Gallup released a poll today that the right is in love with: A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.” This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question […]
So how many out there have received one of these robo-calls to their phone saying “your car warranty is about to expire”? These things have been a total nuisance, and I have even received calls on my cell phone about it. Well it looks like the government has had enough of it: Federal regulators filed […]
At the beginning of the week the health industry was all gung-ho to work with the administration to ease to costs of healthcare. Now it looks like they are yelling out “SIKE!” Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health […]
While the media and right try to pin everything involving torture on Nancy Pelosi, today it’s time to go back to the real criminals involved – the previous administration. At a time when the American press abandoned their core principals and became nothing more than an echo chamber for the Bush White House, Cheney was […]
There has been this strawman theory going on with the right and media that some how Nancy Pelosi is responsible for torture because “she knew about it”. Well today Pelosi threw that theory out of the water by saying the CIA down right lied to her Of course this won’t change anything. The Republicans will […]
Breaking news from the Washington Post: Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment. Rove has remained in the news as a commentator and political analyst since […]
I was just reading this story in the Cincinnati Enquirer: LEXINGTON – A Lexington gynecologist has been stripped of his license to practice medicine by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Dr. Hamid Sheikh was accused of having a dirty office, not giving women proper pain medication and other violations. […]
Dick Cheney has joined the ranks of the “tinfoil hat brigade”: “Everybody’s in a giant conspiracy to achieve a different objective than the one we want to achieve,” Cheney said. The negotiations are “bound to fail unless we are perceived as very credible” in threatening military action against Iran, he said. “Most of the other […]
If we need to keep evidence of torture, like photographs, secret, to protect our troops, doesn’t that suggest that torture isn’t a great way to keep them or us safe? – Josh Marshall
Like many others I was shocked the other day to see gas jump up 25 cents in one day. Of course we start writing it off as “increased demand”, something we hear every year at this time. Well it looks like the Republicans also noticed the increase and now are going to use it for […]