Glenn Greenwald is out with another piece about the NSA: The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents indicate that under the program, launched in […]
James O’Keefe, the undercover video hero of the right, is at it again. Today he has released a new video showing people giving out “Obama” phones to people who say they will sell them for drugs and other items: Undercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two corporate distributors of free cell […]
Today’s “explosive” news is that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans. Glenn Greenwald, writing at The Guardian, reports: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in […]
It’s like the early 2000’s all over again: The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted a letter addressed to President Barack Obama that contained a “suspicious substance.” A law enforcement official said the letter is very similar to one recently mailed to Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker. That letter tested positive Tuesday for poisonous ricin. The […]
With the historic second inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States now in the history book, it’s time to take a look at the GOP response yesterday. While Republican leaders were in Washington urging a “come together” moment, the same wasn’t true around the country. On Facebook alone I noticed countless Republican […]
Here is a link Matt Drudge is pushing right now: So now the President makes the laws? Well apparently so if you read the article it links to: Despite launching a gun control agenda that threatens to disarm the American people, President Obama has signed a bill that would afford him armed Secret Service protection […]
Welcome to another episode of Republicans crying foul over nothing: In a move that is rich in irony, President Obama agreed Tuesday night to sign an emergency deficit reduction bill that does almost nothing to rein in spending and then jetted out to Hawaii to resume his vacation at an extra cost of more than […]
This has to be one of the most idiotic things I have read in ages. Shouldn’t be shocking, coming from a former Bush writer: Barring a last-minute breakthrough, taxes will go up for every U.S. taxpayer on Jan. 1 — and that’s a development conservatives should welcome. Don’t get me wrong: It would be better […]
Besides President Obama and the democrats, there was another big winner in this year’s election – democracy. Despite all the big money that went into the right to try and buy this election, democracy did prevail. And who was the big loser? In a case of absolute irony, it so happens the biggest loser was […]
The New York Times has a very interesting article today about Chris Christie and how the GOP has treated him since Hurricane Sandy: A few days after Hurricane Sandy shattered the shores of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie picked up the phone to take on a different kind of recovery work: taming the Republican Party […]