© Jim Morin According to Paul Krugman, not only is Paul Ryan lying, he is a sore loser. Republicans responded to modest and realistic cost control efforts in Obama’s health care reform bill with screams of “death panels”, but it seems that they don’t actually care about seniors dying. Not only would the Ryan budget […]
AmeriPAC, a conservative Republican political action committee, sent out a fundraising letter recently that accused Democrats of banning incandescent light bulbs: The Democrats have already voted to BAN our conventional lights bulbs (that you and I use even today!) in favor of DANGEROUS fluorescent light bulbs. … Help put an end to governmental interference in […]
Republicans complain loudly about deficits, and yet they still find lots of money to fund their pet projects. Here are some examples: Earlier this month, I posted a story about Texas wanting to give tax breaks to buyers of luxury yachts (costing over a quarter of a million dollars), while the state is running a […]
On Thursday, Obama gave a speech where he called for Israel to return to its border lines as drawn before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. It didn’t take long for the Republican attack machine to swing into action, with fierce criticism coming from Mike Huckabee and Representative Allen West. Presidential contender Mitt Romney condemned Obama, saying […]
If I have any overall political philosophy, it is that I am against rampant no-compromise ideology and for pragmatism. For example, I am strongly in favor of protecting second amendment gun rights, but at the same time I am for common sense restrictions on gun ownership and use. Let me make an analogy — I […]
Fox News creates a false controversy against Obama, for inviting rapper “Common” to a White House poetry event. How could Obama do such a thing? I’m sure that no controversial musician has ever been invited to the White House before! But as usual, we have to hand it to Jon Stewart for showing what complete […]
The new Fortune 500 listings are out, ranking big corporations by revenue. But the list gets even more interesting if you rank them by profits. Exxon Mobil is #2 by revenue, but they are far and away #1 in profits, making what even Fortune magazine called “astonishing” profits of $35.6 billion dollars. That’s 52 times […]
Conservatives are trying to promote the idea that former president Bush deserves some, if not most, of the credit for finding Osama bin Laden, and that torture provided the information that helped find him. For example, Representative Steve King (R-IA) wrote “Wonder what President Obama thinks of water boarding now?” and the Tea Party Express […]
A few days ago I posted an article about how local politicians are claiming they have to give tax breaks to rich people or else the wealthy will move somewhere else — despite the fact that more than one study has shown that this is completely false. Well, here’s an even crazier example. The Texas […]
One of my pet peeves is local governments who give huge tax breaks to corporations to entice them to locate a factory or office locally. The excuse is always given that it creates jobs, but that is often a cruel joke. First of all, it doesn’t create any jobs, it just moves them from one […]
On Monday, House Speaker John Boehner said that oil companies are “gonna pay their fair share in taxes and they should” and that the industry did not “need to have the oil depletion allowances” they currently receive. But that just incensed the corporate-owned wing-nuts who screamed that any reduction in corporate subsidies — including the […]
Last week, Donald Trump said he would show his tax returns when Obama showed his birth certificate. Well, Obama has released his birth certificate. When will we get to see Trump’s tax returns? Of course, instead Trump took credit for forcing Obama to release his birth certificate and then started demanding to see Obama’s student […]
One of the principal things that distinguishes a free nation from totalitarianism is that in a totalitarian nation, those in power can decide they don’t like what you are doing and can punish you at their whim. In a free nation, we have the rule of law, which means that you are innocent until found […]
Fox News, the station that argued in court that they have the right to purposely lie, that gives far more airtime to Republicans than to Democrats, and even gives money to the Republican party, is advertising its new special report “Behind The Bias: The Liberal Media Bias”. It will be hypocritically hosted by Sean Hannity. […]
Ezra Klein points out that the Republicans are continuing their run as the Party of No. Even policies they used to support, they now unanimously oppose apparently for the simple reason that Obama supports them: A few years ago, cap-and-trade was, if not a consensus position in the Republican Party, then at least one with […]
Abortion Bush Campaign Finance Cheney Climate Clinton Congress Conservatives Corporations Corruption Deficits Democrats Drugs Economy Education Election Elections Energy Environment Fox News Gays Guns Health Immigration Lies McCain Media Middle East Obama Palin Protests Racism Religion Republicans Romney Spying Supreme Court Taxes Tea Party Terrorism Terrorists Torture Trump Unemployment War
