From Emanuel Derman’s Blog: Trading Places I had a fantasy in which the Fed and the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) switched roles. If a bank failed at 9 a.m. one morning and shut its doors, the TSA would announce that all banks henceforth begin their business day at 10 a.m. And, if a terrorist managed […]
Eugene Robinson and Juan Cole have wickedly good rebuttals to Cheney’s nonsensical attack on Obama from Tuesday, showing how Cheney is acting like a raving lunatic. Go read them. But one thing that Cole mentions in passing really caught my eye, and deserves further attention. Cole points out that according to anti-terrorism experts, Al Qaida […]
© Matt Davies Once again, the problem wasn’t gathering intelligence. We already had all the information we needed to know that Abdulmutallab shouldn’t have been allowed on that airplane. Heck, his father even went to the US Embassy to warn us about him. We didn’t need to torture anyone (or even violate anyone’s rights) to […]
While local Chambers of Commerce are generally a good thing, at the national level the US Chamber of Commerce has become a shill for multinational corporate interests. Their latest project is spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign to convince Americans to give corporations even more free reign. The Chamber is running four minute […]
Yesterday, Pat Buchanan stated on TV that the person who attempted to blow up an airliner, but only succeeded in burning his own crotch off, be denied pain medication for his burns as part of “hostile interrogation.” And then he added with a straight face “I’m not arguing for torture.” It is interesting that the […]
© Tom Tomorrow © Tom Tomorrow Added Bonus: The 12 Weirdest Right-Wing Conspiracies Of 2009.
Republicans have often accused the Obama administration (and Democrats in general) of being soft on terrorism. Former VP Cheney even claimed that Obama’s policies were increasing the probability of a catastrophic nuclear or biological terrorist attack. Indeed, in the wake of the recent attempted airline bombing over Detroit, Republicans have tried to blame the unsuccessful […]
“President Obama’s daughter Sasha says that she already bought her dad’s gift. She won’t say what it is but she did say, ‘It’s something he likes.’ Which begs the question: How did an 8-year-old get her hands on a carton of Marlboro Lights?” – Conan O’Brien “Oh, I love this — did you hear about […]
Washington Monthly has a scathing article about the hypocrisy of Republican politicians who unanimously oppose Obama’s health care reform bill, when most of them voted for Medicare Part D: Let’s cut the nonsense. Republicans supported Medicare Part D (Karl Rove saw it as a way of creating a “permanent” GOP majority). It was the biggest […]
Andy Borowitz explains the major features of the Senate’s health care plan, which he calls “CompromiseCare™”. My favorite lines are: Under CompromiseCare™, people with no coverage will be allowed to keep their current plan. Medicare will be extended to 55-year-olds as soon as they turn 65. You will have access to cheap Canadian drugs if […]
“It looks like Democrats have their 60 votes for healthcare. Harry Reid said the bill will save us hundreds of millions of dollars. Well, it would have, except for the hundreds of millions of dollars we had to pay to buy the 60 votes.” – Jay Leno “The healthcare bill won’t have a public option. […]
My two favorite political fact checking organizations are PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter (run by the St. Petersburg Times) and FactCheck (run by the Annenberg Foundation). PolitiFact recently picked their “Lie of the Year” and to the surprise of hardly anyone, it was Sarah Palin’s numerous claims of Obama’s “death panels”. This lie wasn’t just the choice of […]
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