All the talk this week about Timothy Geitner’s tax problems seems like even smaller potatoes compared to this: Eighty-three of the nation’s 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp., had subsidiaries in offshore tax havens in 2007, and some of the companies received federal bailout funding, a government watchdog said Friday. […]
Last night Bush gave his farewell address and during it he gave himself an awful lot of pats on the back. Here’s one part that really got me: A new Medicare prescription drug benefit is bringing peace of mind to seniors and the disabled. Really? Someone should have told the seniors and disabled about this […]
As most, I spent a lot of time yesterday watching the miracle that was flight 1549. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot of the plane, is a hero to the end for his handling of the disaster at 3,000 feet. Something that I did notice while checking out blogosphere coverage of the near tragedy was […]
Funny how the lone Senator to vote against Hillary Clinton’s confirmation is the same one named in a prostitution scandal – David Vitter.
Pat Buchanan on MSNBC just now saying how Eric Holder being AG would be nothing but problems because he is close to Obama. Funny how it was never a problem with Republicans when Gonzales was AG and so close to Bush.
Bush on King last night: KING: So there’s nothing you’ve done in the area of treatment of prisoners that causes you any kind of pause? G. BUSH: No. No. Everything we did was — you know, it had legal — legal opinions behind it. Look, you’re sitting there, you’ve captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He’s the […]
While Sarah Palin has been out giving her 10,000,000,000 post-election interview, her state has been going to hell in a hand basket. Today a group of Alaskan natives files lawsuit against the Jesuits, claiming they been dropping their pedophile priests in remote part of Alaska: Attorney Ken Roosa announced the lawsuit at a chilly press […]
Bush was praising No Child Left Behind this week, so it’s time to point out one little accomplishment of that – sex for degrees: The student, from San Diego, California, USA, insisted she was not demeaning herself and had been persuaded to offer herself to the highest bidder after her sister Avia, 23, successfully raised […]
This is a Bush administration official with direct knowledge admitting that we torture detainees: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with […]
Looks like CSPAN might have some new competition now. The Senate and House have both opened up their own YouTube channels, or hubs. Check them out here and here.