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Steven J. Gulitti

Steven J. Gulitti
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New York, New York, USA
Birthday
March 27
Bio
I am a resident of N.Y.C., and a political independent. I attended SUNY Buffalo (BA) and University of Illinois (MA) and NYU (Professional Certificate). I am a 23-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve where I am still serving as a reserve commissioned Warrant Officer. I am member of the Iron Workers Union and a freelance writer that has been published in textbook as well as minor periodical and professional venues.

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MAY 11, 2012 5:01PM

Mitt Romney's Disturbing Selective Amnesia

Seems that Mitt Romney may be suddenly suffering from a disturbing bout of selective amnesia, apparently he can't remember having led an attack on another student at his prep school, one John Lauber, where Romney himself cut off the poor soul's hair. You see Lauber was a nonconformist who apparently… Read full post »

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MAY 9, 2012 2:00PM

The Worst Jobs Record Of Any Governor In America‏

Remember back in February, at the height of the controversy surrounding public employee unions in Wisconsin, the idea was trotted out that Governor Scott Walker's anti-union efforts were part and parcel of a broader, bolder economic vision that would lead to growth and prosperity in the Badger State?… Read full post »
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MAY 1, 2012 7:23PM

Desperately Denying Reality

Over the past few days we’ve witnessed a barrage of criticism aimed at Barack Obama for his comments on, and a televised feature commemorating, the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. Mitt Romney and many of his allies on the right initially tried to downplay, minimize or spin the po

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APRIL 26, 2012 9:40AM

True Republican Mavericks

Retiring Republican Senator from Maine,  Olympia Snowe seems to be taking a parting shot at the right wing extremism currently infecting the G.O.P. She recently said that she will not necessarily give her $2.36 million dollar war chest to another Republican. Quoting an article from the Kennebec… Read full post »

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APRIL 22, 2012 12:18PM

Mr. Fiscal Responsibility

Remember how Newt Gingrich so reverently and so often spoke about the need to be a good steward of the public's money? Odd but the principle of fiscal sanity doesn't seem to apply to Mr. Gingrich himself. Of late it's come to the fore that Newt Gingrich is costing the American
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APRIL 1, 2012 2:23PM

Tea Party Turncoats

What happened to the steadfastness of Tea Party backed Republican Senators? We are all too familiar with how Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) ditched that state's Tea Party shortly after getting elected in 2010 and since then has been pretty reliably one of the few moderate Republicans left in the Senate.… Read full post »
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MARCH 23, 2012 1:39PM

Have Libertarians Forgotten the Republican Primaries?

Back in September of 2010 I detailed in an article "Where Have all the Libertarian’s Gone?" how for all of the attention paid to Libertarian ideas there was little in the way of Libertarian electoral success to show for it. To wit: "In the din and roar surrounding politics in America… Read full post »
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MARCH 21, 2012 8:25PM

An Ominous Comment For Conservatives?

Back in February I penned a short article addressing whether or not the Republican Party needed to doctor up Mitt Romney's image so as to make him palatable to the Party's conservatives. I framed the piece this way: "Does the G.O.P. and the conservative elite need to doctor up Mitt Romney… Read full post »
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MARCH 18, 2012 5:18PM

A Continuing Problem With Hate Groups‏

Back in early 2010 I wrote about the reemergence of extremist right wing hate groups and militias in three posts that appear below. Now two years on the problem continues unabated as detailed in the following: Number of US Hate Groups Is Rising, Report Says: "Fed by antagonism toward President Obama,… Read full post »
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MARCH 18, 2012 12:08PM

Senator McCain Condems Citizens United

Arizona Senator John McCain appearing on this morning's "Meet the Press" told commentator David Gregory that the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision was one of the worst decisions that the high court has ever rendered labeling it naive and ill conceived. McCain pointed out, as an example, how on… Read full post »

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MARCH 6, 2012 10:07PM

Did the Republicans Already Lose Michigan and Ohio?

