Last week, new guidelines from the US Department of Transportation went into effect regarding advertising of airfares. The guidelines are designed to get rid of widespread deceptive practices in the transportation industry, most notably the practice of advertising impossibly cheap airfares and then tacking on huge mandatory fees just before you pay. It had gotten […]
© Ed Stein [plus commentary from Ed Stein] In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Nick Carraway observes that “the rich are different from you and me.” Mitt Romney’s tax returns confirm it. The rich have access to deductions, evasions, loopholes and favorable rates we working stiffs can only dream of. The absurd truth is […]
An interesting opinion piece in the New York Times predicts that a little known provision of the health care reform act will mean that American health insurance companies will go the way of the dinosaurs by the year 2020. The provision in question sets up Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which are paid not for preforming […]
© Adam Zyglis Will 2012 be convincing evidence that the Citizen’s United decision by the Supreme Court now means that it is now possible to simply buy an election? UPDATE: Romney claims that he was “vastly outspent” by Gingrich in South Carolina, which is why he lost there. But independent analyses show that Romney’s campaign […]
So, how’s deregulation working out for ya? A few days ago, Scotts Miracle-Gro (whose brands include Ortho, Scotts, Miracle-Gro, Roundup, Earthgro, Black Magic, Hyponex, Osmocote, Morning Song, Whitney Farms, Supersoil, Bovung, and Country Pride) agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.5 million in fines, for not one but two product safety incidents. The first incident […]
Mitt Romney may be financed by Wall Street, but it could be worse. The Las Vegas casino owner who has almost singlehandedly financed Newt Gingrich’s surge in South Carolina by donating $10 million (and promising even more) to Newt Gingrich’s super PAC “Winning our Future” is being investigated by the Department of Justice and the […]
I’m a great believer in following the money, so I often wonder where Mitt Romney gets most of his campaign money? It doesn’t seem to be from the Republican base, unless if you consider Wall Street to be the (real) Republican base. Romney has raised millions from Wall Street. In fact, Romney has received more […]
© Tom Toles Even Rudy Giuliani — somewhat of a loose cannon himself — asks of Newt Gingrich “What The Hell Are You Doing?” I also want to point out the irony of Gingrich accusing Obama of being like Saul Alinsky, when it is Gingrich himself who seems to be channeling the radical community organizer.
© Ben Sargent Obama is a socialist! Obama is a fascist! He enacted a government takeover of health care. He’s cutting Medicare. He’s a big spender. And he wants to destroy our military by reducing its budget. He’s in the pocket of Wall Street. He’s anti-business. Plus he destroyed our economy and jobs before he […]
Mark Fiore has a great animation on his website that finally solves the riddle of which politicians in this country are actually unabashed socialists. Here are the quotes from the animation, along with who said them: Abraham Lincoln: I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike […]
[rant by Mike Stanfill, reprinted from The Far Left Side] Let’s play a game. Suppose you were a carbon-based energy company and you’re starting to feel the pinch in the old pocketbook, even a very minor one, from renewable energy resources. What would you do? Well, you could glut the market with natural gas. This […]
© Matt Bors Way too easy. If you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad, meet ACTA. The fundamental problem is that the movie, recording, drug, and other industries have way more money and political influence than the people who benefit from legitimate fair use. I hope that technology companies, who have been reluctant to exercise […]
© Daryl Cagle I just couldn’t resist posting (and “stealing”) this ironic comic. But Cagle does have a good point — there are lots of people who depend on licensing intellectual property for their livelihood and they should be protected. The question is what is the best way to do that, and balance their rights […]
© Brian McFadden The real joke is probably going to be on us. At the same time the Internet was protesting SOPA and PIPA, Hollywood was already pivoting to support ACTA, the Anti-Conterfeiting Trade Agreement. The entertainment industry has the money, time, and political power to keep pushing these bills until they get what they […]
© August J Pollak I had an interesting conversation the other day with someone who is fairly conservative. We were both trying to figure out how Republicans in South Carolina could have voted for Newt Gingrich, someone who is a serial philanderer, lobbyist, Washington insider, ethically challenged, and can’t even run a presidential campaign without […]
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