Yesterday, while speaking at a college in Virginia, President Obama laid the blame of high oil prices at the feet of speculators: Obama said that global oil supply is adequate and that speculators are driving up prices significantly. “It is true that a lot of what’s driving oil prices up right now is not the […]
While going through my feeds in Google Reader this morning, one headline really, REALLY stuck out at me: The “But Tour”? Oh I’m sure that the right will quickly paint this as more proof of the so-called “Liberal media” and their attempts to smear the good people of the right. CNN did actually correct the […]
Via Techcrunch comes a very interesting story out of Pennsylvania. Republican Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Tom Corbett, has subpoenaed Twitter in attempts to identify some anonymous critics: The account @CasaBlancaPA, whose owner is identified as ‘Signor Ferrari’ (a criminal in the film Casablanca, played by Sydney Greenstreet) on Twitter, links to this blog in […]
The Democratic Party has become an utter train wreck since Tuesday night. Now we have this from Diane Feinstein: Feinstein said it is clear that attempts to pass sweeping legislation to address climate change by capping carbon emissions cannot pass this Congress. So if Democrats are just going to cave in on any important legislation […]
This is an interesting development in the browser wars: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft’s search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Dotzler points out that Bing’s […]
CNN is having some major ratings problems: Through March 17, CNN trailed not only Fox News and MSNBC but also its own sister network, Headline News, on nine out of 17 days. On one day, March 13, CNN even drew fewer 25-to-54 viewers than CNBC — the first time that’s happened since November 2007. And […]
The right is making a big deal over a bill the Democrats voted down to “recoup” the bonuses from AIG. Here is the text of the bill: Section 1: The Secretary of the Treasury shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, implement a plan within the next two weeks to recoup or stay the payment […]
Oh and they are. They hate this press conference. Let’s look at the wingnut queen Michelle Malkin: Update 8:05pm Eastern. President Obama. “It is only government that can break the vicious cycle.” Jobs, jobs, jobs. Investment, investment, investment. Gag. President Obama claims to be acting on behalf of my children and grandchildren. So talking stimulus […]
Two new items up at Straight Talk McCain. The first is about another gaffe John made yesterday, this time in Israel. He compared the Jewish holiday Purim, a time to celebrate the Jewish people being saved from mass execution while living in Persia, to “their version of Halloween“. Secondly – it appears that this weeks […]
Now this is sounding familiar: The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 – the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped. Iran again denied ever trying to make such arms. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian […]