Greg Sargent has found out something very interesting: The House GOP leadership hopes to force Dems into an awkward vote on the plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York, a leadership aide tells me. The idea: If the House Dem leadership brings a big scheduled appropriations bill up for a vote this week, […]
Somehow the Ohio GOP thinks they are entitled to access to the phone numbers, addresses and email addresses of educators in Ohio: Ohio’s Republican Party recently requested the names, home addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of all licensed educators in the state’s database. The Ohio Education Association, a teachers union, obtained a temporary restraining order […]
I did some upgrades to the new Tweetville application this weekend. It now supports drilldown rooms. How this work is that you can select a root room like Congress and view everyone in Congress. If you want to limit it to one party then you can select that party in the sub-room of Congress. There […]
According to a new study just released, 80% of consumers would not be willing to pay for access to online content: A similar study was done by the Boston Consulting Group and found only 48% of the respondents would pay for online access to news, and the average monthly price they would be willing to […]
This is one that I didn’t see coming: Three prominent conservatives warned in a joint statement against Republican “scaremongering” on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying the prison in Thomson, Illinois would be fine to handle them. Former Republican Congressman and Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist, […]
Given the Ft. Hood tragedy, a bill authored by Richard Burr (R-NC) is coming into light: Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says his “Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act” will protect veterans’ gun rights. But the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls it a “dangerous” proposal that could allow “over 100,000 mentally incapacitated or incompetent persons” […]
What’s that? Why it is President Nixon bowing before Emperor Hirohito in 1971. And this isn’t Nixon going to Japan to bow, this is Japan coming to America and getting a bow. Wow I didn’t know America ended 38 years ago.
Anyone shocked by this? Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices […]
A hint about a possible Cheney run for the Oval Office was dropped yesterday by none other than his daughter: I couldn’t think of anything better, except maybe a Cheney/Palin ticket. Take a man who no one trusts, combine it with a total ding bat and put it on the Republican ticket. If that happens […]
We have heard that phrase a lot lately when it comes to the banks, but what about the media? What would happen if 1/4 of the U.S. media went bankrupt? With a proposed take over of NBC by Comcast that could easily become a reality: By next week, cable giant Comcast is expected to announce […]