We knew this was coming: Prosecutors will ask a judge to dismiss all charges in the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing on Tuesday, the New York Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources. The Manhattan district attorney’s office will file a motion recommending the case be dropped […]
Well isn’t this just the nicest thing you ever heard of? The state Department of Revenue deposited 2010 tax refunds into Georgians’ accounts in the last few days then withdrew them, leaving people with strings of bank charges for overdrawn accounts. Robert Freeman of Valdosta said he noticed his 2010 refund was in his account […]
Like many others, I have spent the last few days really contemplating what will happen in the elections this November. As much as I want to be optimistic, I just can’t bring myself to it. Democrats are looking at a very dark mid-term and, as Peter Daou puts it, these are “dark days for the […]
Leave it to the great minds of Louisiana politics, following their fearless leader of Bobby Jindal to come up with this plan: Jindal’s office said Tuesday the governor acted on the bill in the past few days after receiving it June 20. Including the “gun-in-church” bill, House Bill 1272 by Rep. Henry Burns, R-Haughton, Jindal […]
Make no mistake about it. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the GOP slowly implode since the 2008 elections. Sure they have had what appears to be little upticks, but overall they have been suffering a very slow and painful death. But there is a danger in all that and we are now seeing it. Today […]
We knew it was only a matter of time before Dick Cheney would crawl out from his undisclosed dungeon of torture and make some really absurd statement: “As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He […]
Just now on MSNBC, Eliot Spitzer said, “this isn’t health reform, it’s health expansion”. That is exactly right. Reform failed in Congress, but expansion is currently on its way to becoming law. And, as Spitzer says, expansion isn’t a bad thing, but stop trying to sell it as reform. Of course the Democrats will never […]
I have spent the last few days working on a couple of new features for the site. Congressional Tool First off you may have noticed the new widget in the sidebar to search for members of Congress. This is a great tool to find your representatives and ways to contact them, but it doesn’t stop […]
Bill Maher has made news the past few days for going after President Obama for not being tough enough. Here he is last night talking to Keith about it: Bill is right. President Obama needs to stop being “nice”. The Republicans have shown they have no desire to work with him or the Democrats, so […]
Wow: The chief financial officer (CFO) of Freddie Mac, the giant US mortgage lender and guarantor, has died in an apparent suicide. David Kellermann, who was acting chief financial officer and a senior vice president of Freddie Mac, was found by his wife in their Virginia home, according to local media reports. This story will […]