As I’ve said countless times before; our nation is falling way behind in the world of internet communications. The latest international rankings now has the U.S. in 26th place when it comes to internet speed: When South Koreans tested their wired broadband connections over the past 30 days, they found an average downstream speed of […]
Writing in an op-ed in today’s Mooney Times, Jeffery Kuhner floats the idea of impeaching President Obama if health care reform passes. His argument is the same old strawman we have been hearing all week – the “deem and pass” of the House of Representative: Many Democrats could claim they opposed the Senate bill while […]
Judge Richard Posner thinks that should be the case: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent . . . What Posner is arguing is insane. Basically he is saying that if I want […]
Chuck Hagel was on Rachel Maddow last night and he went all out against the Republican Party, from putting a lot of blame for the economic mess on their shoulders, to defending Obama from Cheney’s recent comments. One thing that really stuck out to me was when Hagel was asked about Michael Steele and his […]
Well under Bush it appears to have done just the opposite: The 20 largest banks that received government rescue funds slightly reduced their lending to consumers and businesses in the last three months of 2008, the government said Tuesday. The Treasury Department said the banks reduced their mortgage and business loans by a median of […]
Or should I say – go into full swing? On this historic day we already have the mouthpiece of the right wishing for Obama to fail as President. Rush Limbaugh told his listeners: So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need […]
That’s what it seems like the Republicans are heading for – a policy of saving white collar jobs, while letting blue collar workers hit the unemployment lines: Top Republican senators said Sunday they will oppose a Democratic plan to bail out Detroit automakers, calling the U.S. industry a “dinosaur” whose “day of reckoning” is coming. […]
When you preach the politics of divisiveness, you end up with stories like this: LONGWOOD, Fla. — The home of a Central Florida Republican headquarters manager was shot up and damaged over his support of Sen. John McCain, the man told police. Rog Coverely said several pellets pierced his Longwood home. Coverely showed several spiderwebbed-holes […]
This has to be one of the most ridiculous arguments surrounding the entire Valerie Plame affair. Since Karl Rove surfaced as one of the proven sources that leaked the CIA agent’s identity, I have heard this argument brought up countless times by the right. The question really should be; what benefit would Joe Wilson have […]