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The Angry Base

By Mike Burns

I had the privilege of attending a local Democratic club meeting last night. I say privilege because open political debate is one of those perks that come from living in a free society that most of us tend to take for granted. As Americans, we really should participate more in these types of things.... »

Russian Style Prison Medicine Coming to America

By Mike Burns

I would think that anybody who was going to be scared would already be hiding under their beds. »

Inhofe’s Litany Of Lies

By Mike Burns

United States Senator Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma addressed a town hall yesterday and decided to leave his sense of decency and his responsibility to the truth at home. According to Inhofe, President Obama is disarming the military, is destroying everything good about America and is determined to turn foreign terrorists loose on United States... »

Grassley Calls Obama Dishonest

By Mike Burns

Senator Grassley who has been stringing the Democrats along for months in the health care debate has been spending his August recess doing everything he can to derail the entire process. First he tells his constituents that they should “be afraid” of the Democratic plan and that it would “pull the plug on grandma”.... »

Republicans Give Up On Hispanic Vote

By Mike Burns

I have heard many in the news media refer to the Supreme Court hearings on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination as boring and having very little real news value. Chris Mathews and Peggy Noonen even complained that she was “over coached” and stiff. A boring and uneventful nomination hearing was exactly what the President wanted for... »

Sonia Sotomayor: The Senators Own The Stage

By Mike Burns

As I watched the Supreme Court hearings the last couple of days, I was surprised but not shocked that the Republican Senators were being so tough on Sonia Sotmayor. It seemed, at first, to be completely counterproductive for the Republicans to continually repeat the same attacks over and over again with no expectation of... »

Diversity is Better

By Mike Burns

Setting aside the political and social conventions of the day, one could argue that having a Latino woman or an African American man as a representative at the constitutional convention would have produced a “better” result that included all Americans in the democratic system instead of institutionalizing the exclusion of some. One could argue... »