January, 2009

What Should Obama’s Priorities Be?

Well, the time is fast approaching. Barack Obama will be inaugurated as a Democratic President with a Democratic Congress. It is a time of great excitement for us all. But…

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CommonSense2 January 2009

Our job is to compel Obama to achieve the greatness of an FDR by making him do it.

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Quotes To Ponder

Quotes to ponder on a rainy day.



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The Quiet Rider

The horseman always among us.



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Fox Among the Geese

Ask Marilyn Fox if she’s a political artist, and you’ll get an answer that’s not especially straightforward. Politics of different sorts influence many aspects of our lives, she says. There may be less-than-obvious political subtexts in some of her work.



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Solitaire

A new poem by the CommonSense 2 poetry editor.

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2009 — A NOT SO FRESH START

People Buying More Booze as Economy Sours.



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Now Boarding for Victory 2009

“I believe that a universal health care system embodied by a single risk pool, financed equitably by taxes, with care delivered privately, in which true competition on the basis of quality, driven by total choice of your health care providers (doctors, hospitals…) is the best and only hope for achieving universal health care.” Mark Leno, California state senate, district 3.

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One Leg Raised on the Bush-Cheney Legacy

The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats in the 2008 election and the nation’s repudiation of Republican policies.



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Stop Giving the Right Wing Nuts Credibility and a Place at the Table

Obama wants everything to be inclusive, but it is not acceptable to bring bigots and those who incite hate to the table.

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