We got wingnut Ed Morrissey trying to explain it out, in typical wingnut fashion: Outlook isn’t exactly “archaic”. Many organizations use Outlook to handle e-mail, scheduling, and other tasks. It’s not my favorite program, but it works, especially for large organizations. Or at least large organizations that know what they’re doing. {[}]gt; The article Morrissey […]
When banks abuse their bailout funds, the Obama administration takes action: A Treasury Department official on Monday called Citigroup, which has received $45 billion in bailout capital from the government, to protest plans to accept delivery on a luxurious $50 million corporate jet made in France. [SNIP] The Treasury official called the bank to complain […]
The Republicans and their little followers just can’t seem to comprehend that “Global Warming” actually means climate change: Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the ‘urgent need’ to combat global warming. But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings. A ‘Winter Storm […]
Karl Rove has been subpoenaed by John Conyers, and now he doesn’t have a President Bush to protect him. This should be a fun one to watch. Hopefully the House moves to arrest Rove if when he refuses again.
Senate has passed a bill to delay the switch over to digital television by four months. If you need one of those coupons, now is the time to try and get it.
Nothing new here, but it does merit mentioning: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.” Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, “Nothing […]
No there isn’t one yet, but Russ Feingold wants to change that: U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, issued the following statement today on plans to introduce an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to end appointments to the Senate by state governors and require special elections in the […]
I meant to post this last week, but here is a really cool panoramic of the inaugural address. It might take a bit to load, especially if you have a slow internet connection, but the resolution is awesome. You can zoom right in on all kinds of people.
It could have been: Gov. Rod Blagojevich, taking his defense to television rather than his impeachment trial, lashed out at his accusers Monday and revealed he had considered naming Oprah Winfrey to the U.S. Senate. The embattled governor told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the idea of nominating the talk show host came to him […]
William Kristol’s latest article at the New York Times has some of the greatest words I have ever read: This is William Kristol’s last column. I guess the Times got tired of having to print all those corrections.