Another corrupt politician gets taken into custody: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama’s election as president. According to a federal criminal complaint, Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to […]
I’m sure everyone has heard about this by now: On the chilly factory floor of the Republic Windows and Doors plant, Apolinar Cabrera and a couple hundred workers have decided to make their stand. Their jobs evaporated Friday when this Chicago company unexpectedly closed its doors, blaming lender Bank of America for cutting off its […]
The right wing conspiracy nut jobs have been having a field day bogging down our courts with claims that Obama isn’t eligible to be President, claiming he is not an actual citizen. Well the latest claim has been shot down by the SCOTUS: The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New […]
There has been a lot of complaining from the left that Obama isn’t appointing enough liberals to his cabinet. To those on our side of the blogosphere I ask; when did Obama become a Liberal? I remember supporting a candidate who was pretty much a moderate, despite my own liberal beliefs. I was also very […]
The latest in the Jack Ryan movies nearly comes to life: A mysterious night-time telephone call last week brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan close to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani officials said Sunday. They said the “threatening” call was made, ostensibly by Indian Foreign […]
McCain is back to being a Senator and offering advice on Afghanistan: Sen. John McCain says the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier — “just like the surge in Iraq was.” The former Republican presidential candidate visited the southern province of Helmand on Sunday, where he said NATO forces are […]
You’re probably wondering why I am thankful for that. Well it’s because of this: In a year when national Republican fortunes took a turn for the worse, Louisiana delivered the GOP two seats in Congress in elections delayed by Hurricane Gustav. Indicted Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was ousted Saturday from his New Orleans area […]
He is continuing to lay out his plans for getting our economy back on track. That’s much more than Bush is doing – blaming everyone else.
Bill and his “War on Christmas”. Oh how it ends up making him look like a buffoon. Link: O’Reilly tries to use the Klan as an example in his argument and says that courts wouldn’t allow them to make their own displays. Of course he is using MLK Day as his example in this, but […]
The economy sheds 533,000 jobs in November, the worse in 34 years: The report from the Labor Department is sure to raise fresh concerns about the depth and length of an ongoing recession, and could figure into hearings on Capitol Hill today about a proposed bailout of the Big Three Detroit automakers. The unemployment rate […]