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ANNOUNCEMENT: Change in Update Schedule for DCFOUNTAIN

Dillon MacRae — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:18:22 +0000

DILLON'S NOTE TO READERS: Continued time constraints have forced me to further limit my updates to DCFOUNTAIN, at least for the foreseeable future. Until further notice, as of today commentaries will not be posted on a regular schedule of any sort. Weeks and very possibly months may lapse between posts.

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Democratic Hopes Now on Life Support After Being Struck by Fast-Moving Truck

Dillon MacRae — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:08:13 +0000

[Editor's Note: Sometimes a story so wholly surreal comes along that just cannot be ignored; last night's political earthquake in Massachusetts was just such an event and brought Dillon out of his self-imposed blogging repose to relay the story in his own way.]

While crawling along the Freeway of Public Discontent, a year-old infant last night was struck and critically injured by a fast-moving truck in a team of ambulance chasers that had just left a tea party and were following reports of a crash farther up the road.

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Wall Street Greed: A Parallel Universe in Self-Destruct Mode

Dillon MacRae — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:20:00 +0000

The financial titans running Wall Street appear still to be in denial, but the devastation they wrought upon citizens both in the U.S and the rest of the world will prove to be their undoing -- a self-destruct mechanism triggered when greed became so obscenely excessive that it no longer is even a matter for reasonable debate.

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Pining for Their Old Unreality Show, Republicans Adjusting Poorly to Minority Role

Dillon MacRae — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:11:14 +0000

If you're puzzled over Republicans' apparent inability to offer timely, creative and effective solutions to help dig America out of this economic black hole -- one into which their own failed policies have sucked us lightyears from where we began -- you're not alone. Fresh ideas nowhere to be found, GOP leaders still seem pre-programmed to try bamboozling the citizens of this land using the very same stale gimmicks -- more tax cuts for corporations and the affluent -- that helped get us into this mess.

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Unclenching the Fist to Shake Hands: A Message to Adversaries Abroad and at Home

Dillon MacRae — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:32:25 +0000

Could it be that George W. Bush, in part by serving as the most effective recruitment tool in Al Qaeda's arsenal, also played the very same role in recruiting U.S. voters for the Democratic Party? If new research from Gallup is any indication, that seems to be a fair assessment.

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