By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
The IRS is navel deep in trouble over its efforts to determine whether or not some right-wing political groups are, in fact, social service organizations. The howling has been long, loud and unnecessary. Personally, I don’t think any group should be tax exempt if it is in the business of furthering a political position.
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HEY, JESUS, YOU LAZY BUM – GET A JOB!
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
People who serve in the legislature, particularly those of a Republican persuasion, seldom rub shoulders with the poorest of the poor. It is the human condition that, if you haven’t experienced something or someone first hand, you cannot actually comprehend their reality. [Full Story »]
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People who serve in the legislature, particularly those of a Republican persuasion, seldom rub shoulders with the poorest of the poor. It is the human condition that, if you haven’t experienced something or someone first hand, you cannot actually comprehend their reality. [Full Story »]
THREE CHEERS FOR THE FOX NETWORK!
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
I am not a big fan of Fox News, but I’m on their side this week. James Rosen is the White House Bureau Chief for Fox News, and he is facing the possibility of prosecution because he worked a source and got information that, in the view of the Administration, compromised national security. To which I say, “Bully for James Rosen.”
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Community Columnist
I am not a big fan of Fox News, but I’m on their side this week. James Rosen is the White House Bureau Chief for Fox News, and he is facing the possibility of prosecution because he worked a source and got information that, in the view of the Administration, compromised national security. To which I say, “Bully for James Rosen.”
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THROWING IT AGAINST THE WALL
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
One gets the sense that the Republican Party is consumed by an exercise called Throw it Against the Wall to See What Sticks. The IRS’s apparent targeting of the Tea Party Movement looked like the most encouraging, in terms of doing mischief. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican you know that the power to tax is the power to destroy and while it’s “Patriot” this year, it could be “Progressive” next. [Full Story »]
Community Columnist
One gets the sense that the Republican Party is consumed by an exercise called Throw it Against the Wall to See What Sticks. The IRS’s apparent targeting of the Tea Party Movement looked like the most encouraging, in terms of doing mischief. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican you know that the power to tax is the power to destroy and while it’s “Patriot” this year, it could be “Progressive” next. [Full Story »]
JAN ROGERS' COL.
Surveying the dysfunctional mess that passes for our current system of government, a recent observation in an interview makes it all come clear. The speaker observed that those we elect today are more interested in politics than policy.
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MISSING THE FEAR FACTOR
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
President Obama and Governor Scott have something in common. Legislative bodies that refuse to go along confront them. The proposals may be different, but the intransigence is the same.
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Community Columnist
President Obama and Governor Scott have something in common. Legislative bodies that refuse to go along confront them. The proposals may be different, but the intransigence is the same.
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FIRE – READY – AIM!
I’ve spent part of my working life as a journalist and found it to be an exciting and fascinating occupation.
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AT THE INTERSECTION OF ANGER AND PRIDE
I have spent most of this past week at the intersection of Anger and Pride. It has been a week for conflicting emotions. Starting the week, anger, as the US Senate, that pompously calls itself the world’s greatest deliberative body, chose politics over principles and failed to even discuss, never mind deliberate, the merits of some simple gun control measures that would make these United States a saner, safer place.
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ALL THINGS ISLAMIC
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
Say Islam and squirrely things start to happen. That most people have no idea what Islam is about is beside the point. Very few non-Muslim Americans have actually read the Koran, fewer understand what they have read, fewer still, I’d guess, understand the relationship between Islam and Christianity and Judaism. But that doesn’t change the view of Islam held by many, including some members of the Tennessee and Florida legislatures, apparently. [Full Story »]
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Say Islam and squirrely things start to happen. That most people have no idea what Islam is about is beside the point. Very few non-Muslim Americans have actually read the Koran, fewer understand what they have read, fewer still, I’d guess, understand the relationship between Islam and Christianity and Judaism. But that doesn’t change the view of Islam held by many, including some members of the Tennessee and Florida legislatures, apparently. [Full Story »]
NO GUN CONTROL, PLEASE, WE'RE AMERICANS
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
I was in Stone’s recently and learned that you can’t buy .22 rat shot these days, never mind any other caliber. Current consideration of some minor efforts at gun control appears to have either curtailed the manufacture of ammunition or caused a run on the stuff that cannot satisfy demand. In either case this is going “fact-free” on a grand scale. [Full Story »]
Community Columnist
I was in Stone’s recently and learned that you can’t buy .22 rat shot these days, never mind any other caliber. Current consideration of some minor efforts at gun control appears to have either curtailed the manufacture of ammunition or caused a run on the stuff that cannot satisfy demand. In either case this is going “fact-free” on a grand scale. [Full Story »]
QUAINT AND POINTLESS
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
Gay Marriage has now retired behind those rose curtains at the United States Supreme Court. Nobody knows how the court will rule, and guessing is pointless. This coming summer we will know. But Same Sex Marriage will become legal regardless. The tide is running strongly in that direction and the rising generation, my grandchildren’s generation, couldn’t care less. [Full Story »]
Community Columnist
Gay Marriage has now retired behind those rose curtains at the United States Supreme Court. Nobody knows how the court will rule, and guessing is pointless. This coming summer we will know. But Same Sex Marriage will become legal regardless. The tide is running strongly in that direction and the rising generation, my grandchildren’s generation, couldn’t care less. [Full Story »]
FUNNY GIRLS
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
It’s not original with me to say that politics and showbiz are closely linked. How close the two are is brought home in Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Both began as overnight sensations and in both cases the act was new, novel and electrifying. In politics and showbiz, depending upon just how much substance there is, the act either endures or wears thin and the public tires of it. For both Palin and Bachmann the glow has definitely dimmed. [Full Story »]
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It’s not original with me to say that politics and showbiz are closely linked. How close the two are is brought home in Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Both began as overnight sensations and in both cases the act was new, novel and electrifying. In politics and showbiz, depending upon just how much substance there is, the act either endures or wears thin and the public tires of it. For both Palin and Bachmann the glow has definitely dimmed. [Full Story »]
SNIPPETS CONCERNING CURRENT EVENTS
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
As Emily Litella used to say on Saturday Night Live, “It’s always something!”
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As Emily Litella used to say on Saturday Night Live, “It’s always something!”
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CASTLE ELSINORE ON MONROE STREET
By Jan Rogers,
Community Columnist
Shakespeare wrote of politics and court intrigue and the intervening years have changed the nature of politics very little. “Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolutions sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.” [Full Story »]
Community Columnist
Shakespeare wrote of politics and court intrigue and the intervening years have changed the nature of politics very little. “Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolutions sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.” [Full Story »]
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