Category Archives: Politics

“You see, you are the wrong kind of immigrant.”

Posted on 18 July, 2013 by jb

Clive Crook writes for Bloomberg View, the most recent in a long line of journalistic endeavours (The Economist, where I – unknowingly, no bylines at The Economist – started following him, FT’s Washington correspondent and The Atlantic) He mostly writes … Continue reading →

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My Last Column About the Presidential Election (Really)

Posted on 6 November, 2012 by jb

President Obama’s fairly grim, toothless, meandering and perfunctory presidency gained excellent contrast from an assemblage of GOP candidates so demented and corrupt that even to so describe them would be an insult to the many hard-working demented and corrupt politicians … Continue reading →

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You would be joking….

Posted on 6 November, 2012 by jb

If Nate Silver at the New York Times FiveThirtyEight (the number of electoral college votes) blog is accurate, I won’t be unhappy. What concerns me more is the effect that the first presidential debate had on voters – Obama drop … Continue reading →

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Romnesia

Posted on 27 October, 2012 by jb

“Romney actually claims he will lower taxes for everyone. At the same time he will increase defense spending, not cut Medicare or Social Security, keep most of Obamacare (while simultaneously repealing it) and somehow in the end he will decrease … Continue reading →

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Mitt Romney’s 12 million new $433,333 jobs

Posted on 21 October, 2012 by jb

Let’s take Mitt Romney at his word, and see how the numbers he cited during Wednesday night’s debate add up. We can begin with a pop quiz in Presidential arithmetic: If you have a $1.3 trillion annual deficit, and you are … Continue reading →

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Precisely

Posted on 19 October, 2012 by jb
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Samuel Jackson says it best

Posted on 30 September, 2012 by jb
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Couldn’t have said it better myself

Posted on 5 September, 2012 by jb
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Political discourse

Posted on 27 August, 2012 by jb
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I blame the Industrial Revolution

Posted on 24 August, 2012 by jb

Either that or globalization. Probably a combination of both. Let’s go back to the 19th century. Unskilled folk left school at an early age and worked 7 days a week (6 with a Sundays off for church if they were … Continue reading →

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