- @CoachBug24 "6 points of identification" is a term I've now learned. SIX.
- @KristinaRina502 aint our bureaucracy grand?
- RT @KristinaRina502: @TheReidReport My daughter lost her DL & SS card. Now it's a Catch-22 because she needs 1 for the other or another pho…
- Yeesh "@BostonGlobe: Gabriel Gomez calls Edward Markey "pond scum." http://t.co/fiIUSZyfcD #mapoli #masen #bospoli"
- @GOAT78 and the @NRA wants to make sure abusive dads/spouses get to keep their gun permits, too. Good times.
- RT @GOAT78: @TheReidReport dead beat dads lose their license to drive if they dont pay child support. I bet they get to keep their gun per…
- @Rant86 and you have to practically supply a pint of blood to get one.
- @CarleneMarie_1 oh I've been there. FL is the WORST. My kids had to show birth certificates every year to play soccer in the SAME LEAGUE.
- @stevenwiener indeed, perhaps if I asked for an AR15 instead of a drivers license I'd be out of here before I go grey...
- RT @stevenwiener: @TheReidReport yes but in our great country you can go to a gun show and walk out w/assault rifle so easily. #sarcastic
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Category Archives: People
This week’s Herald column: Investigate the IRS? Sure! Let’s start with the Bush years
I agree with those on the right who want to investigate the IRS for abuse of Americans when it comes to how it treats tax exempt status for organizations. So … can we start with what the Bush-era IRS did to the NAACP…??? Continue reading
Ladies and gentlemen, the totally non-partisan, apolitical tea party …
Were they right to use an algorithm to target people with “tea party” in their name? No. But did they have a legitimate reason to wonder whether the sudden upsurge in “tea party” 501(c)4s seemed suspicious, so maybe they should make sure there was no fraud going on? Yes. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Tea Party Movement
Tagged IRS, partisanship, Politics, Republicans, tea party
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This week’s Herald column: New America held hostage, by Old America
They aren’t going to secede …
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Right Wingers, Tea Party Movement
Tagged conservatism, Conservatives, New America, Old America, Right wingers, tea party, the radical right, the right
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Profiles in cowardice? Or, why can’t we have gun reform? (Includes Gabby Giffords’ column and mine)
In the wake of the failed vote to break a GOP filibuster on gun reform on Wednesday, a lot of people are feeling depressed, but even more are getting angry (including President Obama.) on that score, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords’ … Continue reading
Posted in 113th Congress, Gabrielle Giffords, Guns, News and Current Affairs, Politics
Tagged Gabby Giffords, gun control, gun reform, NRA, U.S. Senate
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Watch: Bill Maher’s epic takedown of Ryan/Rand-style Libertarianism
… Rand Paul and Paul Ryan, “intellectually stuck in their teen years,” quoting from a poorly-written book “that’s never been read all the way through by anyone with a girlfriend…” Genius.
Posted in Paul Ryan, Politics, Rand Paul
Tagged Bill Maher, Libertarianism, Libertarians, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul
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This week’s Herald column: Charlie Crist or bust?
Cartoon from the Crowley Political Report This week’s column tackles the political reality that some Florida Democrats would rather not face…
Posted in Charlie Crist, Elections, Florida, Gollum is Governor, News and Current Affairs, Politics, Rick Scott
Tagged 2014, 2014 elections, Charlie Crist, Florida, governor, Rick Scott
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A soldier’s dying letter to the men who killed him
“…We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned….”
Posted in Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Iraq, News and Current Affairs, Politics, President George W. Bush
Tagged Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, George Bush, Iraq, Iraq war
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This week’s Herald column: Jeb makes his move on Rubio
Aside from the rumors of Jeb’s eye-rolling response to Time’s Rubio Jesus “savior” cover, I spied signs that Jeb has had enough of watching his protege bask in the 2016 preview glow. His book drop was awkward, to be sure, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Immigration, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, News and Current Affairs, Politics
Tagged Immigration, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio
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