In an interview in the Washington Times, Newt Gingrich lays out his vision for conservatives and Republicans. He calls it “thinking outside the party-label box”. What Gingrich is saying is that the Republican brand is so damaged, that Republicans must promote conservative Democrats (!) I would urge conservatives in California to find a Democrat to […]
Allison Kilkenny has a satisfying rant about how banning lobbying might just save American democracy. The American people are now competing with a giant cash machine that pumps over a million dollars a day into preventing a public healthcare option from ever becoming a reality. … In the United States, players only get to ante […]
The Consumerist has a wonderful article “Top 10 Ironic Ads from History“. These are old advertisements that innocently promoted something that eventually went horribly wrong: A Union Carbide ad about how “Science helps build a new India” — before one of their plants killed 25 thousand people there. An ad for asbestos “When life depends […]
Three different judges, all of them appointed by Dubya, have now rejected arguments from the Justice Department concerning executive authority to deal with detainees. What makes this ironic is that these same arguments pretty much got a pass when Dubya was president. Legal analyist Jonathan Turley says: It took a while for the courts to […]
I’ve heard of marrying someone for their money, but this is a new twist. It turns out that back in 2004, an Securities and Exchanges lawyer warned that Bernie Madoff’s business “didn’t add up”. She even asked for further investigation. Madoff, of course, was running a massive ponzi scheme that ended up bilking investors out […]
Just about everyone was caught by Sarah Palin’s surprise announcement that she is resigning as governor of Alaska. So far, nobody has any idea why she is stepping down. She was expected to announce that she would not run for reelection — possibly to free her up for a presidential bid in 2012 — but […]
In an unintentionally ironic commentary on CNN, Republican John Feehery warns that now that the Democrats have a 60 seat majority in the Senate (with Senator Al Franken), we can expect such horrors as The Metric System (are you scared yet?)! What will this lead to? Soft drinks sold in liter bottles? Oh yeah, they […]
The USA Today headline proclaims: Madoff ordered to forfeit $170B And the first line of the article says “Diisgraced financier Bernard Madoff has been ordered to forfeit over $170 billion, prosecutors said Friday.” Yes, they really did spell it “Diisgraced”. But the “bigger” point is that if Madoff actually had $170 billion to forfeit, […]
When even The Economist says that our health care system needs overhauling — calling it the costliest in the world but with patchy quality — and (shock!) Walmart supports reforming health care — including a mandate that requires large employers to provide health insurance — you know that America wants real health care reform. The only […]
There are few journalistic standards left these days as we have proven on this broadcast again and again. From Fox News official transcript. Thanks to News Corpse.
The next time a pundit claims that a public option will put private health insurance companies out of business and lead to socialized health care, I hope someone asks them how UPS, Fedex, and hundreds of other smaller delivery companies are still in business, despite having to compete with the US Post Office. This is […]
A graph printed in the NY times arranges the states according to their divorce rate, teenage birthrate, and (perhaps most telling of all) their subscriptions to online porn sites. So, which states would you think would lead in these “sin” statistics? Red States, the home of family values, moral rectitude, and social conservatives? Or Blue […]
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NPR photographer Robb Hill wondered who would be interested enough to attend the meeting where 22 senators gathered to start working on overhauling healthcare in the US. So he took four photographs of the audience, and is inviting people to identify the people in the photos. So far, the public has identified eight lobbyists (plus […]
I’ve become convinced that how our Representatives in Congress vote on the issue of a public option for health insurance is as good a measure of corruption as we are likely to see. In other words, if your congress critter votes against the public option (or attempts to water it down), you can easily figure […]
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