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I am very pleased by reports that Jeb Bush is about to toss his hat into the presidential ring. I certainly count myself as a big-time Jeb Bush fan; he is hyper-smart, hyper-serious and conscientious, very interested in policy, determined and proven to be a very good manager and leader who is not afraid to …
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Apparently, you can't be a little Floridian kid with a lemonade stand without some "grownup" reporting you to state government officials. You'd think that people would have better things to do than to hassle children, but alas, that just doesn't seem to be the case.The good news is that "[s]heriff's deputies have declined" to shut …
So there was a special election this past Tuesday for a House seat in Florida. The Republican, David Jolly, won, and by all accounts, he won because he was able to make Obamacare an issue. And Democrats don't have any idea what to think (let alone, do) about it: Democrats can’t even agree whether Obamacare was …
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I understand that Rachel Maddow is interested in blaming the Koch BrothersTM for just about every bad thing that happens on this planet, and on multiple others. But when the connection between the Kochs and A Bad Thing is "tenuous" at best, and when the connection may not exist at all, MSNBC should probably pass …
While I did not spend all that much time paying attention to the Trayvon Martin murder case, I was utterly unsurprised when the jury found George Zimmerman not guilty on all counts. Indeed, it amazes me that anyone was actually surprised or shocked by the verdict. After all, the prosecution put on a terrible case.
Pejman Yousefzadeh 