While corporations are sitting on records amount of cash and still refusing to hire we have the reality absent GOP pushing for more tax cuts for these people. They consider to insist that their almost 30 year old failed experiment in economics is the way to go, that some how corporations will create supply without […]
The big news of the day is the fall of Tripoli and that raises the question if it will embolden more rebels in the Middle East to do the same: The implosion of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year-old rule will put a new spring in the step of the Arab revolutions and demonstrate once again […]
For two years we have heard Republicans complain that the stimulus didn’t spark any projects in Ohio. Even John Boehner repeated this claim over and over again. So then why this legislation? A measure banning signs that tout federal stimulus spending along Ohio’s roadways cleared the Republican-led Ohio Senate and is expected to pass the […]
Colin Powell is wanting answers: Ex-secretary of state Colin Powell called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain how he was given unreliable information which proved key to the US case for invading Iraq, the Guardian reported Wednesday. Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, cited intelligence about Iraq leader Saddam […]
Today debate will heat up in the house over the spending bill for the rest of the fiscal year. One of the biggest issues is going to be over the F-35 fighter jet, specifically the engine. President Obama and Secretary Gates have called for putting a hold on spending for the engine. Even George Bush […]
Way before Sarah Palin ever put out her “locked and loaded” ads, her rhetoric helped increase violence. Here’s a reminder in an article from November 8, 2008: The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers. The attacks provoked […]
We have heard for months the chest beating of Darrell Issa, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Now it’s gone from chest beating to down right slander: The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight calledPresident Obama‘s administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and […]
Tea Party Nation has just blasted out an email blaming Obama for the rising gas prices (login required): As we close out 2010, gas prices in much of the country crept about the $3 a gallon mark. In an interview a couple of days ago, the ex-president of Shell oil predicted $5 a gallon gas […]
For years law enforcement used court orders to obtain the emails of suspects. Court orders are much simpler to get than an actual warrant. Well that practice is coming to an end: The government must obtain a court warrant to require internet service providers to turn over stored e-mail to the authorities, a federal appeals […]
America’s favorite dimwit has taken to the Facebook to once again go after the Obama Administration: Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the Wikileaks Fiasco We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round […]