"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 22nd, 2009
Neda shot by the Basiji police – Iranian Riots and Protests The death of an innocent galvanizes protesters in Iran and across the globe. A man and his teen daughter are watching, but not participating in the protests, when an unseen sniper hits her in the upper chest. It’s hard to watch. She literally bleeds [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 28th, 2007
The man is Bush in drag without the charm. 9-11 made him do it: Giuliani Cites Bible on Personal Life – New York Times Giuliani also addressed a cell phone call he took from his wife, Judith, last week during his speech to the National Rifle Association, an important appearance because Giuliani clashed with the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 18th, 2007
Sick Author Jonathan Cohn’s Expert Opinion on HillaryCare 2.0 Fills in some more details I find interesting, like using the government’s bargaining power to negotiate drug prices. How’s that for market based reform? Isn’t bargaining for price a central market behavior? The plan shelters small businesses from the cost of coverage for their employees: Unlike [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 17th, 2007
Ezra Klein: The Hillary Plan The ever reliable Ezra wonks on the Clinton proposal. Here’s my bullet point synopsis: Allows you to keep your current plan Mandated coverage Opens the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program to everybody (the same health plan covering members of Congress) Creates a new public coverage option similar to Medicare Eliminates [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 1st, 2007
Iowa Politics Tancredo up the ante on GOP sabre rattling and bluster by declaring: Followers of radical Islam must be deterred from committing a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo said Tuesday morning, saying that as president he would take drastic measures to prevent such attacks. “If it is up to me, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2007
MiamiHerald.com | 02/18/2007 | Romney turns on the charm in Florida Especially the part where he says we need “a person of faith” to lead the country. I’ll take a secular humanist any day over a religious ideologue any day, thank you very much Gov Romney. I’m with Bill Maher on this one, I’d rather [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 18th, 2007
Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation – washingtonpost.com Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists’ influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let the bill pass without a vote on an unrelated measure that would give President Bush virtual line-item-veto power. This really takes some balls. Efforts to give Bush power to strike [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 29th, 2006
Union Leader – Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech – Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism. Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 9th, 2006
It appears that the Democrats have gained control of both houses of Congress and picked up a few governorships. The electorate has collectively rebuked the President’s conduct of the war in Iraq, corruption in the GOP, fiscal irresponsibility and general hubris. In the process Lamont lost in Connecticut and Santorum lost in Pennsylvania, knocking off [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 4th, 2006
Conservatives challenge Iraq policy – Yahoo! News Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman and the Army Times are expressing a lack of confidence in the administration’s prosecution of the war in Iraq. Also the once rock solid Christian Fundalentalist base is beginning to crack. Instead of making any kind of change in leadership or direction the White [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 3rd, 2006
As Bechtel Goes – New York Times The administrations final answer on dealing with wasted money, outright incompetence and perfidy in the failed reconstruction of Iraq is to shoot the messenger. Instead of dealing with correcting the situation they have decided to close the Special Inspector General’s Office for Iraq Reconstruction. It was simply too [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 2nd, 2006
From MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann via Crooks and Liars comes the most forceful and cogent rebuttal of the President’s ridiculous assertion the Sen. Kerry insulted the troops: Crooks and Liars » Olbermann’s Special Comment : There is no line this President has not crossed — nor will not cross — to keep one political party, in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on May 7th, 2006
Hillary Clinton: Too Much of a Clinton Democrat? Hillary Clinton leads her Democratic rivals in the polls and in fundraising. Unfortunately, however, the New York senator is part of a failed Democratic Party establishment — led by her husband — that enabled the George W. Bush presidency and the Republican majorities, and all the havoc [...]
Date: 09/18/2005