Latest Blog Posts for My Humble Opinion

• My Humble Opinion to Resume Shortly
  on Feb 9, 2011
  My regular readers may have noticed that this is my first post of 2011.  I was not on a news fast or in a deep depression brought about as a result of the midterms. I have been going through a personal family crisis. I hope to resume again soon.
• When Palin Attacks: Why the Jabs at Michelle Obama?
  on Dec 21, 2010
  Lately, I’ve been trying to figure Sarah Palin out.  I’m not confused about my feelings about her - I hate her with the intensity of a thousand white-hot suns.  What I can’t figure out if she is simply mean-spirited, just plain stupid...
• The London Tuition Riots, Austerity Programs and the Call to Sacrifice
  on Dec 11, 2010
  Many people are just reading and hearing about demonstrations by student protesters in England some of which, regrettably, turned violent.  The violence and pandemonium even went as far as to threaten Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as they...
• The Bush Tax Cut Raw Deal: Who is to Blame?
  on Dec 9, 2010
  Well, it’s the consensus of most pundits that despite the fact that the House Democratic caucus has rejected the Obama/McConnell tax package, the damnable deal President Obama made with congressional Republicans is all but assured to – in some fo...
• Remembering John Lennon
  on Dec 7, 2010
  December 8, 1980 marks the 30th year anniversary of the murder of ex-Beatle John Lennon.  I can remember in all too vivid detail when I found about the murder of Lennon.  My older sister, who was visiting some friends of hers, called the ho...
• Unemployment Benefits Fade Away – The Unemployed Don’t
  on Dec 1, 2010
  “Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”  A Christmas Carol ~ Charles DickensLast night the Senate again failed to advance a bill that would...
• How Republican Intransigence is Helping to Spread the Haitian Cholera Outbreak
  on Nov 24, 2010
  Back in October of this year I wrote about how Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) had utilized an anonymous secret hold to deny $1.15 billion in reconstruction aid to Haiti following the 2010 Haitian earthquake there.  I wrote that the reason given for t...
• TSA Scanners, Terrorist Victories and Protecting the Homeland
  on Nov 22, 2010
  Well the reviews are in this holiday season:  The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) new full body scanner and touchy feely screening techniques are a flop.  The stories below are just a small sampling of the reports that are...
• Barack Obama’s Charlie Brown Syndrome
  on Nov 18, 2010
  President Obama is probably on the order of at least a hundred times smarter than the guy writing this post.  He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, edited...
• One Progressive’s Beef with the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart
  on Nov 7, 2010
  I’m a frequent visitor to quite a few progressive blogs and online newspapers as well as a visitor to a few conservative blogs and online newspapers.  (I love messing with the minds of those on the right-wing blogs by dropping off a few facts)...

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