James J. Patterson

  • Patterson’s Vagabonds Top Ten II

    A Post Day One Priority Schedule! Want to save some money? Here are the Vagabond’s Ideas For Obama and the New Congress to consider: 1. Close Guantanamo and end USA sponsored torture. Tell the word that such a thing will never happen again. 2. Get a law enacted that prevents US companies from exporting jobs to

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  • New Deal Bashing: A New Tool For The Ignorant

    You’ve been hearing this piece of idiocy forever, “It wasn’t the New Deal that saved us from the Great Depression, it was World War II.” In other words, domestic deficit spending is evil, but military deficit spending on a humungous scale is somehow not deficit spending at all! Go Figure. New Deal Bashing, DeBunked! All

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  • Welcome To Chicago East! AKA Washington, DC!

    Where it’s cool to be hip, smart, and Liberal again, at last! Welcome To Chicago East! Old guard Washingtonians can feel it coming: a vast sea change in the culture of the Capital City. Many locals are unaware of what’s about to happen. Want to see how cool this stodgy old town could actually become?

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  • Kick’m While They’re Down!

    Four Days after the 2008 Presidential Election, on November 6, 2008, James J Patterson had this to say, “The 2010 Congressional Election Campaign began on November 5th”…would that it had. A reprint of that column is here, and may prove insightful as we head into the stretch run… Now that the Republican/Conservative era is at

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  • UNITE THE CLANS!! DO IT NOW!!

    Our Midwest Vagabond, Mancheenee, has weighed in with his thoughts on the Democratic and Republican Nominees. Consequently, at his request, we take our first survey of the Free Thinkers of the Inner Sanctum, Patterson’s Committee of Vagabonds. Mancheenee, cultural critic, and lifelong movie buff, after viewing both Democratic and Republican conventions, summed up his impressions

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