Bird’s-Eye View

The kinda evening for a mug of coffee, no? New snow’s on the ground, feels like Canada’s Northwest Territories out there, kids off from school. Fire up the brewmaster!
Hold onto your WiFi, there are some veddy veddy entertaining interesting debates going on in Harrisburg to start the week off:

If you think state lawmakers earn too much […]

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Heard the one about how Barack Obama misleads the public about a position staked out by John McCain?
You don’t often hear the question above because the McCain campaign has shredded and diced Obama’s tax position so badly people really do believe the Democrat’s going to raise everyone’s taxes (not so).
But in the Spanish-language ad down […]

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Anything, anything, about the economy beyond the simple message about lower taxes. The Bush tax cuts have been in place since 2001 and 2003, and yet here the economy is with higher than 6 percent unemployment, a weak U.S. dollar and a housing crisis. Why would continuing the Bush tax cuts and giving middle- and […]

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SCRANTON - Barack Obama’s holding another town hall meeting, this time in Scranton at the Dunmore Community Recreation Center.
Caught this as soon as I logged onto the Internet, from CNN.com:
A key Hillary Clinton supporter appeared to be a bit off message during a recent interview with a Canadian radio station.
“If I had to make […]

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