© Joel Pett At least someone is defending teachers — Students.
© Barry Deutsch A dear friend of mine died from cancer yesterday, but his equally awful battle with his health insurance reminded me of how screwed up our health care system really is. Pretty much everyone I know has either had a bad experience with their health insurance provider, or has a friend or family […]
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© Jen Sorensen From the Tea Party to Sustainable Food, never underestimate the ability of corporations to take over any grassroots movement. After all, they managed to co-opt rock and roll and pervert its original anti-establishment message.
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© Chan Lowe Donald Trump stirs up the Republican base by asking why Obama won’t release his birth certificate. The fact that Obama released his birth certificate years ago (and Hawaii officials verified it) doesn’t seem to matter. And Trump seems to have had some problems producing his own birth certificate. But according to Politico, […]
During a town hall meeting, Republican congressman Sean Duffy complained that he was struggling to make ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary (despite the fact that it is more than three times the median salary in his district). I can guarantee you, or most of you, I guarantee that I have more debt […]
We may not have many presidential contenders yet, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t already plenty of irony to go around.
© Tom Tomorrow I find it funny that people (on both the right and the left) are making fun of Obama because the main proponents for action in Libya in his administration are women. I lived in England for a year during the government of Margaret Thatcher, and it comes as absolutely no surprise to […]
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
From Joe Klein, writing in Time magazine: This is my 10th presidential campaign, Lord help me. I have never before seen such a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers coagulated under a single party’s banner. They are the most compelling argument I’ve seen against American exceptionalism. […] There are those who say, cynically, if […]
© Matt Bors You can see Obama’s speech on Libya here and here. UPDATE: Jon Stewart on Obama’s speech.
Back in 2007, when now VP Joe Biden was campaigning for the presidency, he was asked the following question: QUESTIONER: I have a great fear that say you’re elected as the nominee of the party. Next August sometime during the summer, Dick Cheney and George are going to bomb Iran. BIDEN: Legitimate concern. QUESTIONER: What […]
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© Jen Sorensen How can people who claim to be against the “nanny state” be for anti-abortion counseling? If they are actually trying to protect people, then it would make more sense to require counseling before you order a drink in a bar, but don’t have a designated driver.
© Jeff Danziger General Electric had profits of over $14 billion in 2010 and yet paid no taxes. In fact, they received a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. Now that’s corporate welfare! How does GE do it? By hiring former treasury officials to work in their tax department, and by aggressive lobbying to get tax […]
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has become something of a celebrity, but he seems to have jumped the shark. What else can explain how a simple arrest of a man suspected of the fowl crime of cockfighting somehow required the use of armored vehicles, including a tank. And the Sheriff had no reason to believe that […]
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Bob Herbert is retiring after writing a column for the NY Times for 18 years. The entire column should be read, but here are a few choice quotes: So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and […]
