Bob Fertik's Blog
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by Bob Fertik
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December 15, 2012 - 8:20pm
by Harvey Wasserman
The Second Amendment does NOT guarantee the right of any and all citizens to own any and all kinds of guns.
It DEMANDS, in the name of national security, that we regulate it.
NEVER let assertions of the so-called "sanctity" of …more
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by Bob Fertik
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November 6, 2012 - 7:17pm
Nate Silver played a major - perhaps even decisive - role in the campaign. While pundits hyperventilated about each day's campaign trivia and zig-zagging national polls, Silver kept his eye on the prize - the Electoral College.
His models relied …more
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by Bob Fertik
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July 22, 2012 - 10:49am
Are you sickened - and terrified - by the billions that SuperPac Billionaires will spend to steal the 2012 election?
Are your favorite TV shows - even the Olympics - being ruined by these endless SuperPac ads?
Don't despair. We can fight back and …more
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by Bob Fertik
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September 28, 2011 - 12:21pm
I visited OccupyWallStreet yesterday to see what it's really like - as opposed to uninformed criticism from the left and right.
As a starting point for analysis, today's NYT article by Nicholas Kulish is useful in describing global alienation …more
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by Bob Fertik
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September 26, 2011 - 11:48am
Why are protesters occupying Wall Street? That's hard to answer, because it's a proudly leaderless movement, and process - real democracy in the form of General Assembly - comes before results. It's also hard to answer because the corporate media is …more
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by Bob Fertik
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August 18, 2011 - 1:48pm
As the global economy grinds to a halt, progressive "pundits" are driving me crazy by equating a Keynesian "stimulus" with jobs.
They are not the same thing.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a $787 billion "stimulus." It was …more
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