This from a new CBS/New York Times poll is stunning: The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector. [SNIP] The national telephone survey, which […]
Someone doesn’t like people talking about her man: I was disappointed to read “Gov. Paterson’s Performance” (editorial, May 9), which characterized Joe Scarborough as a “leader in the Republican attack squad.” My television and radio co-host has spent the last five years being equally tough on Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington. Joe was one […]
After yesterday’s back and forth of rather or not Jane Harman got the New York Times to hold the wiretapping story in 2004, it is now confirmed. She in fact did: Congresswoman Harman spoke to Washington Bureau Chief Phil Taubman in late October or early November, 2004, apparently at the request of General Hayden. She […]
That’s exactly what Congress is doing. The new tobacco bill will give the cigarettes the appearance of being safer by simple saying “FDA approved”: The bill will place tobacco under the authority of the FDA. However, writing in the New York Times, Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, […]
What Richard Poplawski did yesterday can only be summed up as domestic terrorism. He instilled premeditated violence against citizens of this country to further his political beliefs. That is the basis of terrorism. Now the right will quickly throw out that claim, despite their strong desires to pins some sort of terrorist act under the […]
Maybe he shouldn’t have spent so much trying to gobble up our media then: Murdoch, who bought The Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones & Co in 2007, said online advertising, which most U.S. publishers hope will offset ad revenue declines at their print divisions, will not cover their costs. “People reading […]
The New York Times has a really nice write-up about Drupal today. Drupal is the engine that drives this site and many others. As matter of fact one of my goals for 2009 is to talk more progressive blogs into giving Drupal a go, as it has most of the features available we are all […]
The entire UBS mess is getting even uglier, and by uglier I mean better: The curtain is being peeled back on the infamous secrecy of Swiss banks. The largest bank in Switzerland, UBS, agreed Wednesday to reveal the names of wealthy Americans whom the authorities suspect of using offshore accounts to evade taxes. The change […]
Following the news on Michal Steele’s possible legal problems, National Review’s Steve Haywood tries to spin it into some sort of DOJ problem: <p>Not until you reach well down on the jump page do you learn this interesting little detail: “The U.S. attorney’s office inadvertently sent the confidential document, a defense sentencing memorandum filed under […]
William Kristol’s latest article at the New York Times has some of the greatest words I have ever read: This is William Kristol’s last column. I guess the Times got tired of having to print all those corrections.