Hearing the Republicans pound their chests as the anti-earmark crusaders has me laughing. I decided it was time to look for some historical data on earmarks, which ended up validating my suspicions. First thing you will notice is that the source of this chart is from the very conservative Heritage Foundation, using data from the […]
Image by caribb via Flickr The New York Times is reporting on a new alliance forming against the Justice Department and criminalization over all in our country. That alliance is the right and left. Generally the right has always supported the aggressive position of the federal government when it comes to prosecuting crimes, but given […]
Tucker Carlson wants to be the next Huffington Post: Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus on reporting on the Obama administration and “adding facts to the conversation.” “We are a general-interest newspaper-format style site,” Carlson told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “There just aren’t enough people covering this administration […]
Paul Krugman does a hell of a job dissecting the Republican party’s failures and where it has left them. One part of his latest column that really sticks out is this: The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party […]
Throughout Bush’s professional life, he has ran companies into the ground and relied upon others to bail him out. Well his new business, The United States of America, is no different. He now expects the Democrats to bail his ass out on his failed fiscal policies: When he takes the House rostrum next week for […]
The American Spectator has an article today, in which they are doing some major cheerleading for Ken Blackwell: First, the conservative blogosphere has justifiably been full this week of reports from Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Blackwell’s interview with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation. (For two examples, see here and here.) I therefore won’t rehash […]
ABC NEWS WASHINGTON Mar 6, 2006 (AP)- Unless Iran executes a dramatic about-face and suspends all its nuclear activities, the U.N. Security Council will intervene “quite actively,” a senior State Department official said Monday. The message to Iran is that it has “crossed the international red line” and engaged in unacceptable enrichment activity “and there […]