A day camp in Philadelphia, composed mostly of black kids decides to cool off on a hot summer day at a swimming pool. The pool is owned by a private club that has open membership and the group did pay for it. So how were these kids received? “When the minority children got in the […]
Remember all the rage from the right a couple of months ago when Nancy Pelosi aid the CIA mislead Congress? Well according to the head of the CIA, Pelosi may have just been telling the truth: The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony […]
So John Ensign decided to pay his booty call $25,000? That sure sounds like prostitution, but may have other legal implications instead: Hampton said Ensign paid the woman $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for the senator. If true, Ensign faces a possible felony violation of campaign finance law if he paid the severance […]
Following Boehner’s having to walk back remarks he made this weekend about stimulus money not being spent in Ohio the DNC has launched a new ad: The most disturbing thing is that the local media isn’t covering this. If you relied upon the news in Boehner’s own district you wouldn’t hear about it. Its this […]
What does it say when a governor calls a press conference on a work day while that governor is fishing to complain about ethics complaints?
Here is John Boehner on Sunday claiming no stimulus is being spent in Ohio: But there’s a problem. Ohio has been spending stimulus funds, and now John Boehner has been called out on his lie and had to issue a “clarification”: When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a […]
Despite Palin’s announced resignation, she is still getting hit with ethics complaints: Zane Henning — a conservative government watchdog from the governor’s hometown of Wasilla and an oilfield worker on Alaska’s North Slope — asserts in a letter to Alaska Attorney General Daniel S. Sullivan that Palin has “been charging and pocketing per diem to […]
Linking other blogs use to be one of the greatest benefits of the blogosphere. Larger sites could help catapult newer/smaller blogs into larger audiences by giving them a link, and the more linking a blog gets the better that blog is rated on services like Alexa, Tehnorati and Google Page Rank. Sadly that blogosphere practice […]
That seems to be the reason gaining the most traction, that Palin couldn’t work and the cost of defending herself against all the ethics complaints was too much to handle. Here’s a segment from FOX News where Sean Parnell, Palin’s successor, repeats just that. I can buy that as a reason, but does that mean […]