A couple of weeks ago I posted one of the most depressing headlines I had seen in years: McDonald’s aims to fill 50,000 jobs in a day What made this so depressing is the rate at which this news item grew. Our job market has reached a point that people are excited over McDonald’s hiring. […]
It’s no secret that Glenn Beck’s show on FOX News has been in a rapid decline in terms of content, viewers and sponsors. Now it looks like the end to Beck’s television show could be in sight: But a funny thing happened on the way from the revolution. Since last August, when he summoned more […]
Here’s Gateway Pundit: After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9-12: Of course being a wingnut means not reading. If you check out that link here’s what you see: As many as one million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards […]
This is the part of the story you don’t here the politicians talking about, or the press corp asking the White House, but it is truly another bad effect of what is happening in the housing market: In the foreclosure crisis of 2007, thousands of American families are losing their homes without ever missing a […]
After a much needed break yesterday, I return to this news: The Israeli army dropped phosphorous bombs against Hizbollah guerrilla targets in Lebanon during the war in August, an Israeli minister said yesterday, confirming Lebanese allegations for the first time. Phosphorus weapons can cause severe burns and are banned for use in civilian areas, but […]
Dr. Kenneth Matsumura in California is working to launch a recall of governor Schwarzenegger. He is currently working on getting the requires one million signatures to get the issue on the ballot. This should be an interesting story to watch. RECALL2006 is the home page for the recall effort, and the story just got national […]
While the south cleans up from the catastrophe we call Katrina, I sit here in a soaked Ohio wondering what the President will do to help. The region is already high in the poverty level and the early estimates are at $26 billion in damage. They are saying as many as one million people could […]
Well this past week, we heard that Rumsfeld could be looking at pulling troops out starting as early as next spring, effectively setting a “timetable†which the President said would not be done. Rumsfeld also went to Iraq to push the Iraqi government to speed up their work on developing a democracy and securing their […]