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PUBLIC SERVANT: a person who holds appointed or elected office

October 25, 2010

Well, here we are just about a week away from the mid-term elections.  I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it with sleazy TV political ads, cruel and questionable cross-charges by candidates, and inept people masquerading as legitimate candidates for public office.   I’m embarrassed that people from around the world are looking at what [...]

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FREE TRADE: a system of trade policy that allows traders to act and or transact without interference from government.

October 1, 2010

We hear a lot of talk in the political sphere about the issue of free trade.  The references may be frequent, but the explanations are infrequent.  It is clear in listening to a number of the political voices that the explanations may be absent because the candidate has no idea what the term means.  Free Trade, [...]

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SATIRE: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

September 25, 2010

Satire is a dangerous form of humor.  Whether employed in stand-up comedy, writing, or drama, satire requires something that other genres of expression don’t:  the person experiencing satire must be capable of understanding it and have an appreciation for it. Some might say that the appreciation for satire is an acquired taste.  Some people need [...]

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CANDID: frank; outspoken; open and sincere

September 8, 2010

CAUTION: some of you have told me that you don’t like reading my politically-sensitive posts. This is one of them.  If you are serious, you may want to look away and come back tomorrow. I’m frustrated. I’ve been fooling around with political comments inserted into other posts over the past several weeks without coming out and [...]

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DEFERENCE: respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another

August 29, 2010

There are some who would identify deference as a weakness.  In an age and society in which getting ahead at any cost prevails, the idea of acknowledging the superiority of another can be seen as a sign of inferiority.  Those who strive for the top of the pile might subscribe to the theory that one [...]

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CITIZENSHIP: a 14th Amendment battle emerges

August 9, 2010

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides citizenship for any baby born in the United States.  As the media has clarified over the past week or so, the Amendment came about after the Civil War to allow for the citizenship of babies born to those who had been brought to this country as slaves.  [...]

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BONDAGE: subjected to a powerful authority

July 12, 2010

Just when we thought the U.S. Congress was on the verge of passing a somewhat-bipartisan bill limiting the banking industry, it appears that the banking lobby has exerted its pressure on needed Members.  The banking lobby having spent millions of dollars to fight this proposed regulation bill, several Republicans and a few Democrats who were [...]

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CONGRESS: another way of looking at it

March 18, 2010

One of the definitions for the word congress is “to assemble together; meet in congress.” Note that it doesn’t say “holding a meeting.” In this definition meet is not a noun; it is a verb: meeting, as in people finding themselves at the same place at the same time. So…this meaning of congress is something [...]

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RECONCILIATION: the act of bringing resolution to a debated issue

March 5, 2010

Reaching across a great divide is not a bad image to accompany this blog posting.  It more than adequately represents the phenomenon of reconciliation as we experience it now in Congress.  In order for Congress to accomplish the act of legislating health care reform it is necessary for Members to come to a common agreement.    [...]

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