The man who many on the right wanted to see run for President this year has said what many of us on the left have been saying for the past several years; the right is too far right for people like Reagan and even Bush, sr.: “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of […]
With 64 seconds to go and the NY Giants 5 yards from scoring and only down by two, Patriots coach Bill Belichick made a rare and very strategic decision – he let the Giants score. That gave him the time he needed to hopefully come back and win the game, instead of the Giants being […]
The party of family values: NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – A onetime top attorney to former President George W. Bush is accused of trying to kill his wife at their Connecticut home by beating her with a flashlight and choking her. Fifty-seven-year-old John Michael Farren is charged with strangulation and attempted murder. He was ordered […]
Michael Steele’s new book is being coined as a big mea culpa for the Republican party, but how can they admit their failures when they won’t even admit that they ever happened? Let me take a few bullet points from the AP’s article on Steele’s book: -President George H.W. Bush for raising taxes two years […]
I’m sure the right is outraged over Supreme Court Justice David Souter announcing his retirement only a few months into a Democratic administration. They probably view it as the final deception by the George H.W. Bush choice who turned out to be more to the left than right. Now we get the media frenzy over […]
Bob Geiger: Another unfortunate milestone in the reign of George W. Bush and the recently-deposed Republican Congress was reached on Saturday when the federal minimum wage set a new record for the longest period without a raise since its establishment in 1938. As of December 2, the $5.15-per-hour wage rate has remained unchanged for nine […]
Well the funeral of Ken Lay visitors that could comprise the whose who of neo-cons: More than 1,000 mourners gathered at First United Methodist Church, where Lay had been a member. They included friends, former Enron employees and erstwhile dignitaries, including former President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and […]
The Boston Globe has an interesting article today that talks about the American Bar Association’s recent decision to investigate Bush’s signing power: The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that […]
Richard Viguerie is not a well known name unless your into politics. Here is a little background on him from Dkosopedia: In an autobiographical note, Viguerie wrote that in 1961 he became executive secretary of the conservative youth group, Young Americans for Freedom. “Since 1965, owner of direct marketing/advertising companies such as American Target Advertising. […]
The domestic spying debate is no stranger to Washington. As matter of fact, the same argument took place thirty years ago: An intense debate erupted during the Ford administration over the president’s powers to eavesdrop without warrants to gather foreign intelligence, according to newly disclosed government documents. George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney […]