If Massachusetts race ends up very close, I predict one of the 2 scenarios: Brown wins: Coakley will challenge it. This will spark outrage from the right as they start yelling how the election was stolen from them. Coakley wins: Brown will challenge it. The right will circle around Brown claiming he is standing up […]
This is something interesting that I never thought of. It’s from the Guardian, so it is in the U.K., but I bet the same thing would apply here: The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian […]
I figured I would plug in some real world numbers as they would be today if the new health care legislation was fully intact. This is something I haven’t seen during the whole debate and I want to take it from the angle of a single person earning 150% of the FPL. Currently the FPL […]
Right along party lines as expected, with Jim Bunning not voting. What’s interesting is that since the GOP started praying for Democratic members of the Senate to not show up, a Republican has missed every vote. Irony or sweet revenge? This ends the 2009 legislative year and now we are on to reconciliation to fix […]
There has been a lot of warnings lately that we are heading right towards another Lehman style collapse: Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. “In the U.S. and […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved new legislation creating a form of “copyright cops” to go after file swappers and people who violate intellectual property laws. Under this bill, they can now seize any computers involved in the infringement. So will they go after McCain for his constant use of music without consent?
It’s a good question that needs to be answered by the Republican nominee: In both 1993 and 1994, McCain voted against the anti-terrorism measure. On each occasion, McCain was one of thirty radical anti-choice Senators to oppose the bill Fortunately, despite McCain’s opposition, it passed the Senate by a 69-30 margin. At the time, right-wing […]
The administration has been bragging that this is a major milestone in Iraq, and the media hasn’t been far behind. Now more details are emerging and it seems the law has some major problems: But now, under new legislation promoted as way to return former Baathists to public life, the 56-year-old and thousands like him […]
That is essentially what new legislation that passed by a landslide (409-2) last week says: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including “obscene” cartoons and drawings–or face fines of up to $300,000. That broad definition […]
The White House will stop at nothing until they get all the federal prosecutors replaced with their political buddies: A United States attorney in Arkansas who was dismissed from his job last year by the Justice Department was ousted after Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, intervened on behalf of the man who […]