More Republican Hypocrisy

Bobby Jindal thinks that money provided in Pres. Obama’s stimulus package for high-speed rail projects is wasteful pork — for Las Vegas and Anaheim, California, but not for Louisiana: Louisiana’s transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service from the same pot of railroad money in [...]

Freedom of the Press

This is one of those situations where the freedom of the press is only open to those that have a press, and a distribution system.  The owner of the press makes the rules.

Paul Krugman on Obama’s Budget Proposal

He likes it, he really likes it: Elections have consequences. President Obama’s new budget represents a huge break, not just with the policies of the past eight years, but with policy trends over the past 30 years. If he can get anything like the plan he announced on Thursday through Congress, he will set America [...]

Bush 1 and Bush 2

I am reading the Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg.  I have come across a paragraph or two that I think will be of interest to the audience. Where the father engaged in the details of policy, the son saw himself as a leader who set priorities, tasked people to carry them out and held them [...]

Gitmo Prison Guards Getting in Last Licks

Reuters reported yesterday that prison guards at Guantanamo are stepping up the torture, beating, abusive forced feedings, and various other forms of sadistic behavior against detainees. The apparent reason: They know Gitmo will be closing, and they want to visit as much cruelty on inmates as they can in the relatively short time they have [...]

Utah’s Republican Governor Disses His Party’s Leadership in Congress

Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, called the GOP congressional leadership “completely inconsequential.”

Give That Governor a Microphone

How depraved do you have to be, as a Republican governor, to threaten to turn down stimulus money for your state, and then tell a constituent who is hurting economically and needs that help that you will be “praying” for him and his family?

A Typical, Ordinary, Everyday American

That’s what David Gregory thinks he is. I think everyone understands the human phenomenon whereby we mistaken deem our own personal experiences to be more typical than they are. People who attended selective colleges tend to talk as if they don’t realize that the majority of the minority of Americans who go to college at [...]

What Is the World’s Most Effective Terrorist Training Camp?

You have to ask?

That Elitist

son-of-a-b****.  Where in the hell does George Will, on This Week (ABC) get off saying that those folks with a little equity in their houses are just renters. George Stephanopoulos used the following lead-in to George Will, “The actual plan at $275 billion will focus on about 9 million homeowners, not under water, but who [...]