [...]

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