Today the Supreme Court ruled that states can’t impose laws hindering the gun rights: The Supreme Court held Monday that the Constitution’s Second Amendment restrains government’s ability to significantly limit “the right to keep and bear arms,” advancing a recent trend by the John Roberts-led bench to embrace gun rights. By a narrow, 5-4 vote, […]
One of the staunchest bill backers out there seems to be getting fed up with President Obama. After summing up President Obama’s statement today on the future of health care reform as, “Run away, run away!”, Krugman finishes with this: Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House […]
Image via Wikipedia Who could have imagined something like this? The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines. I […]
Greg Sargent believes so: Whatever you think of Media Matters, there’s no denying that the group led a campaign against Dobbs that had to have played some kind of role in his departure. CNN president Jonathan Klein reportedly told Dobbs months ago that he wanted Dobbs to tone down his opinions. It’s hard to imagine […]
What if we had President John McCain right now? With everything going on in Iran, I wouldn’t doubt one bit if we would be at war. No matter what Obama says about Iran, McCain thinks he is being “too soft”. Anything short of him saying “upon my orders our troops have entered Iran to remove […]
If there was ever any doubt that FOX news is the media wing of the GOP, then those doubts can be put to rest thanks to Media Matters: During the February 10 edition of Fox News’ Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that “the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan — […]
Sen. Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, just told Rachael Maddow that he has a letter signed by 200 of the top economists in the country and they are begging for Congress to not rush into this plan. I think that is a very interesting point that should not fall upon deaf […]
Here’s the email the Obama campaign just sent out: Friend — The polls are closed in Kentucky and votes are being counted in Oregon, and it’s clear that tonight we have reached a major milestone on this journey. We have won an absolute majority of all the delegates chosen by the people in this Democratic […]
True how can we believe what this guy says? Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), encumbered by a scandal since last summer, did not file for reelection by his state’s deadline Friday, keeping a promise he made and officially marking the end of his congressional career. Craig’s political future has been in doubt since his arrest and […]
Shorter Rudy: Rudy Giuliani said yesterday he “never had any doubt” that if he were President four years ago, he would have invaded Iraq. He said he is now “even more certain” that it was the correct national security move. “I actually believe that Democrats are going to agree with me on that by the […]