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No, the Keystone Tar Sand Oil is NOT Inevitable

A little birdy tells me that President Obama is now considering approving the final leg of the infamous “Keystone XL” pipeline because some big names on the Left have resigned themselves to the idea...

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Keystone XL Protest Signs for Download

As promised, here are seven posters/signs that I created for the Keystone XL Protest that I plan to attend this weekend. As I mentioned on Monday, I believe it is FAR more effective to focus on NON-CO2...

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Must a President Be a Failure to Be a Success?

I was watching former Vice President Dick Cheney and his with Lynn pollute my TV screen yesterday on Fox “news” Sunday, and I’m always struck by how stunningly self-UNaware Cheney is about the havoc...

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Labor Day: Record Job growth. S&P hits 30th record high. Obama approval among...

On this Labor Day, I’ll let the video do the talking (I apologize for the low quality. Recording technology has improved greatly since I recorded this ELEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY):   Bush campaigns for...

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Dems, If You Want To Win the Senate, stop accepting GOP line that Obama is a...

I don’t know what angers me more: Hearing every pundit on TV talk about how “unpopular” President Obama is citing questionable polling numbers as the basis for their opinion, or Democratic candidates...

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History Has Shown Us What Happens With Republicans In Charge – and it’s not good

Probably THE reason I’ve been writing this blog every week for the last ten years is because of the importance of elections. As the subtitle says, “Recording History for those Who Seek to Rewrite it”....

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Keystone XL: Not Just a Potential Environmental Disaster But An Economic One...

Did you know about 1/2 of the Keystone XL Pipeline has ALREADY BEEN BUILT? The KXL project is a 1,200 mile long pipeline extending from Hardisty, Alberta to refineries in Houston, Texas near The...

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Plunge in Oil Prices Foretells Looming Economic Disaster. Aribrary pricing...

During the 2000 presidential campaign, after oil climbed a whopping 72cents in one day (yes, that’s sarcasm) to $33.05/barrel, causing gasoline prices to hit an “unthinkable” $1.68/gallon nationally,...

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Mugsy’s Annual Predictions for 2015

This is arguably my favorite posting duty of the year, where I get to ridicule the so-called “psychics”, blast Conservative prognosticators, a look back at my own routinely successful record of...

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Are Oil Prices Returning To Their Pre-Bush Trajectory?

A number of “concern trolls” on the Right and on Wall Street have been desperate to find ways to paint the recent plunge in oil prices as a BAD thing worthy of “serious concern” (remember when they...

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Cruz & Carson Latest Republicans to Complain About Income Inequality

Now don’t get me wrong, while I applaud the GOP’s new found concern over “income inequality” and the stagnation of the middle-class, I’m reminded of the old joke when The Menendez Brothers were on...

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Fox Tries to Pin Baltimore Poverty On Electing Democratic Mayors

As Bill Maher explained it last July, a “Zombie Lie” is a lie told by Republicans that is proven false & widely discredited, yet they keep telling them“, telling their idiot followers that the lie...

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GOP Frontrunners Reveal Their Moronic Dark Agendas for the Country

The presidential candidates of BOTH parties descended upon the Iowa State Fair this past weekend, but when reporters asked the GOP frontrunners for policy specifics, their horrifying agenda should send...

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Dr Carson Revives Dangerous “Health Savings Account” Zombie from 2012

I have a long standing rule not to criticize truly awful GOP Primary candidates when they are winning. “When your opponent(s) are digging themselves into a hole, the only thing you should hand them is...

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Analysts Expect a Weak Jobs Report Friday. Why that Concern is Misleading

Next Friday, the Federal Reserve is expected to release it’s latest “Jobs Report” for October, and the expectation is that it will show underwhelming job growth of probably less than 130,000 new jobs...

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CORRECTION UPDATE on Last Week’s Jobs Report

I‘m on sabbatical this week, but a quick follow-up on last weeks “expectation” that the October Jobs Report was going to be “disappointing” to say the least, only for it to in fact be spectacular....

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Amid Record Low Oil and Gas, Trump Says Keystone XL Needed ‘Desperately’....

Donald Trump called not building the Keystone XL pipeline "devastating". To who? With a glut in the Market and domestic oil jobs being lost, do we NEED more oil?

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Why I Support Bernie. A long and consistent record as a Progressive champion

A follow-up to my Op/Ed citing Hillary Clinton's weaknesses, this week providing a lengthy list of reasons to support Bernie Sanders.

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GOP Frontrunners Reveal Their Moronic Dark Agendas for the Country

The presidential candidates of BOTH parties descended upon the Iowa State Fair this past weekend, but when reporters asked the GOP frontrunners for policy specifics, their horrifying agenda should send...

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Predictions for 2017: It’s the end of the world as we know it.

My annual look back at the laughably failed predictions of the so-called psychics, my scorecard for last years predictions, and my predictions for the coming year.

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