If the Michigan primary revealed anything it's not just how precarious Mitt Romney's fortunes are in his own home state, it's how precarious the Republican Party's fortunes may be in both Michigan and Ohio. In Michigan "the most striking fact from the exit polls there was the fact that four in… Read full post »

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MARCH 6, 2012 9:56PM

Veteran's Group Wants Rush Banned

One of America's up and coming veteran's organizations, VoteVets.org, headed up by Iraq War veteran Jon Stoltz, at the urging of female veterans, has requested that the potty mouthed Rush Limbaugh be kicked off of the Armed Forces network for his misogynistic views of women a… Read full post »

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MARCH 1, 2012 2:32PM

The Keystone Pipeline Redux

I recently penned two articles about the Keystone Pipeline controversy which were met with fair degree of skepticism from my good friends on the far right. Of course all of the dire pronouncements about Obama abandoning the project, Canadian oil going to China and the net effect on our own economy… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 26, 2012 9:07PM

Bittersweet Taste of Exploitation: The Aftermath

Last summer I penned two articles, referenced below, related to the controversy surrounding the abuse of foreign student workers at a Hershey's packing plant in Pennsylvania. Both posts were met with the expected knee jerk reactions from my friends on the far right, who tried, through convoluted logi… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012 1:36PM

The Plutocrats Versus the People

Whenever I hear a professional politician in Washington talking as if he he really understands our lot in life I can only laugh at the disconnect. I mean how likely is it that a sitting U.S. senator, who's probably at least a multi-millionaire or a congressman, who's time is consumed with… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 4, 2012 9:58PM

Will Republicans End Higher Deficits, Not Likely‏

We've heard the refrain time and time and time again, our deficits have to come down, we can no longer sustain this sort of spending or this scope of government. We'll to those who seem to think that somehow replacing the Obama administration with a Republican one will somehow, as if… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012 5:34PM

Does the G.O.P. Need to Doctor Up Mitt Romney?

Now here's a compelling question. Does the G.O.P. and the conservative elite need to doctor up Mitt Romney so as to make him seem conservative enough to be electable? It's no secret that large numbers of conservatives don't see Romney as a fellow traveler and that poses two great risks to… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 4, 2012 5:25PM

Census Findings: Bad News For Those Rooting Against America

I always find it galling when I see some who, in their pursuit of maligning and belittling Barck Obama, actually come across as rooting against America. A great example of that is the practice of always trying to undermine good employment news by focusing on the numbers of people who have droppe… Read full post »

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JANUARY 28, 2012 7:20PM

The Alinsky Obsession

Have you ever wondered why the right is so obsessed with Saul Alinsky and why they always try to tie Barack Obama to him? Well for one thing perhaps they have finally come to the realization that Reverend Wright's use to them has faded but they seem to have an affinity… Read full post »
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JANUARY 26, 2012 7:19PM

Keystone, China and Access to Canadian Oil

As a follow on to “Why Can’t Conservatives Be Honest About Keystone?” and as a result of an e-mail exchange I had with a conservative friend I thought it best to bring up a sidebar story related to the Keystone pipeline decision. A corollary issue that conservatives

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JANUARY 24, 2012 4:07PM

Why Can't Conservatives Be Honest About Keystone?

It has been quite amusing to read over some comments posted recently that tried to portray Barack Obama as being opposed to building the Keystone Pipeline when the reality is that the president isn’t opposed to the project at all, he’s just opposed to being railroaded into a hasty decisi

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JANUARY 20, 2012 2:05PM

The Tea Party’s Empty Dance Card

Well there you have it, another onetime Tea Party favorite has dropped out of the 2012 race to be America’s president thereby shrinking the field of “viable” candidates that a Tea Party true believer could vote for this coming November. In fact one should even ask the question of wh… Read full post »

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JANUARY 17, 2012 4:35PM

The Unintended Consequences of Citizens United?

Quoting Arianna Huffington:"Though the country is sorely in need of solutions, and the public hungry for real debate, that's not what was served up in Iowa [or in New Hampshire] -- either by the candidates or the vast pack of media covering their every word. What we got instead was a deluge… Read full post »
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JANUARY 11, 2012 2:04AM

For the Radical Right, a Defeat in New Hampshire

Tonight's outcome in New Hampshire represents a significant setback for the fortunes of the Tea Party movement along with the rest of the radical right as Republican moderates have captured the bulk of the votes cast in the contest. When you combine Romney's take with th… Read full post »

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JANUARY 5, 2012 4:55PM

A Ceiling, a Crackup and the End of a Dream?

It's an interesting fact that Mitt Romney, after outspending both Ron Paul and Rick Santorum and the rest of the Republican field by millions of dollars, can't seem to break out above a ceiling of around a quarter of the conservative base. Pollster John Zogby and others have made this… Read full post »

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