Bruce Merrill (Cronkite Pollster) Speaks Out

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 3:56 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 15:56

Professor Emeritus Bruce Merrill, from the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, gave a wide-ranging commentary about the looming American watershed to the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix this past Sunday, 2 November, 2008. What follows are my recollections, grouped under several broad topics.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 1:44 PM PDT

2008/10/02 · 13:44

It seems like Sarah and Todd Palin are willing to take the health care that unions provide their members, while subscribing to an anti-union, anti health care, anti-America agenda.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 11:56 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 11:56

It occurs to me that when confronted with a problem and the desire to construct a solution, that one needs to have a firm grip on the real nature of the problem. So join me in the hunt.

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 2:36 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 14:36

Now that the Bush Fat Cat Bailout has failed, we need to re-examine the needs of the financial situation and what should be done.

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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 11:18 PM PDT

2008/05/17 · 23:18

Several hours ago I happened upon C-Span's broadcast of the 35th anniversary of the Watergate break in. I was struck by Krogh's phrase "Reposing special trust in your integrity".

Nixon's lack of ethics and Watergate, multiplied by ten leads to Reagan and Iran-Contra, which multiplied by ten leads to Bush and Abu-Graib.

Now join me below the break for an interesting journey among the lesser characters of a forgotten era.

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Thursday April 10, 2008 · 9:44 AM PDT

2008/04/10 · 09:44

Running through my email, I encountered the latest desperate plea from Senator Clinton concerning Pennsylvania.

She definitely is struggling to keep a meager win in place.

My response below the fold.

drdave

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Friday November 02, 2007 · 10:34 PM PDT

2007/11/02 · 22:34

I just received an email asking for money, from the DCCC. So I logged on to their website to tell them what I told their phone flacks: "e... s...".

Then I checked their blog. They are taking serious flack. See the crap below the fold.

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Saturday December 23, 2006 · 9:39 PM PST

2006/12/23 · 21:39

The current New York Times Editorial entitled "A Real-World Army" calls for

President Bush publicly acknowledging the need to increase the size of the overstretched Army and Marine Corps.

Larger ground forces are an absolute necessity for the sort of battles America is likely to fight during the coming decades: extended clashes with ground-based insurgents rather than high-tech shootouts with rival superpowers.

This is Mainstream Pigheaded stupidity.

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 8:41 AM PST

2006/11/17 · 08:41

Charles Rangel, successor to Adam Clayton Powell, will be the new chairman of the House Ways and Means committee.

He eloquently skewers both the anti-health care crowd and the reporter.

Here are his comments. Read More

AZ-05: Arizona Republic Endorses Harry Mitchell

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Friday October 27, 2006 · 7:45 AM PDT

2006/10/27 · 07:45

In the headline of today's (October 27, 2006) lead editorial, the Arizona Republic says "Mitchell Over the Bully".

The biggest problem in Congress is extreme partisanship, and Rep. J. D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., is among Capital Hill's worst offenders.

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Thursday September 21, 2006 · 9:29 AM PDT

2006/09/21 · 09:29

Last night Br Barnett posted The reality of Iran's contested quasi-entry into the Core.

The argument is that Iran, looking at the mess in Iraq, listening to its trading partners in the Old Core (Germany, France) and its trading partners in the New Core (Russia, India, China), has decided that it will get what it wants in the nuclear arena.

You want your "global test" for the use of U.S. military power?
Well, it's here on Iran. It's here on Iran because on how we screwed the postwar pooch in Iraq.
You mess up as the world's policeman and you get put on probation for a while.

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Wednesday September 20, 2006 · 4:49 PM PDT

2006/09/20 · 16:49

The lead editorial in Nature vol 443 p 121 discloses another instance of the arrogant power grab by the Bush Administration.

...the Bush administration has reversed two decades of precedent and declared that important whistleblower protections in the Clean Water Act do not apply to federal workers.

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Rangel - Universal Health Care is Pro Business

AZ-05: Arizona Republic Endorses Harry Mitchell

"We screwed the postwar pooch in Iraq"

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