RAUCOUS CAUCUS Mike and Dianne and Bernie and Rand At long last, we’ve found an issue that can unite House Republican leader Mike Rogers with our own Senate stalwart Dianne Feinstein, as well as libertarian Sen. Rand Paul and ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Jun 10, 2013 at 2:32 pm There have been 14 comments on this topic, the most recent 9 hours ago.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Three Speeches in One Contrary to press reports, The President gave three foreign policy speeches last week. Granted, they were integrated into one appearance before the National Defense Universit... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on May 29, 2013 at 8:41 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jun 13, 2013 at 9:10 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Serve AND Protect? That popular slogan reflects what citizens expect from their government: protection from harm and service to the common good. It appears on crests and cop cars across the lan... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on May 22, 2013 at 1:42 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 29, 2013 at 7:50 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Syria: Several Options, all of them Lousy Humanitarian crises tug at the heartstrings. The pennies-a-day campaigns of CARE have been working on TV since Lassie was a pup. ASPCA cranks up the Sara MacLachlan songs on... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on May 14, 2013 at 7:02 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 27, 2013 at 8:32 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Respect your food, and know from whence it came If you knew that other animals experience ‘human’ emotions, and that they act with what we call moral sense, would that knowledge change your view of how they ought to be trea... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on May 2, 2013 at 7:05 pm There have been 23 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 23, 2013 at 10:13 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS What have we learned (so far) from Boston? The nation can now catch its collective breath, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and speedy, live capture of at least one perp. We’ll now enter a much longer a... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Apr 22, 2013 at 11:48 am There have been 10 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 29, 2013 at 9:15 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Sustainability 2: Green Tyranny? According to one popular philosopher, “Life moves pretty fast.” But has the world really gone from ‘Silent Spring’ to ‘Green Tyranny’ in three generations? Some folks would ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Apr 18, 2013 at 6:27 pm There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 23, 2013 at 12:43 pm.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Sustainability 1: The Commons Picture in your mind’s eye a thriving medieval farm village. Each household owns its personal plot of land for tilling, and there’s a large common area – The Commons – on whi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Apr 4, 2013 at 12:35 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 10, 2013 at 8:51 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS The Supremes should play the Prop 8 case 'straight' The cause of gay rights is a generational thing. That is, if you�re over 60, your synapses may have ossified to the point where you can�t get past the unfamiliarity of ho... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Mar 27, 2013 at 6:28 pm There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 30, 2013 at 7:57 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Your Hopes for the Pope? “May God forgive you!” were the first words spoken by Pope Francis, to the conclave of Cardinals that had just elected him Pontiff. Although that may not have been any more t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Mar 23, 2013 at 10:30 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 29, 2013 at 4:14 pm.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Brill’s Pill, Distilled I’ve admired Steven Brill since our much shaggier days; his early, spot-on exposee of the Teamsters was an act of journalistic courage. He has recently faced an even more form... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Mar 15, 2013 at 6:26 pm
RAUCOUS CAUCUS W(h)ither Voting Rights? Human nature being competitive and ethically flexible, if voting was essential to the invention of democracy, could vote-rigging have been far behind? Nope. There is eviden... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Mar 5, 2013 at 11:56 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 7, 2013 at 12:56 pm.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS China’s Other Hobby News that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been seeking to liberate data from all manner of American computing systems has dominated the high-tech news this week. I’m... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Feb 21, 2013 at 5:03 pm
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Valentine’s week: spit and vinegar? Romantic that I am during this week devoted to love -- set between the birthday celebrations of our two greatest statesmen -- I was hoping for a thaw in the chilly conjugal re... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Feb 15, 2013 at 11:44 am
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Stats or Stories? "Human beings," a famous paleontologist once said, "are the primates who tell stories." Indeed, as we learn more about tool use and moral behavior as practiced by other specie... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Feb 5, 2013 at 3:32 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Feb 11, 2013 at 8:00 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS The Details: Devils or Angels? Last week, we learned that there is, indeed, now a fundamental right for individuals to keep and bear arms, supplied by the US Supreme Court in 2008 and 2010 (the precedents, ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Jan 31, 2013 at 9:19 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Feb 4, 2013 at 9:12 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Absolute, on the rocks Wow – and I’m referring not to the privately paid-for Inaugural gown, which was stunning enough, but did anyone happen to catch the actual Inaugural speech – especially since ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Jan 23, 2013 at 10:42 pm
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Mudbath, Redux? Well, I was all set to write something about Executive Orders, and how there have been almost 14,000 of them -- hoping to comfort the nervous and/or trigger-happy. Those Orde... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Jan 16, 2013 at 8:46 am
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Solving Medicare: Short and Long-term On the assumption, perhaps dubious, that sanity may prevail and the House will take the debt-ceiling hostage gun from its own head, let’s look forward to other matters. I jus... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Jan 9, 2013 at 11:34 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 11, 2013 at 8:24 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS 2012: The Year in Verse -- with apologies all around.
'Tis more or less New Year's, and all 'round the 'Ville,
You will now be subjected to bad dogger-el.
The year just completed we'll stumbl... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Jan 3, 2013 at 8:44 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 7, 2013 at 10:29 am.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Horrific Toll. Simple Truth. With the ancient Mayans now universally exposed as bad-at-math, it falls to me to write this week’s column. It will be brief, but heart-felt, and, I suspect, not uncontrovers... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Dec 21, 2012 at 2:58 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 2, 2013 at 3:27 pm.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS RC Holiday Bonus: Vote for the Best Fiscal Ciffhanger!
If you'll return with us now to the tales of yesterweek, you may recall that the Concord Coalition's game of Principles and Priorities invites players to resolve the Fiscal ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Dec 18, 2012 at 4:08 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 19, 2012 at 3:35 pm.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Food Stamps Food Fight As I wandered the web a few days ago, this dust-up between CNN correspondent Soledad O’Brien and Senator Jeff Sessions caught my ear: http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Dec 14, 2012 at 9:54 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jan 5, 2013 at 1:40 pm.
RAUCOUS CAUCUS Squaring the Pentagon I think we can all agree that the single most fundamental duty of government is to provide for the national defense, from which all else flows. It is a testament to the succe... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Tom Cushing, a resident of Danville, on Dec 7, 2012 at 5:22 pm
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