Tea Party Nation is out with another piece of misinformation attacking President Obama. In “The Do-Nothing President and his awesome vacation”, founder Judson Phillips is once again attack the President for taking a vacation, something that has become the norm for the right. Phillips is also taking a preemptive strike against the counter point of […]
This is something I never thought of, the stronger hand of our government, at the behest of the Patriot Act, actually hurting us on the tech front. It turns out that is exactly what is happening: Cloud computing is a gold mine for the U.S. tech industry, but American firms are encountering resistance from an […]
Usually it seems near impossible for a police officer to be fired. They can taser someone to death and end up getting paid time off. They get busted for driving under the influence and end up back behind the wheel of a cruiser. Well there appears to be one sure fire way for someone in […]
Over the past several months the mailings and phone calls from your insurance company have changed. Now they seem to be more geared towards “your healthcare” and “educating” you. Well there’s a reason for that. Yesterday the provision of Affordable Healthercare Act went into affect that says insurance companies must spend 80-85% on patient care […]
Herman Cain just announced in Atlanta that he is suspending his presidential campaign because of the “smear campaigns”. Translation – how dare people look into his actual past!
I wanted to put this in my last post, but decided it merited its’ own. A big story on the tech front this week was news that next year we will see internet prices go up because of streaming movie services like NetFlix and HuLu. Time Warner Cable Inc. and U.S. pay- TV companies, weighing […]
A new post from Tea Party Nation founder, Judson Phillips, was just posted. In it Phillips shows the kind of archaic thinking the Tea Party has and why it is the kind of thinking that will keep America behind in a 21st century economy: (subscription required). The remaining roughly $27 million was used to connect […]
Totally amazing: GOP leadership told its membership at a closed-door meeting Friday morning it would couple with the expiring tax provisions an easing of environmental regulations on boilers, selling broadband spectrum and paving the way for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. […] Speaker John Boehner referred to the package he’s putting forward as turning “chicken-sh […]
Nick Hanauer, a very successful venture capitalist, has a must read OpEd in Bloomberg News. In it he explains the very fundamentals of economics: I can’t buy enough of anything to make up for the fact that millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans can’t buy any new clothes or enjoy any meals out. Or to […]
Another sign of trouble for the GOP: If the Newt surge persists over the next few months the biggest winner is going to be Barack Obama. We can see that pretty clearly in our newest Florida poll. If Mitt Romney’s the Republican nominee, Obama’s in a lot of trouble in the Sunshine State. Obama leads […]