John Roberts proves who he is worried about – corporations: Exxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had earned a profit of nearly $40 billion in 2006, the largest ever reported by a U.S. company — but that’s not what bothered Roberts. What bothered the chief justice was that Exxon […]
I just submitted the following to be asked at tomorrow night’s Democratic debate: We have an epidemic of school shootings plaguing our nation. Nine years ago, the Columbine shooting was all this nation could talk about. Now school shootings seem to have become such a common place that they are just a blurb on the […]
This is the kind of Orwellian scary shit you think is only possible in books: The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists. But it’s an issue that raises major privacy concerns — what […]
Via Kevin Drum RECONCILIATION WATCH….Ever since we embraced the Anbar Awakening a year ago, the Army has been busily forming Sunni police forces called Concerned Local Citizens. The Shiite government of Nouri al-Maliki hasn’t had much choice but to go along, but at the same time they’ve resisted taking over the CLCs from the Americans […]
This was an interesting exchange on Bill Maher last night: So because companies like Diebold create very unsecure machines that means the voter must be put through the ringer and provide ID – that according to Tony Snow. Here’s something that isn’t talked about enough on Voter ID – a poll tax. Most states require […]
No – not for President, but I am supporting him in this: Talking Points Memo’s Greg Sargent is reporting today that the Romney campaign has fired a broadside at Fox News, which issued a directive in the wake of John McCain’s “Woodstock ad” forbidding the use of their footage for campaign advertisements. Yes candidates should […]
I guess not: cloture vote in the Senate just moments ago on whether or not D.C. residents will get congressional representation ended up with 57 Ayes and 42 Nos, meaning Democrats and moderate Republicans weren’t able to find the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster organized by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The citizens […]
There was a lot of attention give to General Petraeus saying he didn’t know if Iraq was making us safer. For those that missed it, here it the clip from yesterday’s Senate hearing: This was a very damming answer and could be detrimental to the warring morale of our troops. For their commander to say […]
Perhaps this is an example of how well the current system actually works: A Virginia district court found Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho to be “mentally ill” and an imminent danger to others,” according to a 2005 temporary detention order obtained by ABC News. Virginia Tech police say Cho was taken to a nearby psychiatric […]
The Democrats want to give the citizens of Washington D.C. the basic democratic right the rest of the country enjoys – representation in Congress, but Bush is ready to put a stop to that: The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto legislation giving the District of Columbia a vote in the House, possibly prolonging […]