Category: Misc

Al Franken is now the projected winner of the Minnesota Senate race, which will us to 59 Democrats in the Senate.

It looks like what happened in Iraq is starting to spread: Afghanistan’s president has sent a list of demands to the United States government about troop conduct ahead of the arrival of more U.S. forces next year. President Hamid Karzai said in a speech in the capital Thursday that he sent the missive last month […]

Depending on where you look, the population of this country that identifies themselves as Atheist, or as a non-believer is between 15% and 25%. So why do we have an invocation at government event anyways? In my dream America, we would get to the point where we don’t have such things. Instead let religion be […]

There’s a lot of outrage right now in the blogosphere over Rick Warren being tapped to give the invocation at Inauguration Day. Most of the blame seems to be lying on Obama, so I think it is time to look into some not so well known facts. The actual Inauguration events are held on the […]

A new report has been released by the EIA saying that our demand on oil is decreasing: U.S. oil consumption is expected to level off with virtually no growth between now and 2030 because of increases in energy efficiency, greater use of renewable fuels and an expected rebound in oil prices, the government said Wednesday. […]

A lot of people have been trying to paint Jesse Jackson Jr. as being corrupt since it was revealed he was referred to in the Blago indictment. Well it turns out Jackson had actually gone to the feds about Blago’s serious lack of ethics: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who was cited in a criminal complaint […]

Not that there was any competition, but there was a push on to get Time to name Sarah Palin as person of the year.

Compliments of the fed: The Federal Reserve entered a new era on Tuesday, setting its benchmark interest rate so low that it will have to reach for new and untested tools in fighting both the recession and downward pressure on consumer prices. Going further than analysts anticipated, the central bank said it had cut its […]

Oh this is just a gem: Rove, a former top White House adviser to President Bush, said on Fox News, “[Obama] should have, right from the beginning, been more forthcoming.” The same Karl Rove who insisted the President never had to disclose anything – rather it was on the outing of a CIA agent, lying […]

This headline from the AP pings out the ironic-a-meter: US anti-kidnapping expert kidnapped in Mexico Such a serious story, with such irony in the headline that it strikes me as funny.