Just now breaking and it is definitely going to send shockwaves around D.C. The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal, according […]
Family Research Council – Protecting Family Faith and Freedom. What a damn joke!. Here is the statement they released about Foley: In response to the events surrounding the resignation of Congressman Mark Foley (R- Fla.), Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins released the following statement: “We are all shocked by this spectacle of aberrant […]
Today’s New York Times article covering the developments in the Foley case has one key paragraph that must be addressed: At the Justice Department, an official said that no investigation was under way but that the agency had “real interest” in examining the circumstances to see if any crimes were committed. Why is an investigation […]
This guy just makes it too easy: Montana Sen. Conrad Burns (news, bio, voting record), a Republican in a tight re-election race, flew on a private plane chartered by Vonage Holdings Corp. just days after he pushed legislation that the company has advocated for more than a year. Burns accompanied Vonage lobbyist Frank Cavaliere on […]
Conrad Burns has really pissed me off lately. It started when he decided to attack firefighters, and then after calling them “lazy”, gets caught napping during a meeting in Senate. Now it looks like paypack may become very sweet: After months of defiant protestations of innocence about his role in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, […]
Ouch this has to hurt: A local Marine who service in Iraq earned several medals for serving his country, but he’s giving back one of the medals to the White House as a form of protest. Sgt. Matthew Bee is a decorated Akron Marine who spent seven months in Hadeetha, serving with the 3rd Battalion […]
A week after Congress was given another raise, Senate has sent a big fuck-you to the American workers: The U.S. Senate Wednesday defeated a proposal pushed by Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage in increments from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour by Jan. 1, 2009. Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, unsuccessfully tried to […]
They are just determined to keep this story going: Police labor officials, angry over a federal grand jury’s refusal to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney for assaulting a police officer, said Monday said they want the House ethics committee to review her conduct. And they said the grand jury’s decision last week sent the message that […]
So why do illegal immigrants come here? Simple – because they can get jobs and numerous companies won’t worry about checking their legal status. So for people who really think illegal immigration is a bad thing, consider these employers as drug dealers supplying to their junkies. What is interesting is how the situation has gained […]
While they are not concerned with churches that support Republican candidates or tell members to leave their church if they voted for Kerry, the Republicans sure do worry about the NAACP: Several Republican members of Congress sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service questioning whether the NAACP had veered into political advocacy and asked for […]