Political Irony

The US has a shameful history of low voter turnout, but that hasn’t stopped some people from trying to make it as difficult to vote as possible. Now you can actually see if your name (or the names of your family or friends) have been dropped from the voter rolls, thanks to Project Vote. They […]

I know McCain keeps talking about how he has gone against his own party, in order to demonstrate that he is a maverick, but now he is even pissing off his own campaign. A few days ago, McCain pulled his people out of Michigan and shifted his resources to battleground states, effectively giving the state […]

After all the kerfuffle the last few weeks over the financial crisis, with congressmen being told that there would be panic in the streets and martial law if they didn’t pass the bailout bill, it now turns out that it was a tempest in a teapot. The Guardian is reporting that many Wall Street banks […]