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How About Right Sizing the Federal Government<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Ken Rietz - FROM BEYOND THE BELTWAY<\/span>
\n Thursday, August 26, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>Anyone who has actually run a business knows the economics of cutting costs. Some can be done around the edges. However, real cost cuts come from reducing the number of employees and total compensation. In business it is called “Right Sizing.”Busines...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Hypocrisy 8\/10<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Tom Prat<\/span>
\n Thursday, August 26, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>The controversy over the proposed Muslim cultural center in Manhattan is a disgraceful display of not only ignorance but of mean spirited politics of the worst sort.These sub-intelligent, knowledge-challenged idiots such as Flush (not a typo) Limbaug...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Newt, Nazis and the Nobel Prize<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Daniel Morrow - Blue Notes<\/span>
\n Thursday, August 26, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>Prepare yourselves for yet another chapter of “The Wit and Wisdom of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich”,&nbsp; the self-righteous, born-again Republican moralist, philanderer, presidential wanna-be, and author of&nbsp; several novels, catalog...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Ducking a Hard Decision<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Bruce Smart - Purple<\/span>
\n Thursday, August 26, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>If you believe that human-caused global warming and climate change are among the most threatening challenges facing our world – as an engineer, Purple surely does – then the Obama Administration’s decision to abandon the fight for an energy\/climate b...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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GIBBS versus PELOSI<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Ken Rietz - FROM BEYOND THE BELTWAY<\/span>
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\n <\/span>The Democrats campaign to maintain control of the House and Senate got off to a rocky start in July.For his part, Obama hit the campaign trail with the same old, stale message he has used the past 18 months. “The mess we are in is their fault. They r...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Hypocrisy 7\/10<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Tom Pratt<\/span>
\n Friday, July 23, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>At the risk of offending “dyed in the wool” Reagan democrats, the former president really does need to be held accountable for a major portion of what ails our country today.His theory that privatization and “trickle down” was the way the country sho...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Killing Christmas in July<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Daniel Morrow - Blue Notes<\/span>
\n Friday, July 23, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>Who would have thought it?&nbsp; According to “Supervisor” Eugene Delgaudio, the Loudoun County Board not only has the transcendent power to destroy Christmas, it is threatening to do so.Delgaudio,&nbsp; perhaps best known as Loudoun’s pre-eminent pr...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Primary Lessons<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Bruce Smart<\/span>
\n Friday, July 23, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>When Purple was a boy, over 900 moons ago, he had a friend with a streak of insightful humor, who often responded to human reactions to difficulty by repeating this old saw: “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” It took the ...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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THE BUCK STOPS HERE<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Ken Rietz - FROM BEYOND THE BELTWAY<\/span>
\n Friday, June 25, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>The formula for crisis communication is simple. The first step is to identify the problem and admit the mistake.The second is to discuss the steps that will be taken to solve the problem.The third step is to take action.President Obama got the first ...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Hypocrisy 6\/10<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Tom Pratt<\/span>
\n Friday, June 25, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>This country’s and perhaps the world’s largest unnatural disaster is reoccurring every day in the Gulf of Mexico because of the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent oil well blowout.BP, Halliburton and Trans Ocean of course are ultimately ...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Oil and Water... A Modest Proposal<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Daniel Morrow - Blue Notes<\/span>
\n Friday, June 25, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>As left, right, and center continue to focus on building finely graduated and meticulously ranked lists of the negligent and innocent, blameworthy and victimized, indictable and indictors, ignorant and prescient, indifferent and caring, arrogant, clu...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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As Maine Goes, ….<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Bruce Smart - Purple<\/span>
\n Friday, June 25, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>We recently visited our family place in Maine. Graybeards will remember the political truism once applied to presidential elections: “As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation,” applicable from 1889 until FDR’s 46 state sweep in 1936, then amended to “As Mai...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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In Defense of Arizona<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Ken Rietz - FROM BEYOND THE BELTWAY<\/span>
\n Wednesday, May 26, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>In 2007, President George W. Bush proposed comprehensive immigration reform including strengthening our border security and creating a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.After controversy from both the political left and right, Harry Reid rem...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Hypocrisy 5\/10<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Tom Pratt<\/span>
\n Wednesday, May 26, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>Sex and hypocrisy go together the saying goes, as two peas in a pod.Recently two men exhibited extreme hypocrisy by doing exactly opposite to what they both preach and espouse in their professional lives.The first, Mark Souder of Indiana, was out for...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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Barry and Rand<\/span> <\/a><\/span>
\n <\/span>Daniel Morrow - Blue Notes<\/span>
\n Wednesday, May 26, 2010<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>Randal (“Rand”) Paul, the self-proclaimed Tea Bag Libertarian, would, apparently defends the rights of the folks who owned the Woolworth lunch counter to refuse service to black people and anyone else whose choice of parents they found offensive . . ...<\/span><\/span>\n <\/div><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/table> \n \n
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