POLITICAL observations & opinions

POLITICAL observations & opinions http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:37:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png POLITICAL observations & opinions http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com * UPDATED 1/31/12 … Bevilacqua is ruled “competent to testify” … he is the one who should be held to account … he is the “enabler” who allowed his priests to ruin the lives of countless children http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/bevilacqua-is-ruled-competent-to-testify/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/bevilacqua-is-ruled-competent-to-testify/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:17 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5576 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/bevilacqua-is-ruled-competent-to-testify/feed/ 0 patandlewtravel Cardinal Bevilacqua * for the first time in six months, more people approve of the job the president is doing than disapprove … http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/for-the-first-time-in-six-months-more-people-approve-of-the-job-the-president-is-doing-than-disapprove/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/for-the-first-time-in-six-months-more-people-approve-of-the-job-the-president-is-doing-than-disapprove/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:34:50 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5587 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/for-the-first-time-in-six-months-more-people-approve-of-the-job-the-president-is-doing-than-disapprove/feed/ 2 patandlewtravel Obama & Republican presidential candidates * religious fundamentalists of all faiths … why can’t they define their relationships to their Gods without insisting that others share their views and practices? http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/religious-fundamentalists-of-all-faiths-why-cant-they-define-their-relationships-to-their-gods-without-insisting-that-others-share-their-views-and-practices/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/religious-fundamentalists-of-all-faiths-why-cant-they-define-their-relationships-to-their-gods-without-insisting-that-others-share-their-views-and-practices/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:34:26 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5569 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/religious-fundamentalists-of-all-faiths-why-cant-they-define-their-relationships-to-their-gods-without-insisting-that-others-share-their-views-and-practices/feed/ 1 patandlewtravel how religion lost the war * Bill Clinton has responsibility for setting the stage for our recent financial disaster (lower capital gains tax and repeal of Glass-Steagall) … He needs to admit he was wrong and apologize to the American people … If he does not, Clinton’s value as a campaigner for Obama will be severely compromised http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/bill-clinton-has-responsibility-for-setting-the-stage-for-our-recent-financial-disaster-he-needs-to-admit-he-was-wrong-and-apologize-to-the-american-people-if-he-does-not-clintons-value-as-a-c/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/bill-clinton-has-responsibility-for-setting-the-stage-for-our-recent-financial-disaster-he-needs-to-admit-he-was-wrong-and-apologize-to-the-american-people-if-he-does-not-clintons-value-as-a-c/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:46:08 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5562 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/bill-clinton-has-responsibility-for-setting-the-stage-for-our-recent-financial-disaster-he-needs-to-admit-he-was-wrong-and-apologize-to-the-american-people-if-he-does-not-clintons-value-as-a-c/feed/ 4 patandlewtravel Clinton & Obama * a well intentioned but over-reaching attack on the freedom of the internet … it behooves all of us to become informed on this issue … there must be a way to control internet piracy without strangling the benefits of free exchange which are the very hallmark of the internet http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/congresss-misguided-attack-on-the-freedom-of-the-internet/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/congresss-misguided-attack-on-the-freedom-of-the-internet/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:01:22 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5539 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/congresss-misguided-attack-on-the-freedom-of-the-internet/feed/ 0 patandlewtravel wikipedia & google logos * A World in Denial of What It Knows … Is it because there are legitimate differences of opinion, and the truth really wasn’t quite so obvious? … Or is it because people who choose not to know have an agenda which is served by not knowing? http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/a-world-in-denial-of-what-it-knows-is-it-because-there-are-legitimate-differences-of-opinion-and-the-truth-really-wasnt-quite-so-obvious-or-is-it-because-people-who-choose-not-to-know-ha/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/a-world-in-denial-of-what-it-knows-is-it-because-there-are-legitimate-differences-of-opinion-and-the-truth-really-wasnt-quite-so-obvious-or-is-it-because-people-who-choose-not-to-know-ha/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:17:59 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5535 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/a-world-in-denial-of-what-it-knows-is-it-because-there-are-legitimate-differences-of-opinion-and-the-truth-really-wasnt-quite-so-obvious-or-is-it-because-people-who-choose-not-to-know-ha/feed/ 0 patandlewtravel colin powell at the UN * Robert K. Lifton sees no reason to be optimistic about any Israeli/Palestinian solution in the foreseeable future http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/robert-k-lifton-sees-no-reason-to-be-optimistic-about-any-israelipalestinian-solution-in-the-foreseeable-future/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/robert-k-lifton-sees-no-reason-to-be-optimistic-about-any-israelipalestinian-solution-in-the-foreseeable-future/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:54:09 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5533 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/robert-k-lifton-sees-no-reason-to-be-optimistic-about-any-israelipalestinian-solution-in-the-foreseeable-future/feed/ 1 patandlewtravel Israel showing Gaza & the West Bank * Michael Thomas writes … it’s time to make the Wall Street bastards pay for the grief and woe they have caused … LMW: I suspect that the party which shows the courage to take on Wall Street will sweep the board in 2012 http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/michael-thomas-writes-its-time-to-make-the-wall-street-bastards-pay-for-the-grief-and-woe-they-have-caused-lmw-i-suspect-that-the-party-which-shows-the-courage-to-take-on-wall-street-will/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/michael-thomas-writes-its-time-to-make-the-wall-street-bastards-pay-for-the-grief-and-woe-they-have-caused-lmw-i-suspect-that-the-party-which-shows-the-courage-to-take-on-wall-street-will/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:31:01 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5528 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/michael-thomas-writes-its-time-to-make-the-wall-street-bastards-pay-for-the-grief-and-woe-they-have-caused-lmw-i-suspect-that-the-party-which-shows-the-courage-to-take-on-wall-street-will/feed/ 3 patandlewtravel wall street bull sculpture * Speaker Boehner Caves to the President’s will … is this the beginning of a new Obama? http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/speaker-boehner-caves-to-the-presidents-will-is-this-the-beginning-of-a-new-obama/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/speaker-boehner-caves-to-the-presidents-will-is-this-the-beginning-of-a-new-obama/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:20:41 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5525 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/speaker-boehner-caves-to-the-presidents-will-is-this-the-beginning-of-a-new-obama/feed/ 0 patandlewtravel obama & Boehner & tea party * why did President Obama sign the Levin/McCain detention bill? http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/why-did-president-obama-sign-the-levinmccain-detention-bill/ http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/why-did-president-obama-sign-the-levinmccain-detention-bill/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:12:56 +0000 Lew Weinstein http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=5521 ]]> http://lewandpatpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/why-did-president-obama-sign-the-levinmccain-detention-bill/feed/ 2 patandlewtravel barbed wire fence