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Catholic Bishops Can't Have it Both Ways

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:46:53 EDT

There's no constitutional right to public contracts and no one's forcing the church or its affiliates to accept them. But once they do they are obligated to observe the same rules that apply to any recipient of government funds.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Feb 10, 2012

Most of the Boots Don't Come with Straps

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:15:58 EDT

Despite the Horatio Alger bootstrap mythology and 43 percent of the public believing you get rich by hard work, ambition or education, most of the wealthy come preassembled not do-it-yourself.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Jan 23, 2012

Republican Ideology in a Nutshell

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:33:26 EDT

Unfettered profiteering for the few at the expense of the American standard of living for everyone else.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Jan 16, 2012

Everybody Wants an Invite to the Party

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:32:20 EDT

True, apes' hygiene isn't all it could be, but they haven't cost stockholders trillions of dollars in default swaps; rejected a kid for kidney dialysis; or sued McDonald's for spilling hot coffee in their crotch.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Jan 10, 2012

Gingrich "invents" Another Whopper

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:31:34 EDT

Now wherever you come down philosophically on the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum, asserting Palestinians are somehow unique in the world because they were "invented" – thereby implying their cause is without merit – is simply ludicrous.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Dec 26, 2011

VA, Vouchers Bad; Education, Vouchers Good

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:18:12 EDT

The idea that vouchers will undermine public education is nonsense. Kids will still be educated, mostly at public expense, just like before. It's not public education that vouchers jeopardize, it's underperforming public schools.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Dec 16, 2011

Reagan and the Soviet Union Myth

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:09:41 EDT

Reagan was in the right place at the right time and stumbled into the right outcome – his bluster, with a different Russian partner, just as easily could have led to nuclear conflagration as détente.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Dec 08, 2011

Keep Your Voucher Culture Off My VA

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:10:49 EDT

I'm telling you, if Republicans could finagle a way to issue vouchers for breathing they would. Now Mitt Romney wants to replace Veterans Administration health care with vouchers.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Nov 23, 2011

The Supercommittee; One More Super Ruse

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:11:17 EDT

Twelve members of Congress were selected by their respective leadership. That was the first mistake. Imagine the possibilities if the leadership had been required to make their selections from the opposite party.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Nov 16, 2011

The Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac Big Lie!

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:30:33 EDT

The most persistent and shameless aspect in the right-wing's narrative of the economic collapse is its insistence on pinning the whole shebang on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, of course along with those "deadbeat Americans who took on too much debt."

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Nov 09, 2011

Class Warfare? Bring it On!

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:53:32 EDT

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, among other Republicans, is accusing President Obama and Democrats of instigating class warfare. That's like claiming the town you've been shelling for 30 years started the war when it finally fired back.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Nov 02, 2011

Breathe Easier, Your Government's at Work

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:19:38 EDT

Republicans rail about the absolute necessity to abolish government regulations if we want to create one job in America ever again. But doing away with the regulations doesn't make the costs in social benefits go away.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Oct 26, 2011

Jeesh! It's Not Armageddon; It's Only a Protest

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:58:32 EDT

Here's a group that pilfered an American iconic moment – an antiestablishment demonstration – to name their grouchy, mean-spirited claque, condemning an antiestablishment demonstration.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Oct 22, 2011

In Praise of the "Small People"

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:21:34 EDT

Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon's not the first arrogant, condescending SOB to show contempt for regular folks, and he sure won't be the last.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Oct 18, 2011

Facts, Opinions and Tinfoil Hats

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:42:57 EDT

It's one thing to have an opinion. It's another to have your own set of facts. Sorry conservatives, you don't get to wiggle your nose or tune in your tinfoil hat and just make-up stuff you like better like.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Oct 04, 2011

A Time to Be Born, and a Time to Die _Ecclesiastes 3:2

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:44:42 EDT

If Alzheimer's, according to Pat Robertson, or any other fatal condition, is in effect death-like, then why do legal and religious proscriptions exist about assisted suicide in those circumstances if you're already like dead, or going to be like dead?

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Sep 29, 2011

The U.N. Must Recognize Palestine

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:14:44 EDT

If the world could carve out and recognize a Jewish state six decades ago, it surely has sufficient cause to recognize a Palestinian one now.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Sep 22, 2011

The Republicans' Jobs and Growth Scam

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:42:23 EDT

"Quiet please. Let's be sure everyone has this cock-and-bull story down pat. It's 'jobs-killing-regulations' and 'jobs-creating-tax-cuts.' 'Jobs' a verb and a noun. That's all you need to know."

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Sep 16, 2011

9/11 and the Millennium Crisis

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:17:11 EDT

If September 11, 2001, coming 72 years after 1929's Black Tuesday, was the instigating event of the Millennium Crisis, then consistent with Saecula theory, the country will take another decade to weather this period.

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Sep 01, 2011

"The Fourth Turning" and 9/11

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (H. Martin Moore) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:09:50 EDT

Will history record September 11, 2001 as a deadly aberration or, as with April 19, 1775, March 6, 1857 and October 29, 1929, the instigating event of a "Saeculum Crisis?"

Contributor: H. Martin Moore
Published: Sep 01, 2011