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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
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Sunday, 23 September 2012
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Lancaster, PA, USA. It is our flawed presidential electoral system and not us that inhibits solution of our most vexing political, economic, foreign and social challenges.
In this most contentious election year, one proposition looms not at all contentious: few disagree that America faces a host of imposing challenges — both foreign and domestic.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Wednesday, 12 September 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. Let’s say it clearly. The Democrats had a good convention, one clearly reflected in a respectable post-convention bounce — the Republicans, not so much.
Not that the GOP had a really bad or a dreadful convention. In truth, it had its moments. As conventions go, however, mediocre would describe it best. It wasn’t the worst and certainly wasn’t the best.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 26 August 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. The endless campaign, also known as the 2012 American presidential election, isn’t quite ending yet. But as Churchill might have put it, we have at least reached the beginning of the end.
With less than 90 days until Election Day, the party conventions are almost upon us and the fall debates not far behind.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Thursday, 23 August 2012 Fairfax, VA, USA. Summers come, summers go, but the summer reading list is forever and I recline on the edge of somnolence, roused by our books waiting to be shelved or boxed away.
This is a partial list of my summer reading. It doesn’t include a dozen or more e-books I have read or any book I may have re-read. It doesn’t even include every non-e-book I have started and finished.
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 Rev. Cathryn Platine Tuesday, 21 August 2012 Palenville, NY, USA. In his decision that went against the Maetreum of Cybele, Judge Platkin of the Albany Supreme Court of New York used some absolutely astounding logic.
Apparently, and actually against established caselaw, providing “affordable housing” for women who otherwise would probably be homeless or escaping abusive living situations is not charitable.
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 29 July 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. It’s known as Ockham’s razor. Attributed to 14th-century philosopher William of Ockham (c. 1288–1348), it advocates seeking the simplest explanation necessary to make sense of things. The popular acronym KISS captures its spirit — keep it simple stupid.
Alas, Ockham’s adage finds few takers today among contemporary electoral analysts. Amid the pundit literati predicting presidential elections, the slogan might be, seek complexity, lots of it.
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Wednesday, 18 July 2012 |
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Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 15 July 2012 |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Monday, 09 July 2012 Washington, DC, USA. I have never been an Obama Fanatic, nor was I a diehard true believer of any other recent president with the possible exception of Jack Kennedy when I was 12.
It should be blindingly obvious that I was never a diehard true believer of W, Bubba, Senior, or Dutch, or any president for that matter. By the end of Jimmy C's third year, I knew he was a goner. My only hope was that he didn't take the country with him.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 04 July 2012 Washington, DC, USA. I sing today of the thirteen united STATES OF AMERICA who held certain truths to be SELF-EVIDENT in UNANIMOUS DECLARATION.
We the People of the United States do mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 17 June 2012 Fairfax, VA, USA. I await the clown car with my daily hate mail once transgender activists get hold of my central point and can't resist asking their typical clown questions.
But to get started on this, we need to review my Sicilian heritage. Yes, that is what I just said. Bear with me on this.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Tuesday, 12 June 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. None of the most watched economic barometers has much value in predicting who will win the presidential election. Only the stock market really matters.
Forget the jobs numbers. They aren’t that important. Even economic growth is secondary. Gas prices provide a mere distraction, and inflation hardly matters at all.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 03 June 2012 Fairfax, VA, USA. Surely you have been tempted by the call of a Bucket List. Perhaps you even made one for yourself, despite the fear it will become the proverbial bucket of spit.
They are the contemporary Cat’s Meow. So why not make one? I can be as truly intellectual as the next person, up to the challenge, consumed with thoughts about my impending mortality.
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Lisa Jain Thompson Monday, 28 May 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Thursday, 24 May 2012 |
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Francesca Tronetti Wednesday, 18 April 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 15 April 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Thursday, 05 April 2012 |
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Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 25 March 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Thursday, 22 March 2012 |
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TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 21 March 2012 |
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Maggie Fox Tuesday, 20 March 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 11 March 2012 |
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