© Brian McFadden I’ve never understood the whole current austerity fad thing. I mean, businesses are showing record profits, the stock market is way up. Don’t get me wrong, we do need to conserve natural resources, but that doesn’t mean we have to lower our quality of life. In fact, not burning tons of polluting […]
© Mike Thompson Ironically, I can see both sides of this! I think tightening up rules on speculation could significantly lower gas prices, so Obama could do something about gas prices. But the chance of Congress doing something like that is pretty much zero. The other things that can be done to lower energy prices, […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger has published an interesting opinion piece, where he stands up for Republican values (free enterprise and small government), while decrying the small-mindedness of the current GOP orthodoxy. in the current climate, the extreme right wing of the party is targeting anyone who doesn’t meet its strict criteria. Its new and narrow litmus test […]
© Ruben Bolling I just don’t get it. Medical marijuana should be a no brainer. We have plenty of prescription drugs that are far more dangerous than marijuana, yet routinely prescribed by doctors to alleviate pain. Why is marijuana different?
Paul Begala has a good article in Newsweek that asks the sensible question: Romney talks about his family, and his business success, but he never talks about his tenure as governor of Massachusetts. Why is he ignoring “the only time he has ever held public office.” Perhaps it is because when he was campaigning for […]
© Brian McFadden I’m posting this mainly for the line about false equivalences. But I also like the warning at the end. Of course, the whole problem with this is that the political parties often do hope that you will get bored with the election and tune out, since then the results will be defined […]
What can be done to respond to the lies that are inevitably spread during political campaigns? If the candidate being attacked denies them, they often just help spread the lies more. But if they don’t respond to them, then people will think they are true. So it is very interesting to see how the Obama […]
Is anyone else frightened by the fact that most of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisors are the same neocon chicken hawks that lied us into two disastrous wars and made the world hate us? Twenty three of Romney’s most senior advisors formerly advised George W. Bush. For example, Robert Kagan (founder of the Project for […]
© Tom Toles Obama is officially winding down the war in Afghanistan, but will it ever really be over?
© Tom Tomorrow The problem is that the media doesn’t even have to make shit up like this, they can just repeat the crap that other people make up.
Author Stephen King has a fantastic rant in The Daily Beast. Go read it now. If you need some incentive to go read it, here are a few choice quotes. But the whole thing is reasonably short, funny, and as good a read as any Stephen King story: The U.S. senators and representatives who refuse […]
© Ed Stein According to the constitution, patents are supposed to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”, but nowadays they are mainly used to stifle innovation, crush competition, and keep lawyers employed. Part of the problem is that patents are supposed to be for things that are “non-obvious”, but the patent office is […]
© Derf I guess we’ll have to wait until June to see how the Court rules on Obamacare.
There is a must-read opinion piece in the Washington Post from Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein. We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we […]
© David Fitzsimmons Finally! A comic that talks about one of my pet peeves — the way that local governments give massive tax breaks to large corporations to locate in their areas in the name of “creating jobs”. It doesn’t create a single job, it just moves them from one place to another, and costs […]
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