Tom Toles: January 2, 2011 - January 8, 2011
Doormat
*** Friday rant: We the little people While the Republicans are busy reading the Constitution out loud, they maybe should look up over their glasses to notice that the document has become the equivalent of a village charter that...
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Tom Toles
| January 7, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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Political spin
*** If wishes were horses The heroic sentiments of "we're here to serve the wishes of the people who elected us" announced by the incoming freshmen legislators would be a lot more palatable if anyone had any confidence that...
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| January 6, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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Pick your poison
*** Boom Bust The Boomers are starting to reach Medicare age! Another excuse to write about them, and another headache from having to read about them. As a Boomer myself, let me state my considered opinion that, as an...
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| January 5, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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Congress, Economy and jobs
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Tear-jerker
*** Too late dumb People tend to think of themselves as the smart things in the world. The people are smart and the animals are dumb. The plants are dumb, but the people are smart. That's why we get...
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| January 4, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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Drop-in clinic
*** Final shark jump Looking back in time just a little ways reveals that the biggest thing ever to have Jumped the Shark is the United States. What was the exact moment? I would say 1998, when General Motors,...
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| January 3, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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Congress, Health care
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Maximum security
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| January 2, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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National Security
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