Us on the left have been saying this all along and now the man in the spotlight of the “War Against Labor” has admitted it – eliminating collective bargaining does not save money! Like a dog going at a bone, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, didn’t stop until he got the answer he was looking […]
The House has just passed the Ryan budget plan: The House has passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare for future beneficiaries while combating out-of-control budget deficits. It would impose sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid. The GOP proposal passed 235-193, with every Democrat voting […]
The blindness of the right is mindboggling at times. Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey has a post up entitled “Taxpayers to Obama: Keep your hands off our deductions”. Here’s what Ed says: In his speech on Wednesday, Barack Obama suggested that eliminating some tax deductions might be necessary to close the budget deficit, at […]
In an interview with ABC, President Obama gave his views of opening the U.S. oil reserves to combat high oil prices: “We are monitoring the situation very closely. The strategic petroleum reserve was designed for when oil actually shuts off,” Obama told ABC. “The reserves, I think, are something that we’ve got to be very […]
The Economic Policy Institute has released a chart showing the average overall tax rates in 1979, 1992 and 2007. The picture isn’t pretty. While the tax rate for you, me and the other 99% of this country has remained pretty much the same over the years, the tax rate for the top 1% has seen […]
Again, the IOKIYAR syndrome strikes: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has vowed to bring the Senate to a standstill unless congressional leaders agree to allocate $40,000 for a federal study on deepening the Port of Charleston. Graham says one out of five jobs in South Carolina stem from trade through Charleston’s busy port, and he warns […]
It looks like the field of 2012 GOP candidates are quickly setting up their boogeyman – Sharia law. For years now there has been noise on the right that Sharia law is taking over the country and now that noise is getting louder. Over at Ben Smith’s blog, he has gathered a sampling of what […]
At the end of March an atrocity happened in the Supreme Court, one that can redefine our system of justice and put us more on track to become a third world nation governed by dictators. John Thompson was convicted of murder and robbery in the 1980’s in New Orleans. He was then sentenced to death. […]
I wonder what this Tim Pawlenty exploratory committee person was trying to explore? A 15-year-old girl found a campaign worker from Alabama banging on her Ankeny family’s back door early Wednesday morning. Chloe Steward told KCCI she heard her dog barking around 3 a.m. and went to investigate. She said she found a man trying […]
Mother Jones: Send a public records request seeking documents from his 12-year stint as Arkansas governor, as Mother Jones did recently, and an eyebrow-raising reply will come back: The records are unavailable, and the computer hard drives that once contained them were erased and physically destroyed by the Huckabee administration as the governor prepared to […]