This debate will focus on some of the misconceptions about a president elevated nearly to the level of icon. Our debate will focus on those misconceptions. I will argue the affirmative---that Ronald Reagan was a really bad president, popular belief notwithstanding.

This will be the topic of our next debate, Saturday, February 19, between Chris Spangle and me. I will take the affirmative. The debate should be on the site in the afternoon. I am new to this tecnology thing. My Freshman year at DePauw, the school's computer (singlular) filled a room I recall as being about 20' by 20'. SO I am late to this process.

The debate should be spirited. The point of the debates is to discuss matters in civil fashion but with disagreement; without…

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Budgetary matters

We have before the Congress a budget proposed by President Obama that makes few people happy. There is general consensus that we should cut spending. There is no such consensus about raising taxes. The Republicans want to preserve tax cuts for the rich. Some in the Democratic Party are willing to preserve those tax cuts.

So, like people everywhere who try to balance their checkbooks, let us see what we could do to right these matters.

1. Cut…

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Why this blog? Why this show?

"I’m mad as hell. And I’m not going to take it anymore!"

 

In Paddy Chayevsky’s 1976 movie "Network," news anchor Howard Beale breaks down on the air, calls for his viewer audience to get up, toss open a window, and yell, "I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore." join him in an expression of general anger with society, the world,…

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I will post in the morning about the rally today. Just got back. Initially I would estimate at least 200,000 people in attendance. I attended a rally on the Mall on July 4, 1976, attendance for which was estimate at 60,000. By 11:44 the crowd was at least twice the size of the crowd as I remember it that day nearly 35 years ago. People still were arriving today. The crowd was far bigger by 12:30.