So the stock market is back to the 2005 levels, inflation is rising, people are losing jobs, people who have jobs have an insecure feeling about their income, the national debt is at record levels, we got army bases who might get the power shut off for failure to pay bills, etc., etc., etc. So […]
Here is something that is a silent buzz on the internet right now. I think in part because many people do not know how to really react to it: Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.), one of the Democrats’ leading antiwar voices, startled his political colleagues yesterday by announcing he would seek a senior leadership position […]
Wow the right wingers are out to try and lie their way into another seat in Congress. Notice this post appearing at the top of Wizbang’s political page: Also notice the time of that post is 12:03 am. Considering I am writing this at 12:50 am I can only assume they are set to eastern […]
The problem with illegal immigration is the employers. These people exploit the conditions in which these people are here and use those reasons for their own profit. If employers didn’t higher illegal immigrants then we would not have illegal immigrants. So how is Senate addressing this situation? They are going to fine the employers. Now […]
Howard Dean appeared on The Daily Show last night to help get the word out about the Democrats plan and strategy to take back Congress this fall. He is working his 50 state strategy hard and I agree that the key to taking back Washington has to start at the local level. It is worth […]
But will they listen? Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), a potential anti-war candidate in the 2008 presidential field, urged fellow Democrats on Monday to show more backbone in challenging President Bush on Iraq. “We must get out of our political foxholes and be willing to clearly and specifically point out what a strategic […]
For those that just think the high prices at the pump are a simple case of economical supply and demand, a new memo has surfaced that might open your eyes a little more: A Chevron memo is raising suspicion that oil executives intentionally reduced refining capacity in an effort to boost profits. The 1995 memo, […]
Something that really hasn’t been talked about today is an interesting report in the New York Times about the tax cuts that are making grounds through Congress. The entire article is well worth a read but here is the most interesting part I found in it: The top tenth of 1 percent, whose average income […]
First he said he never believed the presentation he gave to the U.N. in 2003. Now he says he wanted more troops for the initial invasion of Iraq: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday defended the Bush administration’s Iraq war planning after her predecessor, Colin Powell, said he had made a case to […]
While Bush is still beating his war drums for Iran, we still got a growing problem in Iraq and it is getting worse: Thirty-two bodies of Iraqi police and security forces recruits were discovered in two areas of Baghdad on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said. All 32 were from the town of Ramadi in the […]