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A Few Thoughts On Health Carenew
Let's face it. National health care is no more socialist than say your local elementary school is socialist. Or for that matter no more socialist than our streets, highways, bridges, post offices, sewers or hydroelectric damns are socialist.
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James Preston Allen |
07-05-2009 |
Commentary
Hate, Taxes and the Expectation of Changenew
This country is not as tolerant nor sophisticated or civilized as we like to believe and yet we criticize other countries for their extremists.
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James Preston Allen |
07-05-2009 |
Policy Issues
A Historic Stalemate Results in a Revolving Door of Crisis in Californianew
California's Democrats and the Republicans can't seem to get their minds around the solutions of paying for a state that dwarfs the economies of all but six countries in the world and that is the most populous state in the union. A new path is necessary.
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James Preston Allen |
05-22-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: California, recession
The $100 Billion Curenew
There are constant cries that the sky is falling, such as the state going bankrupt due to an $8 billion budget deficit, or that the City of Angels will go bankrupt without an increase in parking meter rates by three quarters. The penchant for panic is almost reflexive, but panic doesn’t elicit great decisions.
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James Preston Allen |
05-11-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: corporate taxes, recession
Who Robbed the Bank?new
Bank robbery isn't quite what it used to be. The average modern-day stickup artist only gets away with paltry $12,000 or less and it's a federal crime to boot. Fifteen to 20 years is a long time to spend in a penitentiary for that kind of money. What's annoying is that the really, really big bank robbers are getting off scot-free.
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James Preston Allen |
04-20-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: financial crisis
Will All Newspapers Die?new
There has been a great deal of hand-wringing lately over the state of our nation's newspapers, with the forecast that "print journalism is dead." The reality is that the decline of mainstream newspapers was foretold a long time ago.
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James Preston Allen |
04-04-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: newspaper industry, recession
Silence of the Cranes: The Sound of Recessionnew
It is not every day that you can walk out on the streets of this bustling port town and comment on how quiet it is. Enough so that in the middle of the Port of Los Angeles' executive meeting this week, the silence of the cranes slipped into the room and begged the obvious question, "Is this the sound of the great recession of 2009?"
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James Preston Allen |
03-25-2009 |
Economy
Tags: Port of Los Angeles, recession
Crisis, Corruptions and Incompetencenew
No matter which way government tries to solve its budget deficit spending these days, they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
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James Preston Allen |
03-21-2009 |
Commentary
A WPA Kind of Solutionnew
Waking up from this nightmare to hear President-elect Obama mention a "WPA solution" or that he's been reading about the FDR transition from Hoover is the sign of intelligent life returning to the Oval Office.
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James Preston Allen |
11-28-2008 |
Commentary
American Memoriesnew
The political divide of red states versus blue -- a division coinciding with the separation of North and South with the exceptions of Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia -- has me thinking.
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James Preston Allen |
11-14-2008 |
Commentary
Not Swayed By Fearnew
This election promises to be one of those "bell weather" events that happen once in a generation, shifting the entire political psychology. It will be what Thomas Jefferson prophesied that every twenty years a democracy needs to have a revolution -- preferably without blood shed–ballots not bullets.
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James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Mudslinging Socialismnew
Obama has also been slandered with the "socialist" moniker for wanting to reform national health care, fund education and reinvest in our nation's infrastructure -- all very socialist ideas according to McPalin.
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James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
The New Socialism and the End of a Free Market Mythnew
This is perhaps the final crisis, in a line of crises, of the Bush/Cheney administration, which at best, has been a sour lesson to us all in "failed crisis management." The root of all of this stupidity is their fundamentalist belief that less government is better government.
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James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Two Gifts From the CIA
Langley feels the holiday spirit with two gifts to the White House ... the NIE and the erased torture videos!
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James Preston Allen |
01-16-2008 |
Commentary
Why California Matters
The importance of the union's 2nd-largest state should not be underestimated in the Presidential race. Super Tuesday may hold the key to who will be the White House's next occupant.
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James Preston Allen |
01-16-2008 |
Commentary
