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‘Pottery barn rule’ revised

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 1, 20111 Comment

    Observe now the touting of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels for president.     Many who can’t find the Muscatatuck River on a map will wonder. Mitch who? But Daniels is no nobody. As a poly-sci entity, he is much known. He was George W. Bush’s first budget director in Washington.      As president,…

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One Mississippi, two Mississippi . . .

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 24, 2011Leave a comment

    You’ve got to respect Marva Beck’s religion, in a quaint, Lake Wobegon way.     The newly elected Republican has come to Austin with this belief to express: Texas government, “too big.”      Understand where she’s coming from. To one from Centerville, almost anything of a Texas-size dimension would be a humongous.      But…

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The family that Skypes together

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 23, 2011Leave a comment

    Almost 30 years ago I came to appreciate an adage about friends that guides me still: Distance can’t sever that which “want-to” holds intact.      Back then, a childhood pal had followed his muse to Japan, making it his home. The end of our friendship? Hardly.    Just as we had done when…

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From reality TV to the White House

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 15, 20111 Comment

     History calls on Rob Dyrdek.      A nation awaits word. Run for president, Rob. Run as a Republican. You have what it takes.      Mainly, and most importantly, you have a reality television show. Make that two. That makes you doubly qualified.      One could not help but think of…

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It’s anti-choice, and anti-American

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 8, 2011Leave a comment

  A. Baseball. Hot dogs. Motherhood. Birth control pills.     Q. Name four things that are as American as apple pie.     Anyone who would exclude any of the items above is living deep, deep in another century.     Someone, please, ask the Republican Party in which century it intends for us to…

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Justice comes to the party

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 2, 2011Leave a comment

      Now, isn’t that special? Rep. Michelle Bachmann held a Capitol Hill soiree the other day. And who showed up to speak but Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.       We can only imagine what Justice Scalia had to say to members of the House Tea Party Caucus at the “constitutional education class"…

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Of, by and for 26 percent of the people

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 26, 2011Leave a comment

   Shades of 1965: white fright on a Southern roadside.    I wonder how many Texans drive by the billboard along Interstate 35 and remember another billboard long ago targeting Martin Luther King Jr.    The one that stands these days just south of Waco bears a menacing black-and-white photo of Barack Obama, and the…

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A snow day, a lesson in class size

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 19, 20111 Comment

    It’s not the dollar-driven cottage industry that denying evidence about global warming has become, but stay tuned.     With budget savings in view, the full-court press is on in state legislatures to deny that smaller class sizes help students do better.     Tight state budgets are forcing the “science,” the rationalizing of larger…

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Folk heroes of the crosshairs set

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 11, 2011Leave a comment

    The e-mail seemed frantic, even for these people.    “Assassin is liberal.” So pronounced Bear Witness, a group that calls itself a proud member of the Tea Party Network, in an e-mail to the press. It pointed out that an ex-classmate said the man with the gun in Tucson was left-leaning.    And, look:…

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If the policy maker were a linebacker

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 4, 2011Leave a comment

   The scandal shook a state to its boots — payoffs, lies, conspiracy, all involving people who, said one observer, “convinced themselves the rules didn’t apply to them.” Ah, but the scoundrels got caught.     That would teach a football program to test the NCAA.     That black mark on human history was…

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